On the front desk in my tax accountant’s office today, I saw something that plummeted me back to my mother’s borders between the house and the sidewalk that ran from our front to back yard: this bouquet which included several sweet William flowers–also known as carnation pinks.
This bat intruder did not survive my attempts to remove him from the clutches of the kittens. I fear its savior was its executor. Sorry, winged one.
For Jennifer’s Halloween Challenge prompt bat.
My sister’s beautiful and perfect house brought some surprises this trip. The front door is being replaced, and in the meantime:
(Click on any photo to enlarge all.)
For Thursday Doors.
If one day far in the future, someone stumbles upon my old hard drive in a landfill and somehow gets it to work, what would they find? A sort of modern day Dead Sea scroll? Read on:
Hard Drive
If you long for mystery,
poems, facts and history,
long perambulations
and wild exaggerations,
recipes and letters and
episodes of Homeland,
Elementary, Sherlock, Friends,
a blogging site that never ends,
Emails, YouTube, Facebook notes,
starts of novels, copied quotes,
OkCupid pictures of
possibilities for love,
notes from nice guys, threats from creeps,
notes from guys who play for keeps,
friends who only write when drunk,
chain e-mails, jokes and other junk,
two hundred drafts of my third book,
(each one different, have a look),
kids stories and their illustrations,
the Christmas plans of my relations,
photographs of my whole life—
its happiness and pain and strife—
some successes but also follies,
fireworks, insects, gardens, dollies,
travel snaps and friendly faces,
rooms at home or foreign places,
birds and children, beaches, skies,
the camera lens is true and wise
and not as given to fraud and lies
as writings filtered through the eyes
of one who feels the joys or pains
of what she witnesses, then deigns
to try to change her reader’s mind
to accord with the type or kind
of thoughts she carries deep inside:
pride’s cutting edge, love’s waning tide—
things lovely, funny, jarring, rare.
So read this hard drive if you dare,
but if you fear a life laid bare,
I have one word for you. Beware.
The prompt today was fraud.
Click on first photo to see all and read captions.
Cee’s flower of the day: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/10/10/flower-of-the-day-october-11-2017-orange-tulip/
Hyperbolic Resume
His job skills as he stated them matched their needs precisely.
His margins were perfection and his tabs lined up most nicely.
But proper punctuation and perfection in his diction
were used to cover up a resume I fear was fiction.
Those career skills where he claimed himself to be exceptional
were proven once they hired him to simply be conceptional.
The prompt today was exceptional.
These two lovely ladies are happy because they’d just been presented with first place awards for their writing by Ojo del Lago. They both deserved it!!!
For Cee’s prompt: https://ceenphotography.com/2017/10/10/cees-fun-foto-challenge-letter-h-topic-for-this-week-is-happy/
