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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.

Color Your World Fuchsia and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Fuchsia

I had run down the street for two blocks in a long beach coverup quickly thrown over my nightgown when I heard the crazy rodeo parade approaching my house at 11 o’clock at night.  The night before it had gone on from about 7:30 to at least 2 a.m. when I went to bed.  I’d somehow missed it going by when I was dancing at Palapa Joe’s so I didn’t want to miss it tonight.  I was walking back home when I spied these little flowers and I kept bending lower to get them in more detail.  When I looked up I saw this BIG guy who must have been the cook in the palapa restaurant I was standing in front of, taking the picture.  He was sitting in a straight chair in the parking lot—probably out to catch a spare breeze as the night was still hot.  “You can see beauty in a single flower?” he asked me.  When I nodded my head and said, “Mmhmm,” he just smiled and nodded his head.  Such a nice little interchange and nice final human contact for the day.

More about my day will follow.

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/06/color-your-world-fuchsia/

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/06/flower-of-the-day-february-7-2016-dahlia/

Blowing Her Own Horn

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The promptt: Critical Eye–Write about your blog as though you were a music critic.

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Blowing Her Own Horn

This blogger writes of this and that––
sometimes sharp and sometimes flat.
And though her phrasing is not stiff,
it’s usually devoid of riff.

Her instrument of choice? Her blog.
Her subjects? Modern life, her dog,
photography or 3-D art,
affairs of politics or heart.

World Music would be how I’d class it,
so when you find it, don’t just pass it.
Her themes are most original,
from Pop to Aboriginal.

Lyrics are her major thing––
meant to read instead of sing.
The critic’s lines that she most hates?
“This lady sure ain’t no Tom Waits!”

 

The Post: Critical Eye–Write about the subject you usually blog about as though you were a music critic.

No Time Like the Present

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No Time Like the Present.

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The two watches pictured are my two favorite ones.  The first one is my one remaining working Chico’s watch, on top of a pile of bracelets in my jewelry bag. Presently, the turquoise watch is the one I wear every day, not only because I love it but also because it belonged to a friend whose partner gave it to me after she passed away.  I was so touched by this and every time I look at it, I think of both of them.  The “ahora” bracelet is one I have made each time I come to the beach to remind me that the most important time of all is right now.  It helps me to remember to use and treasure each moment. (“Ahora” means “Now” in Spanish.)

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/time/

Beach Pinup–For Bonnie and Morrie (and Marilyn and Garry)

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Beach Pinup

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I found this little guy rolling around in the sand the morning after Marilyn talked about Bonnie’s grooming and we speculated about how long it would last.  Just wanted you to see Scotties at the beach fall right in line with the pattern!

But, if you remember, no one tops Morrie. If you don’t believe me, look HERE!

More beach doggie pix to follow…Gotta find them and the rodeo parade is due by soon.  Tomorrow, rodeo week begins in La Manzanilla and by what I hear, it is wild.  I’m going to a party up on the mountain above the rodeo ring and will watch with binoculars..

La Playa–Thursday Doors, Feb 5, 2016

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La Playa–Thursday Doors

This is the street entrance of a beach palapa restaurant a few doors down from the house I rent in La Manzanilla each year.

 

https://miscellaneousmusingsofamiddleagedmind.wordpress.com/2016/02/04/thursday-doors-february-4-2016/

So Many Books

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IMG_2833So Many Books

I don’t “do” lunch, I don’t do sport.
They’re things to which I don’t resort.

For time just seems to be the stuff
of which I never have enough.

As I grow older, and years grow tight,
I find that I would rather write.

So, much as I might like to look
at a favorite once-read book––

Jane Austen or a Bronte sister––
time after time, I must resist her.

So many books are being written
that when the reading bug has bitten

and I find the time to view one,
inevitably, I choose a new one

 

The Prompt: Second Time Around–Tell us about a book you can read again and again without getting bored — what is it that speaks to you?https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/second-time-around/

Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Food and Drink

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Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Food and Drink

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/04/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-food-and-beverage/

Canna Lilies: Cee’s Flower of the Day, Feb 5, 2016

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 Canna Lilies

IMG_4905I actually found this photo while hunting for a fern picture.  Guess this qualifies as both.

http://ceenphotography.com/2016/02/04/flower-of-the-day-february-5-2016-orchid/

Fern: Color Your World

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Fern: Color Your World
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The landscapes were taken in Arizona when I was there for Xmas. The bird photos were all taken two weeks ago here in La Manzanilla. The ferns and the flower bud I took in my own yard this summer.

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2015/09/30/color-your-world-120-days-of-crayola/?contact-form-id=8729&contact-form-sent=9871&_wpnonce=ad9396224e#Calendar

http://jennifernicholewells.com/2016/02/04/color-your-world-fern/

Performance Anxiety: Nightmare

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Nightmare

Bassoons are idly chuckling in the orchestra,
and in the aisle, popcorn crackles underfoot
as the last audience member hurries to find her seat.

I stand center stage
wondering what play this is
and how I came to be standing here.

The curtain opens.
I am naked.
And I have not even seen my lines!


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The Prompt: Naked with Black Socks––Are you comfortable in front of people, or does the idea of public speaking make you want to hide in the bathroom? Why?  *