2026.01
Morning journal posts from January 2026
Don't Be an NPC
Unlock a few quests.
Saturday, January 31, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
An easy pun for sure, but this journal is a record of where wonder falls every morning.
Life goes better with a sense of wonder. Perhaps if you've lost yours you might find a reignition switch here.
That's my hope.
I could of course name it For The Wynn, but I'm not talking to, or about, myself. This is For You.
Creative thought, more specifically poetical thinking, is sorely lacking from our days and ways of life. We're paying the price for it lately.
We're creators first; we build places for our dreams.
Really. That's what you are: a being made to build places for dreams.
How are your dreams? What are you building today?
If you don't know what dream you're creating, you're serving someone else's dream.
You're an NPC.
Don't be an NPC.
Unlock a few quests.
A quest is a dream you want to see made real. Making it real is the work of heroes.
And the way to live a purposeful life.
If you know how a story works, you know how to make your dreams come true.
You have a hope (dream), you take the steps (quest) to make it real (dream comes true).
It's why stories work; they're reflective.
Life lives the ways of story.
In order to have hope, you have to have a sense of wonder.
The all important: May-Be.
"I wonder... maybe things can be better if I..."
-Hero About to Unlock a Quest
Find an NPC to help you get started. Gather your materials. Level up. Then go and make your dream real, Hero.
Thanks for reading, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Archaic Slab
AI's Lack: Looking out for Pablo's Rep
What makes Michelangelo makes The Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Glad you're back. O/
Pleasure, comfort, health and well-being my hopes for you. Thanks for reading.
On with our show...
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Moonlight keeps watch while the Sun comes back around.
What's new? Another morning after dreams so vivid like a cinema projection show in the mind while I slept.
I wonder about dreams, what they're for, and why we don't consider and talk about them more.
Perhaps one day after AI makes Science passé we'll venture into the world of dreams.
We measure a dream's value by our artistic representation of it.
I see humanity moving this way.
The advent of AI leads to putting Science on autopilot and freeing us to dream.
Artificial Intelligence is a boon to Artists when viewed properly.
Every Artist, Writer, and Musician is a part of every painting, story and song they create. What makes Michelangelo makes The Ceiling of The Sistine Chapel.
One cannot exist without the other.
No matter how technologically advanced AI becomes it could never create anything at all unless a dreamer with a vision and the skill to make it real did first.
Think of AI mimicking Art like this:
A translation of poetry.
I am not a native speaker of Spanish, however I've heard great things about Pablo Neruda's poetry.
Each time I read an English translation of his poetry I'm appalled at, quite frankly, how awful it sounds.
Surely the translations must be lacking?
Neruda is one of The Spanish Language's most revered poets.
What's missing from the translations of Neruda's poems to English is what's missing in AI generated art.
Translators are focused on the words and not the essence of the words.
I feel a little slight of a Poet's Pride for Pablo every time I read an English translation. So, one day, I put my years of study of Spanish and Poetry to work and set to right his reputation with The English speaking world.
AI leaves out the essence; AI is always a collaborative translation.
Like reading Neruda in English.
What For Pablo, Para Ti exemplifies is this poet's poetic translation of another poet's experience.
Match For Pablo, Para Ti with any intellectual translation of the same poem to see all the hazards of AI.
There are just some things a computer can never express.
All that makes Life worth living, for example.
I'll be releasing a formal anthology of poems soon. Part of this post will be included.
The purpose of the Neruda exercise is +he Ghos+ Point.
We bring ourselves to everything we experience.
Nowhere is this clearer than while we read.
We show ourselves in everything we create.
Nowhere is this clearer than while we make Art.
To exemplify your essence's experience of an experience is the point and purpose of all Artistic Endeavors.
AI can never experience Life, can never speak only translate.
Take care, create something, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of a person holding a book up to a mirror.
Archaic Slab
For the Sake of Words
Keep in mind every time you utter, type, sing, or thumb-slap a word you're furthering or hindering humanity.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
We write the morning; we do the day.
