This video reveals the facts regarding the staggering cost of immigration detentions:
The Cost of Immigration Detention
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Clarity: Words After an Armistice
This relationship sounds like it is “almost” over, but there is always hope—more hope if he heeds her advice.
https://fivedotoh.com/2018/06/20/fowc-with-fandango-almost/
Words After an Armistice
I want to make this perfectly clear.
We are not close just because we are near.
There has to be more than proximity for
my heart to open its almost closed door.
Say something sweet to me. Say something rare.
I do not feel loved just because you are there
across a room that is filled up with things.
You must think of something and give your thoughts wings.
Speak playful words that will prompt words from me.
Then volley them back to me. Don’t let thoughts “be”
without giving them air to live in and grow
so they banish these shadows and fan fire’s glow.
Passion’s not something for us to remember.
It’s better a constantly glowing live ember.
Get up from your chair. Give that remote a miss
and speak to me now with a word or a kiss.
Remove my hands from the keyboard and say,
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Bought but Never Sold
You’ve probably all seen this very gracious editorial in The Star (Canada) that is a response to the recent visit of some Americans’ president, but just in case, I’m representing it here:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2018/06/12/dear-america-come-on-up-we-still-like-you.html
It shows that there are still some gracious, generous commentaries left in our charged-up world. And that the whole world doesn’t hate us for losing control of our country, somehow. Some of us are trying to get it back again. Bought but never sold!!!
“Share Your World” Challenge
This is a hilarious parody of the ‘Share Your World” prompts that I’m sure we all love. They are great ways to get to know each other and to reflect on happenings in our own lives. Things get sinister, however–a great reminder to us all that we need to be circumspect regarding what we share online. It starts out great and I’d love to hear people actually answer #s 1,2,3,5,6 and 8 and then to heed the warning the rest of the questions project.
I’ve seen many “Share Your World” challenges over the last couple years, so I figured maybe I could do one, in my own unique style of course. So, here goes.
What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? (Yeah, I’m easing into it.)
What is your most wonderful memory as a child before age 7?
If you could relive any moment of your life, what would it be?
What are the last 4 digits of your SSN?
We all remember our first kiss. Without describing the kiss, what led up to it?
What is your earliest memory?
What is your mother’s maiden name?
If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money you don’t keep for yourself?
What are the first 5 digits of your SSN?
What was the name of your first pet?
What was the name of the first street you lived on?
What was…
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Plummeting
Three years ago, I wrote a blog entitled “Plummeting.” Although it describes an event that occurred almost seventeen years ago, the subject is still a timely one, so I’m going to reblog it. It is linked to a blog entitled “Soaring” that completes the message.
Please join the Daily Addiction prompt site. It is easy and they post consistently. Today’s prompt word, as you might have guessed, is plummet.
Plummeting
The weekend before, we had had our last moving sale and had nearly cleared out our very overladen house in California. We’d sold as much of our accumulated lives as possible–a 125 years (sum of our two ages) combined total of collecting art as well as material and tools for making art. We were shedding the detritus of our old lives to begin a new life in the house we had just purchased in Mexico. Our van was fully packed with not one inch of spare space other than a place for our cat and two more suitcases we would add when we finally took off for our retirement in Mexico. We had only one more appointment–to talk to our doctor about the results of Bob’s last physical examination, which had included an ultrasound.
We’d been on a high for months as we prepared to head out for our…
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“My Humorous Anecdote” by Sarah Southwest (Reblog)
I love this poem that Sarah wrote for dVerse Poets this week. I’ll prime the pump, then you need to go to her blog to read the rest:
My Humorous Anecdote
–by Sarah Southwest
We have a funny story
that we often try to tell,
so funny, when we start it,
we giggle for a spell
We can’t remember how it starts
or recall how it ends,
so perhaps we shouldn’t share it
with our dinner party friends
but it’s really so amusing,
it always makes us smile,
so we keep on trying to tell it,
and we struggle for a while –
we argue on location,
can’t recall the time of day,
but it was so hilarious,
we must tell you, we say, . . . .
Moonlight
I have recently found a blog I am constantly enchanted by. Its author is a bit of a recluse whose world has become his garden. I especially love two posts in which he talks about his tender care of struggling plants, goldfish found nearly dead under encasements of ice, and his favorite koi, Getsumei (which means Moonlight) newcomer to his pond, who had to be taught how to eat fish food.
Mr. Livingstone, the author of this blog, doesn’t have a reblog button, but he’s given assent to my posting links to a few of his blogs.
In this first link are photos of his garden, along with his story of the struggling little hosta, buried upside down:
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/02/the-1st-of-may-in-the-garden/
And my favorites, the photos and stories about the gorgeous ghost koi Moonlight, are here:
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/07/%E3%81%92%E3%81%A4%E3%82%81%E3%81%84-getsumei/
https://philiplivingstone.org/2018/05/03/%E3%81%92%E3%81%A4%E3%82%81%E3%81%84-moonlight/
