https://youtu.be/xP7XuE1Fw9s I’m feeling some Nina this evening. Hello, I have a super announcement–I am working on my 5th book of poetry! The poems are being selected, polished up and organized now. Hopefully, by the end of the month, the new collection will be ready for submission. The BLOG tab will be removed once I beginContinueContinue reading “5th Book”
Author Archives: Shannon Laws
Splash Down
https://youtu.be/ILot8EIUin8 As a humanist and space enthusiast, my emotions are split over today’s headlines. America has solved the problem of being reliant on Russia for the transportation of their space cargo, but they still haven’t figured out how to increase the odds of customers being able to walk out of a Walmart alive. On theContinueContinue reading “Splash Down”
Thank You Red Wheelbarrow
https://youtu.be/e6e_rGWbFqs So many songs begging Ruth Bader Ginsburg to “hang on” until there is another democrat in the white house. This one caught my attention. SNL 2019. Thank you Red Wheelbarrow writers for accepting my poem, “Day 53”, for publication in This Uncommon Solitude your upcoming anthology of pandemic poetry. “We are honored to showcaseContinueContinue reading “Thank You Red Wheelbarrow”
Custom Fit
https://youtu.be/iX8GxLP1FHo They took your data. Then they took control. The Great Hack uncovers the dark world of data exploitation through the compelling personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data scandal. In select theaters and on Netflix July 24. I use to watch a show called “The Lottery Changed MyContinueContinue reading “Custom Fit”
Personal Interpretation
https://youtu.be/swhEa8vuP6U Hey, pppssst, how would you like to think about something different for a few moments? You do? Oh good. Warning: The following post has nothing to do with COVID-19. Do you listen to satellite radio in your car? I do. I’m in my car a lot these days and discovering that space is, well,ContinueContinue reading “Personal Interpretation”
Flexing Haircut 100
So, yesterday I caught myself flexing on the lady givin’ me a $25 haircut. Afterward, I walked out of the place and while driving home, examined a strange, yet familiar, feeling like something was wrong…(I’m a bit slow about these things) Then it hit me “OMG I was totally rude to the lady who cutContinueContinue reading “Flexing Haircut 100”
Rootbound
https://youtu.be/p6iHAg68Q_w Comparing CHAZ to Occupy Wallstreet, the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and the Black Panthers This morning, I felt the need to re-familiarize myself with four protests, each unique, yet, perhaps held a common theme. So far the first two decades of the 21st Century have exhibited some serious civil outcries. ContinueContinue reading “Rootbound”
Day 74: Last Day of the Lockdown
https://youtu.be/pbLd3k_8_Fw “I have not been able to touch the destruction within me. But unless I learn to use the difference between poetry and rhetoric my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire and one day I will take my teenaged plug and connect it toContinueContinue reading “Day 74: Last Day of the Lockdown”
Day 68: SAY THEIR NAMES
https://youtu.be/w6tH1gzPLpM SOCIAL DISTANCING | SOCIAL JUSTICE Video credit: The brief history of racism within the Minnesota police explained by reporter Rachel Maddow, MSNBC. #GeorgeFloyd This morning my bedroom is dark. An early morning thunderstorm blocks the sky. It formed over Seattle, traveled 90 miles to reach Bellingham at 9:12. It swipes across our landscape asContinueContinue reading “Day 68: SAY THEIR NAMES”
Day 65: One Hundred Million Suns
https://youtu.be/6zHhDduJcFk “What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.” Warren Buffett Guessing by the news last week, Whatcom County will be asked to shelter in place another month. I didn’t think we had it that bad. Of the 1055 deaths in our state, Whatcom has experienced only 36. Today the totalContinueContinue reading “Day 65: One Hundred Million Suns”
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