Everything begins with you.
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One Liner Wednesday – Decisions
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I am a widow since 2013 and live by myself in a small apartment. I use a wheelchair to get around, but I wouldn't consider myself disabled. I'm 11 years away from having bladder cancer resulting in a urostomy and I'm doing well. This cancer was a result of having radiation in 1995 because of uterine cancer. So have faith in yourself, a cancer diagnosis is not a death sentence. My first try at blogging was an attempt to help other people with my condition. I am a mother of three married children, and a grandmother to eight gorgeous kids, featuring them often here, and a great grandmother to two as of today, 6/7/25! I enjoy exploring my feelings and like to try the challenges. I like humor, music, movies, games, and some sports. I absolutely appreciate your reading and commenting on my blog. I am happy to read all of your blogs and learn more about you. Please comment however you like, ask whatever, and I'll answer honestly. Thanks for reading! Cheryl
Word Craft Poetry
Christmas Wonder
Twinkle
Crinkle
Present wrapping
Trying
Spying
No kids napping
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Sneaking
Peeking
Such little spies
Hidden
Did in
From prying eyes.
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Two breve poems☺️
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Tuesday Writing Prompt Challenge
Surrounded by moving boxes, most everyday use items already packed so it is a hassle. No Christmas decos and shopping in an actual store is not conducive to staying healthy. Two family members had a bout of Covid and I found out my eldest son has serious health issues.
The holidays will come and go another year with all the usual activities curtailed or given up altogether. If I sound discouraged it’s because I am. But the “olden” days of Christmas cheer have gone by the wayside for me with the daily news of violence.
I need to take heart, and think of the trial of my late husband’s grandmother who sat at home with four sons away in WWII.
Songwriters: Carole Bayer Sager / David Foster, The Prayer lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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Those Modern Conveniences🙄
“You know I hate change, and yet you expect me to plunge into setting up this new fangled television with a cable connection? Is there a book, a manual, even? You know I’m not good at this technical stuff. What’s wrong with the radio? We could dance to the radio—you know, romance—dancing cheek to cheek? What do you say, turtle dove?”
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https://cyranny.com/2021/12/07/turtledove-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-60615
https://fivedotoh.com/2021/12/07/fowc-with-fandango-not/#like-64309
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/rdp-tuesday-change/#like-12156
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2021/12/07/three-things-challenge-805/#like-77088 Your three things today are:
CABLE
BOOK
MANUAL
Eighty years ago, today – 12-7-1941
“The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday, December 7, 1941.” Wikipedia
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“President Roosevelt concluded his speech on December 8 with a firm note to a country horrified and uncertain:
“No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”
These words proved prophetic, as the Japanese representatives would stand aboard the USS Missouri four years later and sign the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, an unconditional capitulation of their Empire. FDR would not live, however, to see the end of the conflict he so skillfully guided this country through.”
https://www.nationalgeographic.com
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Monday Media
A violent but interesting concept in the movie this week, “Looper”. It’s R rated as is this trailer.
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MLMM Wordle #269
An obnoxious young woman dressed in her newly purchased anorak, let an audible groan from her bright red lips as she sniffs the air.
“This place smells awful!” Receiving a puzzled look from the nebbish waiter, she continued, “bring me something that doesn’t smell like it’s been sitting under hot lights for a few days!”
The waiter, also being the proprietor of the restaurant, felt bruised. He remained polite even as the woman lit up a cigarette and demanded an ashtray. When he said there was no smoking, she tossed it into the water glass. The establishment was new and he wanted to promote good will and encourage customers, but this woman had no respect.
His heart wasn’t in it but he had to ask her to leave.
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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/12/06/wordle-269/#like-22884
The Sunday Whirl
Sunset burns as the stars roll into the edge of evening. The felines chatter their secret adventures on a wooden porch in the night haze, all stretching and yawning, ready to retreat to their beds.
Creatures across the land take the last of the sunset as a sign it’s time to rest. Cows cuddle their calves, ewes nudge their lambs into the straw, chickens settle in their nests of hay, butterflies and even bees in their hive quiet as darkness falls.
All living things are wakened by the roar of the tractor, readying to plow the fields and the noise is not seen as a curse, but a sign of another warm summer day.
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https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/wordle-530/#like-2531
Ronovanwrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt – Colored and Three
three wise men
walk beneath a star
faith colored
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dVerse Poets 12-6-21
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Dust travels silently over them, weeds hide their presence. Wind driven tumbleweeds roll, sometimes pausing, possibly to reflect what lies below. Time itself still passes, never stopping to think of the children, the victims of the past. I remember, I reflect. I dress in their stories patterned and purpled as night.
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