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 
Clouds like these covers up the sky on daily basis here but as of yet, no rainfall.
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And thank you so much for keep on posting for my challenge, during my absence 🙂
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Love your challenge. It keeps me looking up.
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The air gets heavy here before rain, rain being the relief. Is it that way too?
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Yes, it happen in the same way but not currently.
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Ready to wash the earth and bathe life.
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Lots of that going on.
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Wrong season really, but ….
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Looks like rain!
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We’ve had so much of it!
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Here’s hoping you get a little sun today!
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I love Nature’s restricted color palette in these two photos!
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Yes. Gray, gray, and also gray, lol.
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And a tinge of gray-green!
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Lol
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I love those kind of skies because they can be comforting to the soul! Beautiful! 🙂 ❤
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They do stir something. Thanks
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