It’s said that as we grow older our taste buds change. When I was young(er) I craved chocolate and being taken seriously. I still crave chocolate but the craving for being taken seriously has miraculously disappeared. I have developed a taste for silly. It’s hard to find good silly recipes or EXPERIENCED silly chefs.
Carla Sonheim http://CarlaSonheim.wordpress.com is a Gourmet Silly Cook. She’s got a great book that I recommend for all of you who profess to have no creative talents and/or inclinations: 52 Creative Exercises to Make Drawing Fun! Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists
Maybe you like your Silly sweet, maybe salty. You might prefer Silly straight up or on the rocks. However you like it Silly brings a smile.
Carla’s online workshop The Art of Silliness is starting and here’s her first “Silly Sheet”. The instructions, for those of you who are taking out binoculars, say “Write a story about this bird guy”
Here’s my story and my Bird Guy: Bird Guy
Couldn’t fly
Cuz he had a sty
Blurring his vision
In his eye
Where ever
He went
He was spent
From trying to see
Past his knee
“If only I could fly”
Said the Bird Guy
“It hurts my eye
It hurts my feet
This sty
In my eye”
“I won’t demure
Until I find a cure
An eye doctor
I seek
I’ll follow my beak
To the ornitholgist”
I TOLD you there’s no accounting for taste . . . .!
Send me your silly stories! Remember! There’s no right or wrong when it comes to creative expression.
CURIOUS to the MAX 
bird guy
tell me are you a bird
or are you a guy?
if you are a bird
for sure you can’t fly
you allow someone’s hand
to control your flight.
oh is that a foot
well then, you allow yourself
to be trampled upon.
if you are a man
then act like a man
respect your own being
don’t be envious of anything.
pink tail and pin lips,
who is your idol miss?
what? you are truly a bird guy?
then fly as high
but don’t forget
the ground
where you will eventually land.
🙂
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