Flight cancelled on route
Stopping to smell the roses
Might decide to settle here
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Category: Uncategorized
Nebraska or the Twilight Zone?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, middle America circa 1950s, exists today in small town Nebraska. My daughter and her three oldest daughters traveled from Denver to Omaha to see a play in the antique Orpheum theater. During the eight hour trip, they stopped for lunch.
The restaurant had great reviews and they walked up to an outside window to order. The sliding window was slammed shut after taking their order. They walked inside to wait for the order, and to use the restroom. They were told there was no restroom. The “busy with families” clientele stopped eating and stared at the four strangers entering– absolutely stopped talking and stared the entire time the young women waited for their order.
After fifteen minutes of complete silence and staring, my granddaughter remarked “screw this” and grabbed her sister’s hand and said, “we need to make those wedding plans.” (I’m told she takes after me, Yeah!)
The family is used to being stared at, being diverse, and having handicap members, but not to this extreme. Luckily we’ve all adopted–pun intended, a handy sense of humor!
When they received their order, they left and ate their lunch at a park across the street. This is a picture of the girls on Easter 2019:
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“Be afraid, be very afraid”….
Gone at Last
MLMM First Line Friday – MRI
Word of the Day: Following
Following up on blogs, trump, the news, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, favorite sport teams, latest episodes of the whodunit, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, People, Vogue, Esquire, Woman’s Day, GQ, the Lancet, Outdoors, Wall Street Journal, stock exchange, book reviews. . . just a few. . . who has time for all of this?
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http://cyranny.com/2019/06/08following-word-of-the-day-challenge/
MLMM Tale Weaver
This week I was trying to get my old laptop empty to see if I could download the WP app on it. It is old, uses Windows 7 and I can hear you laughing right now. I let it gather dust after buying an iPad which I much preferred over a Windows system.
In doing so, I found flash drives with photos from early 2000s and it was a reunion with my friends and grandchildren from the past.
Looking at photos and places I haven’t seen in over five years, some over fifteen years, causes me to ponder about my feelings in those days.
I was in bad health, but in my best element as a busy grandmother. I look upon those days with nostalgia, some days with regrets, sadness, some days with laughter at chubby babies and Halloween costumes, but mostly with thoughts I did my best. A reunion for me is not just physical but mental.
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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/tale-weaver-226-reunion/
SoCS June 8, 2019
The word is “carriage” from this:
The book is “Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations” by John Bartlett, which I was moving back to a desk.
My pace has been pretty slow the last few weeks. I’m playing catchup. Have a spectacular weekend! : )
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Sammiscribbles Weekend Writing Prompt
Mary wished she could be living the idyll she had pictured. It is impossible of course, but never stopped her dreaming. If one day she woke up in a fluffy bed, with the most luxurious sheets, coverings, she would be happy. This setting would have to include the most treasured of all, the love of her life quietly sleeping beside her. The sun would be streaming in, carrying a floral scented breeeze from a balcony. A sweet dream, only Mary’s fantasy.
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https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com2019/06/08weekendwriting-prompt-109-idyll/
FOWC: Hustle
If life contains much bustle
You also will try to hustle
Moving fast, accomplishing much
Ignoring parts of life and such
Today I stopped, looked at old pics
Spent the day deciphering bits
About one, didn’t seem to know
Put there on the drive to show
Curiously I looked again
Trying to see, find out just when
This unknown photo was taken
Curiosity turned to shaking
Not in fear but anger, seeing
A woman, a stranger being
Secrets kept and yet survive
On a hidden small flash drive
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Curiosity did not kill this cat : )
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