We march one step and sip of our coffee or tea to see the words match our dreams.
Hope all's well Dear Reader. O/
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For the sake of words... definitely the title.
What my work is about lately: The poetry of words.
A poem about words is like biting your own teeth.
But with all the babble on blaring around us, someone ought to point out the cause.
How we treat our words is how we value life.
A world without language is a monkey's mess.
Words, like people, are alive.
Language needs dreamers to keep it going. A word is never done, never dead.
Humanity evolves because its language does.
The link between evolution and language is a redundancy.
The only way to evolve is to grow our understanding.
That means to heal and expand our expressions.
And so I write.
Every morning.
Thanks for reading.
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Keep in mind every time you utter, type, sing, or thumb-slap a word you're furthering or hindering humanity.
Your words really do matter that much.
Your language is the art you use to communicate yourself to the world.
Be clear. Be sincere. Your voice, written or said, is the masterpiece you share with life itself.
A lie told is a disingenuous brushstroke, a rookies mistake, a disservice to the painter as well as the viewer.
When you listen to and take your advice from falsehoods you follow a GPS app that gives bad directions.
You never get where you intend to go. You walk, drive, live around frustrated all your efforts do nothing more than get you more lost.
This is why my Country hasn't healed since the time of Covid. We're being fed lies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And too many are eating what's served as opposed to choosing something better.
The modern media machine in America, at present, is a GPS app that gives bad directions.
It's no longer enough to only refuse to watch and listen to the lies, we now must serve and share something better.
Consider Wonder Fell something better shared; a Poet stepping up.
As always thanks for being here, take care, share words of hope, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink drawing of a person reading on a hillside during a snowstorm at dawn.
Archaic Slab
So We Can Best Express Ourselves
Somewhere in the piled on spectacles from the Internet, AI, manipulative politicians, and a media for hire we forgot.
Monday, January 26, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Welcome or Welcome Back. O/
Here's where we write during sunrise whatever the sunrise brings.
Words are our greatest gift. I, a poet of some note (a B sharp of course), see the world forgetting the power of language, see the damage it's causing and set about to help it heal.
That's what Wonder Fell is all about... remembering true power and value is in how we use our words.
Somewhere in the piled on spectacles from the Internet, AI, manipulative politicians, and a media for hire we forgot.
Money doesn't make the world go 'round; words do.
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Every brushstroke from only Da Vinci paints The Mona Lisa. There is only one true expression of his dream.
Your words are brushstrokes to paint your expression of a good life.
Imitation is for learning how to better express ourselves.
We learn to paint like Da Vinci so we can better paint like ourselves.
We learn to speak and write like others so we can best express ourselves.
AI is an educational tool. Any other use of it is a disgrace to what it means to be human. Using AI to make choices for you is an act of surrendering your humanity.
Artificial Intelligence is a great tool to help us do our work and live our lives. But we must always choose how to employ it.
Your Life is the expression of your Life and that is always up to you.
Use your whole environment to help you learn how best to express your dreams of a good life, then express away.
Faith Esperanza James Campaign Speech:
"Our words are under fire, America.
This Living Document Nation is under attack at our foundation.
What does Freedom mean to you?
What about Liberty and Justice?
Our shared understanding of a few words make Our Country.
Does America look free to you?
Are you a citizen?
If so you better be able to answer yes or you're not living where you think you are.
Talk with each other. Remind one another we're in this together.
Ours is a Nation whose foundations rest on the power of words.
Let's get our definitions straightened out so we can start being who we believe we are."
A nice speech, and a side-story to be, to start the day for Colore.
Take care, talk about freedom, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of a person wearing a dunce cap painting The Mona Lisa.
Archaic Slab
A Few New Considerations
We, as writers, must write what we love to read to have any success.
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
How's your day? O/
What topics are on your mind?
The direction of the weather and Wonder Fell for me this morning.
Arctic Temps give way to snow late today.
