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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.

Clouds

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Clouds

Do you see the man in a fedora  with his back to you,
                     staring at a woman in the distance
with her arms around a giant heart,
or perhaps it is a man
she is reaching up for…

or it is a dog      jumping up
as though enjoying him
in Braille.

                  Can you see the things I see?
            The woman exploding      into glorious light
and a grumpy schoolteacher.
                  These are not things of any significance,
                                     just things caught in the clouds.
            If you don’t believe me, look for yourself.
                         There are worlds there for your investigation.

Weekend Sky #75

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Please click on photos to enlarge and see details of these amazing skies.

I am so grateful for this prompt as I have been absolutely fixated on the sky (especially the clouds) for the past few weeks. So glad to have a place to share what I have seen. 

For Weekend Sky: https://hammadrais.blog/2022/10/15/weekend-sky-75-oct-15th/

Truculent Twos and the Fourth of July

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Truculent Twos and the Fourth of July

A starburst of fireworks up in the sky
caught the truculent child’s wandering eye.
Took his mind off his troubles  and saved the vacation
which had formerly suffered from his tribulation.
His folks’ cogent reasonings wondering why
could not hold a candle to things in the sky
that vanquished his agony, lifting him higher
toward massive explosions of  glorious fire.

Prompts today are starburst, cogent, truculent, intrusive, trouble and vacation.

Night Trees

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For CBWC Tree Art and Trees

Coreopsis: Rich Gold (For City Sonnet)

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Coreopsis

For City Sonnet Oct. Color Challenge: Rich Gold

 

Quordle Spoiler. Solvers Take Heed!

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If you are a Quordle addict and have not yet solved the October 13, 2022 puzzle, please do not read this blog until you have. (The image above is of an old game, but the one at the end of this post is today’s solution. Consider yourself warned!!!!)

Okay, I have a confession to make.  Every night, no matter how exhausting my day has been, I must wait for the turn of midnight so I can go quickly to three websites in turn: Wordle, Word Huddle and Quordle.  If you don’t know what they are, look them up, but be warned that they are addictive.  

One reason I feel compelled to solve these word puzzles as soon after their posting as possible is because I know Forgottenman will be doing the same and will report (smugly or disappointedly) his scores for the first two. (He refuses to do Quordle, in spite of the fact that I tell him it is the most fun of all.) The truth is that I think it jinxes my luck if I hear his scores first, so I feel the need to hurry and do at least the two he does before I consult Skype again. Sometimes I beat him and smugly (or disappointedly) report my score. Here is my last Skype to Forgottenman last night, regarding Quordle, which gives you 9 chances to discover 4 words simultaneously. Other than that, it is just like Wordle:

1:00 A.M.
Me: Quordle in 8. Would you believe, the last word was outgo??? I’d never heard of it.

1:01 A.M.
Me: Right after I ingo, I discover I have to outgo! What a bother…. ;o)

 

Jungle Walk

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Jungle Walk
(With thanks to Miss Emily)

A narrow fellow in the grass
might be construed to let you pass,
but reptiles cannot be persuaded
to permit trespass unaided
by veneer of boot or shoe
to protect the foot of you.
Thus does impartial nature seek
to aid the strong over the weak.
So if you favor health and bod,
When taking walks, please come well-shod.

Prompt words today are veneer, weak, persuade, construe, reptile and narrow.

Although I wasn’t thinking of it when I wrote this post, later, while answering a comment to Sadje, I remembered that I had had my own barefooted jungle adventure in 1973 that I wrote about in my blog in 2014. Here is a link to it: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/10/15/bali-bound/

 

Hibiscus: FOTD Oct 13, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD

Autumn Colors for CMMC

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This is as close as we get to autumn colors here. There are five of these vibrant new blooms on my hibiscus bush today.

For CMMC, October Autumn Colors

Religion and Politics

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Religion and Politics

The ductile masses are easily led
either in affection or body or head,
to memorize lies emphatically told
and transformed from listless to dangerously bold.

Facts sprinkled with hatred may cause them to totter,
and thus are men led to riot and slaughter.
The rules of religion devoid of its heart
are often what rip the world’s humans apart.

Rigidity slams the door to detente,
replacing our “should” with what tyrants “want.”
What they call truth is merely illusion,
leading the masses to senseless delusion.

Look to the truth of the holy writ
and try to see who profits from it.
Is it the person making the rules
profiting by their control of fools? 

Prompt words are memorize, listless, sprinkle,ductile, slam and emphatically.