Blogger blogging near Seattle
As today is World Poetry Day, I offer up this contribution: Shall we celebrate power? Speaking conscience to the brutal. When nothing else can resist. Words sharper than swords? Or those words capturing love? That exquisite, maddening Sensation. Delightful, painful, No greater sorrow, or pleasure. Poetry, indefinable, glorious Mystery. Savor this moment For soon we… Continue reading World Poetry Day
I’m glad I was able to contribute to this Twitter thread. I’ll need to contribute more often.
I’m a tech worker located near Seattle. Not very novel, that, but that’s my life. Currently, I’m a systems analyst at a local non-profit, and over the pandemic I trained as a web developer, completing an Associate of Technical Arts in Web Application and Cloud Development from Edmonds College, along with a bunch of certifications… Continue reading Main
One of my digital friends, Bernie, wrote this blog post featuring Maria Popova, a writer I admire greatly. In the article, Popova writes about the grief feels upon the passing of her beloved friend Emily Levine. She explores how poetry impacted that journey, and how it can help us all manage the finitude of our… Continue reading You Can’t Have It All
One of the more interesting phenomena I’ve observed: the weird pivots between emotions. Late last week and earlier this week, I struggled with some basic concepts in database structure and math that left me feeling like I had no business pursuing this web developer thing. Then there’s today where I blast out two quizzes, that… Continue reading Student Life Update
If you’re engaged with me on Twitter, you might have noticed I have two Twitter profiles: CarlSetzer and SetzerDigitial. This is for focus. I read years ago that you should keep a blog focused as narrowly as possible. @CarlSetzer is my oldest Twitter profile, which I started in 2007. I rambled over different topics over… Continue reading Blogging, Twitter and Focus
Unclothed while at school My adolescent terrors While birds remain unphased This was a response to a poetry prompt on Instagram. This is what popped into mind.
I’m well into the second quarter of my education to become a web application developer. Last quarter I took the first of two graphic design classes, along with a Management class (introduction to Human Resources) and the 100 level Computer Information Systems class. The HR and CIS classes were fine. I learned a lot, and… Continue reading Life Change Update: July 17, 2020
I created this new logo for my poetry site, QuestionsAll.net, using Adobe Illustrator
in this time of rage invective traded like cash poetry’s my peace Checked Twitter this morning. So much rage. I’m not sure there’s not anyone without veins bulging nor invective dripping from their lips, a poison so sweet, so deadly. I’m glad I have this little garden on the internet, where I can delight in life… Continue reading This morning’s haiku: this age of rage