Why does this little boy have a mustache? For the Virgin of Guadalupe’s saint day parade, little boys dress up like Juan Diego, the man who experienced his first vision of the Virgin Mary on Tepeya Hill near Mexico City on December 9, 1531 while on his way to mass. To see more Juans, go HERE.
Rude Reception
I don’t forgive the kidney punch, sharp and sure and quick.
Your sapless smile an icicle, cold and stiff and sick.
Once they’ve repaired the damage and my tactics I’ve refined,
I’ll return your greeting, in fervor and in kind.
Prompt words are sharp, repair, icicle, sapless, kidney and don’t. Image borrowed from the internet.
For Cee’s FOTD
For his Flashback Friday post, Fandango asked us to republish a post made on this exact date in a past year. Mine is from 2014, the first year I posted a blog on that date.
The Prompt: The Language of Things—You have to write a message to someone dear to you, telling that person how much he/she means to you. However — instead of words, you can only use 5-10 objects to convey your emotions. Which objects do you choose, and what do they mean?
First of all, I have to say that this is my all-time-favorite prompt, so kudos to its creator. It is original, thought-provoking and fun.
Older sisters are our teachers, our critics, our cruelest enemies and our best friends. When we were younger, my sister was no exception. With age, however, some of these roles have fallen away. The others I often take for granted even though I know they are still there.
This year I will be, as I have been for most years in my life, far away from my four-year-older sister, Patti, for Christmas. Betty, my…
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Vicissitudes
Vicissitudes of fortune occur to everyone.
At the very best of times, they snuff out all your fun.
You find the perfect dress and shoes then find that you are cursed
with a hellacious haircut that presents you at your worst.
Neither fame nor fortune is a perpetual state.
The only constant for each one is that they will abate.
You hop up on the carousel and grab the golden ring,
but can’t hold on forever to any precious thing.
Luck ebbs and flows like tidal waves, advancing and departing—
an ending just as sure in life as every action’s starting.
So get used to life’s vagaries, for you may be sure
that they are the only things certain to endure.
Prompt words today are hellacious, neither, vicissitude, grab, haircut and hop.
After Zoe ate or dug up all my Kalanchoe, I vowed not to get any more but I couldn’t resist these, and they are in the front yard which is the domain of the cats. No dogs allowed, usually, unless Paciano leaves the gate open. Now, why the photo of Kukla when she was tiny? Oddly enough, when I checked my media file to make sure I hadn’t used this photo of the kalanchoe yet, I found that her photo had the exact same number! How this happens I don’t know, but since the cats leave the kalanchoe alone, I decided she could stay.
For Cee’s FOTD
A Lemonade Stand!!!!
Teetotalers do not mind
refreshments of the softer kind.
A lemon sliced, plump and terete
once squeezed, they feel, cannot be beat.
A lemonade is sure to please,
their thirst to quench and thus appease.
On the other hand, some folks
consider drinks like this as jokes.
They prefer their lemons sliced this way
along with mint served in a spray
that serves as garnish or a kicker
for a drink that’s laced with liquor.
Liquids served with temperance
will rarely warrant a defense.
In short order, they will rate
demands at once for a rebate!!!
If you serve lemonade, please thin it
with hefty slugs of gin within it!!!!
Prompt words today are terete, rebate, lemonade, appease, spray and mind.
((Click on Photos to Enlarge)
Reinvention
Am I on a teeter-totter or an even plane?
Interestingly kooky or a bit insane?
I try to reinvent myself to fight off signs of dolor.
Does this mean I’m adventurous or that I am bipolar?
I stretch myself upon a rack, fresh insights to inspire.
Initiate new interests, hoping they’ll light a fire.
But there is no assurance that this new me will last
any longer than the other me’s that I have cast.
Prompt words are reinvent, rack, initiate, assure, plane.
I know I went a bit crazy with the photos. I had just a few and then kept filling in gaps.
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