The Bag Lady

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“A little goes a long way”…true words for almost everything in life unless of course you are speaking of love, compassion, coffee, chocolate—(insert your own favorites). We need a bit more of the love and compassion these days, and I’m sending it out to you today!♥️🤗😌👩🏻‍🦰

https://lindaghill.com/2020/05/01/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-may-2-2020/

“It’s my birthday, it’s my birthday!” she yells as she jumps up and down on her parents’ bed. It is five in the morning and Julie kept her curtains opened all night so she would wake up the instant it was light outside.

Julie’s mom begrudgingly opens her eyes and grabs her phone to check the date. With no work days for a while she needed the phone to know what day it was. “Oh, no, Julie, it’s tomorrow, but don’t worry, it’ll be here before we know it.”

Julie takes a minute to realize what her mom said and then starts jumping on the bed again. “Okay, it can be Charlie’s birthday then”, holding up her favorite teddy bear for her mom to see. Julie’s mom pulls up the covers.

https://rachelpoli.com/2020/05/01/time-to-write-sentence-starter-53/

I tried to get the photos and questions for this post but they are no longer available.

Fandango’s Friday Flashback — May 1

https://theghostsoftalafar.com/

We could take this all as an experiment. Mother Nature, powers that be, gods, fate, what or whoever? “They” wanted to see if we could lower pollution, stay at home with family, spend less on unnecessary items, notice our neighbors, share our wealth, realize there are people trying to live and exist on a fraction of what we have and enjoy. Do you think it’s possible we will learn anything from this virus? Am I a lone person with this question?

Things will of course return to “normal” with people back to their selfish lives, polluting our earth, wasting resources, and another century will pass. Even though the number of deaths continue to rise, people ignore the medical experts, and support from our government leaders? All deny any responsibility, flaunt rules they profess, or try to debunk with their own foolish self serving actions.

Maybe the children who survive will learn something. We need to hope they will.

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https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus

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https://cyranny.com/2020/04/30/lone-word-of-the-day-challenge/#like-52837

https://fivedotoh.com/2020/04/30/fowc-with-fandango-experiment/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=5956982776683cd375cdb2888f05a42c&postid=42471&like=1&source=sub_email

Good news is what! From the NYT at http://www.nytimes.com:

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Now all of us whiners sitting watching videos, angry about being cooped up, let’s cheer a guy who doesn’t know the meaning of complain!

http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/

The three stooges left a peach iced tea at my door. “Hugs” through the sliding glass door. I love these guys so much!

https://rugby843.blog

Brook Benton, “Rainy Night in Georgia”

https://cyranny.com/2020/04/29/raining-word-of-the-day-challenge/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=6e17e09314a89fc284e8b3c0748c88a2&postid=52828&like=1&source=sub_email

The trick is the jump

Timing essential to win

Practice makes it stick

https://ronovanwrites.com/2020/04/27/weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-8/

She’s no lady, she’s my wife.

https://lindaghill.com/2020/04/29/one-liner-wednesday-april-29th-2020-ladies/