See Cee’s tulip here: https://ceenphotography.com/2019/01/16/fotd-january-17-2019-tulip/
FOTD Jan 17, 2019
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Challenging Fortune
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Macho rules the world, and
to the powerful belong the spoils.
They have us in the palm of their hand.
Time for change?
Who will lead the way? Warrior
or holy man?
And who will profit from the change?
All of these:
Challenging Fortune
Just when we’re feeling cocky—superior and svelte,
fate dishes out an uppercut, or one below the belt.
Its fickleness is onerous. Its lessons often hard.
Some end up with a loving cup and others with a shard.
So if misfortune catches you and holds you in its grasp,
for sure, good fortune harbors another in its clasp.
Rejoicing in their happiness may bring your pain’s surcease,
and looking at a larger view may bring you some release.
Some men are accustomed to eating all the pie.
They see no good in sharing. They vie and vie and vie
to horde the opportunities. It’s their sign of success.
They profit on our labors, grow rich on our duress.
It brings a sort of balance, this giving and this taking.
It teaches us that fortune is not just of our making.
There may not be enough good luck to insist that they share.
Label him a “socialist”If anyone should dare.
Where is the one who’ll stop them? Who will come to show the way?
What warrior or what holy man will lead us in the fray?
Those who’ve usurped religion seem to have lost the point.
They don’t champion the underdog. It’s rich men they anoint.
Everything is power and perhaps it always was.
For eons we’ve forgotten this, probably because
the photos of these greedy men reaching for the stars,
cruising in their massive yachts and their racing cars,
look so pretty on the page. The minute that we see them,
instead of censuring the greed, we simply want to be them.
They stage their wars and make their gains and young men die to aid it.
And instead of ruing war, we honor those who made it.
The prompt words today were shard, onerous, opportunity and uppercut.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/rdp-thursday-shard/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/17/fowc-with-fandango-onerous/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/your-daily-word-prompt-opportunity-january-17-2019/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/17/uppercut/
Amber, Carnelian and Fiber Bracelet.
I think I’m on a jag. . . Can’t stop. 3:44 a.m. and I just finished another bracelet. Someone stop me before I create again!!!
Keeping Me Off the Streets
These bracelets are what I’ve been working on for the past couple of days. I designed 75 of them last year, then put them away without assembling them. It’s taken me two days to assemble four of them. The red one with the butterfly, I hired a macrame artist to join for me but the time it takes and expense I think would price it out of the potential market. The other four were joined and clasps created by me. All of the designs are my own—assemblages of found pieces. I’d be interested in your opinions. Would you wear these? Buy them? They would probably be priced in the $45 to $65 (US) range. The high end would be for the macrame closures. (Only the red one with the butterfly is shown in this style. The green stones in the first bracelet are fresh water pearls.) All are one-of-a-kind pieces.
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Hibiscus: FOTD, Jan 16, 2019
Spied this beauty on my way back from the plaza this afternoon. It must be a triple, or at the very least a double.
https://ceenphotography.com/2019/01/15/fotd-january-16-2019-amaryllis/comment-page-1/#comment-191821
Journeys
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Journeys
Every conversation is a quest two people enter
from opposite directions to converge at its center.
The hard part of the journey commences with their greeting—
an intricate endeavor not completed with first meeting.
With each new associate, we visit a new land.
With each conversation, our horizons expand
into lands exotic, tragic or entertaining.
Perhaps enemy territory—often with no training.
Do we take umbrage with their words or enter, unprotesting,
the world that they offer—experimenting, testing
new mental mountains, jungles where vivid birds might call,
beckoning us onwards, or do we meet a wall
that offers us no access—sealed up, rigid, cold—
closed to all explorers, nearly obscured with mold?
What journeys do we offer ourselves to those we meet?
Do we offer easy access or promise sure defeat?
Life was designed for journeying. Daily, new vacations.
Some conversations novels and others mere quotations.
Some trips an experience you wouldn’t choose again—
just another whistle stop on life’s commuter train.
The prompt words today are quest, umbrage, intricate and associate.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/rdp-wednesday-quest/
https://fivedotoh.com/2019/01/16/fowc-with-fandango-umbrage/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/intricate/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/your-daily-word-prompt-associate-january-16-2019/
BEAU OF THE FIFTH COLUMN: BORDER WALL
If you think the wall and the current border patrol policies are a humane answer to immigration, I dare you to watch this through to the end.
