Story Telling

[Scylla Rhiadra 29,619]

Cabaret degli Specchi

[Charalyne Blackwood 138]

 

"Missing You"

Edited March 26 by Charalyne Blackwood

[Scylla Rhiadra 29,619]

"Perfect"

[Vihmakass 2,650]

...and then we went by old trail, we all had carry heavy backpacks and there was that.....

Edited April 2 by Vihmakass

[Charalyne Blackwood 138]

"The Sun Rises In Her Eyes"

[Scylla Rhiadra 29,619]

The idea for this picture was initially suggested to me by the so-called "Sea Henge," a Neolithic archaeological site in Norfolk that featured at its heart the stump of a tree buried upside-down, as though in offering to an inverted world of the dead beneath the ground.

The site was possibly (probably?) a mortuary centre. One possible updated meaning for the inverted tree seemed to me as a sort of emblem of our increasing inverted relationship with our natural environment -- a troubled relationship that was only beginning in the Neolithic. What if burying a tree upside down represented at a symbolic level also a kind of burial of the natural world, a representation of our strangely backward attitude towards an environment that we are literally killing?

The next step -- imagining the inverted tree as a flaming warning beacon -- was an easy one. We are burning our forests, hundreds of square miles at a time.

Will the light shed by their dying flames be sufficient to illuminate our self-destructive idiocy before it is too late?

[Nalates Urriah 6,182]

9 hours ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

The idea for this picture was initially suggested to me by the so-called "Sea Henge," a Neolithic archaeological site in Norfolk that featured at its heart the stump of a tree buried upside-down, as though in offering to an inverted world of the dead beneath the ground.

The site was possibly (probably?) a mortuary centre. One possible updated meaning for the inverted tree seemed to me as a sort of emblem of our increasing inverted relationship with our natural environment -- a troubled relationship that was only beginning in the Neolithic. What if burying a tree upside down represented at a symbolic level also a kind of burial of the natural world, a representation of our strangely backward attitude towards an environment that we are literally killing?

The next step -- imagining the inverted tree as a flaming warning beacon -- was an easy one. We are burning our forests, hundreds of square miles at a time.

Will the light shed by their dying flames be sufficient to illuminate our self-destructive idiocy before it is too late?

Very neat image and story. Thanks.

See if this helps with your green-funk... This tech company is aiming to plant 500 billion trees by 2060 – using drones

[Madelaine McMasters 25,946]

1 hour ago, Nalates Urriah said:

See if this helps with your green-funk... This tech company is aiming to plant 500 billion trees by 2060 – using drones

Last summer, a tree helped plant my drone... in the Milwaukee River.

Turnabout is fair play.

[Scylla Rhiadra 29,619]

3 hours ago, Nalates Urriah said:

Very neat image and story. Thanks.

See if this helps with your green-funk... This tech company is aiming to plant 500 billion trees by 2060 – using drones

Thanks Nalates!

And yes, we'll take what we can get, tree-wise. 🙂

 

[manoji Yachvili 3,262]

blowing hard can make a dream come true?
I hope so

[Yuumo Ichibara 1,515]

Creative Writing Prompt: What happened to my husband’s limb? And what is he shielding me from when he knows I am the greatest danger to myself?

(I cannot come up with something whimsical at the moment so I leave it to you folks, but my answer is: He lost his real one after moving around excess prims in our house.)

Edited April 10 by Yuumo Ichibara

[Yuumo Ichibara 1,515]

Creative Writing Prompt: We all have stories to tell. The stories we tell others about ourselves are always different from the stories others tell about us. What tales do you think these beautiful souls would tell? Would you trust their word, or would you rather stay faithful to the story you narrated for them?

[Love Zhaoying 12,655]

Creative writing prompt: Who would you ship together as a couple (who are not usually a couple), and why?

[Yuumo Ichibara 1,515]

1 hour ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Creative writing prompt: Who would you ship together as a couple (who are not usually a couple), and why?

From the picture? I sense chemistry between the two gentlemen in suits. The guy behind him is checking his ass.