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Morning journal posts from January 2026
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2025.01.05
Monday, January 05, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Hello, again. O/
Another morning, some more thoughts from your friendly undead poet.
Glad you're here.
On with our show...
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Do you read? Often and much?
It's a wonderful thing to do for so many reasons. Not only for leisure's sake, but also as a means of caring for yourself.
Far from an escape, reading is an exercise that helps you know yourself better.
Readers have richer fuller lives because time spent with books is time invested in you.
Reading provides new ways to interpret Life. So to read is to expand all you can experience.
A book you love is a pair of eyeglasses that helps you see more.
When someone tells you they don't enjoy reading what they're actually saying is they didn't enjoy the books they read.
If you want to start a reading practice, it's as simple as finding a book you love.
There's at least one for everyone.
Read something you enjoy everyday and your whole life improves.
Really.
There's a few minute read brand new everyday here on Wonder Fell. If you love it, (you know you do) check it out everyday.
My morning journal on Wonder Fell will always be free.
Donations and friendly comments are always greatly appreciated.
It's in the good old-fashioned spirit of helping out that I present these thoughts to you each morning. That spirit is so lacking from our daily focus lately.
A looking out for number one way of life is a fool's errand; as if you built your i-phone. There's always someone to be grateful for other than yourself.
Always.
Thank you for reading, it means the World to me. Take care and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
+he Ghos+
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And So I Write
2026.01.04
Sunday, January 04, 2026
Good morning, The Wonderfell Way.
Welcome to the show. O/
Midnight changes the calendar, though most of us sleep at least six more hours before we wake.
What's up with that?
Another incredibly early morning here. It's still yesterday on the West Coast. Greetings from tomorrow, California. O/
So far, so good.
So many sunrises in a row now on Wonder Fell. Hundreds.
Thanks for sharing some with me.
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It's interesting in its intimacy, this act of journal sharing.
How words shape and build identity show well here.
How each sentence says so much about the writer is worth our wonder.
Respect and reverence for the written word, for language at all, is what this site is all about.
Neglecting to remember the power words have to shape our lives is the cause of everything we see, and hear, and call so much of the News these days.
You see, Dear Reader, this is poet's work. More than the Hallmark Card love letter melancholy business so commonly put on us; we're guardians of words themselves.
I blame America's youth, not our young generations; our civilization's age.
We've only been around a couple hundred years. Our start was a turning away from so much else.
We have no Chaucers, no Miltons, no Homers that aren't yellow. Poets like these shaped civilizations with their testaments to morality.
And so I write.
I write my best to remind us of our best so we can, again, show what's best about ourselves to each other.
It takes story, it takes myth, it takes lyrical language to do that.
Our popular musicians, at times, do their best to remind us the value of Life. But a pop song can only do so much.
Different types of Art are different types of medicine.
A popular song heard by the right person at the right time changes that person's life.
Poetry, specifically Lyrical and Epic Poetry, is medicine for Civilizations.
And so I write.
Humbly, consistently, a voice every morning to remind us Life is still worth wonder. Our dreams still matter.
How we treat each other still defines our value more than any bank account can ever say.
Our words, more precisely our stories and Art, must begin to emphasize this point if our civilization is to endure.
It's time for us Artists to be the grown-ups, take the reigns, and lead.
We are so much better than how we've been treating and talking about ourselves lately.
Most of humanity has a camera, a speaker, a monitor on them at all times these days.
Our phones are connected to The World.
Artists! Let's flood phones with Art, with music, with stories and purge our so called News.
People! There are better things to look at and listen to than what passes for News.
Choose your favorite genre of music for your radio station choice over the channel with the people getting paid to make you angry.
The woman singing her heart out so you can have a better day deserves your attention more. She most certainly is of more lasting value and increases rather than takes away from your quality of life.
When Art takes over a culture it's called a Renaissance. America is long overdue one.
The reality of an American Renaissance is the only way we can bring lasting positive change.
Our understanding of our stories is broken. This requires new stories, art, and music to heal.
There's much to say on this topic. It's part of the point and purpose of Colore to address it directly.
And so I write.
As always, thank you for reading, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
+he Ghos+
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Same Prompt🤔: Create a stick figure pen and ink illustration of an open book on a table on a hillside at dawn.
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The Scientist and The Sentence
2026.01.02
Friday, January 02, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
The Moon is bright and so are you. O/
Great to be read by you again. Hope all's well.
On with our show...
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Friday... so expect another verse of Colore to appear later today.
Writing about writing an American Epic while writing it brings up some new questions and possibilities.
The pacing of posts stays the same due to the requirements of the story. Being a fantasy tale of sorts, details of the world's reality need to be fleshed out in advance.
To some degree.
I've been working those out.
So much of the joy of writing a story comes in the act of discovery.
Authors tend to stress over writing it 'right.'
We study books on craft. And we should.
The desire to better understand our work is self-affirming and potentially beneficial to the finished product.
Potentially because getting too focused on craft dizzies up the dreams we're attempting to convey with details.
If you know how to tell a child a story, and how to write a sentence, you can write a book.
Once upon a time there was an interesting character who had an issue. Until one day something happened that needed fixing. Fixing this issue solved the interesting character's issue. The End.
There are hundreds of years of literary theories, some practical, some far-out fantastical, to explain in detail the 'Once Upon a Time' process of story.
Something about you knows it. Is it innate?
Every known culture knows the same way of story.
We're born into it. The ways of story are as much a part of Life as water is.
The World cannot exist without story.
A Scientist would have to follow the way of story to attempt to prove or disprove that statement...
Once upon a time there was a Scientist who wanted to prove The World's dependency on Story.
Suddenly, the previous sentence appeared.
The Scientist read it, wondered, and called it Proof.
And The Scientist and The Sentence lived happily ever after in a state of wonder.
Thanks for reading, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
+he Ghos+
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Same Prompt🤔: Create a poorly drawn stick figure image made with a purple crayon of a deep in thought Scientist reading a piece of paper.
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A Re-Solution
2026.01.01
Thursday, January 01, 2026
Good morning, The Wonder Fell Way.
Happy New Year.
Now what?
We dance, we sing, we merry make; we have better days.
We take care of each other. And that means taking better care of ourselves.
Resolutions... a re-solution.. are you fixing that again?
Like a painter has a canvas, a poet a page, we use time as a framework to plan our days and fashion our goals.
We frame our lives on canvases of time.
The screen you read this on is a frame of sorts.
What do you keep within the walls of your phone or monitor's picture world?
How many tabs do you have open? ☝️😕
Can you really devote the kind of care and attention necessary to give to each open tab all at once?
If an image is in a painting it is part of the painting.
If a word is in a sentence it is part of the sentence.
All that's on your screen is part of all that's on your screen.
Unless you're ordering lunch for a company meeting, the pizza restaurant delivery menu tab has no place on the screen with your company's annual report.
Treat every screen you use like a painting in a frame. Do that. See how your focus improves.
So, what's in your New Year's frame?
Let's extend the metaphor... what materials will you use to paint this New Year?
Patience? Persistence? Passion?
What's this year's fashion?
More words on more screens for me.
Thanks for reading them. O/
Make a resolution to help yourself and at least one other person this year, take care, and make wonderful this wonderful day.
Wynn
+he Ghos+
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