‘Night Moon

April 3, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Weekend Sky challenge

Last of March

April 2, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Last of March, camera and cell photos for Bushboy’s challenge.

Snippets From a Life

April 1, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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 […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: snippets

March 29, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Spring Acrostic

March 22, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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.

A Treasured Moment

March 16, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: Describe but don’t reveal

March 15, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

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 […]

VJ’s Weekly Challenge: scam/ con/ catfish

March 8, 2021.Reading time 1 minute.

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. […]

Canadian Couple

March 5, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: pairs

Branches

March 4, 2021.Reading time less than 1 minute.

For Cee’s Midweek Madness: Closeup or macro

Monday Mood: squirrely

The movers need to be arranged, and the closets sorted and packed, and when was the last time we bought groceries…. Head and attention are going in too many directions at once, and I’m exhausted before I get started. Might be a little cranky too. The stress of moving is real.

Daring

Sidestepped comfortdared to breachpersonal boundaries Knew it was a stretch Uncouth, this bodily responsepain penetrating Dark thoughts wrestlinginner rebel smirking I gleaned a moment of freedomBut at what cost? (ME/cfs is characterized by exhaustion following exertion. Post Exertional Malaise (PEM) is the result, causing symptoms to flare.)