Winter wonderland, my frozen feet! These ice bound mornings I have to cross that lake and head over to Joe’s field to check on his cows. Three more days til he’s back. I hope my knees last that long. By the way Mildred, his water wheel is completely frozen over so we need to take water for the animals. I can’t wait til spring!
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During high school years, a certain person drove a five gear car, mistaking the first gear for the fifth. Transmission kaput!
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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 25th, 2026
I could send it in a letter
My ideas to make us better
Tears fill my eyes making them wetter
Think I should just forget her
It all comes down to selecting words
Not the everyday ones she’s heard
But something new, spectacular
Romance being the vernacular
I am not the charming prince
Not written a letter since
The 60s when I was a beatnik
Forgot the how’s – hook, and trick.
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Welcome
I think it would be worth it
You know, the “take another look”
Especially one titled “American History”
A very important book.
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Since this is SoCS, I’ve taken advantage of this in my latest posts, I can say, because it’s my right, that our president and his cabinet, are trying to erase history as I write! Tearing down plaques and photographs while he sits surrounded by gold atrocities, rolling out lies and odd words he can’t pronounce…it is all a nightmare, but REAL😳😱🤪
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The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2026 Daily Prompt for Jan. 24th
Your final three words this week are:
WHITE
WIFE
WIZARD
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I knew I should never have trusted the white wizard! I should have listened to my wife, who is unwittingly always right.
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Three Things Challenge #MM313
Where are you, altruism? Are you hiding too? Honesty and truthfulness are black and blue. Battered around these days, cannot make a goal or run. The beauty of your words are no longer fun. We think we will and can instill a sense of right and wrong. Our children need it, maybe sing a new song? One of love and peace for all. The chances of this, I think, are very small.
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Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 23rd, 2026
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Respond to this Friday Faithfuls challenge by writing anything about why it is difficult to understand things we are unable to see, or discuss the mysterious qualities of light, or explain why some of the old Greek stories helped us to learn about the world, or anything else that you feel fits.
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Anything that fits, a broad prompt allowed
I think of persons hiding, people cowed
The light is their enemy
In a hide and seek game
Thugs keep searching
They don’t even need a name
Grabbing, herding
Just cattle to their mind
Thugs’ violence so grave
Even darkness cannot save
We used to think putting thugs into the light
Being judged by actions we can clearly sight
No more the safety behind a hidden stave
Hunters use violence, the grievous way they behave.
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Aether or Ether Conundrum
Julie started jumping up and down. For months, she asked Joe to take her to the fair, squealed when she saw her two favorite rides, the Ferris wheel and the Kamikaze. “Oh gosh, Joe, look! They have the Kamikaze!”
“The Kamikaze is exactly what it says; ride on that you’ll probably crash! The safety inspectors get paid to overlook things in these cheap fairs. It’s too dangerous.”
After the Ferris wheel, Julie insistently pulled at Joe’s arm. Finally they strapped themselves in and after two wild jerky rounds, Julie threw up in Joe’s lap where she was hiding.
“See? Kamikaze!”
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23 January 2026
The Bag Lady 
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