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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.

New Year Resolutions

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Here is a short reflection on New Year Resolutions:

New Year Resolutions

When the new year zaps us with our last year’s reflection,
it brings up all our defects and flaws for our detection.
It goads us to be better and to bend our crooked way
to plot a straighter game in life than we’ve been prone to play.
It’s January 1st that prods our consciences to make them,
giving us a whole long year in which to go and break them.

And here is a longer one: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/12/22/resolution/

 

For dVerse Poets: Resolutions
and if you want to read more poems on the subject, go HERE.

Orchid: FOTD Feb 1, 2023

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For Cee’s FOTD

Old Dames Response

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When I published the news of my adult coloring book When Old Dames Get Together and Other Confessions of a Ripe Old Age now being available on Audible, I asked anyone who ordered it to send me a photo of their reaction to it—either a photo of them being an Old Dame (Or Old Mister) or some other response. Here is the first response by my friend Linda Crosfield in Canada. Thanks, Linda. My cats agree that it makes a good chair!!

Poetic License

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Poetic License

Pejorative words will not be allowed,
for poetry folk don’t assent to be cowed.
They want to feel wistful and somewhat romantic,
so they won’t put up with language pedantic.

Demur is acceptable. Artsy is cherished,
but flowery’s been banished and stilted has perished.
Inscrutable language is also passé
as is predictable. So déclassé!!!!

Step carefully, then, through the poetic world.
Take care before your words are unfurled.
For poetic license does not give permission
for outright acts of verbal sedition!!!

Prompt words are demur, pejorative, inscrutable, cherished, and wistful. Image by David Beale on Unsplash

 

Hibiscus #2: FOTD Jan 31, 2023

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Here is yesterday’s hibiscus today For Cee’s FOTD

If you’d like to see what this flower looked like yesterday, go HERE.

A Trip to the Other Side of the Lake

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Click on Photos to Enlarge.

A day across the lake at Quinta San Carlos and other stops along the way.

Zoe Has a Boyfriend

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Friends Chris and Sherry came to visit with their friends who had mother-and-son pugs.  Look at the photos. Need I say more? Their boy fell in love with Zoe. The five pups had a wonderful time charging around the yard and socializing with their humans.

Book Worm

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Book Worm

My friend is loose but I’m demur.
She has more fun, you can be sure.
Her blinding smile can motivate
a guy to ask her for a date.

She’s best when she is center stage,
but I prefer the written page—
a square hole with a rounded peg
when I am asked to shake a leg,

I got the brains, she got the looks.
She parties on. I hit the books.
One of us was born to party,
but I’m the one who is the smarty.

Prompt words today are demur, loose, blinding, motivate, shake and stage. Image by Prasanna Kumar on Unsplaxh.

Hibiscus Bud

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For Cee’s FOTD

Old Photographs

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Old Photographs

Dark shadows that were yesterday 
in flashbulb’s glare have given way
to images where we are kept
on pages where for years we’ve slept.

They apprise us of the past,
employing images that last
to dominate in blinding light
the past that otherwise takes flight.

Prompt words today are glare, dominant, blinding, apprise, employ and yesterday.