A friend sent me this story. Such a fine allegory for life and one the world needs right now:
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Ah, To Be Young Again
“That” picture in the wheelbarrow. I look shocked at being so posed.
My sister Patti’s horse, passed down to me.
First Grade
Patti’s first formal occasion
1960, Murdo, South Dakota
Patti’s birthday. Probably her seventh.
Patti, her friend and I on the schoolground slides across the street from our house.
Patti and Karen, always the clowns.
Arty shot.
Click on photos to enlarge.
Ah, To Be Young Again
I envy the quality
of their frivolity:
kids with the vision
of nuclear fission
filling their rollicking
ceaseless wild frolicking,
savoring everything
that each new day will bring—
clandestine meetings
or open-air greetings.
Ah, to be young
with our dirges unsung.
I’d roll in more clover
Could I do it over.
Prompt words today are rollicking, clandestine, vision, savor and quality.
Petunias, FOTD Aug 9, 2021
The Cat That Roared: PPAC, Aug 8, 2021
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAT DAY!!!!!
Please click on photos to enlarge.
I love this bronze sculpture of a cat looking into a mirror which is one of dozens along the streets and in the parks in Sheridan, Wyoming. This one is on the corner near the cinema.
For Cee’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
And, it seems like this would be appropriate for Travel With Intent’s “Reflections” prompt, as well.
Mexican Hat at the Powderhorn: FOTD Aug 8, 2021
My sister calls this flower Mexican Hat and although it is very different from other Mexican Hat flowers online, I did find one photo that identified it as such. I think someone will have an opinion about whether is is correctly identified or not. I’m open to suggestion. I think they look like Black Eyed Susans!
For Cee’s FOTD
Knackless
Knackless
Whether you have talent is a subject that is moot.
So far you’ve written nothing that has won you much repute.
All the latent talent that you’ve meant to expose
has turned out to be nothing but the emperor’s new clothes.
Your instruction manuals have ended up intractable,
and all the plays you’ve written have turned out to be unactable
All your readers joke that instead of a word user
you’ve proven repeatedly that you’re a word abuser.
Pansy: FOTD, Aug 7, 2021
Nature’s Tithe
Nature’s Tithe
Cold drafts inspired carpet and swift winds gave birth to walls.
Thus, human folk keep warm and dry in their shopping malls.
A transcript of the weather might reflect our evolution.
Good turns to bad and bad to good with each revolution
of a world that seems to extract her scheduled tithe.
Nine days in ten we celebrate. The other day we writhe.
And yet we find solutions to all of her disaster.
Trials affecting change to make development go faster.
Prompts for today are inspired carpet, transcript, keeping, tithe and affect.
August 1, 2021 Sunday Whirl: Wordle
Advice to Self and Others
If your writing is inciting
civil discord and inviting
calls to action
by reaction
of one faction
or another, become a brother
by listening to one another.
Try a blend
of words that mend.
Work upon a pending rending
of ill thoughts you’ve been extending.
Try to start a happy ending.
Choose a task that takes you higher.
Shed your mask and bend your ire.
Anger’s such a bitter pill
that words can poison, bite and kill.
Still your vitriol and follow
kinder thoughts into that hollow
where the gentle grass is waving,
where we go to still our raving,
heeding nature’s gentle call
to save ourselves before our fall.
Here to raise the cup of peace.
That fragile glass that brings surcease.
And by that small sip that you sample,
you can be the good example
that draws another to slake their thirst
and start the journey to best from worst.
Oops.. nearly missed last week’s Wordle prompts. Here they are: writing, civil, bend, pill, mask, follow, glass, still, call, save, blend, sample.
Putting the Bucks in Starbucks
Putting the Bucks in Starbucks
First they grind the beans and last they add the foam
to create the very coffee that you could have at home.
Countless cups thrown in the trash adding to the glut
of paper cups collected from every coffee hut.
How can I articulate the excess that I find it?
How prudent is this mania when you could simply grind it
and put it in a cup you save to use again tomorrow
to save a tree and save a planet reeling from the sorrow
of all the disposables thrown daily in the trash
in a world that’s populated by the blindly rash?
Every time you buy a cup of fad-inflated joe,
remember where the cup it’s in will ultimately go.
Then think about the money that you’re using up
simply by your refusal to brew your daily cup.
If you don’t believe me, read the facts below
before you leave for Starbucks to have a cup of joe!
“Depending on where you live and how you prefer to take your hot caffeine water, if you’re buying coffee, you’re spending between $1 and $5 per cup. Meanwhile, brewing a cup of coffee at home costs you between 16 and 18 cents per cup.”
The average cost of a cup of coffee purchased at Starbucks is $3.15 and, while $3.15 a day may not seem like much, what if I told you that cup really costs $13? Read on: https://avgjoefinance.com/surprising-amount-starbucks-costs/
Prompt words today are grind, foam, articulate, prudent, trash.
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