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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.

Famous and Infamous

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Famous and Infamous

Nobody bears a copyright on status or on fame.
Too soon another personage replaces the last name
that filled out all the columns and resided on all lips—
the faces we could not avoid in papers and news clips.
All fame deteriorates with time, assuming a back place.
Every generation demands a brand new face.
Who the next new fad will be, not one of us can guess.
Will it be a hero or celebrity much less
deserving of attention? Who knows what or who
will fill out all the news frames? Will it be Honey Boo Boo,
Ghandi, Kennedy or Trump? The differences astound us.
Who captures history’s fancy too often might confound us.
One might be exemplary, the other a buffoon.
All they have in common is, it’s over all too soon.

 

The prompt words today are copyright, guess, exemplary and deteriorate. Here are the links:

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/wednesday-rdp-copyright/

https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/19/fowc-with-fandango-guess/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/exemplary/

https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/daily-addictions-2018-week-37/deteriorate

Grandpa/Granddaughter Tap Routine. This is totally worth seeing!

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Happy Anniversary?

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WordPress has informed me it is our anniversary. Strange, because I posted my first post in March of 2013. What else could it be an anniversary of??? I have a feeling I’ll never know.

Post script: By an odd turn of events, forgottenman just reminded me that this is the anniversary of my husband’s death! And, I then realized that three times in the past week, I have thought I saw him out of the corner of my eye. . . .just fleeting. . . .One way or another, it has been brought to my attention that 17 years ago, one week after the Twin Towers bombing, my husband passed away and a bit over a month later I set off for Mexico alone. How things can change in 17 years.  Happy Anniversary, Bob.  In 14 years of marriage, we only remembered to celebrate our wedding anniversary once, and years later we discovered we’d celebrated it on the wrong day!  I guess we established a theme for ourselves, and for me ever after. 

Good Sport

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Good Sport

Although he’s just a featherweight with arms and legs like sticks,
he survives all the scrimmages— the shoving and the kicks.
He’s always game to play the sport in any sort of weather,
with his helmet duct taped to his head and gaiters of fine leather.
He’ll show up to participate whenever they might please
with elbow guards and shoulder pads and cushions on his knees.
Every game he joins his teammates in the dugout trench,
where though they never let him play, he’s faithful to the bench.
And no matter how much they may  laugh and jeer and chide and tease,
When it’s time for the team photo, he’ll turn up and mutter, “Cheese!”

Cheese, feather and game are the haunted wordsmith’s prompts today. Here is the link:
https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/three-things-challenge-18-sept-2018/

Honeysuckle: Flower of the Day, Sep 19, 2018

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For Cee’s Flower of the Day

Girls in Boots

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I simply must reblog these cool frog boots. Cowboy boots they aren’t, but I think this boot challenge has branched out into new genres. Okay with me. These are some fine boots!!!

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Cee and Judy have been posting photos of “boots”. Here’s my girl who proves there’s no bad time to wear frog boots! She’s on her third pair! 🐸🐸🐸

https://rugby843.blog

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More Pink Boots!!!!

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In response to Cee’s last “Pink Boots” addition, here is mine!!! (Cee’s look suspiciously uncomfortable, don’t you think?)  Here’s a cowgirl who is making an early fashion statement: 

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A friend furnished me with this photo of her first great-granddaughter.  I think we are really getting into this spontaneous boot challenge. Do you have a boot photo that needs to be seen? If so, send it on over!

 

  

Hibiscus: Flower of the Day, Sep 18, 2018

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Every day a new pleasure. One of my newest small bushes. Just getting a start.

For Cee’s Flower of the Day

Within

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Within

Now that we’re approaching the crepuscule of our lives,
memories swarm through our minds like bees working their hives.
We hope that we are smarter and the young ones that we’ve mentored
have been better off for it— directed and more centered.
Now that we’ve had ample time to get ourselves on track,
let’s hope a bit sticks with us if in fact we wander back.
Perhaps those rare wise children who are born into their lives
able to cut through knowledge like butter cut by knives
are only remembering the lessons of their past,
and unlike all the rest of us have wisdom that can last.

Perhaps we call them wunderkinder, prodigies or sages,
marveling at that knowledge which belies their tender ages.
Whether these intuitions are a blessing or a curse
depends on if they use them for better or for worse.
We can’t dispute the forces that balance out our world—
that nucleus of evil that seems securely curled
within the beauties of existence: the love and charity.
It seems there is a darkness that creates a parity
that although it is ironic, maddening and heart-breaking 
somehow has created us. It’s central to our making.

As we ponder now our purpose and prepare to leave this plane,
let’s hope that all we’ve learned in life has not been learned in vain,
and if we do return, we’ll be a blessing to creation—
an agent that builds fairness and beauty and elation.
This perpetual struggle that rips our world apart
perhaps can be solved best by evolution of the heart.
If within we make the progress that we have made without,
strengthen all our hopes and fight the fear and doubt,
we ourselves can be the change we seek within the others
and enemies and rivals can become sisters and brothers.

 

 

The prompt words were ample, mentor, smart and crepuscule. Here are the links:

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/rdp-tuesday-post-crepuscule/

https://fivedotoh.com/2018/09/18/fowc-with-fandango-smart/

https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/09/18/mentor/

https://dailyaddictions542855004.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/daily-addictions-2018-week-37/ample

I “Cee” Your Boots and Raise You Fifteen!

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Cee and I seem to be having a bit of a private boot challenge going here.  First, she published THIS, then I published THIS, then she published THIS and I published the blog you are viewing. If you’d like to join in, post your boots both HERE and HERE.

Phew.  That’s a lot of links.  Bet they’ll pick this up as spam. If not, come on.  Show us your boots!!!