APR 16, funny bones: pelvic fractures

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Best wishes to all, especially friends and relations, on the occasion of Passover and Easter. And in that regard you can review a poem about the pandemic Passover Seder dinner by clicking HERE.

Authors' Note: 

 post op: medical jargon for 'post-operative' or 'post-operatively’.

   Costs incurred by surgical care in the United States can be devastating. It is, however, unusual for bankers to be consulted directly re the affordability of urgent surgical procedures. 

  Multiple pelvic fractures involving the sacrum and/or pubic rami may accompany major trauma to the lower trunk. These can often be managed conservatively, but instability may mandate surgical fixation.    

You can view verses on this topic in a wider context by proceeding to the post 'Breaking News: FUNNY BONES' on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE! 

links for any date (January 2020 - March 2022): scroll over to the calendar-based listings of 'Past Posts' in the righthand column on this page, choose your month of interest, and then select (by clicking) the post of your choice.

APR 15, Carolina lowcountry: pluff mud

scene next to Pitt St Bridge park,
 Mt. Pleasant SC, May 2020.

Readers might be interested in a post highlighting more illustrated nonsense about 'pluff mud' in the form of a brief poetic saga ('The Walrus and the Carpenter, lowcountry version'). Click HERE. 

pizza delivery boxes in Mt. Pleasant South Carolina,

touting service to 'the Lowcountry'

Best wishes to all, especially friends and relations, on the occasion of Passover and Easter. And in that regard you can review a poem about the pandemic Passover seder dinner by clicking HERE. 

APR 14, mythed opportunities: Eliyahu (the prophet Elijah)

Authors' Note: 

Eliyahu HaNavi -- ay-lee-YA-hoo ha-na-VEE-- (Elijah the Prophet) plays an important role in the traditional Passover Seder service. At the end of the multi-course dinner for family and friends, the fifth glass of wine is poured, but reserved for the prophet. The door of the home is then opened briefly, recitations from the Old Testament chanted, and the Prophet (who, some day, will announce the arrival of the Jewish Messiah) enters and may sip from the wineglass; children watch to see if the level in the glass really does go down. The distinguished visitor is not offered a dessert or any other food, and the door is not opened to let him out again, as I recall, but attention turns from the arrival of Eliyahu to the completion of the service, and finally the group singing of traditional songs.

  Note that Eliyahu may come by his reticence to use modern technology for good reason. Last week, Israel's chief rabbis decided that even in this plague-ridden year (2020), video-conferencing is subject to the usual ban on the holiday use of electronics. 

You can take advantage of the whole spectrum of illustrated poems dealing with 'Mythed Opportunities' that we have collected on our full-service blog 'Edifying Nonsense'. Click HERE!

APR 13, photo-collage (mammalian wildlife): resurgent sea otters

  Elkhorn Slough, at Moss Landing CA, an inlet of Monterey Bay, has become, with protective measures enforced, a bathtub for once-endangered sea otters. If you are lucky enough to visit in April, as we were, you may get to see the pups being toured about by their moms.  Attention is drawn to these gentle marine mammals, seemingly at play, as viewed from our rental kayak. If you prefer, there is a larger tour-boat. Other species of wildlife now abound in and near the waters and in the pastoral setting  of the adjacent uplands, the latter having been developed a century ago for dairy farming. The fishing port of Moss Landing is still the site of a power plant that has dominated the skyline for decades, but is currently being partly dismantled.

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Elkhorn Slough is teeming with sea otters
 

terns on poles in the Slough

harbor seals find this a good place to nap

view over the Elkhorn Slough

from the National Estuarine Research Reserve 

touring the uplands on an informative guided walk 

banner at the Elkhorn Reserve

California poppies

The author with fishing buddies at the entrance
 to an incredible seafood restaurant 

 the beach at the local State Park,
only a few feet from the restaurant

You can review the whole collection of illustrated verses about mammals (both domestic and exotic) by checking out the more extensive post on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE !

APR 12, folio-entry, couples: sanderlings

  You can view all of our folio-photos from the collection of 'Couples' portraits in a wider context on our full-service blog "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.

APR 11, exotic destination: Fort Ord National Monument

 

online photo: abandoned military barracks

impressive surf: riptide warnings abound

APR 10, a brief saga (classic languages): Anglo-Latin, and -Greek

PARODY-SONGLINK: These verses were originally conceived as poetic lyrics. However, they can, like almost all limericks, be easily sung using  certain well-known tunes.  

 Click HERE to access ukulele and guitar chord-charts to help you accompany the song ("The Delights of Anglo-Latin") on your favorite instrument. Readers should note that several years later, an overlapping set of lyrics was used to create a parody song using the musical base of the jazz ballad "Latin Doll"; you can find that later singable concoction (that we named "Latin Cat's Strut")  HERE. 

But, if you are interested only in the lyrics, continue with the presentation that follows ...  

  For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year. 

  Generally, OEDILF has not been enormously welcoming of multi-verse submissions, but Giorgio Coniglio has persisted, and the OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. All this effort is worthwhile, as the resulting lyrics can easily be adapted for singing!

 

 To access next month's 'brief saga' (May 2022), proceed to 'Echoic Binomials (Eco-pairs)'

To review the most recent month's 'brief saga' (March 2022), back up to 'Bequest'. 

 To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

2020
2021
2022
2023.

 

gift bags of chocolate matzot

APR 9, excursions: the windy (SanFrancisco) peninsula

MONTARA BEACH and STATE PARK

selfie -- on the trail

 

food truck at next stopping point:
similar terrain for lamas and llamas?

APR 8, numbers: octane (8)

You can review our cumulated nonsense about numbers by clicking HERE.

APR 7, excursion: Point Lobos Natural Reserve, California

tide-pool

tide-pool

 

Also, check our blogposts on April 2 and April 12 for some pics of wildlife at this incredible site.