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  • Pic and a Word ChallengeThe Pic and a Word Challenge comes from Patrick Jennings’ site www.pixtowords.com Each week he provides a photograph of his along with a single word. The challenge? Use the pic and/or word as points of inspiration to create something — a photograph, a painting, prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, longread or just a few words. We are welcome to use these two elements (photograph and word) literally, thematically or metaphorically. If we create both images and words, all the better.
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  • Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.

    Just what would that look like, a day with no “no”s?

    February 19, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus, choices, consequences, Freedom, responsibility, rules
    Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.
  • Postmodern Taboos

    Welcome to the future.

    February 18, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Jesus, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    absolutes, postmodern, relativity, truth
    Postmodern Taboos
  • the midnight call

    dark hours accuse, misuse, abuse, confuse. The hope of living rises with the sun.

    February 17, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Faith, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    blindness, Catena Rondo, dark, light, sight
    the midnight call
  • faded glory

    Try as I might, I just can’t see the beauty.

    February 16, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Death, Life, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, beauty, being present, dying, life and death, mindfulness
    faded glory
  • absurd echoes

    look at why you don’t cry; cry about why you can’t.

    February 15, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Freedom, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    cry, dissonance, Echo, laugh
    absurd echoes
  • paint chip vacation

    whilst tripping through the polychromed portal…

    February 14, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    art, Life, Mental Illness, Purpose
    contentment, distraction, focus
    paint chip vacation
  • both/and – #SoCS

    Today’s prompt looks like a choice of two options. We were simply given “above/below” and told to write a stream of consciousness (allowing for the correction of typos – thank goodness). Bonus points if I use both! Oh, and I will use both, because my stream of thought basically fits “Ben’s Basic Rule of Staying…

    February 13, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Coming Out – The Journey, Faith, Freedom, Gay marriage, Jesus, Kindness, Life, Love, Purpose, SoCS, Uncategorized
    binary, binary thinking, choices, dimmer, non-binary, SoCS
    both/and – #SoCS
  • not in on the joke

    party guests – only excellent owls.

    February 12, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Frank’s Friday Focus, Life, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #FFFocus, exclusive, inclusion, Super Bowl, Superb Owl
    not in on the joke
  • Learn THIS before THAT

    “OK, that’s cool, but I still don’t know what “y” is, so who cares?”

    February 11, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Purpose
    distributive property, learning, process, simplification, simplify, solve
    Learn THIS before THAT
  • Sonnet XVII- navel gazing

    Gazing the navel will skew what is true.

    February 10, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Christianity, Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Sonnets, Uncategorized
    focus, navel gazing, others, Purpose, self-absorbed
    Sonnet XVII- navel gazing
  • standing. still.

    “I need you. I’m scared” ~ 4:23 a.m.

    February 9, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Kindness, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry, Uncategorized
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, friendship, missed connections, undelivered
    standing. still.
  • happiness pursued

    “but by morning, joy!” says the Good Book.

    February 8, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Christianity, Faith, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Purpose
    happy, jollity, joy, peace, psalm 30, pursuit
    happiness pursued
  • morose less?

    I’ve been challenged to be less morose.

    February 7, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Uncategorized
    a life worth living, authentic, authenticity, happy, sad
    morose less?
  • No False Flags Here – #SoCS

    I couldn’t be Pride-lier.

    February 6, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, SoCS
    ally, Pride, Pride Flag, SoCS, youth
    No False Flags Here – #SoCS
  • groundhog day(s)

    Each day lives inside all the days lived before

    February 5, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blessings, Coming Out – The Journey, Frank’s Friday Focus, Freedom, Life, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    groundhog day(s)
  • Oh My Gosh, Does That Suck…

    I can take criticism as well as the next guy.

    February 4, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Blog Entries, Kindness, Life, Uncategorized
    management, morale, shit sandwich
    Oh My Gosh, Does That Suck…
  • factlings

    I’m having one of those mornings.

    February 3, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Uncategorized
    Facts, feelings, non-binary
    factlings
  • hide and seek

    “alle alle auch sind frei”

    February 2, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Pic and a Word Challenge, Poetry
    #picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, alle alle auch sind frei, closeted, coming out, fear, hiding
    hide and seek
  • weird invites

    “If you want to come over tomorrow – you can”

    February 1, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Coming Out – The Journey, Freedom, Homosexuality, Kindness, Life, Love, Poetry, Uncategorized
    accept, decline, Invitation, RSVP
    weird invites
  • the blender

    A month goes by, then years, they blend

    January 31, 2021

    Ben Kohns

    Life, Love, Mental Illness, Poetry, Purpose, Uncategorized
    blender, cycles, futility, green juice, important, smoothie, time
    the blender
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