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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.

Flower with Bee: FOTD, June 16, 2019

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For Cee’s FOTD

Ballroom Intervention: Trod Upon Blues

Ballroom Intervention:
Trod Upon Blues

This gratuitous violence that you insist is dancing
insures that there will definitely be no further prancing.
I don’t intend to be the victim of your future trodding.
My toes can’t take another night of your infernal plodding.
If you must sashay, my dear, I think it would be fine
if you took a few lessons to insure that you will shine
when next you ask a girl to dance, lest your skills depreciate
to a level where the least of us will not appreciate
your extended hand out to ask us for a dance.
I’m afraid not one of us is willing now to chance
damage to her Manolos, let alone her toes.
We’ll simply have to get along with more accomplished beaus.
So with most loving intentions, we’ve all chipped in to buy
a coupon for dance lessons for our favorite clumsy guy.
We hope that you will take it in the way that it’s intended,
and that you won’t be angry, downhearted or offended.
Please accept these lessons, dear. After just a few
instead of asking us to dance, we’ll be asking you!

 

 

Prompt words today are night, sashay, gratuitous and shine.

 

  1. uncalled for; lacking good reason; unwarranted.
    “gratuitous violence”
    sinónimos: unjustified, without reason, uncalled for, unwarranted, unprovoked, undue; Más

  2. 2.
    given or done free of charge.

Baby Sun Rose

 

Don’t miss Cee’s Lupine Garden.

The Most Expensive Purse in the World

When I published a photo of the second most expensive purse in the world yesterday, I guess it was inevitable that someone would ask what the most expensive one was. David Davis, this is for you: 

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This Mouawad purse sold a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong in 2011 for $3.8 million. It is encrusted in diamonds and took 8,800 hours to make. I’m wondering where you would carry a purse like that? Certainly not to the movies!

 

“Old Cootie Bear” and other Endearments for Après Teenage Lovers

 

What do you call your significant other once you are no spring chicken?  Will boyfriend do? Is “significant other” overused?  Forgottenman has some thoughts on the matter and asks you to share yours.  Go HERE to join the discussion!!!

Jocotepec: Thurs. Doors, June 13, 2019

I stood in one location to take all three of these photos of doors–only moving a few feet to capture each shot. Vive la difference!

 

For Thursday Doors

Heliconia: Flower of the Day, June 14, 2019

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day.

Sale Day at the Knock-off Designer Purse Store

 

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Sale Day at the Knock-off Designer Purse Store

Shoppers are in a quandary. They’ll put up with no delay.
We advertised new bargains available today.
They’re seeking phony purses from Dior and Michael Kors.
Noses against the windows, they’re beating at the doors.
But they’ve delayed our shipments and we don’t know what to do.
The faces of the ladies first in line are turning blue.
The advertising blitz we did turned out to be foolhardy.
Our Chanels are stuck in customs, our Hermès bags are tardy.
We have the fire hoses ready. We’ll use them if we must.
The ladies’ love of Fendi has turned into a lust.
If purses were religion they would be the most confessory.
There is no other obsession like the one for an accessory!

This real Hermès just sold for two million dollars at auction!!! Has the world gone crazy? It is the second most expensive handbag in the world.

Want to see the most expensive handbag in the world?  Go HERE.

Prompt words today are delay, bargain, quandary and phony.

Heliconia in the Rain: Flower of the Day, June 13, 2019

 

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For Cee’s FOTD

Mother Hen

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Mother Hen

His insidious preening as he eyes each teenage guest
makes me want to gather them in a protective nest,
to spread my wings to cover them and tell them to take care.
To go home and do homework and fiddle with their hair.
I want them safe away from this producer’s leering glance.
Away from all they’ll forfeit to try to get their chance.
For all the favors he hands out, with his other hand he reaps,
consuming all the sweet young things as though they were just Peeps!

The prompts today are preen, homework, insidious and safe.