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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.

The Numbers Game #92, Please Play Along! Sep 29, 2025

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #92”. Today’s number is 214. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post 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. Here are my contributions to the album.

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Adventures in Window-Peeking for Sunday Stills and Monday Window

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Advanced warning
Window sill
Window shopping
Worlds outside windows
These gable windows have looked out upon a lot of history in this western town.
Doors behind windows.
Windows into bars
Mysteries within
Window ledges
Paparazzi Perches
Display places
Ship windows
Studio Windows

For Sunday Stills: Every Window Tells a Story
And also Monday Window

“Lazy Day” for Cellpic Sunday

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Ten Toes.

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for Cellpic Sunday

Graffiti, for The Sunday Whirl

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Graffiti

Some viewers lift their glasses and drink to genius that
gave birth to every brush stroke. Each dribble and each splat.
They say these shocking images awaken us to see
much more than just one artist’s route to immortality.

Others blame the artist who has had the gall
to spray art uninvited upon a public wall.
They say raw art does nothing to put out raging fires.
Solutions to world problems are not what art inspires.

Prompt words for The Sunday Whirl are: drinks fire wake catastrophe shocking say social drastic world art raw blame

“Forked Tongues” for Weekend Writing Prompt

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Forked Tongues
These messengers speak words
that can slap you awake,
then abandon you
as they return
to the problems
of the privileged rich.

For Weekend Writing Prompt: Speak (limited to 22 words)

Cleanup Crew for SOCS

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Not dead..just stuffed full and taking a rest.

Cleanup Crew

They eke their living out of our scraps
purloined while we are taking naps
or out for walks or just aren’t looking––
so intent upon our cooking
that we fail to see them scamper
(from where they hide behind the hamper)
out to gather crumbs they seek.
But instead, they prompt an “Eek”
as Mom goes one way, they the other
off to find, they hope, another
kitchen where the cook’s more willing
to ignore their needs for filling
rodent jaws and rodent tummies
with some errant human yummies.

The SOCS prompt is eek/eke

About Time. A Conservative Speaks Out About Trump

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Dana LeJune

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Yesterday, the neoconservative David Brooks wrote this in an OpEd in the NY Times,
“Trumpism… is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice. …
What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican.
It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power. …
I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now.”
I hope this causes other thinking, responsible Republicans to speak up agains this self-proclaimed dictator to restore their party to rationality.

Which Way?

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The only way is up if you follow this gal!
Follow the dots!
Follow that car!

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For the Which Way Challenge

For Fibbing Friday

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The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens

For Fibbing Friday, this week’s challenge is:

1.  What is a winklepicker? A fairylike creature who comes around at night and picks sleepers out of your eyes.
2.  What is a pipsqueak? The sound your nail makes against your teeth as you remove blueberry seeds from them. 
3.  What is a beatnik? An outdoor meal for hippies.
4.  What is a sequin? What one does when one enters a competition.
5.  What is spiel?  The shape the skin of an apple assumes when you use a knife to cut it off in one long peel.
6.  What is asphalt? I hate to be indelicate, but it is a rude term for a fart.
7.  What is a hologram? Your father’s mother just before her first meal of the day.
8.  What is a dickie seat? The chair your ex chose to sit in.
9.  What is sinew?  Another name for Adam accepting the apple. Also called original sin.
10. What is a collage? A place of advanced learning after high school..specifically for budding artists.

In 2024, Only Two U.S. States Voted Unanimously. Let’s Compare!

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