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Sue was always aware of her friends’ needs, for money, for a good home, not just a temporary house in which to hardly unpack her stuff. Julie could not secure a paycheck with her career in dance and then there were the children to consider. They were too young to play at home alone and not of school age yet. Sue’s home was small but she decided to fit in Julie and her two children, until Julie could find a permanent job.

This scenario often plays out in today’s world of high rent payments, unaffordable housing, painting a sorrowful picture of the void between the “haves and have nots”

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MLMM Monday Wordle #378

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Thank you again, Kevin for beautiful images:

No Theme Thursday: The Return

Greetings, everyone!

Today, for Sunday’s Confessionals, I would like you to create about the saying ‘putting one’s hand on the lit stove to check if it is hot’ from the prism of personal experience.

Please feel free to create in any media that inspires you, and do not shy away from sharing previously created work that touches on this topic.

Once you are done posting, please link up via the comments section and check what others had to offer.

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I have to say this is a weird one, MLMM! My interpretation is relating to politics and the way citizens expect change will come about if they do nothing. You don’t have to put your hand on a hot stove to feel the heat emanating from the burner. You can stand there and feel it coming next to your hand even if you don’t fully place your hand on the stove. The heat you feel is your warning. You can choose to ignore it and place your hand anyway, but don’t blame the stove for your ignorance.

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Sunday Confessionals : Heat-lesson

Belief

In the cradle of dry plains lay an oasis, an ancient site with waters that rained down from a large outcropping of stone. People would travel long distances to see the weeping veins in the stone that magically appeared on holy days. The believers would cup their hands to taste the glorious liquid and it seemed to briefly cause fluttering heart beats. They thought this meant the spirit was temporarily flowing through their bodies. In truth, the anxiety and excitement caused their hearts to react.

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Wordle 660

It was with ragged desperation that Julie lifted the hormone medication to her lips. Every last nerve of her body quivering, she suddenly had to sit down on the edge of the bathtub, feeling faint. She had to do it, every day, to make sure she would not get pregnant. She looked at the symbol on the medicine package and started to cry. She wanted a baby, a child to raise, just as her sister before her. Julie loved her nieces and nephews and spent loving times with them. Her family didn’t know Julie’s secret, that her husband was a sociopath. He was a good looking man exuding charm when needed and her family loved him. Once home alone with him, Julie saw his actual personality. There was no way she was going to bring a child into this unpredictable home.

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/three-things-challenge-m734/Your three words today are: HORMONE MEDICATION NERVE

FOWC with Fandango — Desperation

RDP Sunday: ragged

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I look at your portrait

Often as it’s by my bed

Sleepless nights lend to memories

Another life, possibly

Would it be different?

If we met again

If there is an afterlife

If there’s another dimension

If it were possible

We might start anew

Keep old vows naively made

Have old dreams become real

Possibly?

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Small waves rippling

Calmness on the boards

Paddles softly swirl in pools

Rough mountain edges contrast the smoothing waters

Comforting activity after a busy week.

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http://lindaghill.com/2024/06/21/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-june-22-2024/

Joe and Mike looked into the deep hole below where a mysterious excavation had taken place. “Wow, it sure is deep!” Mike’s comments always held a bit of folly which did not vary. He absentmindedly offered the bag of cake donuts to Joe. Joe said, “no thanks, Mike, those are tough by now, and the only good thing that bakery makes is pumpernickel bread.” Mike sighed and continued to fish into the bag for stale donuts offered free as “day old delights”. Neither old man seemed unduly concerned there was a huge hole across from their homes. It was an old neighborhood and hardly anyone grew excited by the sudden appearance of something new. There had been many changes since WWII.

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excavation

Folly

https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/06/22/three-things-challenge-m733/Your three words today are: BAG BREAD CAKE

RDP SATURDAY: TOUGH

FOWC with Fandango — Vary

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Weekend Writing Prompt #369 – Spoonful