No flower this time. It was the leaf that captured my interest.
Bird of Paradise: FOTD, Dec 22, 2019
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Knowledge by Committee
Image by Louis Velazquez on Unsplash, Used with permission.
Knowledge by Committee
Any person worth their mettle
would not deign to ever settle
for any type of education
that offered no irradiation
of the true facts of subsistence,
even though at the insistence
of the elected powers that be
to hide the facts of history
and science and of common sense
in order to make kids more dense
to matters of ecology
and climate change and chemistry.
Minds should be buoyant and not settle
on myths of village or of shtetl
in place of those proven by science.
Minds can’t be shackled by compliance
to nonsense garnered from the dockets
of men who seek to line their pockets—
carpetbaggers and buffoons
who spout untruths and whistle tunes
taught to them by corporations
who feed them piecemeal their orations
that they’re doing for our good
those things in fact which place a hood
over our heads to hide the truth.
When government has grown uncouth,
what’s left except to rail and shout
that we must throw the traitors out!
All I Want for Christmas
Photo by Jose Moreno for Unsplash. Used with permission
All I Want for Christmas
A rash of holiday wishes have lately been extended,
and more will surely come about before this year is ended.
I wish such heartfelt sentiments were felt by those who rule,
and would lead to the impeachment of the world’s most dangerous fool!
Aloe: Flower of the Day, Dec 21, 2019
Bougainvillea at Sunset: FOTD, Dec 20, 2019
For Cee’s Flower of the Day
House Fairies?
House Fairies?
The back door came unhinged in the hovel she lived in.
so when she got back home from wherever she had been,
there had been a kind intruder who sparkled up the place.
Tidied up the dishes and polished up its face.
Brightened up the house by cleaning all the glass—
giving the mirrors and windows more than just a pass.
Plumped up all the sofa cushions, scrubbed down all the floors.
Polished all the bathroom fixtures, fixed all of the doors.
Grime and dust and smudges that had grown over the years
were abolished in one massive cleaning in arrears.
Who the house fairy might have been, she never quite determined,
but her house was clean and glowing, its corners all de-vermined.
At first she was in shock and astonished at the brass
of the home invasion, but then it came to pass
that she kind of liked the order, the cleanliness and polish.
She wondered who it was who might have come in to abolish
all of her disorder, her smudginess and mess,
replacing it with all this pristine loveliness.
She never found the answer, but to encourage even more,
for the whole rest of her life, she never locked the door!!!
Prompt words today are sparkle, unhinged, hovel, brighten and year.
Christmas Explosion
El Jardin Restaurant in the Ajijic plaza always does amazing arrangements for holidays. This collage was only 1/3 of the display.
Cold Snap
Cold Snap
As she awakened from her afternoon nap, she could see the glow of the lit-up dial of the alarm clock even through her closed eyelids. Everything on her body was thinning out. Her hair hung so limply that all she could do was to push it behind her ears and smooth it back from where it formed fuzzy little swirls on her forehead. Her arms sprouted an archipelago of purplish dry torn bruises—new ones every time she knocked up against a door frame or pruned the thunbergia vines. No one ever mentioned these bruises, although her children were perceptive and must have noticed them on those occasions when they stopped by on their way home from work to bring her groceries or to open the damper in the chimney and check that the gas lines had not clogged up over the summer.
Today it was her son who rang her doorbell to check up on her and accept a fast cup of coffee. It was going to be a cold winter, he lectured, so she needed a fire. Did she want him to light it for her? No, she wasn’t cold, but she would do it herself later, she insisted. For the hundredth time, he lectured her on being careful to make sure the pilot was working every time, then feigned interest in what sparse news she had to impart. She feared her subscription to life had expired along with most of her friends. What new did she have to say about this week’s installment of Mrs. Maisel or even the weather, now that it had turned gray and unchangeable––much like her life?
After ten minutes, he was off to children and wife and supper, and she was glad for this. She kissed him good-bye. A good boy. She had been fortunate in her life. She moved over to the fireplace. It was cold already, she thought, as she bent over to close the damper and blow out the standing pilot light on the fireplace, then turned on the gas.
Prompt words today are dial, chimney, expired, perceptive and work.
The Rose of our Lady of Guadalupe FOTD Dec 18, 2019
i took this photo in natural light of a rose in the bed of roses planted beneath the Guadalupe statue in San Juan Cosala. It was the light that created this beautiful coloration.
For Cee’sFOTD Challenge.
Holiday Decor at the Nueva Posada
Every year, the decorations at the Nueva Posada are done by the same man and they are always fabulous. He is pictured beside the lit tree in the entrance to the hotel.
(As always, click on photos to enlarge.)
For the Sunday Stills Challenge.
