Anxiety burnsan acidic devouring confidence impaled –mind wanders to childhood dreamsuncovers fear’s origin. (Tuesdays, I borrow from Twitter @Vjknutson. I came across this tanka written in May/21 that seemed to match with the image I recently posted on my other blog. I decided to pair them here.)
We wait at the station, Mother and I,one final stop for her – painless she prays;I busied at bedside – prolonged goodbye –memories and regrets filling our days. “We live too long,” she wearily proclaims“Why must suffering linger till the end?”I plea and bargain, call angelic names,yet the will to survive refuses to bend. The […]
There are mouse bitssplayed across the sunroomstuck to my favourite throw rug and great globs of glue The trap my husband setto catch the recent invasionapparently lured the hunterfor she, stiff legged andface matted, is skulkingelsewhere I stepped on a gluey biteyes not yet openbefore notingthe disarray Hard to concentratewhen a tail detachedfrom a thigh […]
We have our own fair share of some cars or trucks with funny and ingenious names. Not to mention that some cars are pretty nostalgic.
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Nostalgia is fun. thanks for commenting.
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I love some rust.
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Lol. Thanks.
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🙂
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Wonderful photos V.J. I adore your first photo. 😀
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Thanks Cee
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I’m not a fan of the rock slingers…that will be my new nickname for those beastly oil & gas trucks and farm trucks…so very apt!
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Is there a group called the rock slingers, or did this trucking company have a good sense of humour?
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Lol! I have no idea, would make a great band name. We have our fare share of rock slingers on Sask highways…my new motto – “I’m leavin’ this rock slinger in the dust”!
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Love it!
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Rock Slinger is an apt name, especially if you get too close. But, it does sound like someone who rode with Butch Cassidy or was an electric guitar player in a band. Keith
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I thought maybe it was a band, but had no idea. Thanks for commenting Keith. Hope your weekend is going well.
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