Positive, Brief, Relief
Positive, brief, relief . . . we desire
Avoid depression . . . perhaps inspire
© Forrest W. Heaton December 2023
Negatives currently affecting our lives? Mary & I feel most of you count the following in the negatives currently affecting your life: aging, economic futures, global pandemic, climate change/global warming, war in Russia-Ukraine, war in Gaza-Israel, threat to our and other democracies. You can probably add a few more. Each contributes to potential depression. We feel the same. Thus, we decided our blog posts in 2024, although still focusing on poetry, parks, and planet, need to aim for positive, brief, and relief. We hope it works. Please tell us if it doesn’t and what we need to do to correct.
Feb24 Post. We had our Jan24 post on artificial intelligence (AI) fully written in Sep23. Due to swift AI changes, we’re re-writing for a Feb24 publication. Further, it was neither brief nor positive. We feel AI will be a big part of our children’s and their children’s lives. There will be more posts on this topic. We’ll keep them brief, to the point summaries.
Jan24 Post. For our opening post of 2024, we have decided to describe a project we’ve recently taken on—a collection that may turn into a book--working title: “Heaton’s Poems, Histories & Sketches: Twenty-Five Years.” We’re looking back over the poems I’ve written over the last twenty-five years and the history of each. We’re also looking back over my sketches completed during that time. I’m writing new poems and drawing new sketches as well. The overall objective of this project is doing something positive vs. watching the news. Our thought is to put together possibly a book, each page a poem, related history and related sketch. We’ve attached a draft of one page. We would love to know: 1) What do you think of this project? 2) How might a poem/history/sketch page fit into the blog every so often?
