Monday, April 9, 2018
Villanelle Pettifog
Quite often, when I am writing a post (which I do less and less as time moves along), or a letter, or an email even, I waste quite a bit of time wordsmithing for clarity of meaning of content, or style. I can't help it, it was bred into me. Ribcage carries on that family trait having learned it from...
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Saturday, April 7, 2018
When You Fall On Your Keister Keep Your Eyes On The Sky
It will fool you if you are not careful. Our beautiful morning sunshine with azure-blue background smacks of warmth and summer breezes. Instead we are in the midst of a winter-like spring with record-breaking freezing temperatures. I see a young fellow down at the parking lot, messing around with...
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Friday, April 6, 2018
Stucco And Beams
It is not quite the same looking at beautiful images of forests and mountains, desserts and shorelines, of waves rolling in and breaking on the sand or against the rocks at the foot of majestic cliffs, as it was to be there in person, sometimes alone. It is not quite the same, but close, when that...
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Thursday, April 5, 2018
I Forgot To Pause
Spouting riposte to a criticism or a comment with which I disagree is one thing I usually quickly rue. I am definitely one that needs to pause and to consider, and not say what had first come to mind. I try to watch that, but I am so, so human and my tongue often flaps at both ends before I stop to...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Thinking Up Stuff
Used to, when I was out and about (I'm holed up here at the time being), it wasn't too difficult to think up interesting things to write about. My favorite was to go out to breakfast on the way home from work (I was a nurse on the graveyard shift) carrying a book and a pad of paper and a pen. The...
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