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Yesterday most of the bracelet builders were girls. Today most of them were boys. Without exception, the girls created delicate bracelets of (usually pink) seed beeds that I had difficulty even seeing, but they had no difficulty stringing on the wire. The boys, on the other hand, picked the biggest and chunkiest (and most expensive) beads. Not one, however, balked at putting it on and wearing it. Fun day. My last as I need to get ready to fly to El Norte.
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There were a dozen or so tables set up, each with a different art project. At mine, they made bracelets…each one unique, according to the artist’s taste. Here are the results of this morning’s work.
For Cee’s FOTD
Hope you are soon feeling better, Cee. We miss you!
Tradescantia, Purple Heart!!!
For Cee’s FOTD
For Cee’s FOTD
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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #33” Today’s number is 154 To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.
This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.
This is a photo of the little boy in the first photo as he is now. He looks much happier with dog companions.He takes them for walks three times a week!
Much as I hate ugly overhead wires that often destroy the view, I love how rain has transformed them above.
For Cellpic Sunday
This little Echeveria is growing out of a hole in the side of a large flowerpot that sits on the terrace beside my pool. I must admit that I stuck it into that hole when it first opened up, but it has survived and grown larger over the past year.
Campfire
As we gather in the gloaming to shed the day’s despair,
the flickering wings of firelight heat up the evening air.
Good omens dispel shadows and chase away the dark
as the laughter of our comrades drowns out the wild beast’s bark.
In this camaraderie—friendship’s surrounding bubble,
thoughts of ghosts and demons are unfathomable.
At the end of day, this gathering’s a cunning
way to celebrate the end of a day of sunning.
Cool night soothes sunburned skin, providing us the balm
of release from labor and a welcome to the calm
arms of night that furnishes a cradle to the day
and a time to tuck its problems all away,
first in conversation with those who love us most,
and then in sleep, that afterwards is our loving host.
An ominous number breeds ominous words! The Word prompts for Wordle 666 are: demons, wings, flickering, heat, omen, dark, end, cunning, shadows, unfathomable, gloaming, despair. I have tried to try to counter their obvious intent in my poem.
Here is some information about how the number 666 came to be the “number of the beast.”
*The number 666 is identified as the Number of the Beast (Satan) as mentioned in the Book of Revelation (13:15–18).
*An interesting sideline to the number 666 is this: “On Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted 666 points. And while that news might be disturbing in a financial way, to people with an interest in, say, money and American markets, that fact was overshadowed on Twitter by the shadow of the beast, the Lord of the Underworld, the Devil himself. Because, you know, 666 is the mark of the beast, which, no big deal, identifies followers of the Antichrist.”
— Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 2 Feb. 2018
*And this: “Preterist theologians typically support the interpretation that 666 is the numerical equivalent of the name and title Nero Caesar (Roman Emperor 54–68 AD). Written in Aramaic, this can be valued at 666 using the Hebrew numerology of gematria, and was used to secretly speak against the emperor.”
So, in writing this poem, I’ve tried to turn 666 on its head and to transform it into 999. If you Google that number, this is what you will find:
In numerology, 999 is a repeating number that some say is a sign from the universe, ancestors, or spirit guides. It can symbolize completion and new beginnings, and can have different meanings depending on the area of life it’s applied to:
The photo is actually a photo I took of a campfire where friends met to share music and poetry. I have always wondered if the shape of the fire at this point didn’t spell out a word in Hebrew or some other unknown (to me) language. What do you see in the flame?
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I had been trying to think of an excuse to do a blog on feet and then out of the blue, my friend Angela sent me this quote along with the message, “More inspiration, not that you need it!” What synchronicity was that? Thanks, Angela, this one is for you.
Upon seeing this post, Forgottenman sent me this message: “In case you’d like to add some feet photos, a few of my favs of yours.” He’s right. These are my favorite ever photos of feet that I’ve published in blogs in the past:
And if you’d like to read my poem about paper shoes, go HERE!
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