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 […]
One Woman's Quest II 
Oh, that glow on the sky!
Just took my heart away 🙂
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Me too. So glad we caught it.
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Both are great, but the sky is my favourite!
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Never tire of a good sunset! Thanks.
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That’s true.!
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Oh these are absolutely wonderful photos for orange. Both spectacular in their own way 😀
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Loved the prompt. Thanks.
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Wow, that sky is just GORGEOUS!!!
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Thanks Terri. One of our few evening drives.
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Oh that sky against the snow! Too gorgeous to put into words! 🙂 ❤
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Thank you. I thought so too
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WOW to that orange sunset!
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Best part of rural life – nothing to block it.
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Absolutely!
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