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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.

YARROW for Cee’s FOTD

FOR CEE’S FOTD

Mismatched for SOCS

Mismatched 

When a certain fella has had a drink
or two or three, he’s bound to wink
at the little lady dressed in pink.
Her drink’s cubes give a subtle clink
as she decides what she might think.
Is he a stud or just a fink?
His clothes are sort of rinky-dink,
yet her long lashes, swathed in ink,
flutter in a come-on blink.
One fingernail is seen to sink
into her glass. He’s at the brink
of coming over to seal the link.
She checks her breath.  It doesn’t stink.
She reaches down and dons her mink.
But then he stops and seems to shrink.
In this sure deal there seems a chink.
It’s clear that when she deigned to flirt,
she missed the writing on his shirt.
This is the message that went unread:
“Be kind to animals,” it said.

The SOCS prompt is shirt. Image by Marco Lastella

For Pull Up a Seat, Aug 16, 2024

These chairs made of recycled materials were on view at the Denver airport. Their main component was old skis.  And, they were comfortable!

For the Pull Up A Seat Challenge  Week 33

More Blather For Fibbing Friday, Aug 16, 2024

 

Top Cat, Top O’ the Wall

For Fibbing Friday, Aug 16, 2024  the prompts to define are:

  1. Ambidexter: Dexter’s answer to the gender question on his draft papers.

2. Blatherskite: What townsfolk call the cat of the town gossip.

3. Breviloquent: How one would describe a well-presented short speech.

4. Crapulence: Any speech by Donald Trump.

5. Graumangere: A dog trainer specializing in threatening dogs.

6. Grimoire: Material for a burial shroud.

7. Illaudible: Sounds heard while upchucking.

8. Podsnappery: Static heard over earbuds.

9. Poetaster: A literary cannibal.

10. Polemic: An Irish resident of the northernmost point on Earth.

Hollyhock, for FOTD, Aug 16, 2024

Did you ever make hollyhock dolls? It’s one of my earliest memories. I’ve rarely seen them since moving away from the house I grew up in, but here they are in my friend Patty’s garden. Thanks, Patty, for the memories!!!

For Cee’s FOTD

Black Eyed Susan for FOTD, Aug 15, 2024

For Cee’s FOTD

Aztec Dancers for Thursday Trios

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For Carol’s Thursday Trios

Gold and Yellow! for Sunday Stills

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For Sunday Stills: Yellow

Echinacea, For FOTD Aug 14, 2024

For Cee’s FOTD

“Cleaning Up” For the Three Things Challenge

Cleaning Up

Toothbrushes remove gristle from
the area we whistle from
while brooms are used to clean and prep
those surfaces whereon we step.
And lest the reader balk and bristle
o’er its lack in this epistle,
I will not overlook the mop—
that device with which we slop
water on spills of the day
we feel the need to wash away.
You may deride my need to gush
over the likes of mop, broom, brush,
but still I choose to raise a cup
to laud those things that clean me up!

The prompt words for the Three Things Challenge M786 are: bristle, broom, brush.