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Tomorrow’s the Day!!

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Jesus and I have been working hard getting our show together. He’s been working for two months on the amazing armoire pictured below which he’ll be showing along with some of his paintings.  I’ll be showing my silver and paper jewelry along with my retablos and sculptures. Here are some shots of my work and a photo of his armoire along with information about our opening on Saturday, March 26, 3-7. Directions below.

Nuestra Senora de Adorno
Jesus’s Amazing Armoire.
Jugetes
Chamula Christmas
What’s New, Pussycat
Nuestra Senora de Regeneración

Mr. “Do It Myself”

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Mr. “Do It Myself”

The manifold reasons I love you are these.
Though you puff and you pant and you groan and you wheeze,
recruiting much help from your back and your knees,
nonetheless, my piano you managed to squeeze
up the stairs to the tower, saying it was a breeze.
So as I snap a photo, be sure to say, “Cheese,”
then promise me, dear, for I’m down on my knees.
If we move it again, hire a moving crew, please!!!!

 

 

 

Prompt words today are recruit, piano, manifold and tower.

Mysteries

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Forgottenman wants to know why I haven’t published any photos of Zoe for the past 5 days. I’ve been busy preparing and setting up my show but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been taking photos. I just haven’t posted them.  Here they are, presented as a set of mysteries: 

Mystery #1.  What is Diego doing standing out in the cold?

(Click on photos to enlarge and read about today’s mysteries.)

Why isn’t he snug in his cushy mat in his cage?
Seems as though someone has appropriated his cage and bed for herself.
Guess who?
It is soooo comfy. We don’t know where Diego slept last night but he surrendered his digs to her without one complaint.

Mystery # 2: When my friend Brad was over the other night helping me pack up my car with work for my show, we came in to watch a movie and had no place to place our gin and tonics. Does anyone know where my Oaxacan woven coasters are?

 

The coasters are always left right here in a pile on the coffee table in the sala.
So how did they end up in a pile on the rug in my bedroom?
I’ll zoom in to collect more evidence,
Mom’s? Zoe’s coasters

Mystery # 3: Both of my printers stopped working because the ink has run out, so I need the last copy of my manuscript, even though it wasn’t a very good copy. 

My manuscript

Mystery # 4: Now that Zoe has outgrown her collar that her Aunties Chris and Sherry bought for her and has a new one, what can be done with the old collar that I had to cut off her because the double knot was too strong to untie?

 

This is Zoe’s last photo in her old collar that is now too tight.
Here is her new collar, which I found in the same pink as the one her Aunties bought her, because pink seems to be her color.
And as you can see, the minute I cut the old one off her, she found a use for it as her newest toy. That’s it dangling from her mouth.

 

At the Movies

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At the Movies

Looked up too late and so I missed
the moment that the lovers kissed.
Taking a break, I closed my eyes.
Missed seeing how the hero dies.

Paresthesia setting in
caused me to take a little spin
for five minutes or maybe ten
to the lobby and back and then

when I got back, the credits started.
So as everyone departed,
I left as well, regretting so
how I had missed most of the show.

With old film cameras, when the bulb flashed,
it produced something that would last.
A photo mounted in a book
gave something upon which to look.

But movies are impermanent.
Moment after moment went
into the past, so if one blinked,
what they had missed became extinct.

That’s why next time I didn’t go
when invited to the show.
I stayed at home and had a nap,
my photo album in my lap.

 

Prompts today are look up, missed, paresthesia, bulb and old film camera.

Story Time at the Library

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Story Time at the Library

Cluster here around me. Cross Your legs. Open your mind.
I’m going to tell you stories of a slightly silly kind.

Or lie back on the carpet, close your eyes and try to see
all the varied images that are going to be.

We’ll be crossing to another land where we can be whatever
each of us may want to be: beautiful, brave or clever.

Light the bulbs above your head. Imagine what you hear.
For the next half hour or so, you’l be “there” and not “here.”

In imagination’s magic land, all your dreams come true.
Climb aboard my story train and I’ll share it with you.

And now as then, the crowd being both clever and magnanimous,
They decided they’d all come along. The voting was unanimous.

And so the children climbed aboard to hear a tale or two—
precisely the same stories in the past that I told you.

 

Prompt words today are cluster,  crossing, bulb, unanimous and carpet,

Curves

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For Lens Artists Challenge #191: Curves

Thoughts on Mortality, 3 A.M.

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Thoughts on Mortality, 3 A.M.

As my thoughts of death have become more voluminous,
idle reflections have turned much more numinous.
Vigorous fears of my shortness of breath
cause me to reflect on my upcoming death.

Derisory comments from friends that I’m fine
do nothing to quell these absurd fears of mine.
They’re turning me crotchety. Nerves are on edge.
I feel that I’m teetering close to the edge.

I’m Impervious to reason. These thoughts fill my mind
I wonder what sort of relief I could find?
My mind’s set on replay. I’m stuck in a groove
because immortality’s so hard to prove!

Prompts today are crotchety, impervious, derisory and vigorous.

Nailed!!! (Variations)

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She said: Hands are for showing.

For the Weekly Challenge Weekend Prompt: Variations

Innovation Blues: Same But Different, Mar 19, 2022

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Innovation Blues

Every  new thing I attempt
is met with all the world’s contempt.

I rush about, but still I tend
to fall back down as I ascend.

The lake of tears leaked from my eyes,
my arid life cannot revise.

I never seem to have the knack
to learn what skills I seem to lack.

So woe is me, though well-rehearsed,
each new attempt is promptly cursed.

 

For the Same but Different prompt, Christine wants us to use not the following words,

  1. try
  2. dash
  3. climb
  4. pool
  5. change

but synonyms for them. Fun prompt!.

The Comforts of Age

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The Comforts of Age

My Donnybrook days of parties and fairs,
of baltering frolics in passionate pairs,
are primarily over. Instead of wild rioting,
I spend my weekends just grousing and dieting.
What has replaced my past jubilation?
I hate to admit it is blessed hibernation.

Prompts today are Donnybrook, balter, grouse, primary and  hibernate,