Today’s Hibiscus, for The Flower Hour and Cee!

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For Terri’s Flower Hour

A Regal Final Breath, for RDP Wednesday

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Her Highness Contemplates A Seemly End

Nobility in dying is something I shan’t botch,
for I know it shall be one that the whole wide world will watch.
I cannot go by fire, for I’m sure I would be screaming
as the water quenched the fire and set my flesh to steaming.

So unseemly and so crass. I’d find it unappealing.
So, too, a rope around my neck, hanging from the ceiling.
Jumping from a roof won’t do. Nor will a gun nor pills.
Every sort of suicide just sports too many ills.

It’s clear that death by avalanche is the only one
that will really suit me when the day is done.
A certain swift clean fall of snow seems such a pristine death.
A queenly mode of dying. Such a regal final breath!

For RDP Wednesday the prompt is REGAL

Must admit that I am rerunning a poem I wrote for RDP six years ago. At that time the prompt was was “avalanche”, but as you can see, the poem works for “regal” as well!

Ohh, That’s RICH – This Commentary is as Applicable Today as It Was in August, So I’m Publishing It Again!!!

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I have an additional favorite political commentator who is on a par with Heather Cox Richardson. Here he is again!!! Thanks to Forgottenman for sending me this video.

 

Ollie Update––He’s Back!

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For the first time, Ollie didn’t show up for dinner tonight. I’ve looked everywhere he could be. I don’t think he ever left my property and he is not here. His sister has been yowling for past half hour or so. I am so sad. Afraid he is gone for good. I don’t think he ever went up the hill or into the street so he must be on my property unless some wild animal or dog got him. So so sad.

This is Ollie when he first showed up at my door with his three sisters. He was runt of the litter.

Here he is with his sisters, Kukla and Fran, after they’d all been fed for a few weeks. Roo is barely on view…just her ears.

Ollie is the one in the middle–no longer runt of the litter–– and Roo is above him, Kukla in front. Fran is missing in this pic.

And….guess who just showed up an hour later? After his mom had at least 3 anxiety attacks?

WHAT A RELIEF!!!!! I SWEAR, HE HAS NEVER ONCE IN THE 8 YEARS HE’S BEEN LIVING HERE EVER MISSED A MEAL!!!!

 

Double Shadow for Squares Challenge

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I lover this double shadow of the same object..Once on the wall so it looks like she is carrying the frame, the other on the frame itself which shows the head and hand of the sculpture hanging between the camera and wall.

For The Squares Challenge: Shadow

Reblog of Poem Published in 2019 Mistakenly Attributed to Dr. Seuss with Note from the Real Author

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Just today, Nov 4, 2025, I received this message from “Handy Barker” concerning this poem he wrote, which was quoted as a Dr. Seuss poem everywhere I could find it, or I would have attributed it to him. Here is the note I received from him, which I am publishing along with my apology:

Again, sorry, Handy…

The Numbers Game #97. Please Play Along! Nov 3, 2025

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Our Lady of the Moon
The day I adopted Coco
My mom got a man on the beach to make me this collar with my name and her phone number on it, so I guess any escape will be short-lived.

 

Welcome to “The Numbers Game #97”. Today’s number is 219. To play along, go to your photos file folder and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title. This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.

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Richard Teresi from “Ohh, That’s Rich”––on World Series Baseball and Demographic Politics

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Forgottenman has made his blog private, but he sent this to me and I asked him if he would put it on my blog. It is so well-stated and well-presented. In spite of the fact that I am no follower of any sport, this brought me to tears. The commentator is Richard Teresi, who writes under the title, “Ohh—That’s Rich.”

Comment by Forgottenman:  2025 World Series, game 3 in L.A., going 18 innings, setting multiple records. (No, I didn’t watch – highlight reels only.) Lots of commentary, but THIS is the absolute best, most important commentary on that game I can imagine! Thanks, Rich! 

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Sunset of Memory for The Sunday Whirl Wordle

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Sunset of Memory

This lack  of memory plagues my world:
words I can’t remember,
Ideas that once fired my life
have faded down to ember.

It is a cruel injustice
that my thoughts have been arrested.
They escape me daily
as my memory is bested.

So, although throughout my life,
my strength has been the word,
suddenly they desert me
and my life’s become absurd.

My faith in unity of words
and mind has come undone,
and, I fear, is fading
with the setting of the sun.

 

For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 730 the prompt words are: ideas remember words plague escape faith strength unity through arrest cruelty injustice

And, for Times Change prompt, as well.

Purse Supplies, for Cellpic Sunday

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I know this is a very weird photo which is why I had to include it instead of the one I’d planned.  I read my poetry at a twice-monthly large reading at a local hotel/patio restaurant on Friday which was Halloween, and when I returned to my seat,  I noticed everyone at my table had a white stick sticking out of their mouth and then noticed  this  little sucker on the table in front of my chair. Unnoticed by me, the reader before me had delivered Halloween treats to each table, so I tucked mine into my purse with my pens. Only later when I opened the flap of my purse, did I see it nestled in with other “necessaries.” I couldn’t resist snapping a photo. 

for Cellpic Sunday