ForgottenMan here, posting a guest blog at Judy’s request.
I posted this video by Robert Arnold on my ForgottenMan blog a few months ago, and Judy just posted this comment there: “This man is so right on! It’s like he crawls inside my mind and says what I believe better than I ever could. Can you somehow put a link to this on my blog? For some reason I hadn’t seen it before.”
I’m happy to oblige.
These were just a few of the projects dealt with today. Too tired to finish cleaning up the last two messes!!
“…That big hour of decision, the turning point in your life… it just doesn’t come suddenly. You’ve trained yourself for it while you waited — or you’ve let it all run past you and frittered yourself away.” ( From “The Autumn Garden” by Lillian Hellman.)
I love this quote and have it taped to my computer desk, actually. This was the best I could do at illustrating it. I really to believe that everyone has some creative talent within but we just have to find it by “doing” and letting it come out.
For Lens Artists Challenge #396 the assignment is to illustrate a favorite quote.
“The Good Life”––Illustration thanks to AI
For Fibbing Friday, this week’s task-at-hand is:
Time for a laugh. These were all popular comedy shows. If you didn’t know, what do you think they were about?
1. Bless this House. The adventures of an Exorcist
2. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Prince Harry and Meghan move from Montecito to West L.A.
3. Diff’rent Strokes. Golf tales about bad golfers.
4. Porridge. Barroom stories told by a bartender
5. Only Fools and Horses. Comedy about rodeo clowns
6. Happy Days. The Pre-Trump years
7. The Golden Girls. The foibles of spoiled rich girls at an expensive girls’ academy, or the retitling of The Kardashians.
8. The Good Life. Life in a convent
9. M.A.S.H. Serial depicting life in America after Trump..The initials stand for “Make America Survive Him!!!!
10 . Cheers. A Seventies high school Cheerleading squad.
I am sorry that I don’t know where I first read this. It just popped up on my desktop. Perhaps I have been possessed by a wise Turkish spirit.
Spoilage of Rain
Glistening raindrop diamonds settle on the fur
of the chairbound sleeping cat, but it does not stir.
Pies upon the window ledge grow soggy in the mist
of that travesty of moisture with which they have been kissed.
My stationery soggy, I find my words won’t stay,
so I give up on this poetry fast fading away.
The Thursday Story Challenge is:
Can you tell a story in 57 words using the following words in it somewhere: (I did a 57 word poem instead of a story.)
Image created with the aid of AI.
Here are my photos for today. Click on photos to enlarge.
Wish List
Of course I have my limits, still I wish for something more,
and so I post a list on my refrigerator door.
But those key things I still want in life spill out upon the floor
from the future’s bill of lading where they don’t fit anymore.
Smoke rings from the fires of my dreams gone up in flame
fade into the distance of that future I won’t name.
Still silky thoughts caress my dreams of love and passion past,
and I give thanks for bygone lovers and memories that last.
For the Sunday Whirl Wordle 754 the prompt words are:
limits list still bill smoke ring distant wish silky spill fit key
Image created aided by AI.
For One Word Sunday, the prompt is Fashion
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