Daily Post Challenge, Weathered
Bear Butte, located northeast of Sturgis, South Dakota, is an important religious site for many plains tribes including the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne.
Geologically, it’s not a butte but a laccolith, an intrusive igneous body that uplifts the surrounding sedimentary rocks which have weathered away leaving this gorgeous structure.
It will be here long after the church in the foreground turns to dust.
Photograph by A.L. Lindseth, March 31, 2016
Anything to add? I’m interested in what we can come up with.
Exist and resist!
These are from a book called “Disorder in the Court” and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and published by court reporters that had the torment of staying calm while the exchanges were taking place. _____________________________ _ __ ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of […]
I’ve had this blog, if you can call it that, for several years. I’m paying for the domain, so I may as well give a stab at a New Year’s resolution and fire out a few essays. Words of wisdom, if I may.
Lol. Who am I kidding? Not you, my fine friends. I won’t have much to share that is new, but maybe I’ll throw it out there with a little wit and with writing that doesn’t suck.
I’m the friend who thinks dropping in unannounced is charming so I will show up sometime during the week during waking hours, just like the cable guy.
Pretend to be happy to see me.
That’s my grand plan. Sounds easy, but those who know me, know my good intentions generally lead to a lack of commitment, so I have no direction for the blog, but I’m sure I’ll be dipping into current affairs quite a bit because it’s what I care about most these days. It’s the only thing I will thank Trump for.
My opinions will be delivered with a scrape of butter on top to help cover up the bitterness in your mouth. You know, the taste you get from a side of uncomfortable. I will soften my tone because no one wants to read the cascade of names I’ve assigned to the asshole-in-chief or about how much I abhor the political environment. There will be no question to which side of the aisle I lean, spiritually or politically.
I will not bully or be bullied.
I’d prefer my readers to be like-minded. It’ll make a better experience for all of us, I mean, if you like westerns, you’re not going to like my horror flash fiction. Same goes for this: if you’re a Trump supporter, still, put your head back in the sand. Dig in, baby, because the White House has one foot on that slippery slope. However, I welcome an intelligent conversation, a fair exchange backed up by fact and proper grammar.
I am an acquired taste. Pair me with a nice merlot.
There will be curse words. Fuck is my favorite, and I consider it the most versatile, underappreciated spice in the English language. I’ll write about things that bug me, things I don’t understand, but mostly I will speak out against the rash of injustice plaguing our world or my speck of the universe. I’ll throw in some of my flash fiction. There will be updates on my writing and my pets. Hmm… what else?
I’m not trying to make a mark in the world, just expand my writer’s platform, but hopefully, I will bond with one or two of you. We’re not alone, and we will continue to exist and resist, side by side.
Someday I will have a place among the books of the year. Imagine that. It’s every author’s goal, right?
To get you started here are Elle’s 21 Best Books of 2018 Seven of these are short story or essay collections.
If those aren’t enough for you, here are Huffington Post’s 60 Books to Read in 2018 There’s a lot of overlap between the two list, so unless you are voracious, I would stick to Elle. Here’s some that caught my eye.
Roxane Gay is my new favorite author. She writes about tough subjects. Her latest, Hunger, is about her battle to lose weight. Highly recommend.
This debut novel about immigrants drawn to a Connecticut brass town is garnering buzz. Four generations on, a teenager faces a future in the town that’s gripped her family for years, and searches the past for clues about how to change her fate.
If you’re into politics like I am, check this one out. Fuel your productive energies with this account of Trump’s first year in office. Amy Siskind has been compiling the president’s misdeeds in The Weekly List, and here it is, all together in one book.
If The Shape of Water didn’t have enough fish-man sex for you, come May you’ll have more than you can deal with. Melissa Broder (a.k.a. @sosadtoday)’s protagonist Lucy falls for a gorgeous swimmer on Venice Beach; it just so happens that only part of him is human.
If you’re like me and playing catch up, here Esquire’s 50 best books from 2017
Not enough time in the day, is there, readers?
I hope you find this helpful.
Happy New Year! 2018. Wow, we made it!
I’m dusting off this blog. Man, oh man, were the bunnies thick.
Let’s pretend we’ve never met.
I am 54 years old, have two boys, two cats, a dog, and the best, big sister in the whole, wide world. Seriously, she’s amazing. I work part-time scooping horse shit and doing maintenance for an equine hospital one mile from my house. (I need a t-shirt that reads, “I’ve got a shitty job,” which is funny cause it’s literal.) I’m single, and don’t see that changing, which is fine with me. I am smart, independent, and the funniest person I know. I also sing super good especially after a few glasses of box wine. Hey, I just wrote my Match.com profile.
My life is good, really good. Maybe better than it’s ever been. Who else can say that?
It could have turned out worse, a lot worst, and things have been bleak from time to time. My choices haven’t been all glitter and rainbows. Oh, there’s been some shiny shit, don’t get me wrong. What hedonist doesn’t like something sparkly and instantly gratifying? But I’ve become a better person, and a morning person, much to my surprise. I don’t think the two are related, but it might be the coffee.
I started writing with purpose a few years ago. I’ve completed drafts of two out of five books in a young adult fantasy series. A dozen of my flash fiction pieces have been published. I even got paid for one of them, so I’m well on my way to a book deal. Last year I published a collection of horror flash fiction last year called Sanity’s Threshold, Slivers of a Twister Mind. Still available on Amazon.
My work-in-progress is a novel, The Contraption. It’s dystopian and deals with conversion therapy and the oppression of the poor. First draft is done, and preliminary feedback is positive. Go me!
There you go. Me in 300 words. Are you a fan yet?
For my little River dog…
Background photo: Vargazs/Pixabay, CC0.
Manipulation and design layout: Elizabeth Stark
Thirty years ago Angela played with the idea of a book while looking out from an abandoned fire tower in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Since that time, she has stumbled her way through life. She obtained her Geological Engineering degree, but ditched that for an electrician’s license. She’s worked a variety of jobs but never found the one that fit.
The skeleton of that story never left her. Today, she has a finished novel and a published collection of flash fiction called Sanity’s Threshold. Finding her calling has opened her imagination and a multitude of words have poured onto the page.
Her flash fiction ranges from dark and twisted, to sad and sappy. For more of her work visit her website and Facebook author page.
Thank you Rhetoric Askew for the guest blog spot!
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Angela L. Lindseth 