The Bag Lady

I can’t seem to win for losing

My life happens with no choosing

Just when I think it’s done

In the mail comes another one

My advice – don’t let your body break

Medical bills your life will take

Bills upon bills from every venue

A two minute look and they think they own you

Careless attitudes with no actual hands on care

They bill you even if they weren’t there!

Some people have extra high cost insurance

Even then, policies provide no assurance

And now when the government’s on the fence

We’ll probably be spending even more dollars and cents.

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Writer’s Workshop Prompts for July 18, 2024

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Writing “something beautiful”

When Matt cooked, nothing went to waste

Recipes all had ghastly tastes

Were extremely vile

Maybe spoiled awhile

You see they were all possum based.

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Grandma was the wise one in the family. Her life had been one great adventure, and she had wonderful tales to inspire for all of her younger family. Many a time a story of hers would influence one of the young people, and her ideas would only come across as a narrative, not a sentence of advice. Her own children had often sat at her knee and listened as she enjoyed a cup of tea, wisely knowing, “every day unfurls as it must”.
–from Oolong, by Adrienne Su

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dVerse — Prosery — Life in a Cup of Tea

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Here are this week’s questions:

1.  Do you have a bestie (ie. best friend) Yes

2.  Do you have a lot of friends? Not many now

3.  Has a friend ever let you down to the extent that the friendship has died? Yes

4.  Are you more likely to confide in a friend rather than family? No

Gratitude: I am grateful to have spent time with family and good news came this week also!

Share Your World 15th July

Everyone loves their portable phones. Cells or flip or large screen size, no one uses a desk phone anymore. When I first married and moved over two thousand miles away, I had to ring an operator on a switchboard to make a call. Then this telephone operator told me she would call me back when she could get my party on the wire. It might take hours or even a day to receive the operator’s return call. Your cell phone bills may be high but telephone calls back then were also expensive and of course much less convenient.

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“Please, sugar, you know I love you.” Then showing his frustration, “don’t be such a square!”

Joe thought he could win Julie over with a kind approach, and once she was in his arms, the rest of his seduction process would take place.

Joe had thrown himself into the contest, done the necessary nerve wracking pleas with three other girls and won, but Julie was becoming obstinate. He knew she was the quality win, on the top of the boys’ list, but so far she had resisted his “charms”.

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MLMM Monday Wordle #381

The mist in the air embraced the garlands on the altar making the small white flowers resemble pearls. The odd turtle back shape of the dais apparently was built by an amphibian lover and of course the entire space was bordering on the sea. A perfection of ocean reveries reverberated throughout and even the name was symbiotic, Vanishing View, because all in attendance knew the oceans were becoming so polluted that even a former place of worship would soon succumb to being uninhabitable.

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Wordle 663

Cellpic Sunday – The Tour That Didn’t Happen

Standing regal above the crowd, she thought of how she should begin. She was still overwhelmed by achieving this stature. Beautiful, yes, intelligent and wise, yes, but still a woman. It would take everything she had to rule this kingdom. Her first priority was to bring her brother Elam back from the field. He would secure the loyal army for her. Strength was needed to maintain the path they had fought for. And then, a worthy and wise advisor, unlike its predecessor, now in prison along with the ruler and his court, who took everything from their subjects. She had accomplished this with Elam, and the will of the people, now she would rule with compassion.

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Another inspiring image from Kevin

@https://thebeginningatlast9.com/2024/07/11/no-theme-thursday-07-11-24/.

Thank you!