Trump won’t level the playing field by letting us see his tax returns. We, however, who actually do pay taxes are required by law to report our income and how we spend it, line by line, publicly. Another irritating fact for a Monday.
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MLMM Wordle #128
Bounce, speech,curls, complex, temporize,1960s, insert, rush, tag, unknown, svelte.
It was the 1960s, an icon for the times was the more than svelte, Twiggy, sometimes referred to as a walking stick. There was no bounce in her step, she had few curls and seemed to have a nongendered appearance.
This phenomenon contributed to a dangerous trend where perfectly normal sized teenagers started harsh diets with disastrous side effects.
At the time there were no authoritative figures rushing in with speeches trying to temporize the situation. Only a few doctors had begun to tag the complex effects of bulimia, anorexia or BED.**
Parents of these girls failed to insert their advice because these diseases were relatively unknown and not yet recognized as mental illness.
**https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/eating-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20353603
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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2019/04/08/wordle-128/
A to Z Challenge – H for Haunted
My sister lives by herself in an old home in New England. She has been a widow for about twenty years. At different times certain (let’s call them weird) things have occurred.
A baseball that her husband had was gathering dust, no offense L, on her bedroom bureau and in the middle of the night it rolled off and woke her up.
This morning she found this:
Even a draft wouldn’t cause it to be halfway removed. The chimney would have to be lifted up out of the bottom, wouldn’t it? A broken piece was on the floor, but the lamp seems protected by the sides of the cabinet. It has been sitting in this same place for over two years.
Probably we all see things drift out of the corner of our eye, or feel a presence…don’t we?
Another time I will tell of other strange happenings….
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A to Z Challenge – Galactic Guests
“Good gosh, Gary! This geological formation can’t be here! Seriously, this type of formation shouldn’t exist in this atmosphere.”
The two scientists panicked as they checked their air supply. “Don’t look now Harry, but it’s starting to move.”
Of course Harry had to look but it didn’t keep him from starting to walk backwards away from the rocks.
Gary and Harry originally thought they had discovered an ancient cave on this blue planet–drawings had indicated it on the outside. As they descended further in they realized they had discovered a new type of geological formation. It’s color resembled the familiar sandstone but was entirely puzzling.
“Let’s get the samples and get back to the pod asap!” Grabbing the small hammer, they sealed the unknown mineral into small tubes and made their way out of the cave towards the space rover.
It was only as they were safely inside they saw a creature on two legs waving an additional appendage. It was a tiny creature. It looked similar to the drawings that had been discovered earlier. Both of them shrieked and scrambled into the recesses of their capsule.
The last thing they heard as they ascended skyward was “Gday, mates”.
A to Z Challenge – D for Double Dog Dare
I was probably around this age at this time in history and yes it did happen, just not to me.
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Story Starter 4-6-19
“Sign here.” He stood there, hands on hips staring down at me. I suppose he thought his intimidating stance would make me do it.
Always a venturesome person, I had completed the basics of most every sport. Being an athlete was important to me. All the years of hiking, boating, skiing and then participating in the Ironman contest was icing on the cake.
It was only natural that I participate in the “Dancing with the Stars” competition when urged by the television show’s producers. Dancing was not my best sport, but I certainly enjoyed it and thought, why not try it too? As with any televised concept there are contracts and being eager and probably naive, I signed the bottom line.
It was the rehearsal for the first actual performance that it happened. I was “performing” a lift with my partner and something cracked in my spine. The injury left me in a wheelchair for an indeterminable amount of time.
As I sat there with their lawyer over me, telling me to sign away my insurance claims, I thought about how stupid I was to let my ego determine the outcome. I was excited to be recognized on the television show and failed to read the fine print.
https://thehauntedwordsmith.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/story-starter-challenge-april-6/
http://cyranny.com/2019/04/06/venturesome-word-of-the-day-challenge-2/
Twittering Tales #130h
I love you-
Too many times
Jokingly I even rhymed
Why I wonder
Did not you
All those years only a few
Were spoken
Excuses:
Actions speak louder than words
Not true
I wish I’d said a lot of things
Asking why you do what you do
Never accepting was your rule
Should not have complied
I was a fool.
MLMM Saturday Mix
Image: http://rattleroarandritual.blogspot.com
The full moon peeped through partial clouds. Before it showed itself, there was only the blue screen of death. I had seen it before, feared it being permanent, but here, this night, the moon saved me.
Each night of the winter I experience it, the closeness, the fear of death. It comes to me in different forms–sometimes it is only cold blackness, sometimes an odd purple, but tonight it was almost calming as a pleasant blue.
Many stories of omens have been written, of death, near death and the finality, and what lies beyond. Does my soul live on, my spirit? A curiosity always, but also feared. This night the moon was my redemption once again.
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http://puttingmyfeetinthedirt.com/2019/04/01/April-writing-prompts/
Listening
Silence
Intimidating
Louder than voices
Engage your right
Needed in conflict
Critically recognized
Extraordinarily powerful
https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2019/04/06/weekend-writing-prompt-100-silence/
Anyone else?
When reading my posts, do you see an ad you have to push up to see the top of the screen, an ad in the middle of the post and at least two on the bottom of the writing?
It is irritating and distracting. Is this because I have a free site? It started showing up after I was forced to update this week.
Two ads on the bottom I could live with, but the added ones are too much.
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