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This week’s Story Starter teaser is: Dana, in her entire life, never imagined that something of this magnitude would ever happen to her. She looked it over carefully, searching for her reading glasses to be sure. 13, yes, 33, yes, 41, 23, 16, 44! Yes yes yes! She looked back at the television and repeated the lottery numbers and promptly fainted. Her husband Joe came home at that moment to find her on the floor, still. He called 911 when he couldn’t get his wife to respond. Then he saw something clutched in her hand. After thirty years of her buying a lottery ticket every night on her way home he could hardly believe it. Of course Dana woke up and it was celebration time!

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http://fivedotoh.com/2023/06/20/fandangos-story-starter-102/

http://christinebialczak.com/2023/06/20/simply-6-minutes-welcome-to-the-challenge-06-20-2023/

http://gmgblog.ca/2023/06/20/four-line-fiction-2325/

I’m borrowing from Claytoonz post today: “Trumps are like, “People who pay late taxes should go to prison…also, you can’t see our taxes.””http://claytoonz.com/2023/06/21/sniffy-jr/

http://lindaghill.com/2023/06/21/one-liner-wednesday-when-its-almost-2am/

Choose three things that make you happy. Or, if there’s somebody else around, ask them for three things that make them happy, and write them a poem as a gift – giving to others makes us happy! Write a poem, weaving in those three things. You can tell us what they are, or leave us to guess, that’s up to you.

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It’s an easy start

Grandkids stir my heart

No need to make up the rest

Trying to look and feel my best

Eating and drinking to be healthy

Pay bills on time because I’m not wealthy

Today I realize how my luck has kicked in

Appreciating how I seem born to win.

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http://dversepoets.com/2023/06/20/what-colour-is-hope/

• Write a haibun that alludes to liberation.

• Post it on your personal site/blog.
• Include a link back to dVerse in your post.

As a white person I have experienced no prejudice in my privileged lifetime. Living in Texas I found out how much discrimination indirectly permeated my life. I was a transported northerner and spoke with an accent they pretended not to understand and of course being a woman, put me in a corner in the sixties and seventies. There is liberation for white straight men—for anyone else in these areas, freedom is quantified in mostly inappropriate ways. These ways can be subtle or unlawful.

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what thinks
when bells start tolling
what excuses

be the change
humanity needs
let freedom ring out

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Haibun Monday 6-19-23: Liberation

Here are this week’s questions:

1. If you could reinvent yourself, how would you like to be? Taller, smarter, thinner and able to walk
2. Would you like to be a pet in your household? No
3. How many house moves have you had as an adult? Too many
4. What was your favourite home? Tossup between a beautiful new build in Houston and a very old home in Colorado

Gratitude: As always thankful for my loving family and three great dads to celebrate.

Share Your World 19th June

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Over production of plastic goods

Cardboard and plastic, what happened to “if we should”

A box that serves as the ultimate choice

Conquering the pro environment voice

Attest to the benefit of recycled ware

Surrounded now by commercial fare

Choose curiosity and seek alternatives

Activate your inner superlatives

Put yourself into the fold

Join others for whom plastic use is too old

Refuse to cater to manufacturers’ false telling use

Stop the environmental abuse.

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https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/19271780/posts/4764637647

https://rugby843.blog

“Do we have to go through this ordeal every morning? In order for you to thrive you must eat breakfast so your mind won’t just be adrift when you’re trying to learn! Now stop acting like a petulant spoilt brat and eat your eggs and toast!”

“Pet what? You won’t let me have any pets!”

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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2023/06/18/three-things-challenge-m363/Your three words today are: PETULANT SPOILT BRAT

http://fivedotoh.com/2023/06/18/fowc-with-fandango-adrift/

RDP Sunday: thrive

Your Daily Word Prompt – #Ordeal- #YDWordPrompt June 18, 2023