“The Old Lady wouldn’t watch television,” reminisced the Purple Dragon while flipping through Basic Cable channels, “Said she was in recovery from a career in TV news.”
Dragons love TV… when they can find something other than cop shows, infomercials, and contentious reality programs.
“Mostly it comes down to Turner Classic Movies,” sighed PD.
“Vintage b&w films seem more soothing than stimulating, more embracing than the frontal assault of digital color media.
“Because b&w is never really black or white.
“It’s all shades of gray.”

“Dragons dislike explosions,” explained the Purple Dragon, “although we do not panic like pets, birds, and humans who suffer PTSD.
“Americans spend more than 2 Billion dollars a year for fireworks, more than the annual defense budgets of many small countries.
“Even as humans complain about soaring gas prices and runaway inflation, they are expected to shell out about a Billion dollars for recreational munitions this 4th of July weekend.
“A BILLION dollars… up in smoke.
“Enjoy the show.”

“Humans do the strangest things,” observed the Purple Dragon.
“For example: water. Freely flowing from springs and streams, filling up wells, falling from the sky.
Yet Americans spend more than 30 billion dollars a year for water packaged in environmentally damaging containers.
Today the drugstore is selling little personal spraycans of oxygen.
Air!
They’re selling air, also packaged in environmentally damaging containers.
For $7, the can offers ‘Up to 60 One-Second Inhalations’ infused with peppermint scent to help in ‘restoring and uplifting the body’.
At $7 a minute, a year’s supply comes to about 3.7 Million dollars!
And that’s without the Sales Tax.”

Hey ho, Purple Dragon here.
What’s that you say?
Where’s The Old Lady?
Um… I ate her.
It was an accident, really, and besides that I didn’t mean to, it’s just that there was cake and snacks, and dragons are always hungry…
I did it, and I said I was sorry.
So there.
Maybe it’s for the best, maybe it’s time for some changes around here, maybe it’s time for the dragon’s eye view…
Maybe more purple in this prose.

Today The Old Lady turned 70.
First she wondered: “How the heck did I get this old?”
But she knew the answer:
She’s been busy.
A friend asked if she had any special plans for the day.
The Old Lady replied: “YES, and I accomplished them already…. I woke up.”
TxB2Gd!

Cleaned sharp skeleton
Frog flesh devoured
Croak croaked
Hop stilled
Still dancing

FORD
2022
🐲🧡

The Old Lady visited the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge near Titusville, Florida, and found the entrance to an area of Florida Scrub Jay habitat which was closed for nesting season.
As she stood looking over the gate who should appear but one of the famously elusive Scrub Jays!
The bird was friendly and allowed itself to be photographed.
Then she flew right in front of The Old Lady, speaking in a soft squawky voice, and returned to the more pressing business of finding food.
The Old Lady felt blessed.

Being a teenager is never easy…
Especially if you are a juvenile Great Blue Heron.
Feathers ITCH as they grow in.
This teenager seemed out of sorts as it fussed and scratched at its new plumage.
An irritated full body shake just made things worse…
So the Heron flew off to find something to eat.
Typical.

June is Pride Month, and now more than ever it is time for all of us human beings to be proud of who we are and who we love.
The Old Lady turns seventy this month. She has spent her entire life on the run, flying under the radar.
She made it work; she lived her life as she damn pleased.
But she would like a better world for her children.
And you are ALL her children, LGBTQ+ or whatever.
She loves you, and she loves who you love.
BE PROUD!

The Old Lady enjoyed a spectacular total lunar eclipse Sunday night, and Monday morning was astounded at how many people never even knew it was happening.
How did The Old Lady know?
She Googles sky events, a lot. The algorithm on her device learned that sky events interest her, so it puts those stories in her news feed.
Every time you click you teach your own personal algorithm what interests you and therefore that is what it will show you, whether it’s vegetarian recipes or the latest poop on the Johnny Depp trial (sorry, I could not resist).
So is Al Go Rithm an angel, or a devil?
You click, you decide.
LISTEN to The Old Lady!