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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.

Blending in–Hibiscus: FOTD June 16, 2020

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I just noticed this cream-colored hibiscus with a red throat for the first time–two blooms in among a  bush with a profusion of bright coral blooms. It is on a good-sized bush that has woven itself into the fabric of the other even larger bush, so must have been there for a long time as I haven’t planted hibiscus along that wall for over ten years. Where has it been hiding all these years? Or is it I who have been hiding? This period of forced isolation has revealed some amazing secrets about my back garden and after all these years I am beginning to feel that instead of this house belonging to me that I belong to it.

For Cee’s FOTD

Water World

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Click on photos to enlarge.

This is my entry for Nancy Merrill Photography’s, A Photo A Week Challenge with the topic Water  and Jez’s Water Water Everywhere (WWE) #32 challenge.

Absolutely Delightful!!!!

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Trust me and watch this without sound, at least the first time. You’re gonna want to watch it more that once, I am willing to bet.

Beach Boys, Second Generation

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Beach Boys, Second Generation

See the motley little band
trudge the beach, tip cup in hand.
A funnel stuffed into a hose––
is held to lips and then one blows.
Two other small musicians lug
a twenty-liter water jug.
Later, one begins to hum
accompanying his buddy’s drum.



I’ve shown these photos before, but the poem is new, for: dVerse Poets Quadrille Challenge: Drum

A Penny for Your Thoughts (Love in the Time of Coronavirus)

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A Penny for Your Thoughts 
(Love in the Time of Coronavirus)

A penny for your thoughts, my dear, in this time of recession.
They’re only worth a pittance, since you’re in deep depression—
perhaps the worst since man evolved from the primordial slime.
If I cared less, I’d offer zilch, but now is not the time
to be looking for bargains, with your love so newly won.
If only we could ditch our masks and have a little fun—
a little kiss, a little hug, a cuddle and a snuggle—
it might be easier to woo without these rules to juggle.
But from day-to-day, I fear, we never can know whether
we’ll spend the day alone again or spend the day together. 
So here’s a penny for your thoughts. Oh hell, it’s worth a nickel
to know whether your heart is true or if it has turned fickle.
It’s been said before that absence makes the heart grown fonder.
I wonder if you feel the same sequestered over yonder.

Prompt words today are zilch, slime, newly, pittance and depression.

 

Bougainvillea: FOTD June 15, 2020

 

For Cee’s FOTD

Home Happy!

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Candid shots around the house today. Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.

 

If I spin my desk chair around, this is what I see.
Kukla waiting on the wall of the garage as I drive in to park.
“The” lot we’ve just cleared. Now the work begins.
The Lute Player on my windowledge in the hall to my bedroom.
Pasiano planting Maguey and Agave.
More labors in the spare lot
Morrie thinking great thoughts
All the labors now done–except for putting away the equipment!
My second office during these times of isolation.

For Sunday Stills, Happiest at Home.

There is Hope for Our Earth When People Act!!!

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With the Amazonian rainforest being deforested at the rate of three football fields per minute, there is still hope if individuals choose to act.

 

https://www.intelligentliving.co/ethiopia-plants-353-million-trees/

Amazonian Rainforest Deforested at Rate of Three Football Fields Per Minute!!!

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I received this posting from my friend Rachel McMillan. It directly relates to the reblog I just did of Forgottenman’s posting of the “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not gonna put up with it anymore” post as well as the next one I’m going to post. It is time people acted. Corporations, lawmakers and institutions are not going to do it for them without the push of the people.

https://www.intelligentliving.co/deforestation-amazon-football-fields/?fbclid=IwAR0W8knSB9qikMk2YGKPhZoh3jehncPrke6mcAYlmmTeLkdaf0roOuCFzKY

I’M MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!

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This two part blog by Forgottenman is one that absolutely captures how many of us are feeling, I think, so want to share it with those who don’t already follow his blog.

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Most of my friends here are, um, mature enough to remember the movie “Network” from 1976. “I’M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!” This sentiment has been percolating, stewing, rising, in many of us the last few weeks. Yes, I’m talking about George Floyd and officer Derek Chauvin, about Michael Brown and officer Darren Wilson… I could spend all night cataloging. But another one happened yesterday at a Wendy’s in Atlanta. Rayshard Brooks and an unnamed officer, who has been fired. This video by my favorite commentator, Beau of the Fifth Column, sums it up SO well that I feel compelled to share it here.

And here’s a look at that wonderful shot from “Network”.

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