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W3 Prompt #203: Wea’ve Written Weekly
Can you imagine children in the USA today not asking how and why this chaos is happening?
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One-Liner Wednesday – Why?
Posing for a photo not easy
Mom on right looks a bit queasy
Top mom tired of it all
Mom on left angry, small
Centered mom is queen
Baby cute seen
Group tired
Posing
Done
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**Not my family, internet photo, but performers, yes😄
#TankaTuesday Challenge No 56, A Mother’s Nonet, 3/17/26
Stan rocked back and forth on the old swing, a board with chains, brought his mind to the 1960s when he was in love with Claire. First love for both of them and continued till college days when they were separated by distance. He hadn’t seen Claire for years, but swinging here on “their spot”, nostalgia overcame him.
Stan turned to his left and there she was, the perfect vision he always remembered. Her bright eyes and flowing curls exactly as he first saw her years ago. Claire didn’t answer as he questioned her sudden appearance. She had passed away from a car accident age 32. Such a waste he thought at the time and felt sorrow for her small family. When a tear started to form, he glanced at the ocean and then back to her and of course she was gone.
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Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 03/17/2026
You think it might be just “Irish luck“
Getting your car out of spring muddy muck
In truth, it’s only a saying old
Miners used it searching for gold
Term of disdain in olden times
Now it’s the opposite sometimes
I’ve used it in the old way
Thinking since when are the Irish lucky, anyway?
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In 2026, St. Patrick’s Day falls on Tuesday, March 17. “The Luck of the Irish” is a saying you’ve likely heard time and time again, especially around St. Patrick’s Day or in reference to sports teams such as the Boston Celtics or Notre Dame. Many assume the phrase suggests the extreme good fortune of the Irish people. However, the original meaning of this so-called “Irish phrase” had a different connotation.
According to Edward T. O’Donnell, an Associate Professor of History at Holy Cross College and author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History, the term is not actually Irish in origin.
The word luck itself is Middle Dutch in origin, according to Mental Floss. It derives from ‘luc,’ a shortened form of ‘gheluc,’ meaning “happiness, good fortune.”
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Poetics Tuesday — Irish Blessings
Here are this week’s questions:
1. Do you wear glasses, and if so, can you remember your first pair? Yes, I was mortified, at age 12! My doc said only wear them when you need to such as reading the board in school. However the teacher insisted I wear them all the time.
2. If you were a precious stone, what would best describe you? Emerald
3. At home, do you wear slippers, slipper socks or walk around in bare feet?Im in a wheelchair and don’t walk. I’m still recovering from a heel injury and can’t wear shoes on that foot, so heavy socks with grips on bottom are a necessity.
4. How many pillows do you sleep with at night?One.
Gratitude:I’m grateful my family stayed safe during these horrible wind storms. My oldest grandson and his wife are first responders. Now the wind has subsided some and we have ice and temps of 15F.🥶
Share Your World 16th March
The Saturday Solutions group met as they did every weekend, hopefully bringing new ideas to solve current social problems in their area. The neighborhood was lovely in its yesteryears, but now crumbling, literally, and housing was becoming dangerous. This young group of social reformers attempted to remedy problems in the neighborhood. The main problems they encountered involved funds to make improvements, but they were insistent and found some businesses that complied with their requests. Attempts to involve government funds were constantly denied. One of the older residents of the building in question remarked, “It all belies our existence; we wait, and are still denied.”
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Prosery: Winter Lull
She said it’s like the grapes of wrath
In road’s rivers we have a bath
Route 66 held a dream
California promise gleams
Closer, see disappointing path
**Ref “Grapes of Wrath” John Steinbeck 1939
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This week the theme is to find a song related to weather conditions of sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, or stormy suggested by Nancy of the Elephant’s Trunk aka The Sicilian Storyteller. Try to use the prompt words or at least conform to a general theme, as you see it. If the song you select does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
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This version is easier to hear, by Ella Fitzgerald, but Ethel Waters originally sang this song composed by Irving Berlin in 1933 for a broadway musical, “As Thousands Cheer”.
Verse)
A heat wave was riding through town last week
She came from the island of Martinique
The can-can she dances will make you cry
The can-can is really the reason why
(Chorus)
We’re having a heat wave
A tropical heat wave
The temperature’s rising
It isn’t surprising
She certainly can can-
She started a heat wave
By letting her seat wave
And in such a way that
The customers say that
She certainly can can-can
Gee, her anatomy
Makes the mercury
Jump to ninety-three
We’re having a heat wave
A tropical heat wave
The way that she moves
That thermometer proves
That she certainly can can-can
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**my internet is acting up so ——🙄
How’s the Weather
The Bag Lady 
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