Starting age twelve I was told to wear glasses. Imagine if you will, (sorry Rod Sterling) an active girl who was suddenly taken down by having to be a four eyes person, losing confidence and to her thoughts, and beauty. I didn’t think those thoughts until I entered seventh grade and the seeds were sewn.
four eyes heard
sweet cuteness destroyed
heart dismayed
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blue rimmed glass
perched slightly askew
laughable
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Haibun Monday 9-28-26: vision
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Don’t Joke Around
Sue kept asking him to stop
Thought soon her eyes would pop
Laughing hard she fell off her chair
Luckily Joe was there
He told her he’d try, but that was a lie
She laughed so hard she thought she would die.
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Sunday’s Six Sentence Story Prompt Word!
Joe, a guy who wore pants too tight
Didn’t see the rear had a slight
Rip that was starting to spread
Just looked at his front instead
When Joe bent over, t’was a sight!
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Laughing Along With A Limerick
Here are this week’s questions:
1. It’s not yet the end of September, but already shops are displaying Christmas merchandise here in the UK. Do you think this is too early?I suppose it is, makes people tired of it all by the actual holiday.
2. What is your favourite traditional holiday in your country? Christmas when kids were small, now Thanksgiving.
3. Do you think such celebrations are over commercialised? Definitely
4. Would you like to introduce a new annual National Holiday? No
Gratitude: I am grateful my family came to take the trash, repair something and brought a spaghetti dinner, definitely a bonus!😂
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Share Your World 28th September 2026
I hope to add a smile on your face as you read my choice. Aretha Franklin’s hit in 1967 has a misheard line and below is the explanation from her.
“THERE’S one massive showstopping moment in Aretha Franklin’s breakout hit Respect — but so many people get it wrong, the Queen of Soul herself had to set the record straight.”
August 17, 2018 – 1:15PM
“That “take out TCP” line doesn’t make much sense, when you think about it. Take T, C and P out of RESPECT and what are you left with? RESE, which don’t mean much.”
“The line, in fact, is “Take care of TCP” — something the Queen of Soul herself was happy to clear up to a Los Angeles Times reporter writing about the frequently misheard lyric back in 1998.”
“Hello, this is Aretha Franklin … It’s ‘R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take care of T-C-B,’ as in taking care of business,” the singer said in a voicemail left to the LA Times after they pondered the meaning of the lyric.”
The song has surged back into the iTunes charts today after the sad news of Franklin’s death at age 76 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.”
Power Dynamics and the Human Struggle for Equality and Justice
The festival was on but Joe started getting cold feet. He had eaten too much at the continuing feast and there were no porta potties near.😳
Three Things Challenge #MM559
Who can say if life is better, than mine, or my daughter’s or my granddaughter’s? Envy may play a part, jealousy over intelligence, beauty, health, even politics in 2026, comes into thinking that they are better than you, their life is easier, or richer. Not monetarily rich, but life in general. Is it circumstance or effort? Why not let them live their life and look in the mirror. Have you done everything you can to make your own life better, in the senses of what you consider better? Someone you think is living better in some way may have a debilitating illness that doesn’t show, or a problem they can’t share with you. The old saying “behind closed doors” is true enough in this aspect. Might “no time can be easy if one is living through it” mean you probably have no idea what a person’s life is really like, and should you explore that with them or keep your thoughts to yourself?
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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #449
by rugby843, posted 9-25-2017
When I was a small girl, my favorite rainy day activity was going into our huge attic. There was an old Victrola and big black heavy records to play. There were trunks full of old clothing from previous decades. My sisters and I had great imaginations and would dress up, play music, and pretend we were characters from a book. Of course we loved playing “Little Women”, one of our favorite books. My sister always played Jo, her namesake. We would be Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, Boris Karloff, or a film noir detective resembling Humphrey Bogart. There was a knot hole in the flooring in which we viciously lowered a fake spider to scare our grandmother below. Echoes of “you little whippersnappers!” I still hear today. Every child should have an attic.
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/pretend/
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Fandango’s Flashback Friday — September 25th
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