The meld of scalding remarks from her granny about strangers comes easily to the older woman. “Their gods have covered them all with sins, and those liars will reap what they sow!” Granny’s mental health had taken a downturn when her husband died, three years ago.
Julie shrunk down in the booth of the pizza restaurant as her granny’s voice steadily increased in volume. Julie usually liked her outings with granny but knew her senility was sometimes too much in a public venue and a family secret was out.
Then in a pause in her tirade, the old woman said, “You think they serve ambrosia here? You know it’s always grampa’s favorite.”
Small bands have one thing in common. They have hope. Musicians crowd the stage but recognition takes time. Patience even for the most gifted or talented through hard work sometimes pays off with “stardom”. Hope for fame and monetary rewards is of course a goal. A true musician mostly plays for himself.
This week’s theme is CLOTHES Your three words today are: PJS GLOVES COAT
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I slip on my long red gloves, a specialty selection from my secret wardrobe, because who really needs pjs? My curves are still apparent with my silky coat opened slightly to see the heart shaped mole in my cleavage. It’s our anniversary and Joe won’t know what hit him.
“Sparrows” sit in silent stillness observing the hope on each bowed face as the man standing at the pulpit offers a map of promises from sacred text. The lack of sincerity is evident only to them; their aged minds hesitate to accept his kiss of oaths so long ago written on ancient parchment. After, as they gather away, the whisper of doubts are vast and they check old texts in secret. The vows taken have been smirched, and they summon proof to take action against the false speaker.
I’m a little late with this prompt but I’ve been happily busy and that’s a plus. I could probably say my favorite relative when I was a child was my great aunt Emma. She used to come up to Vermont to visit us in the summer from her home in the city. I think I was sort of her babysitter or maybe it was vice versa but we played endless games of canasta.
My favorite TV show was American bandstand but it came on at the exact same time as my grandma’s soap opera so I rarely was able to watch it.
My favorite book was “Black Beauty”.
One of my favorite songs was “Alice Blue Gown” which my dad would play to and sing.
I went to a tiny one room school house from 1 to 6 grades and I adored my teacher. She was from New York City and her name was Mrs. Tessier. She had a large German Shepherd that she would bring to class and he would sit in a desk like a person.
I had two best friends who were sisters and we still keep in touch today.
My favorite activity was to play outside in the fields, in the woods, in the stream, or swing on my old swing on the oak tree.
Favorite holiday was Christmas because my three sisters and all of their kids would come to visit and we had a huge table with a huge meal and games and playing out in the snow. I was in charge of my nephews and nieces, took them outside to sled and what we called skiing😂
We didn’t vacation per se. It was a vacation just living where we lived. As far as toys I don’t really remember any, I was not a doll person. My favorite thing was the swing.
Same Same But Different Your ‘Same Same But Different’ task is to take the five challenge words and NOT use them in your writing. That’s right, you need to dig out your thesaurus and find a synonym for each word instead.
Lover of everything avian In my apartment which I have a say in Decorations abound as in paintings on walls Various items adorn the halls I’m a bird lover.
My first thought was “ours is not to reason why, ours is just to do or die”. (“a slightly altered version of lines written by Lord Alfred Tennyson in his 1854 poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, about a failed British military action: “Theirs not to make reply / Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die.”)”
I like that phrase, have used it jokingly in hard situations, because really what choice do I have? Be a pain in the butt or except what I have to do and do it. However this does not apply to things like dusting which is one of my most hateful chores. My life is so simple that I rarely have those do or die situations anymore and for that I’m grateful.
It could also be applied in today’s world for climate change, which couldn’t be a truer example. If we don’t do something we all certainly will die.
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