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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.

Lennie Gallant: Searching for Abegweit

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I’m still on Prince Edward Island and this is the show that I went to tonight.  I cancelled my plane reservations at a penalty of nearly $400 to stay to see it and I must say it was worth it!!! Best show I’ve ever seen. Hard to duplicate the effect of his lyrics, music, story seques and the incredible background projections of his sister’s paintings, but here is one song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kosu9o5boQ

Here is the same song, but with the images of his sister’s stunning paintings behind him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xkWeeRfUCw

If you ever get a chance to see it, don’t hesitate. Has anyone else seen it?

http://www.lenniegallant.com/

Last Request

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Last Request

I pine, I anguish, yearn and ache;
yet don’t allow myself to bake.
I don’t dessert for calorie’s sake,
for if I do, my floorboards quake.
Yet one request I’d like to make.
When that last sleep I finally take,
if I should die before I wake,
please let my last meal include cake!

Today’s prompt word was “Cake.”

Cosmos and Friends: Flower of the Day, Sept 5, 2016

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Cosmos and Friends, Victoria by the Sea, PEI

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Hydrangea: Flower of the Day, Sept 4, 2016

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Eclipse

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If we choose to hide the light,
and bring about a quickened night,
no one else can ease our plight
as darkness limits heart and sight.

Yet take a lesson from the sun
that is not hidden from anyone
for more than a short time before
a crack appears beside her door.

What hides her light moves on and then
light is restored as it has been.
So find that brightness at your core.
Perpetual darkness is a bore.

The prompt today was “Eclipse.“

Geranium: Flower of the Day, Sept. 3, 2016

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Off the Path

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Off the Path

I’ve always been a wanderer with no course firmly set.
The purpose of my journey is not established yet.
When my meandering’s over, perhaps it will be clear.
I cannot tell where I’ll be then. For now I’m merely here.

The prompt word today is “Sidewalk.”

Reflections

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Dahlia: Flower of the Day, Sept 2, 2016

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Melody Medley

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Ah, finally, after one and a half hours of sleep the night before I left, a good seven hours of sleep!  I’m at my friends Dianne and Andy’s fabulous farmhouse on Prince Edward Island after seventeen hours of traveling yesterday.  I hear them stirring downstairs and it is two hours later here.  I know their grandbaby is due to come any minute now, so since the prompt word today is “Melody,”  I’m going to fall back on three early posts I’ve done about music.  If you’d like, please refer to one or all three and forgive me for shirking my duty for one day.  My favorite is this afternoon partially spent sharing old melodies with friends:

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/05/27/small-reunion/

Here are two other melodic posts from the past that I found during a quick search:

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/10/07/story-songs/

https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/07/24/the-beautiful-children-of-mexico/

 

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/melody/

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