Eli Belt

At first I thought maybe Mars

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Close up of my finger in the dark.

Assuming it’s my finger closeup, what have you photographed in your sleep?

A walker won’t work on the trails so back to two walking sticks, short hikes until I build up again, and letting someone know where I am in case i overestimate my abilities.

The good news is you won’t have to have surgery on your knee for a long time.

How long before I can hike again?

Hiking? You want to hike? You’ll probably need to have surgery on your knee if you want to hike again.

Hmm… living alone surgery isn’t an option, so baby stepping my way to watch me.

2/2
of words waiting to be
hatched.
She watches closely,
should I sit on them
to incubate
or
whisper encouragement
and walk away?
Beatrice leaned forward and smiled
At a tiny pinprick of a mushroom.
Once you were a spore
and now you’re so much more…

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She touches the pen
she rolls the pen
off the table and onto the floor
like a cat.
She flips open a blank book,
she scratches at the paper,
#wary then with the determination
of a cat she covered old words
invisible clump of poo disguised
as chicken scratched letters
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Drawing of a sea otter on a rock beside an ocean with wild waves. The otter has beige head and neck and brown fur elsewhere. It has its nose in the air as though sniffing and keeping an eye out for threats.

A daily word prompt meant to inspire any type of creativity.

Share your art, original words, poetry, writing snippets, photos, etc. NO A/"I" please! Alt text on images appreciated.

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Word for July 18, 2025: #WARY

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In Once Upon a Wave of Witches by me & @elibisme.bsky.social, Beatrice is married to the sea witch Coral, who is tethered to a lighthouse by a curse while Beatrice is destined to roam. They visit each other in dreams & reunite to rescue one another in a crisis. The most loving couple in my books. 💜

Image of 8 books covers: The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere, has a black cat playing with an old-fashioned sailing ship; When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, has a white rabbit crying red tears and a red rabbit with skeleton exposed crying blue tears; Once Upon a Wave of Witches, with co-author Eli Belt, has a green kraken tentacle sweeping through turbulent blue waves; The Tail of Nightshade, has a gray mouse among purple nightshade blooms; The Melody of Trees, has a red fox among twining tree branches; The Weird Sisters, has a full moon behind tombstones with a hand visible lying on the ground; The Avenging Angel, has a full moon behind a mansion; The Ghostly Groom, has a full moon behind a tombstone with a black bird on top of it.

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I won’t forget. Unfortunately I had an accident with my right leg and haven’t been able to hike since April. I go to an orthopedic doctor tomorrow to see what he thinks. I do have a park with short trails that I do about half the route, so that works. May both our droughts end. Peace!

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The beginning stages of a Korn vest. It is black with tons of pockets and on the leather strip along the bottom I included some of the lyrics to Freak On A Leash in yellow paint. Above that so far are 3 patches, 2 made from t-shirts. A Beavis and Butthead storyline of Kornholio with a black nu metal tshirt pulled over his head like a hood, a red plaid kilt with one of those kilt purses, blue stockings, black and white sneakers singing into a microphone with a stand of a modern art naked female. He is singing: Boom na da boom noom na nena boom na da boom. It is stitched in place with red embroidery floss, a circular Punks not dead with an anarchy symbol of an A encircled and its stitch is in yellow orange. Last patch so far is cream and black and says Freak on a Leash.

I am lost in my journey with words, no new poems, I never think about reading books, and I am forgetting way too many words. So taking a bit of a break from social media. Working on fabric art instead.

Covers of the books I've recently read and reviewed: Hellfighters by Dominique Marks, Flesh and Bone by Arden Powell, Percival Gynt and the Inevitability of Fire by Drew Melbourne, The Owl Men of Shanidar by Coy Hall, Phengaris by Anna Orridge, Synthetic Sea by Franklyn S. Newton, Children of Solitude by Michael G. Williams, Dexter & Sinister Detecting Agents by Keith W. Dickinson

Slowly getting back into my reading and reviewing routine after a reading drought that lasted too long!

I read about 95% indie and small press books. You can follow along at my website's blog posts or check out the book review section for reviews by genre! #booksky #indie

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We celebrate in September so I get my Pride early or late depending on how you look at it. Btw I loved you in The Wild Robot, your voice blows my mind.

Photo showing a crowded mass of tiny white flowers with spiky petals and yellow centers. There are red-purple bee balm blooms visible in the background.

Close up picture of purple-red bee balm blooms with long spiky individual blooms emerging in a burst of enthusiasm from a central ball-like structure.

A close up photo of the flea bane showing the delicate white petals and yellow center in greater detail.

Bright red cardinal flowers. There are individual red bell-like blooms emerging all along a central tall green stem. Other wildflowers can vaguely be seen in the blurred background.

What's happening in the garden today? 🌱

#bloomscrolling

The white flowers are fleabane, I think, and probably considered a weed but they are quite lovely little blooms and seem to attract tiny pollinator people.

The red flowers are bee balm and cardinal flower, super hummingbird attractors!

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Neat the bottom of two arborvitae trees in the soil next to the clover were three fried egg shapes that are actually mushrooms.

Taking out the garbage I glanced over at the arborvitae and thought: wtf??? Which one of my neighbors put fried eggs in my yard and why?
On closer inspection they are mushrooms.

This is such a cool book and I recommend it to fans of Redwall and other animal adventures.

And you did an amazing job. Everyone locally who bought a book made a fuss over the illustrations, I just wish you could have heard them.

When we published I put the book title on everything, even my top hat has the title and our names on top of it.

Oh I’m so happy and excited for you. Enjoy! 😊

Helen’s books are quite good and the animal characters really draw you into the stories. I think our coauthored book is enjoyable as well. I liked her illustrations so much I got one tattooed.

Y'all, this is a great deal, and I highly recommend snagging this if you don't have them!

Thanks Michael! Peace!

Hazy orange red rising sun peeking through the trees.

Peekaboo sunrise, rise and shine lovelies! Rock this day like the superstars you are! Be kind and may the world treat you kindly! Peace! ✌️

A strip-pieced quilt with random lengths in various shades of green melting into a scatter of half-square triangles against a dark blue background.

A closeup of the quilt, showing the wavy quilting, which makes it look a little like an underwater scene

I’ve been watching our kelp forests decline across my lifetime and it makes me very sad because kelp is cool as hell and supports a lot of marine life so I made a quilt about it.

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