[Jerome Betts]

Issue 57 of Lighten Up Online, the first for 2022, is now up with a dozen Sphereans doing their thing in unpropitious times, namely Melissa Balmain, Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Jean L. Kreiling, Susan McLean, Chris O’Carroll, and Martin Parker along with new members Daniel Galef, Julia Griffin, Karen Greenbaum-Maya, Bruce McGuffin, and Donald Wheelock.

Their topics include appliances, ars poetica, bough-haunting bears, bristlecone pines, East Cokey, fly-fishing, gurnard, memos to God and someone missed, Nothing, Rita Meter Maid, Roombas, a tribute to Rhina P. Espaillat, a Spanish name, survival, and villanelle technique.

https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/i...-57-march-2022

[F.F. Teague]

Hi Jerome,

Congratulations to you and to everyone featured in this issue; I very much enjoyed reading it

Best wishes,
Fliss

[John Isbell]

Yes, congratulations all! And what a wide range of topics, as you note.

Cheers,
John

[Jerome Betts]

Thanks Fliss and John. Thanks also to LUPO's international cast of contributors for providing with their wit and invention some moments of light relief in these unrelentingly dark times.

[F.F. Teague]

You're welcome, Jerome. It's great that you get some light relief from the contributors through all the darkness

Best wishes,
Fliss