Pleasure is everywhere. It’s just up to us to pick it.
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Finding Pleasure
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Clouds: No Step? No Problem!!
Thanks for the one word prompt “Clouds” today, WordPress! Guess who got a window seat on her flight between Guadalajara and Phoenix yesterday and took 206 photos of clouds? The ride, especially the landing, was bumpy but well worth it!
Timely Tourism
How handy that the prompt for today is “tourist” just as I am starting out on three weeks of travel. Do you think WordPress has spies? Here is what I see as I spin around on my stool at Johnny Rocket’s (Juan Pablo Hamburgers here) in the Guadalajara airport, right by my departure gate, where I’ve just tried to choke down 130 pesos worth of undercooked fries. (Two nights ago I spent 150 pesos for a gourmet meal and margarita at Viva Mexico in San Juan Cosala.)
So, after two weeks of exhausting preparations to get ready, here I am ready for a few weeks of leisure. Every year it takes me longer to get ready to leave, either because my life gets more complicated or because I get slower. My internet was out again today, so I’m availing myself of airport wifi to post this. More to come if I can find wifi in any of the U.S. airports. Denver bound!
Deprived????
HA!!!!! The prompt for today is “deprive.” Perfect. I have been without internet since last night, my pool has no water in it, I went to three banks before I could find one where the ATM worked and four restaurants before I found one open so I could use their WIFI to post my blog. I would say I am the definition of deprived. Two mornings ago I awoke to discover the water I had stayed up all night to pump into the pool as per instructions from Chino had vanished! I opened the valves from the street water and alas, for two days,no water. It rained all night but this morning when I went to look, still no water. Luckily the rain wet the pool enough, I hope, to cure the new grout and concrete before we put the hot water from the street. When Pasiano arrived this morning, I discovered he’d left the filter drain open.. something I had no way of seeing, so it seems to have emptied the water right back into the cistern!
I drove through pounding rain and flooded roads to I leave Morrie off for his summer haircut and a bath, then went to four pharmacies before I could find the prescription I needed. I have two more days to prepare to leave for the states and have a million things left to do and it seems like one thing after another has happened to slow me down. Am I not meant to go? Am I just meant to go more slowly? I’ve learned this lesson again and again over the past few years and so now I need to listen again. Nothing that has happened in the past week is life or limb-threatening, so I’m going to sit here, enjoy my eggs and take a bunch of deep breaths. How can I feel deprived in this beautiful place where we are getting much-needed rain and where someone has just cooked me a beautiful breakfast? I guess whether we feel deprived or not is just a matter of which details we choose to concentrate on!
Mending Wall and Mending Pants!!!
I agree that “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, ” but fences, schmences. Although the topic today is “Fences,” I think walls are close enough to fences–just a matter of material and “I have miles to go before I sleep” thanks to packing, purchasing, organizing and copying things I need to take to the states on Wednesday, so taking the further risk of alluding to Robert Frost three times in three sentences, I am going to avail myself of a link to an old parody of “Mending Wall” (entitled “Mending Pants”) that I wrote 2.5 years ago before most of you had even heard of my blog. I hope you enjoy it and approve the streeeeeetttttccchhhhh of the theme for today. Guess you could call them stretch pants???
Robert Frost seemed to have a thing about boundary markers. “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” and “Mending Wall” are the most notable indicators of this. Several years ago when I had only a few faithful followers, I wrote a parody on “Mending Wall” which I’d like to share with you again. Judging from the likes, the faithful Angloswiss was my only present follower who read it and if some of you are like me, even if you read it two and a half years ago, you probably won’t remember it, so please indulge me and go here:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/09/17/mending-pants-with-apologies-to-robert-frost/
and I’ll get on with my packing, ordering, xeroxing and house ordering for my housesitter. Only three days to go!
Precognition
Precognition
I don’t want to know what I’ll do ’til I do it.
If it’s preordained, it’s too late to eschew it.
If it’s a surprise, I would say that I blew it,
for there’s no surprise when we simply redo it.
With each future sorrow when we must preview it,
there is no advantage—just more time to rue it.
The vase will still break and we’ll still have to glue it.
The syrup with spill and we’ll have to ungoo it.
Would I accept foresight or merely poo poo it?
When push came to shove, I guess that I would boo it!
Now, Voyager
Two years ago I helped a group place baby sea turtles into the ocean for their long voyage into life. See photos and a poem about that voyage here:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/12/05/putting-the-tiny-sea-turtles-into-the-sea/
Not Perpetually in Awe
I will admit that the howling dog in last night’s sunset was awesome, but the pizza wasn’t!!!
Remember back when “awesome” was a word applied to miles of glaciers breaking off in one fell swoop or solar flares or the birth of a child? A few years ago, I had something to say about my feelings over its present usage, where it is more commonly applied to a good slice of pizza or a friend’s new dress. See my complaints here:
https://judydykstrabrown.com/2014/06/13/empty-prais/
If you want to see what others have to say or to tell us your own thoughts aboug “Awe,” go here: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/awe/
Emptying
Companionship
My neighborhood gang. I think we were all five or six years old.
Companions
I did the above poem making use of a screen shot, but I’m not very happy with the quality. I need to leave to go to Guadalajara so can’t fuss with it more, but when I get home will go back to my old method of printing it out, making a jpg file and posting it as a photo from the media file. Back to the drawing board!
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