The Bag Lady

1. Patience

2. Family #1

3. What is important and what is not

4. Self reliance

5. Discard falsehoods and let them go

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https://saltedcaramel670.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/5-things-tuesday-5-life-lessons-you-have-learned-during-the-lockdown/

Nothing looked the same as before. Everything was upside down and she seemed to be floating! It was surreal, and she thought she must be dreaming! Surely her mind had concocted a world she had seen the night before in a movie. She did have a vivid imagination, but then started to panic. The water kept rising around her body and she recognized actors on the sinking ship in the movie, and not one of those characters survived.

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https://fivedotoh.com/2021/08/17/fandangos-story-starter-7/#like-60755

The fustian prince slit open the packet of sleeping pills, observing them in his hand—a portable demise to cull and guarantee his secrets would not be told by the pair of spying beauties—birds he no longer wanted to sing. He dropped them into their waiting palms aware of the quick death they would cause.

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https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/08/16/wordle-253/#like-22578

A new adventure begins on these tracks–this railway to the unknown, and my future.

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https://lindaghill.com/2021/08/18/one-liner-wednesday-cinnamon/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=a072077d85ca1760ea024344d9fe667b&postid=15656&like=1&source=sub_email

Made in 2003, “Seabiscuit” received seven Academy Award nominations, starring Tobey Maguire as Red Pollard. My favorite scene is below, where two broken personalities join together and start mending.

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Trying to find something to watch, trying to rely on tried and true actors from previous entertaining experiences, is a difficult task these days. Even excellent younger actors are in questionable shows that I’ll probably turn off after a few minutes. Now prices are going up and big companies are hoarding services. In addition, Apple and Prime charge extra for many shows. There are many streaming series and movies but most have scenes that are either a little too real or trite and predictable or just moronic. Seeing a list of new offers yesterday, there are tons of animated series🙄

Harsh criticism you say? You are right, I am indeed critical of what I pay to watch on a costly streaming service or movie theater venue. Do I have sympathy for the movie theater industry and out of work actors suffering results of this plague? I do, but that is no excuse for some of the drivel that is available today.

It seems you have a few unsavory choices, formula romance, violent bloody gore, hard core sex, mindless comedy with not one good punch line, or “reality”. Some of this reality is tiring. Some examples are seeing people going to the bathroom, men peeing on everything and women constantly ripping off their clothes, endless alcohol drinking, people vomiting, the f word every other word or weird acting out—I’ll let your imagination fill that in. I know what happens in bathrooms, I don’t need to see it. If I find something I think worthy of watching—IMO—I’ll put it in Monday Media.

My streaming service pages are filled with partially watched offerings, and it seems Netflix is the only one that you can click on to say, get off my screen—you are not worth my time, and time is something I always have too much of.

I’ve watched many different genres and liked them all with the possible exception of gory horror. Give me a Hitchcock mystery that implies, not visualizes a gory murder. Case in point the Freud series. Sounded interesting and then—suffice it to say you shouldn’t be eating if you decide to watch.

I’m probably alone in this, like many of my opinions. That doesn’t bother me. What does bother me is not being able to find something interesting to watch after being subjected to the daily news.

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A will to marry, a new sense of self worth, a decision that will mend a previously broken heart, and still, others decry the right to do so. Why, over the years, do people frame this avenue of love’s choice and funnel their prejudice into protest? Do these persons fall so low to scry another’s future because of their own dissatisfaction of life?

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“On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down all state bans on same-sex marriage, legalized it in all fifty states, and required states to honor out-of-state same-sex marriage licenses in the case Obergefell v. Hodges.”

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A birthday celebration

Watching the glow come over her

Opening a wished for present

A child becoming a young woman

Fifteen now and stepping into a new era

The child steadily moving into young adulthood

And it begins—

A new set of classes soon to begin

A driver license permit highlight

Secret crushes on classmates

Finding forever friends

New learning challenges while

Realizing future dreams

All decisions made now reflecting on her future

It’s too soon for me, too soon for life challenges for the child I used to cuddle

But I have faith.

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https://sammiscribbles.wordpress.com/2021/08/14/weekend-writing-prompt-222-glow/