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 
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Thanks Cee! You are the best!
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Lovely clicks 🌟
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Thanks.
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You’re welcome 😊
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Wow! Great photo!
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Thank you!
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Most welcome!
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Isn’t he (or she) a winsome creature!
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I love the colour, and don’t know the sex. My husband was not so pleased to see him as apparently they can do a lot of damage and are hard to get rid of.
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That sounds like my husband and moles.
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Lol.
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😀
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He sure is standing tall and proud. 😀 😀
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He is. Or nosy about what goes on in here.
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A good gathering this is indeed 🙂
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Thanks!
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That groundhog even posed for you! You are gifted! 🙂 ❤
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Hahaha. Truly not. He was outside my window and I was sneaky.
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Then you’re gifted at being sneaky! LOL! 😀
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Yep. That, lol.
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Very cute. He or she needs a name.
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Gus or Gert, I guess, lol.
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Well played.
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