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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.

For Fibbing Friday, May 17, 2024

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For Fibbing Friday the prompt questions are:

1. What did the fan say? Cool!

2. What really kicks off summer? Boot Camp.

3. Who rules the world? A Surveyor

4. What is the best thing to do to someone who snores? Get them their own room.

5. Who/what was your last unexpected house guest? Hurricane Sheila. Last house guest ever–expected or unexpected.

6. How does a blanket keep warm? It snuggles up to a warm body.

7. Why shouldn’t you snoop? Because ‘snot polite.

8. What is the worst thing that could happen to you? Nothing.

9. What do the gopher and mole do when they meet? Gopher supplies at the Mexican market and make molé.

10. What lurks in your backyard? Three dogs.

Bonus question
11. What is the best way to torture someone? Chuckle every time you see them.

Making Felt Cacti, For Thursday Trios

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Making Felt Cacti with Sharon, For Thursday Trios and couldn’t resist the 3 cent stamps! (Click on photos to enlarge and see details.) The stamps were among ones I took to Mexico 23 years ago and have never used so I brought them up to use on a package I mailed and gave the rest to Sharon to use. The Post Office attendant was a good sport about it and took our word that the stamps added up to the $6 postal fee!!!

A Week With Friends

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Sharon and Linda’s birthdays, reunions after many years, Malanna’s successful job interview, making good use of old stamps, good food, good friends, good cheer, temptations of the Chinese market, spontaneous dance, grandkids and wontons and the birthday cake decoration that wouldn’t die!!!

Double Betrayal for dVerse Poets May 15, 2024, left-in-the-lurch

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Double Betrayal

Her thoughts in parting were most candid,
her emotions, clearly branded
on her face. They reprimanded
him for how he cruelly stranded
her within their love affair—
how he left her standing there
alone, heartbroken, vulnerable.
How he’d burst her true love’s bubble.
Thus was her earlier promise broken
before a single word was spoken
when she met them, face to face,
engaged in intimate embrace—
that one who was to be her mister
with her faithless younger sister.

For dVerse Poets

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Arborial Planters, For Cee’s FOTD, May 14, 2024

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A partially cut-down dead tree becomes a support for different planters in Sharon’s garden.

For Cee’s FOTD

Proper Placement for dVerse Poets

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Proper Placement

Sometimes I think I’m tired of moving here and there
and that my favorite place of all is right here in my chair.
I’ll give up future travels for places in my head.
My favorite place is in my mind.  I’ll travel there instead!

Today for dVerse Poets, we are to write a Quadrille on the topic of “Place.”

Argyranthemums for FOTD May 13, 2024

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My friend Sharon’s garden  in Berkeley, CA is full of delights which I will be sharing for the next 9 days. This is a bank of Argyranthemums.

For Cee’s FOTD

The Numbers Game #21, May 13, 2024

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And more fingers

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #21”  Today’s number is 142. 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.

For The Sunday Stills Color Challenge: Cobalt Blue

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declarations of love,
From my terrace
I don’t know why I love this shot.

For the Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge, the prompt is cobalt blue.

African Daisy for FOTD May 12, 2024

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From my friend Sharon’s beautiful garden in Berkeley, California.

For FOTD,May 12, 2024