Twittering

140 characters, including spaces. That's what you get with a Twitter. It's like writing a haiku. What can you say in 140 characters? What can you say in a haiku?

I usualy tweet in the morning, after I've read the online NY Times and whatever email I've gotten over night. I'm looking out my slider to the east where the sun is rising or risen or the clouds are so heavy I can't tell if there's a sun or not. Regardless of cloud cover, birds are feeding at my tube feeder. I may be going to work or not. I'm usually eating yogurt with fruit and nuts. Sometimes the Times has irritated me. Other times the CBS Morning Show, on TV, is annoying me. Often Larkyn is sitting with me but sometimes, especially the dark mornings, he has burrowed himself into his blanket and gone back to sleep.

Sometimes I read a lot of the twitters I'm following, some political, some educational, some weather reports, a dachshund twitterer, crafters and New Agers, would-be gurus of the social media, some celebrities, a couple baby-boomers, many gardeners and landscapers, and Twin Cities eateries. There's someone who is obsessed with Robert Goren, or Vincent D'onofrio, of Law and Order Criminal Intent, but I can't find Vincent himself twittering, which would be more fun. There's someone who makes and sells birdhouses but doesn't twitter very often.

These are the twitterers who follow me too. I give them an update on my weather, birds, dog and mood. Once in a while I say something ascerbic about political logjams. I never threaten violence against congresspeople, though I sometimes feel like threatening. But threatening always reminds me of feeling helpless as a parent and yelling something about cleaning your room at one of the kids. Like they were going to grab some rags and a bucket of hot, soapy water? Like congress is actually going to deal with a problem?

Those are my twitters. I apparently got one guy from Michigan to check out my blog. He kindly told me about a pink-blooming Annabelle hydrangea. Fun. And so are 140 characters, including spaces.