Skywatch Friday and some prose

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Close to work there's a bowling alley:

Twice a week the evening in the fair park where the theatre is where I work, ends with fireworks:

Even when it rains I like going to the beach. Nobody went swimming this day so the local 'Baywatch team' amused themselves with a ball game:

This is the view from our Green Room:

In this former hotel - a once magnificent building of some 120 years old - we enjoyed ourselves with a couple of rounds of 'paintball' with Airsoft guns:

This tent reminded me of this poem:

Seagulls love the fair park. And visitors dropping bits of foods:

Nope, I don't know the meaning of these wooden poles:

Do you? A way to break the waves in case of super high tide? 

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I usually write some eight pieces of prose a week, most of them during two scenes in Snow White the Musical in Belgium: Sneeuwwitje en de Zeven Dwergen. 

The director liked the idea of my character being a writer so I sit on stage with a quill pen and my notebook. A bottle of ink on stage is asking for trouble so the pen tip is a Bic pen. But 🤫. It's 'stage magic'.

Here's a recent poem, based on the memory of a lovely lady I used to date. Of which I got reminded by something that happened on stage. It's always a challenge to find a GIF to match the poem. Think I succeeded? 

Her gut (a piece #stoetry; is it a #story or a #poem?)

She didn't think she was pretty 

but to him she was gorgeous.

Although he told her

more than once,

she was still not convinced.

So he told her 

that the inside is more important 

than the outside 

and her inside was amazing!

He knew because 

part of him had been there.

And wrote her a poem 

about her beautiful inside:

An ode

to her gut

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Poor birds!

Poor birds! Just in Northern America some 680,000 birds a year die from collision with a wind turbine! So we should get rid of wind turbines! Which you should not mean unless you're a hypocrite. Cars kill 200 million birds a year in Northern America.

'Yeah, but wind turbines kill 680,000 birds a year so renewable energy is bad!' If you're one of those stupid people who believe the propaganda from 'the elite' and claim renewable energy is bad, you wil not like this fact: Coal, gas, and oil power plants kill 34 times more birds than wind turbines do. 

A few years ago Norwegian scientists figured out a way to half the number of fatal bird collisions with wind turbines. 

Next to this simple solution there are also much more complicated (and expensive) solutions to help save birds lives. Like the SKARV bird collision avoidance system. 

What do you think the fossil fuels industry is doing to prevent their money making machines from killing millions of animals a year?

Publicly they worry about the problem and if they have 'christian' in their social media profile they may even offer some thoughts and prayers to 'those poor birds'. 

And that's it. 

Some half a million birds die each year in oil pits in the USA alone. But 'saving birds is not economically viable', say the politicians who are bought by the oil industry. 

However, the greatest bird killer is...the cat. With a whopping 2,4 billion killed birds a year in Northern America alone, Felis Catus is hands down the winner of the competition 'greatest bird killer'. Not surprisingly 'wild' cats kill some three times as much birds as house cats do. 

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Maybe we should stop genetically engineering and domesticating wild animals. Or for example - as was the case in parts of Italy until the 1970s - simply put 'Cat' back on the menu in restaurants. 'Yeah, but they look so cute!' Unlike chickens, pigs or cows.

Do you think we should do anything possible to prevent animals from being tortured and killed? Or don't you want to miss your steak and chicken nuggets?

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