Simply 6 Minutes

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“Okay Joe, now what?”

“We’re going to sit here and follow what the young kids are doing. It’s a protest. No fighting, just us sitting here, not working, and trying to convince the management we are serious.”

A manager comes out of his office and observes the men just sitting there instead of working. “You boys realize you aren’t getting paid today. How long can you keep this up? Don’t you want to feed your families?”

Joe speaks up. “When are you going to listen to our grievances? Your competitors are making money and you’re not, as long as you can’t produce! At least you can talk with us!”

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106 words

Simply 6 Minutes – Welcome to the Challenge: 12/30/2025

Tanka Tuesday

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Nourishing Liquid

Improve health is new plan

Drinking water is key

Easiest task for me

Purifying

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*Abhanga Form, Title, 4 lines, 6,6,6,4 – lines 2 and 3 rhyme. Usually a form of Hindu song, praise.

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#TankaTuesday Poetry Challenge No. 45, New Year’s Resolutions, 12/30/2025

MLMM Wordle

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I am touched when on a whim I read comments on old blog posts. They are ones suggested because they might relate to the current post and most which I’ve forgotten over time. It is a pleasure to see and feel that presence. My readership is always kind, makes me smile even if we disagree and over all lights up my days. I love the photos, stories, poems, all of the efforts made by you all, and prompters, the work and time put in to administer to us as bloggers. I blog and honestly put forth my bits of writing because it stretches my memory and mind. At my age I need to keep busy, speaking out as I feel to closed minds. We all need to use our voices for change.

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MLMM Monday Wordle #457

SYW 12-29-25

🎉🥳Happy New Year!🎊👋🏻

Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you stay up to toast in the New Year?Sometimes


2.  Have you ever kept any New Year Resolutions made in the past?I don’t make promises I can’t keep.


3.  Do you have any plans for 2026? A needed surgery🥴


4.  What was the highlight/s of 2025 for you. A new great grand baby!

Gratitude: I am grateful we all in the family are healthy.

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Share Your World: 29th December

MFFFC 12-29-25 – Poor Rabbit

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Martha, I think you’ve gained more weight

A pound or two more and a broken branch our fate

Don’t be silly, Gertie, it’s the holidays

It’s been decided – no more weighs

On the contrary, Ethel, since you’re the skinniest one

You’d love the weigh in, thinking it fun!

All three chicks ate too much last year

The farmer’s axe loomed too near

As he walked by and said hello

The three scrunched together so he wouldn’t know

Who was the fattest or who the least

But he had a rabbit in his hand for the feast.

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Melissa’s Fandango Flash Fiction Challenge #353

The Sunday Whirl

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Off the leash – 5th Air Force

At a full point, the Shepard was trained to sit and place his paws in an oddly human cross, and the crowd felt a sense of pride. The military families, eyed the sharply dressed men and women of MWD, Military Working Dog division of handlers. Instead of petting the serious dogs, they were enjoying lingering around to watch some of the training movements they learned.

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Wordle 737