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Colore updates! That's the way we'll discuss what's up with The Epic in this journal.
More World building yesterday.
Posting a story as you write it sets up a few new considerations. The first is editing. The second is cohesion.
Practically put, I've been writing for decades. I know my voice and how to make a sentence. If classic grammar doesn't like one of my commas, remember I'm a poet, check my poetic license (Wonder Fell works), and move on.
Cohesion's the thing.
Making up a story as we go is part of the joy of writing. Creating the rules and ways of the story world are what's going on behind the scenes in Colore.
It's a fantasy writer's bane and beautiful. I'm enjoying working with the genre. We, as writers, must write what we love to read to have any success.
For me, my always 'love-to-reads' are poetry, Emerson's Essays, and any fantasy story like: Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Narnia's tales... coming of age Wonderland tales.
And so... the poems, the daily essays, and The Epic all found here.
So Wonder Fell marches on. Essays, and poems, an Epic... Oh My!
Btw, The Of Sorts Gallery (of sorts) is still on. We're in development mode. We'll stick with a single pen and ink stick figure pic by an algorithm of doodlers everyday until then.
Back to World Building for me.
And back to you making wonderful your wonderful day.
Thanks for reading. O/
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a pen and ink stick figure drawing of a person putting together a puzzle of The Earth on a snowy day at sunrise.
Archaic Slab
A Team Effort
The whole issue with American Government is it's acting like a team sport when it's supposed to be a team effort.
Saturday, January 24, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
How's the sunshine? O/
Yesterday's entry talked about establishing a post of Colore daily to go along with Wonder Fell and how this journal would become more of a place to discuss the creative process... Live.
That's still the plan.
World building is where I'm at with Colore right now. Unfortunately, spoilers being a thing, there's not much to discuss on it.
Daydreams to character build and analog lists of character dialogues to establish scenes was yesterday's business.
It's a difference an author of fantasy has to account for... World Building.
So not too much to write on Colore today because there's a lot of writing and working going on with Colore today.
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Back to us and our right now. Here's a question to wonder about:
In a very non-conspiracy theory and very practical way, how much of what is actually going on in our Government do you actually get to see?
Really. Who tells the cameras where to go and what to show? A practical question.
Parents O/ You pick and choose what your children watch online to help direct their growth.
Whose choosing what you get to watch online?
You?
Really?
Whose directing your growth?
The whole issue with American Government is it's acting like a team sport when it's supposed to be a team effort.
We watch a game to cheer our favorite team on. We trash talk fans of the other teams for fun. We support our teams at all costs.
The problem with treating Government like a team sport is... life isn't a win or lose game.
Life is a process of having dreams and making them real.
For everyone.
Your dreams can only be as successful as the materials you have available.
Did you make your i-phone? Program Google's algorithms? Harvest the metals and minerals to build the machines to build your car? Plant the seeds and gather the crops for the food that feeds you?
Life, living alive! is not a team sport; it's a team effort.
How we treat each other is how we treat ourselves because we're in this together.
America it's time to remember a house divided cannot stand and throw out this us versus them narrative ruling the airwaves.
We're so much better than we're letting ourselves be.
And so I write to remind us.
Take care, stay warm, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Archaic Slab
Behind the Wizard's Curtain
I do this as a Poet writing a story. There is a major distinction here.
Friday, January 23, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Tagline done. How's the day? O/
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Business thoughts this morning.
Colore. The story posts a new verse every Friday... that's the way it's set up at present.
What I'd like to do, and it is ambitious and unheard of, is post a new verse of Colore everyday along with Wonder Fell.
As 'live' a process as possible to writing a tale.
So today is for setting that up.
I may still post a new verse later today.
The important thing for a writer is to find the way they work best. Prolific and continuous for this Ghos+.
If you read an Archaic Slab at the end of a post, you'll see I don't edit much. It's experience; it's trust of voice.
It's the same with prose.
No vanity... just a point of order for business.
