Weekend #Ekphrasis challenge, for those who follow #CoSoArt. (Shall we make this a "thing", for those who want more creative expression shared on CoSo?)

This is "The Watcher" by Kellen Rodrigues. What writing, music, or visual art does it inspire from you?

#Poetry #WritersOfCoSo #WritingCommunity

Lucky #BugFriend, perfectly suited to blend into their environment. 💛

It's utterly bonkers that we ever think of our societies as just.

At best, we're a mess of people with loosely related notions of common destiny, burning with competing internal convictions of what justice entails, trying to scrape out small, reactive wins in systems broken by design.

The cruelty of humanity, and its strategic indifference to *some* suffering, is never surprising.

What's surprising is the hope we still carry into the fight for something better, age after wounded age. #History

😍 There is a skating rink (for kids) in my mall this season! Usually I only see wee set-ups in the fancy malls for December.

Ah, memories. #Canuck in #Colombia

The saga of the hippos continues. 😅

Now the ecological problem lies with *dead* hippos gumming up the rivers.

#Colombia

😅 Well I feel seen.

Yay! And today I can pay my #CatTax, too!

#CatsOfCoSo
#FreeRangeCatFriends
#AGoodDay

They *do* eat grass, too... but dessert first.

#BoringDystopia

(Cane stalks from a guarapo vendor get dumped at this bin. They're after the sugar.)

#BonusBellyRubs

Bad pun alert. #Humour

😅 Did you folks know about this?

I was chatting with Colombian friends today and they told me that the word for this hairdo, locally in the 80s, was the "Alf", like the show. Did *we* ever call it that? I feel like two North American cultural items were exported at the same time and got fused in the process. 🙃

The horses who pass through my park in the morning are like big ol' raccoons. They garbage-dive for fruit peels and cane sugar, the giant sucks.

Happy Thursday, CoSo, whatever your dumpster-diving brings you for brekkie!

(Also, be careful when petting your hooved friends in the rain.) #Nature

#CookiesForDays
Or more like--
#CookiesForNeighbours
#CoSoBakes

(Also: I used to hate oatmeal raisin cookies, and now I... kind of prefer them to the chocolate chip variety? Is this a sign of ageing? Should I be learning how to make fig newtons? 😬)

Afternoon cookies (using up the rest of the dough from Monday).

Swing by, bring a book, and let's down these suckers with tea or something stronger.

#AmReading (One more book before I can write that darned review.) #CoSoBakes

🙃 And there's a transport protest today on the highway (ongoing union issues with the state). I'll save you the noise this time, but some trucks are trying to toot out tunes, so - points for creativity.

(I can't fully concentrate until they pass, though, alack.)

#TheTootening #Colombia

Some days I really just want to live in a cabin, well away from all this nonsense. Porch chair. Suspenders. Battered old book of poetry I've read to death. Cat in the window. Lazy old beagle called Colonel McGruff snoozing beside me, except when needed to huff a low howl of a warning if anyone comes up a narrow dirt road.

Is it the whisky wagon, here to drop off my monthly jug alongside coffee and grains? No? Well, that's also what the bear-deterrent of a shotgun is for.

#Perfection #LifeGoals

New #BugFriend just dropped! 😍

Look at this absolute unit, trucking along in the gentle rain with its shell all a-glistening. My favourite litle self-made homeowner-on-the-go. #Nature

Oh goodie, a late afternoon tootening.

Not like I was trying to concentrate or anything. 😅

#Colombia
#ILoveYouButSometimes...

😅 Oh, you know it's a bad financial practice when even Bloomberg's podcast team is calling it out with titles like this.

(Should be a great episode for today's run, though. I always have better run-times when I'm cranky about economics!)

All right. Enough dawdling. I have another book to read before end-of-day.

Can... can I post a recently uploaded shot of Curiosity's 42 Drill Holes without people here getting weird about it?

I just thought the variations were neat. #Mars #Space

TTFN, nutters!