Monthly Archives: August 2024

“Ebb Tide” for The Sunday Whirl, Aug 11, 2024

 

Ebb Tide

As we approach that vast alone,
those things for which we must atone
silently invade our world,
as all our secrets come unfurled.
Unable then, to face their ache,
in the darkness we lie awake,
unable even now to leap
into that river dark and deep
that will, at last, sweep us away
into that  most novel fray
from which this time we won’t return,
no matter how our hearts may churn
to give ourselves another chance
to recompense each circumstance
where we feel that we went along
with events that went so wrong.
But, alas, it’s now too late
to change those choices that sealed our fate.

 

The Sunday Whirl prompts today are: vast alone silently novel wake unable secrets world river darkness face ache

Accumulation, for MVB, Aug 11, 2024

For MVB Prompt: Accumulation

Another Hibiscus! For FOTD Aug 11, 2024

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Guadalajara to Houston to Denver, For Cellpic Sunday, Aug 11, 2024

 

It has been 17 1/2 hours since I set out on my journey from San Juan Cosala to Denver. It will be 10 more before I arrive in Sheridan. It is 1:40 A.M. and my plane doesn’t leave until 8 A.M. For some reason, although I could barely keep my eyes open on the cramped plane I flew from Houston on, now that I’m in a place where a couch is available, I’m wide awake. Sheridan tomorrow!!

For Cellpic Sunday

Hibiscus, for FOTD Aug 10, 2024



For Cee’s FOTD

What’s in My Garden for Lens Artists Challenge 311, Aug 10, 2024

For Lens Artists Challenge

“Directionless” for SOCS, Aug 10, 2024

Directionless

I’m shipping out for northern climes, not knowing what to pack.
Am I leaving here for good or am I coming back?
One thing pulls me northwards and another bids me stay.
I really do not know what I desire from day to day.
Some call me indecisive while others call me weak
just because I do not know what it is I seek.
I need someone to point me in the right direction
since I seem unable to make my own selection.

 

For Stream Of Consciousness Saturday: Ship

For Fibbing Friday, Aug 9, 2024

The prompts for Fibbing Friday this week are:

As we have a fortnight of the Olympics, here are the other 10 questions in the newsletter this month. Fib away for gold my friends!

  1. In which four years have the modern Olympics been cancelled? During the four years when they chose not to stage them.

  2. When were women first permitted to compete in the modern Olympics? During the Second World War when all of the men chose to enter the sharp-shooting events.

  3. When did the first Refugee team make its debut? When the original fugee team retired.

  4. What does the Olympic motto “Citius, altius, fortius” mean?  This city is impossible to fortify.

  5. What do the five Olympic rings represent? Five of the seven rings of Saturn.  Two had already been claimed by MasterCard.

  6. Who is the most decorated modern Olympian, with 23 Olympic gold medals? Liberace

  7. Which two countries discovered they had the same flag at the 1936 Olympics? Liberia and the U.S.  They had an arm-wrestling match and Liberia lost, so had to remove 47 of its stars. It got to keep all its stripes.

  8. At the 1908 Olympics the City of London Police team won the gold  medal in which event? Bobby Sledding

  9. Which city will host the Summer Olympics for the third time in 2028? Draper, South Dakota

  10. Who founded the modern Olympics? I don’t believe it was ever lost.

 

Prickly Pair for FOTD Aug 9, 2024


For Cee’s FOTD

At the Vivero, for FOTD Aug 8, 2024

For Cee’s FOTD