My sentiments are that for a time Wonder Fell is to become a 'discuss what's occurring craftwise in Colore' place of record.
With all the talk on the power of Story found here... how about I walk you through the process of creating one?
As I create one.
So I'll take you behind the Wizard's Curtain in Oz and show you how the magic is made as we make the magic.
What works for one creative endeavor works for them all. The steps we'll go through work for all Artists, for all people who have a dream they want to make real.
I do this as a Poet writing a story.
There is a major distinction here.
Poets use the shape of the genre and the sounds it welcomes to reinforce the metaphors we're making.
Colore is a Hero's adventure through a Wonderland of Dreams juxtaposed to snippets of speeches and conversations we hear in our lives.
The pairing of the two demonstrates the power of Story in what we call The Real World.
Colore will show how not listening to the wisdom of Story is the cause for all the hardship in our lives.
Some will find interest in the How-to thinking in some Wonder Fell posts. Others will just want to read the tales.
Either way thank you for reading.
You see... in order to write a good story you have to have a sense of morality always in mind.
If there is one act that for certain would heal my Country right now it's: Keeping a sense of morality in everything we do.
There is a right way to live. The way of Story shows us how.
Expect a change in Wonder Fell soon.
More Prose and Practical Process.
Artists rarely talk about how we do what we do. And though it's beyond what numbers can measure, the creative process can be shared and replicated... creatively.
(Sorry AI. You can never create anything... only regurgitate.)
Take care, thanks for reading (prose-y-er days ahead!), and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of a wizard's hat on a chair by a desk with a large book on it.
Archaic Slab
My Country Could Use Some Help
The way a plumber, electrician, or carpenter fixes up your home so you can have a better life, so the poet works with language.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Glad you're back. O/
On with our show...
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Getting the words right... my life's work.
You see the craft of the Poet is a very practical thing. The way a plumber, electrician, or carpenter fixes up your home so you can have a better life, so the Poet works with language.
Your home and your words haven't always been here. Someone had to build them, care for them, keep them going.
Imagine your life without words. We're monkeys without the work I do.
We take language for granted because we rely on it, but words are made.
There are times when our words aren't doing justice to our shared experience.
Like lately.
Enter Poets.
Because Love always begs definition Poets are associated with romance. But my business is the word business. Assuring we have ways to best express our experience is what Poets are for.
A carpenter helps you fix your front door. A Poet helps you heal your language.
Sure you could fix the door yourself. Maybe watch a YouTube How To or ask an AI bot to walk you through it.
But the professional who's been fixing doors everyday for nearly three decades is going to do a better job than you or AI.
And so I write.
Making words to overcome impossible situations is how I spent almost everyday of my adult life.
My Country could use some help.
Healing language finding, and at times making the right words, is my business.
Enter Colore.
The stories we share aren't representing our best selves. Moreso, our words don't mean all they could, so they don't mean all they should.
If we want to be patriotic about it: In a Nation with a Living Document as its foundation, Poets are our Country's best defense.
And so I write.
The idea of Colore is to remind us the power of our words and stories.
The juxtaposition of speeches and conversations in our day to day life (The Side-stories) with that of a story in a world of stories helps prove the point.
Our language is not only how we define things but also ourselves.
We can only ever be as good as our understanding of our words.
A story is the best genre to remind us of the power of, and our responsibility for, our stories.
Colore will remain entertaining to some degree. Our stories go best when they are.
But a story's point and purpose isn't entertainment. Every tale told is a reminder of what it means to be human.
In earlier entries I wrote, like a social media artist painting a picture while you watch, I'd write about the crafting of Colore as I write it. Consider today's post doing that.
Writers. O/ Make sure you know why you're writing whatever you're working on.
"Because I'm good at writing," is never reason enough to write anything at all.
"Because I have something important to share," is the best reason to write anything at all.
As always, thank you for reading.
Take care and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
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Pic Prompt: Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of a document and a quill on a desk on top of a hill at sunrise.
Archaic Slab