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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.

Purse Supplies, for Cellpic Sunday

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I know this is a very weird photo which is why I had to include it instead of the one I’d planned.  I read my poetry at a twice-monthly large reading at a local hotel/patio restaurant on Friday which was Halloween, and when I returned to my seat,  I noticed everyone at my table had a white stick sticking out of their mouth and then noticed  this  little sucker on the table in front of my chair. Unnoticed by me, the reader before me had delivered Halloween treats to each table, so I tucked mine into my purse with my pens. Only later when I opened the flap of my purse, did I see it nestled in with other “necessaries.” I couldn’t resist snapping a photo. 

for Cellpic Sunday

Halloween, for Bushboy’s Last on the Card

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For Last on the Card

One is Company, Two’s a Crowd, for SOCS

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One is Company, Two’s a Crowd

I have no need for company. I’ll make it on my own.
Most anything that two can do, I can do alone.
I am no Santa Claus who needs assistance of an elf.
All tasks that need doing, I can do myself.
I never interrupt my sleep by calling on the phone.
I never argue with the choices I have made alone.
The company I give myself is by far the best.
As my best friend, I have to say I outshine all the rest!

 

The prompt for SOCS is “Company.”

Pull Up A Seat Challenge

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It was a treat when long-time friends Berta and Jesus pulled up a seat at my house for coffee and a chat.  On his way out, Jesus couldn’t resist pulling up one more seat and my cat Kukla chose a more reclining position next to him. Zoe chose not to leave her cushy seat-turned-bed to join us.

For the Pull Up A Seat Challenge

Halloween Humor for Fibbing Friday

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For Fibbing Friday, the definition task at hand is:

  1. Why does garlic repel vampires? It throws off their sense of smell, thus no “Fee fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman!.”
  2. What do you need to kill a werewolf? The present tense.
  3. What is the purpose of a Jack-o-lantern? To enable one to see to change a tire in the dark.
  4. What exactly is a ghoul? A rental trailer for ghosts.
  5. Why can’t vampires enter a home unless invited? Vampire etiquette.
  6. Why can’t vampires cross running water? Because they can’t catch it.
  7. What does a chupacabra eat? Father snakes.
  8. What is the name of the three-headed dog that guards the gates of the underworld? The Three Dog Knight
  9. Who are the Stygian Witches? Witches who hog all the brew.
  10. What alcoholic beverage is thought to be the true origin of witches’ brew? Any distilled “spirit.”

 

I Just Have to Share This Article by Elizabeth Fitzsimons. It is A Must-Read!!!!!

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After you have read Elizabeth’s essay by clicking on the link above,  read her mother, Jan Wilburg’s WP blog HERE.  She certainly raised her daughter right!!!!

One Day’s Crop! for The Flower Hour

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Posies from my garden for The Flower Hour!!!

Upon the Violent Death of a Friend, for the Thursday Challenge “Evil”

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Upon the Violent Death of a Friend

Bar every window.
Avoid the Dark.
The dart is coming.
You’re on the mark.
Chain up your gateways.
Bar the door.
Whatever evil finds you,
there is always more.
In your life’s highway,
avoid the skids.
Don’t talk to strangers.
Lock up your kids.
Darkness advances
by ticks and tocks.
Take no chances.
Recheck the locks.
Don’t take airplanes
or cars or ships.
Keep what’s private
behind your lips.
Buy a gun and
keep it cocked.
If you knew who’s watching,
you would be shocked.
Lock your bedroom
when you retire.
Life’s a minefield.
Don’t trip the wire.
Wrap your kids in
cotton wool.
Don’t dare send them
out to school.
Mind the playgrounds.
Avoid the street.
Television
is more discreet.
Train your dogs to
attack and kill
whoever enters
against your will.
Limit friends to
a very few.
New ones just might
target you.
Build your walls up
both high and wide.
Then just fester
alone, inside.

 

The. Thursday Inspiration 304 prompt is Evil.

“The Edge” for The Weekly Writing Prompt

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The Edge

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The Weekly Writing Prompt is “Edge”

The Sporting Life for RDP

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The Sporting Life

I’ve never had much interest in sports played with a ball.
Of games with pucks or shuttlecocks, I have no need at all.
Gym workouts, laps and chin-ups do nothing for me.
I simply have no talent for touching chin to knee.
The body part I work out with is of a different kind.
I like the sort of games requiring exercise of mind.
Dominoes or Mastermind, Bridge or Chess or Scrabble
are aspects of the sporting life discounted by the rabble.
Yet if you want to hold my interest, team sport is absurd.
Just woo me with a domino, a die, a card, a word.
Lay your mind upon the table, dear, I’ll trump it with an ace.
The contact I like in a sport is merely face-to-face.

The prompt for RDP Wednesday is Shuttle