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 […]
I really dig the digger.
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😂 thanks
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Oh, hello, just what I need to repair a foundation leak. LOL Sadly, we’ve got a lot of commercial construction going on in our area and all excavators are in use on construction sites!
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Oh no! Maybe they won’t miss this one a day, if I borrow it.
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LOL I wish!
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Reminds me of my little brother’s Tonka toys!
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I would love to think I am having a house built within this beautiful scenery
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Wouldn’t you! Me too.
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🙂 how fun to be neighbors!
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It would be amazing Wendi – to have someone nearby who understands.
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absolutely………..it would be heavenly!
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Ha! Definitely a really big toy on many a small (as well as grown) child’s wish list. 🙂 Great choice.
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Thanks 😊
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You’re welcome!
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Great job! 🙂 ❤
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Thanks , Always reminds me of my son when he was little – one of his first words was “big digger!’
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🙂 ❤ !
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