Some things in life I love to hate
Things I usually underrate
Okay, it’s my chair, supposed convenience
With wheels I push, sometimes not at all lenient
Things I usually underrate
Some things in life I love to hate.
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W3 Prompt #117: Wea’ve Written Weekly
Hold it up
Use your power
It’s your mind over matter
Your will, your strength
Seize that inner strong man
The warrior, the fighter.
This is no time to stand down,
Cower on your sofa watching news reels
It’s time to stand up, partake!
Be the voice of those who have none!
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Power Visions: 07.23.24
New to the Q? Here’s what to do:
Pen a poem of precisely 44 words, post it to your own blog, and link up using the Mr. Linky below. Then spend a few hours of your summer day breezing through the poems others have posted.
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Stark contrasts of apricot dry wood
Once soaked in blue waters of the lake
Edged by green blue mountain foliage
Vermont is most beautiful in autumn
No one denies this summer visage
Will compete with inviting seasonal color
Observing the amiable calming scene above.
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Quadrille #204 – Summertime, and the Poeming is Easy
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Sitting cold in his jams, blanket folds curled around him in a shady area, Joey looked skeptically into the pool at the inflated plastic dinosaur. He had craved the inflatable at the Target store, begged his mom to buy it and she did. The day had been a scorcher, as his dad called it, and the cool water was soothing. A pool was so much better than a sandy beach and he could run into the house at any time for a snack. His shady nook was getting boring, but there was no way he was going to get on that plastic monster, which still floated on the top of the water, teasing him. His parents seemed unawares that the smiling dinosaur was scary. He knew it, though, because when he first sat on it, it whispered to him. Joey was stunned, and when it whispered again, he hopped off and took refuge on the cement edging of the pool. He could try to tell his parents, but they wouldn’t believe him.
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MLMM Monday Wordle #381
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Here are this week’s questions which are a mixed bag:
1. When you retire (or when you retired) do you have a picture of a small cottage with a white picket fence outside in a quiet village or something similar? For quite a few years I had that and then I moved.
2. What do you associate with school dinners (apart from school of course) ? I had twenty minutes from one bell to go down and up two flights of student filled stairs to the next bell for class so never walked the lunch line.
3. Can you play a musical instrument? I have played the piano and organ a bit.
4. What made you smile today? Fandango’s post.
Gratitude: I am grateful every day for my family and in particular, a Zoom call with my son who lives in France.
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Share Your World 22nd July
What do you see # 246- July 22, 2024
The small boy sat trembling at his bedside, offering up prayers to the savior, listening to the prophets’ words his mother would sing every evening. Joe was trying his best to believe, stay connected to the dreams his mom spouted would come true if only he stayed on the road of righteousness. In the summer days he would zigzag through paths in meadows, greeting the crows sitting on cornstalks and feeling the soft silk fronds falling free from the ripe corncobs. Joe loved nature and wanted to walk in the moon light also, watch fireflies and listen to the night birds, but being outside after dark was forbidden. Joe’s mind was conflicted as to why there was such danger at night that wasn’t there in daytime, when he was allowed the freedom to explore, but Joe always did what his mother told him.
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Wordle 664
DR. REXJuly 21, 2024 / 12:10 pm
I have now words of my own!! I’ll share the following — a bit long!!
🗳️ … well, it’s happened!! — My words right now fail me — matter of fact I have none that make sense!! — This is why I HAVE to borrow the words of a dear FB friend, DClifton, CA, after asking for his OK. Here goes …
“I could not be more proud of President Joseph R. Biden than I am right now!
Joe Biden just announced he will “stand down” from his bid for reelection. I cannot imagine what a hard decision this must be. I do understand what a selfless act this is – putting country ahead of personal ambitions.
In the next fews days the President will deliver an address to the nation fully explaining his rationale for stepping aside.
President Biden has accomplished more in this 3 1/2 years in office, so far, than just about any other President in the modern era. He is a good and decent man, the perfect man and President to bring America out of the pandemic, out of the darkness of the Trump administration. He was the perfect person to defeat Trump, and to be a bridge to a new generation of leaders.
I assume Joe Biden will give his full support to VP Kamala Harris. There will be some sort of process to nominate her, or possible someone else; though I think going down that path would be a grave mistake. Now that the President has stepped aside, the party most come together. And it must come together behind the Vice President.
Can you imagine how President Biden will be greeted at the Democratic National Convention now?
The level of adulation he will rightly receive for such a selfless act?
And can you imagine the shot of adrenaline this will inject into the Democratic Party’s energy and excitement surrounding the upcoming election?
Update: President Biden has just announced his support for Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee!
VP Harris will be an excellent candidate to go against Donald Trump. As one commentator remarked earlier: “She’ll be a prosecutor going against a convicted felon. She’ll be a woman who wants to protect peoples’ rights going against an old man who wants to take rights away.”
The Trump has planned its entire campaign around running against Joe Biden. What will they do now? How badly will they be forced to scramble to recalibrate their message to fit the Vice President? How frightened might they be at the idea of their rambling old-man candidate facing Kamala Harris in a debate?
This is an historic day.
And historic decision by President Biden.
And it remains an historic election this fall.
For now, the campaign has been turned on its head.
And I can already feel the excitement building as plans are made for us to move forward together.
Kamala Harris is a woman.
She is a woman of color.
She is the daughter of immigrants.
She is basically everything so many conservatives love to hate.
For that reason – if she becomes the nominee, as I believe she will – the Republicans will mount one of the ugliest, dirtiest campaigns imaginable. But in VP Harris, we will have a candidate more than capable of weathering whatever storm they send her way.
Joe Biden will “stand down”.
Kamala Harris will stand up.
And we must stand behind her all the way to the White House!! … 🗳️
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