MLMM Saturday Mix – The Wheel – July 15, 2017

For appearances sake, I am the typical family man, with 2.5 children, a nice, but modest home, and a good job. These were not easily won treasures, although my wife might describe it differently. My wife is the one who keeps me focused, on track you might say. The track is well known to many as a wheel, an endless wheel of life. It needs men like me to keep rolling. Men like me.

I suppose the start of every man’s introduction to the wheel begins around the age of sixteen, when obligatory feelings arise of seeking employment other than mowing the lawn. Graduation, college, and then the wheel gains power.

I was initially eager to jump on the wheel. I met a woman who made me feel all powerful, and I constantly proved this by maintaining our lifestyle, fathering children, and providing the typical “husband of the year” profile. My wife could be heard exclaiming my many achievements to her friends at social gatherings. My children would defend me to their schoolmates if needed. By all accounts, I am the perfect man in the perfect position and take my place on the wheel with pride.

But I am not that man. As I started this confession of sorts, I said in the beginning, it is for appearances. Underneath the facade, I am tired. I want to stop the wheel and get off. I need to start over, at sixteen, with dreams intact.

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/saturdays-mix-15-july-2017/

http://fivedotoh.com/2022/07/01/fandangos-flashback-friday-july-1st/

Summer heat brings life to spring bulbs and curiosity to children in puddles

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Ez-Pz Writes – July 1, 2022

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http://cyranny.com/2022/06/29/june-29th-1minfiction-challenge/

Wouldn’t it be terrific if there was a worldwide halo that would hover over the earth and we could all languish in its loving glow?

Yeah, like that’s gonna happen🙄😬😂

First episode of Saturday Night Live with host George Carlin October 1975

http://cyranny.com/2022/06/30/worldwide-word-of-the-day-challenge/

http://fivedotoh.com/2022/06/30/fowc-with-fandango-terrific/

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/ragtag-daily-prompt-thursday-halo/

https://onedailyprompt.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/your-daily-word-prompt-Languish-ydwordprompt-June-30-2022/

Vacation, party, socialize, but keep in mind that this pandemic is not over.

https://help.npr.org/contact/s/

I feel privileged to still have all five senses, of course sanity doesn’t figure into it, at least not yet, until some ignorant staunch conservative decides how to control it too!

hear their cries of pain

see your orders, laws’ effects

it should touch your heart

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http://godoggocafe.com/2022/06/29/haibun-wednesday-june-29-2022/

“Some of Trump’s defenders will, of course, seek to explain Hutchinson’s testimony away and apologize for him. They will contend that if the president wasn’t heard explicitly saying, I want a violent mob to topple Congress, harm members, and overturn the election that I lost, he cannot be held responsible for what happened that day. This is nonsense. If you pour gasoline all over a building, tell some people it is essential the building burn, and make sure they’re carrying matches and lighters, you are to blame for the arson that follows—especially if you then decline to call the fire department and condone the inferno. What Trump wanted to put up in flames on January 6 was American democracy.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/january-6-hearings-trump-cassidy-hutchinson/661414/

https://rugby843.blog

Here we go. You would think by now the past few years would be a deterrent to our influence in the world.

From NPR: The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade could have repercussions for abortion access around the world. While many countries have been expanding access, those looking to crack down on abortion could be emboldened to use the U.S. as an example.

https://fivedotoh.com/?s=Who+won+the+week

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

https://lindaghill.com/2022/06/29/one-liner-wednesday-now-that-school-is-done/

expect me to do that again! We had been married for fifty years and every single night it was the same thing: “oh, Mary, would you…” and I’m sick of it! So I said “sure Harry, but then you have to do something for me”. He agreed and the next day he drove me to see the Dover cliffs. It was easy, just a quick push…oops!

http://fivedotoh.com/2022/06/28/fandangos-story-starter-52/