So glad you have signed up to receive the For Random Learning Comes Newsletter! This is the ninety-fourth edition.
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Previous editions can be found on the blog's Newsletter page. I send it out weekly, so if you don't get my email on Saturday morning, please let me know! (Check your junk and spam folders too.)
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This week I have a short newsletter but both a short and a long post. The long post, Travelogue...Osborne House is most recent--just finished in fact--and deals with our visit to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight right around Coronation weekend in May. Set aside time to read it. It's not short, but it has lots of pictures!
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The second offering I wrote earlier in the week. It's a joke poem about the passive voice in writing, called The Passive Void. I wish I could say the idea was mine, but I stole if from someone on the social media channel, Threads. That place is a goldmine for ideas, not to be too Rumpelstiltskin about it! I of course gave the idea person full credit in the active voice.
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Got a few rejections this week, my food poems and Florida poems did not make the cut at either journal. Oh well. Im not sure whether I prefer the anticipation that something might be published, or the certainty that it won't be (at least not there.) Something about not being left hanging appeals to me.
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Have a great week and hope to be in your mailbox again sometime soon. But I must first let my fingers rest from this latest travelogue!
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So Close and Yet So Far
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This essay discusses the Semiquincentennial celebration and compares it with Fourths of Years gone by.
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Drawing
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A poem on redistricting, the drawing of new districts to serve the ruling party's political purposes, with the blessing of the Supreme Court and with enthusiasm unchecked by either the people's will nor the State's Constitutional provisions.
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Attempt
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A poem describing the swirling emotions on and offline provoked by the attempted assassination of President Trump at the dinner for the press. Caveat: I do not doubt the attempt on his life was real. P.S. The photo is an attempt at beauty.
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Approaching May 1st, 2026, Anniversary of The Great Fire, Jacksonville, FL
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A poem about a very dry spring in Florida which calls to mind the terrible fire which consumed Jacksonville early in the 20th century.
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Smiles
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This poem analyzes the loss of reputation of the US in the eyes of its closest allies, and the attitude it projects, about that loss.
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