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Book Launch for “When Old Dames Get Together” March 16, 2023

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Please join us for the Book Launch for When Old Dames Get Together and Other Confessions of a Ripe Old Age on March 16, from 2-4 at Diane Pearl’s Gallery, 23 Santa Marguerita, Ajijic. (If you are driving from Ajijic or other westerly directions, go East on the Carretera and turn left at Mom’s Deli (Before Pancho’s) toward the mountains. Go one block and turn right. Diane’s Gallery is the fourth house on the right.)

For more information on this adult coloring book with humorous poems by Judy Dykstra-Brown and wonderful illustrations to color by Isidro Xilonzóchitl, click on the illustration. There might be some surprises in store for you!!!

 

Please pass this information on to your friends. We look forward to seeing you there.

 

The book is also available on Amazon, in La Bella Vida Gallery on Constitution and in Diane’s Gallery.

Black is Beautiful, March 10, 2023

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Oops.. I got mixed up and thought “Paint it Black” was a photo prompt. When I tried to link it, I found it was a short short writing prompt. I couldn’t find a comments section to link it to anyway, and since it is clear I was not meant to complete the link,  here is my response to “Paint it Black” in pictures.

Hibiscus: FOTD Mar 8, 2023

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Three new hibiscus plus a bud on the bush today.

For Cee’s FOTD

Sunshine in Winter

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Sunshine in Winter

The sun casts its apricity against the bitter wind,
trying to convince us that it is our friend.
And though it cooks us in the summer, in winter, I admit,
when it warms us with its rays, I pray it will not quit.

Frozen in the wilderness, I resume my plea
that the rays of father Sol will manage to find me.
Once they desert their provenance, do those rays remember he
gave them clear direction to be sure to shine on me?

 

Prompt word are apricity (the warmth of the sun in winter, obsolete) cook, provenance, bitter, wilderness, resume.

Compositionally Befuddled

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Compositionally Befuddled

I’m not the beneficiary of your gift for words.
My acumen for spinning tales is simply for the birds.
When I type, the words roll out but they’re not all right.
Then the need to sort them out ends up as my plight.

I need a thesaurus for the simplest of statements.
I ask for enlargements when I really seek abatements.
I chafe under the rub of words, waiting for a rebuke.
Although I want a kumquat, I wind up with a cuke.

I could use some help most days when choosing words to keep.
Sometimes I have nightmares rifling through words in my sleep.
So when I err, be kind my friends, for I fear it’s true
that I have scant facility for what I choose to do!!!

 

Prompt words today are keep, type, rebuke, chafe, beneficiary and thesaurus.

Turn About

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Turn About

His love is intransitive with no particular focus.
He finds marriage an oddity, monogamy hocus pocus.
He follows neither law nor norm and constantly reminds
her that he’ll make no love troth that promises or binds.

Carving out a life with him would be no easy task
and so she neither taunts nor begs. Doesn’t suggest or ask
for any oaths of loyalty or fealty or marriage.
For them, no orange blossoms and no baby carriage.

They’ll simply wander on through life standing slightly apart,
with no soulful joining of property or heart.
But it hasn’t occurred to him that any night or day
she might be the one who decides to slip away.

Prompt words are intransitive, carve, oddity, taunt, remind and law.  Image by Elliot Reyna on Unsplash.

Unsolicited Advice

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Unsolicited Advice

With buckets of advice and a blizzard of suggestions,
and prolific answers to all of life’s great questions,
he blusters and pontificates and tells us how to live
with advice he never follows, but which, nonetheless, he gives.

He imparts his wisdom to everyone he meets:
from how to run your business to your life between the sheets.
Advice on morals, love and sex (all in his domain)
make even brief encounters such a royal pain.

You know he’ll scratch his whiskers and open up his yap
and once again you will be caught in his vocal trap.
And so you’ve found that at first sight, you must avoid detection
by altering your footsteps to an alternate direction.

Prompt words today are whiskers, sheet, prolific, bluster, bucket and blizzard. Image by Roberto Quezada on Unsplash.

At the Beach, View, Food and Finery

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Click on photos to enlarge and see the pretty food!!! Not to mention the sunset and fashion. I’m in La Manzanilla again, just for a week. Staying with friends Sherri and Chris. Rachel is here, too. Running into old friends is fun, as well. The picture is of Sherri.

Kudzu

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Kudzu

By the statue of the satyr where the kudzu is the thickest,
I toil pulling roots out, and I swear I am the quickest.
Every place I see the vine, I vow that I will best it.
I remove  it from the soil, conquering it lest it
cover all my property from here up to the sea,
knowing if it had its way, that it would cover me!!!

Prompt words today are satyr, place, kudzu, toil, root and me.

Bougainvillea: FOTD March 1

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Not flashy but I love the quiet color of this bougainvillea.

For Cee’s FOTD. See her stunning tulip HERE.