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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.

FOTD July 15, 2022

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Another closeup from my birthday bouquet.. perhaps a mum?

For Cee’s FOTD

Open Range

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Open Range

Most cowboys are beef-witted. They ride the open range
decrying life in cities, avoiding any change.

They scan the far horizon to detect changes in the weather—
rain or hail or funnel clouds and speculating whether

to move the herd to shelter, making noises that will soothe them,
wondering if moves down towards the south draw might behoove them.

Their horses part the tall grass like a boat might part the sea.
Their lives out in the open are kitchen and bathroom-free.

They cook over a campfire and when it’s time to pee,
they mosey over yonder where no one else can see.

Prompt words for today are: bathroom, speculating, beef-witted,  noises  and   boat,

 

I decry the usual definition of beef-witted and hereby expand its definition. I’m presently in South Dakota at my town and school reunion. Plenty of cowboys here and in fact I took this photo a number of years ago on main street  at another town reunion.

Nuptial Turnabout

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Nuptial Turnabout

The blushing bride’s the instigator of a lot of fun,
and she will have her victory before the day is done.

She’ll outfox her friends and kin with a turnabout,
completing her last antic as the wedding bells peal out.

Trust her to do her business as the  rice is thrown,
for in the deep folds of her dress, she has brought her own.

She’ll reach into her pockets to withdraw a sack
and as they they run through showers of rice, she’ll send a shower back!

Prompts for the day are: outfox, trust, business, bride and instigator. Image by Hermes  Rivera on Unsplash.

Gerbera Daisy Closeup for FOTD July 14, 2022

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For Cee’s FOTD

Mortality

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Mortality

Humidity turns toys to junk but makes the flowers grow.
Then they in turn must fade to be buried far below.
As we mature, this sobering truth comes to be clarified.
Our part in nature’s circle is therein bonafide.

 

Prompt words today are toys, junk, humidity, mature and clarify.

Lantana: FOTD July 13, 2022

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These tiny little floral fists will soon open to become lantana flowers.

For Cee’s FOTD July 13, 2022.

Gazania and Visitor: FOTD July 12, 2022

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I’m finally in Wyoming after a flight from Guadalajara to Dallas Fort Worth to Billings and a drive to Sheridan. This little posy and friend are still back in Mexico, however.

 

For Cee’s FOTD July 12, 2022

Air Travel While Intermittent Fasting

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Air Travel While Intermittent Fasting

I’m not asking for your empathy.
It doesn’t take much courage
to suspend my appetite
for a later forage.

Since my time line’s not jentacular,
I must delay my dining
even though my empty tummy
prods me with its whining.

My intermittent fasting 
is the boss of me
and it only permits eating
in the hours to nine from three.

And since I’ve flown into a time zone
which set me back an hour,
 there are sixty minutes more
before I can devour!!!

Prompt words today are: ask, empathy, jentacular, filter and courage.

Writer Wannabe

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Writer Wannabe

I wish I were prolific and could elevate each word 
from general to specific, to astounding from absurd.
As they are ejected from my fingers or my pen,
I wish that they were more profound, more thoughtful and more Zen.
But, alas, their attributes remain to me mysterious.
They verge on the inane when my intent was to be serious.

 

Prompt words today are prolific, elevate, attribute, eject and mystery.

Babyfingers: FOTD July 11, 2022

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