“Tell Me A Story” (New Prompt. Please Participate!!)

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I drove up the hill to my house following this pickup. I was so tempted to follow it to its destination to ask what its story was. Now I’m sorry I didn’t. Can you furnish a story for me? HERE is the pingback to include with your post to make sure we all see it.. 

Every Wednesday, I will publish a photo. Please publish a poem or short story inspired by the photo and link to this blog in the comments. 

I loved this song that came out the year I turned 6 years old.  Seems to still be having an effect.

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About lifelessons

My blog, which started out to be about overcoming grief, quickly grew into a blog about celebrating life. I post daily: poems, photographs, essays or stories. I've lived in countries all around the globe but have finally come to rest in Mexico, where I've lived since 2001. My books may be found on Amazon in Kindle and print format, my art in local Ajijic galleries. Hope to see you at my blog.

24 thoughts on ““Tell Me A Story” (New Prompt. Please Participate!!)”

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  4. derrickjknight's avatarderrickjknight

    On reflection I will respond to this one because it has choked me up and brought tears to my eyes. You will know that my first wife died when our son was 14 months old. How to tell him? Night after night I told him a story featuring another mother dying. When he was abut 2 1/2 he asked “Why did my Mummy die?”

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Ha. Hope they were moving her out and not into my neighborhood. I think I am the only person in the world who did not love that movie. Love your solution to the mystery, though.

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  10. Ana Daksina's avatarAna Daksina

    So, my dear, I have a brief explanation about something I said which may have confused you ~ it certainly should have, as it turns out I was confused myself!

    Have you ever had it happen that two sites come into your life online which bear similarities which get you mixing them up in your head?

    Me, I have to add to that that I’ve been “bad with names” lifelong ~ I’m of that unfortunate level of IQ which is convinced that names, of streets and cities as well as people, should reflect something of their bearer’s character, so they persistently “don’t make sense” to us, and seem therefore hard to remember.

    Anyway, right together, months ago, I found myself in touch with your site ~ and one other.

    Both edited by women. Both living in Mexico (similar visual images). And both writing unusually good metric poetry…

    I did wonder, over time, why the quality of that poetry, both thematically and metrically, seemed to fluctuate so very wildly!…

    Well, I have just, of course, figured out that you are two different people ~ you an author of dang near flawless and also quite pithy works, and she of amusing above average ones, along with a lot of name-dropping from her salad days.

    So that was the origin of my comment phrase about “rubbing elbows” in the introduction to your tribute post. Duh. So sorry! Guess I shouldn’t go back and try to change it now? Do you want me to?

    Take care, Ana

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    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      OK. My memory being as flawed as thine, I’m afraid I have to ask which tribute? Which elbows? And of course, I’m dying to know who the other poet is. I understand completely about confusing two people. I have facial blindness and especially with new acquaintances, sometimes confuse one for the other..or even in one case actually thought they were just one person!!!

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      1. Ana Daksina's avatarAna Daksina

        You have face blindness? Only about two percent of us do! Usually, we’re very exceptional people.

        Since you ran a post about encounters with the famous soon after my post, I was pretty sure that, out of the two of you, I’d run you as a tribute ~ now I have to go check!

        Hey, there’s an institute which studies this disorder, did you know that? They would probably benefit by you filling out one of their questionnaires.

        Okay, I did go back and check, and the tribute post was indeed about you. Apparently as soon as I figured it out I did go back and correct it, too, because the introduction no longer says you spent your salad days hobnobbing with the greats (sic!).

        Usually I send a link to anyone I feature ~ yet another strange thing about this series of events ~ here you go:

        Technically Flawless, Funny as Hell ~ WP’s Poetic Expat’s Tipsy Rhyming Rants 🤣

        Haha, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and we have the beginnings of a friendship now! Take care 👩‍❤️‍👩

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          1. Ana Daksina's avatarAna Daksina

            That’s the one.

            Oh, boy, we do have stories about the bewilderment before this condition was identified. After all, WE can’t tell that we’ve just failed to recognize an acquaintance! And they had no real option for theory other than that they’d just been cut by us ~ not being able to recognize faces didn’t enter either of our calculations… I’ll bet I lost friends that way.

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