Monthly Archives: October 2020

Do

Do

This is the perfect climate. Now is the perfect time
to do all that you can to make your world sublime.
No more empty promises. No rain checks or excuses.
No masking of reality to obscure your abuses.
Look back in your history to see the full extent
of all the possibilities that in the past you meant
to “see about” tomorrow. Then tomorrow never came,
for when it did, it seems that you made it just the same
as the day that came before it, so now you’ll never know
what your life may have turned into if you’d only let it grow.
Relaxation’s fine if it’s used as a reward––

but it should be an end result that we are heading toward.
It cannot replace doing. Doing is what life is for.
Without learning and accomplishing, existence is a bore.

 

Prompt words today are promises, sublime, history, extent, relax and mask. (The captions on the photos below may seem disjointed, but I decided to leave all the captions from earlier times I’ve used these photos. They do, in a disjointed way, create a little story all their own.)

Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.

 

Abuela (Hibiscus) FOTD, Oct 18, 2020

 

 

For Cee’s FOTD

White House warned Giuliani was Target of Russian Intelligence Operation

Read about it here: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-embraces-reported-russian-anti-biden-disinfo-campaign-94023749782

Crown of Thorns against Sun Rose and Horsetail: FOTD, Oct 17, 2020

 

 

For  Cee’s FOTD

Thanks to my friend Candace for showing me this!!

Everything in Everyone

Everything in Everyone

Wild haunted rhythms sail the night as we lie supine,
thinking thoughts unbidden that are far from the divine.
All Hallows is that time of year that causes us to ponder
all those fearful yearnings that we conceal and launder
as we get through the daylight world, hiding our duress
of all those hidden thoughts and dreams we labor to suppress.
Everything in all of us, to honor or accuse.
And it’s up to each of us what we will pick to use.

Prompt words for today are: divine, ponder, duress, sails, hauntedwild rhythm.

 

 

Friday Fibs

Okay, I’m falling for it. Here are my answers to Fibbing Friday.

Here is their intro and the questions, with my answers.SEARCH

Fibbing Friday

Fibbing Friday: October 16th, 2020

Welcome to Fibbing Friday! Di and I take turns hosting, and this is my week. Answer the questions below as you see fit; just be sure to stretch, bend, break, or outright ignore the truth. Once you have your finely crafted fibs all ready to go, just tag your post as “Fibbing Friday” and link back here. Pingbacks are enabled, or you can just leave a link in the comments section.

  1. What musical group from the 1960s was known as “The Fab Four”?
    Four ladies from the Bronx who opened the first laundromat. They hummed while they worked. (They later did a commercial gig endorsing “Fab” laundry detergent.)
  2. What was the “British Invasion” in the 1960s?
    Petula Clark storming through “Downtown” New York City.
  3. What is Stephen King’s book, The Stand about? A summer job selling hot dogs.
  4. What was the TV show, Breaking Bad about?  A really bad dancer.
  5. Exactly who was Kilroy? A flasher bending over backwards next to a fence.
  6. What musical instrument is Phil Collins best known for playing? He and his brother Tom were noted for their prowess in creating music by wetting their fingers and running them around the tops of drink glasses in a Bronx bar. His brother was the better musician, so they named their signature drink after him–the Tom Collins. Phil later joined the Bronx Philharmonic and finally received his namesake.
  7. According to Genesis 1, what happened on the seventh day?  The Sun came out.
  8. What happened at the O.K. Corral? A so-so gunfight.
  9. According to Greek mythology, what was needed to cross the river Styx? Two hands, two styx and a bit of coordination. X
  10. What was the play, Inherit the Wind about? A famous chili cookoff competition.

 

Trump’s Actual Accomplishments

Copied from a friend’s Facebook post:
BlueDog
Trump’s actual accomplishments: 1.      Taking a country with 4% of the world’s population and causing 20% of the world’s deaths. 2.      Starting an unwinnable trade war with China without our traditional allies that lost more than 36,000 manufacturing jobs and put a large part of the agricultural sector on welfare. 3.      Gave a large tax cut to the wealthy 4.      Temporarily eliminating the payroll tax, the sole funding support for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and unemployment insurance while saying he will make it permanent if reelected. 5.      Our allies no longer trust us and our enemies no longer fear us. 6.      Nominating a supreme court justice that complained about Chief Justice Roberts vote in favor of Obamacare to end coverage for pre-existing conditions for the insurance industry. 7.      Ignored the Pandemic early and then sold an artificial reality that has destroyed the economy and hundreds of thousands of businesses. 8.      Hurt the credibility of the media 9.      Hurt the credibility of voting and democracy 10.  Killed our allies the Kurds. 11.  Improve the profitability of his own businesses like Mar a logo.

A Halloween Bedtime Story

Click on photos to increase your terror!

A Halloween Bedtime Story

There’s a world that is intangible except at Halloween.
It teems with banshees and with ghosts at other times unseen.
Strange monsters with long fingers and pumpkins for a head
lurk inside your closet, hang out under your bed.

When they finally emerge, it does no good to shout.
They’ll grab you in their mighty grasp and turn you inside out.
Put your arms outside the covers or one foot on the floor,
and you’ll provide a tasty lunch the monsters will adore.

For once they have a single limb securely in their clench,
they’ll have you all in seconds. Your destruction is a cinch!
Though Halloween is much beloved by all you candy lovers,
Once at home and snug in bed, best stay beneath the covers!

Prompt words today are  pumpkin, mighty, intangible, banshee, cinch, inside out.