Monthly Archives: May 2015

A Doll’s Life

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I rescued this doll, my pride and joy at age 6, from my sister’s attic.  I thought it had been lost to a tornado forty years ago, but it seems my sister had whisked it off from my parents’ basement prior to the tornado that ripped its roof off a few years later.  Minus her shoes and socks and a bit dirty of face, she shows the wear and tear of two more generations of little girls. She is a near-life-sized walking doll.  If you lift one arm and lower it, it causes her legs to see-saw and if you hold on tight, she walks with you.  One eye has come loose in the socket, but she retains the full-cheeked youth that most of the little girls who have played with her have since forfeited.  I no longer remember her name, but I do remember which corner of my yellow-walled, green linoleumed and dormered room she resided in.

Oops–just found this one I have to add.  Found at the beach recently:

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These pictures and this story are in response to this challenge: http://teepee12.com/2015/05/20/serendipitous-photo-prompt-2015-6-toni-plastic/

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Pairs

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I’ve been saving this photo for just the right challenge and I think this is it!  I took it at the archeological museum in Mexico City at least five years ago.

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/19/cees-fun-foto-challenge-pairs/

Cee’s Which Way Challenge, May 19, 2015

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All roads lead to home.

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Making the way easier.

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The sylvan way.

 http://ceenphotography.com/cees-which-way-challenge/

More Hats?????

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I teased my friend Jane so much about this hat that she ended up leaving it with me in Mexico when she went back to California.  It had come in handy on the night I took this picture of her, however, as we were marooned in the middle of a large lake at midnight.  We were in Patzcuaro and had gone out to look at the Dia de los Muertos ceremonies on an island in the lake.  We hadn’t expected for the propeller to get caught up in fishing nets and for the process of freeing our boat to take hours.  Needless to say, the warm clothing we’d been told to wear came in handy.

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I make no excuse for the friend pictured in the above headgear.  The first he actually found in his own closet and yes, it has a tail.  The second reflects his confusion over just what the headscratcher I gave him was meant for.  I later discovered he’d been wearing it out to parties! If you’d like to see more of this silly man, look HERE.

I know, I know.  I already published pictures of hats yesterday, but this morning I discovered these as well and I had to add them to the theme.

http://wheresmybackpack.com/2015/05/15/travel-theme-hats/

Bogged Down in Blog

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Bogged Down in Blog

It’s hard to write while traveling–
your half-knit thoughts unravelling
as they call you in to talk
or have a meal or take a walk.

You sleep in other people’s houses,
wrinkles in your unpacked blouses,
possessions jumbled in your cases,
move at unfamiliar paces.

You live a life that’s not your own–
daily walking, driven, flown
while trying to remember faces,
confused by all these different places.

In the past I adored going–
miles passing, airwaves flowing.
I loved to move like a rolling log,
but that was when I didn’t blog!!!

Now I find I’m scurrying.
Wake up already hurrying.
I’m confused and frankly dumb,
forgetting where I’m coming from

as well as where I’m going to.
I’ve lost a sock and lost one shoe.
Still, I find time to write each day,
here in some room, hidden away.

This daily writing’s an addiction
that makes real life a dereliction!
I short my hosts to do my writing.
I’ve given up my life for citing!


The Prompt: State of Your Year–How is this year shaping up so far? Write a post about your biggest challenges and achievements thus far.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/

Cee’s Black White Photo Challenge: Liquids

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                  Ayahuasca brew and ceremonial objects: Amazon.

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            Inca Kola, Peru’s answer to Coca Cola!

 

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                                   Most prevalent liquid in La Manzanilla.

 

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                                            International Liquids

http://ceenphotography.com/2015/05/14/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-liquids/

Enveloped

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For the prompt, “Enveloped,” I present:

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Tide over huge offshore rocks.  A twice daily envelopment.

DSC00536This guy was entirely ensconced in stretch fabric–even his accordian.  He sang.  It played!!! I’ve published shots of him before, but he is so perfect for this prompt, so here he is again.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/enveloped/

“The Hat” Redux

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For my followers, for some reason The Reader didn’t pick up on this post: https://grieflessons.wordpress.com/2015/05/18/honoring-the-hat/

Hopefully, it will post it now from this reposting. (Sorry to those of you who already have seen it.)

Beep Beep, Boop!

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Disinclination (Sleep Phobia)

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Disinclination (Sleep Phobia)

I hate to give the day up.  There’s so much left to do.
I like the sky when midnight black is its only hue.
No interruptions on the phone. No meetings, no last chore.
It’s days that contain all the rules.  Days are such a bore!
At night I watch Doc Martin or read the blogs of others.
It always would be dark outside if I had my druthers.

I resist sleep when first it comes knocking at my door.
I put it off and fight it, sometimes ’til three or four.
At night it seems like such a shame to waste my life in sleep,
yet in the morning I find those convictions hard to keep.
When the alarm bell rings if I could choose, I find I would
go back to sleep, for suddenly my bed feels really good!

In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “To Sleep, Perchance to Dream.”