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 […]
Lovely purples 🙂
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Thank you, Hammad!
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The bee is my fave one, such a delight of colour and life.
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Thanks Paul.
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Hurray for purple in all its forms!
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Yeah!
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Wonderful shades of purple in your photos. 😀 😀
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Thanks Cee
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aw, its so beautiful
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Thank you!
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Lovely!
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Thanks!
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VJ, lovely. Is that your granddaughter and daughter? Or a random mother and child reunion as Paul Simon sang about? Keith
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Thanks Keith. My middle daughter and her youngest.
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Nice picture of them. I am sure you are quite proud of them.
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Naturally.
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I just love these as purple is my favorite color! That little girl looks so cute! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks Deborah. She’s my youngest granddaughter with her Mom, a few years back. My favourite photo of the two of them
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