Growing with gratitude for life's challenges
Looks as if Ric is facing another surgery. We’ll know by the 13th, if not sooner. Meanwhile, my own illness is flaring, and the new treatment is causing severe nausea and other complications. Thank goodness for my camera, which takes me out of myself, if only for a moment. Here are a few snippets of […]
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Popping the bubbles on a newly tarred road… occasionally losing a flip flop and hopping one-footed to retrieve it. Climbing as high as I can up the Willow tree, where hidden from the world, I eavesdrop on passersby. Contemplating how beauty has never fit with the equation of self. All the glamorous dresses my father […]
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Last. week was a mind teaser. This week we’ll keep it a little simpler (hopefully) Choose any word that relates to Spring and create an acrostic poem. Here’s a sample: VibrantEarthRenewingNurturingAll Life To participate, create a post and link back here, or drop a note in the comments. Looking forward to your creations.
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Winter of 2018. I am just regaining my legs after three years bedbound. Ric, forever the problem solver, proposes that we put wheels on the bedroom and drive south. Doctors write me a report to accompany our journey, and we head out in November. It’s a struggle at first and I’m doubting my ability to […]
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Post a poem, prose, art, photograph, or other that illustrates but doesn’t reveal the subject. (Don’t forget to link back here.) Here’s an example: A Friend Indeed Friend, you guidemy brain-fogged,somnambulist limbs –like a mindless automaton;I follow, barely registeringmovement – grateful fordeliverance into thefullness of day. Once, I abhorredyour consistency,your stifling repetition,found your dependencymind-numbing, soulless […]
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Hello pretty lady, want to chat? No, just here to play the game. Where are you from? I don’t reply. I’ve downloaded the Words with Friends app, hoping to improve my mind. Seems every other opponent is just here looking for a mate. Do people usually meets partners on this site? I messaged one man. […]
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For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: pairs
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For Cee’s Midweek Madness: Closeup or macro
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A finch catching snowflakes, a deer running through new fallen snow, soft pink flowers to brighten our day. (For Lens-artists Photo Challenge: soft)
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As a kid, I believed that if we dug deep enough, we could come out on the other side of the world. It was a hopeful thought, and I’d rally the neighbourhood to dig forts and tunnels. Science kiboshed that theory. Then there was the famous escape from Alcatraz: three inmates allegedly digging their way […]
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