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Eavesdropping

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If you use Skype, chances are you’ve been as irritated as I was when it automatically updated me to a feature that suggests responses and emojis to use to answer written messages others have left for you. Since this is how I usually use it instead of visiting orally with visuals, it can be especially off-putting.  I finally figured out how to turn the feature off, but forgottenman hasn’t and a few minutes ago, I received this message from him.  I had just left him this message:

Judy: Gotta close my eyes now.. the sun is shinin so brightly through the drapes that it blinded me. Can’t see to type…

This is the message I received back from him:

forgottenman: Weird – one of Skype’s suggested responses to your last msg is “What song is that?”.

Judy: I guess I must must have a naturally lyrical mode of speech.  Ha!!!

Acapulco Bound

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Checking the tags.
Hurry up and wait.
And wait. And wait.
Finally airbound.
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and squiggles,
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and lines.
Finally, we reach our goal.

Orange Blossom, FOTD Dec 8, 2018

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When I saw Gina’s peeled orange with sections removed, I had to stay her hand until I could get this shot.  Doesn’t it look like a gorgeous tropical flower?

 

For Cee’s FOTD

WordPress Has Gone Crazy!!!!

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Is anyone else finding it impossible to post galleries of photos and to keep them in order?  My editing page also keeps going crazy, crunching everything up in a very tiny space and leaving a huge space in the middle, then superimposing things on top of each other.  I’ve started three different posts and the same thing keeps happening.  Anyone else have the same problem?

Acapulco

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Gina, Gloria, Patricia, Sandy, Harriet, Judy D-B.(with hand raised.) Seated: Glenda and Judy Reeves.

Here is a short piece Sandy Olson wrote the first morning of our retreat to the prompt, “Foreign Countries.”  I thought it might give you a bit of the flavor of our writing retreat. There were eight of us staying in Gloria’s son’s house in Acapulco.  He has a design business that designs and builds theme restaurants for Disneylands and Disneyworlds all over the world, thus the colorful and art-filled nature of his vacation home.  more photos to follow. Here is what Sandra wrote:

Gathering this morning with coffee—slowly—first Harriet, then me, then Gina, sitting outside on chairs in the grass. Then the others, one by one.

What are we—not a covey of quail, pride of lions, murmuration of starlings, herd of water buffalo—we are writers, dedicated to the muse, brought together, a distinct subspecies of humankind. Seekers. Watchers and scribes. We look like we’re having an inconsequential conversation this morning  but we’re visiting and exploring each others’ foreign country and our own as well.

“I’m in my own foreign country.”

Acapulco Retreat, Day 3

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What are they looking at?

Breakfast at the beach, then back to work.

Thursday Doors, Dec 6, 2018

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For the Thursday Doors prompt.

Friendship

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Friendship is one of those miracles like theater, where one person inspires another to act a finer role than that he might otherwise accomplish.

 

The prompt words today were friendship, theater, inspiring and miracle.

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/rdp-wednesday-friendship/
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/12/05/fowc-with-fandango-theater/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/inspiring/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/your-daily-word-prompt-miracle-December-5-2018/

Blanched Hibiscus Floating in Acapulco Pool, FOTD Dec 6, 2018

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For Cee’s FOTD

Women Unfolding

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Every year for the past five years, I’ve gone on a writers’ retreat with from eight to ten women. The first year, they came to the house I rent in La Manzanilla on the Mexican Pacific coast. The next year we went to Cuyutlán, two years to Puerto Vallarta and this year we are at my friend Gloria’s son’s fabulous house in Acapulco. Two of us come from the states. The rest from the Lake Chapala area where I live. Yesterday, our second day here, was especially fabulous. Here are a few shots, a few words, which inadequately attempt to recreate the miracle that always happens when we gather together to spend four days dedicated fully to each other and words. 

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Harriet and Glen
The view, tennis court and small pool
The exercise room
The large pool
The office
Judy (not me) and Sandy
Yes. It was hot.
Our leader.
Judy and Patricia
The evening out.
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Sandy
Gina
Judy, Patricia, Gina, Gloria, Ricardo (our “keeper” and chauffeur) and Glen.

Women Who Write

It is inspiring theater when women get together—
words racing between them like wild horses without tether.
And then by some small miracle, they gather in small herds.
as the women journey, each mounted on her words
into their past or future, forming orderly parades
of poetry or essays or dramatic charades.
They share their secrets lingually with gestures wide and vivid.
Humorous or tragic. Calm or sad or livid.
When writers get together, it’s story after story.
Sharing all their secrets, revealing all their glory.

 

 

The prompt words today are theater, inspiring and miracle.
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/12/05/fowc-with-fandango-theater/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/inspiring/
https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2018/12/05/your-daily-word-prompt-miracle-December-5-2018/