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“Making Tracks” for SOCS, Jan 4, 2025

Sheridan, Wyoming–the only snow I have been able to walk through for the past 23 years.

Making Tracks

To be in front, you must not mind
that others will be left behind.
The more you gain, the more they lack
trudging along behind your back.
I hope, however, that you’ll be kind
to all of those you’ve left behind.
They’ll be rewarded for what each lacks,
for they can follow in your tracks.
So whether you go fast or slow,
please be careful where you go.
For no matter what you do,
no doubt someone will follow you.

The Prompt for SOCS is “In Front, and/or Behind.”

The Things We Leave Behind

Amazing that I was just going to suggest this as a prompt to Cee and then saw in the reader that it was a WordPress weekly prompt.  ESP working overtime lately.

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In this first photo, my friend in the foreground of the photograph is visiting the town she left behind over fifty years ago.  I love the repetition in the backs of the two women as they walk away reflected in the crossing light logo.

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This elderly gentleman has been visiting the beach at the same time I do for a number of years.  I once tried to involve him in a dice game, but he wasn’t much interested unless it was for money!  Instead he told me about his past as an artificial inseminator, which led to a few stories of my own about my dad who was one of the first ranchers to make use of this process on his cattle ranch.  I thought he had a bit of a twinkle in his eye as I expounded on the topic.

It was two years later that I met his daughter and related to her the topic of my earlier conversation with her father.  She looked askance.  Her father had never been an artificial inseminator!  What had been his job?  He was with the CIA, she explained.  Now, was that a twinkle in her eye as well?  Guess I’ll find out this year.

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