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Creation Saturday: Rodger and The Gold & Chose Joy

Saturday, January 20, 2018

“Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.”
Mahatma Gandhi

The Creation Saturday prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 
Come up with a brief synopsis and short outline for a satirical novel based on this picture:

Rodger and The Gold

Sylvia's betrothed disappeared while working on an archaeological dig in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona. Every person on the dig, gives a different story of what happened the day he disappeared. The Phoenix police refuse to get involved without giving a either a plausible or logical explanation. Therefore, Sylvia decides to look for him herself, so the first thing she does is go to the dig site. The head archaeologist has two, huge, black suited, CIA-looking body guards escort her off the premises. Unable to get back onto the dig site, she decides to go to Madame Radome, Fortuneteller to the Stars.

Madame Radome tells Sylvia that her future husband found the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine. Rather than turn the gold over to the United States Government, as any loyal America should, or to the Native Americas in the area, he decided to abscond with the gold. He changed his name to Rodger Dodger, and is now living on a volcanic island somewhere in the South Pacific. Sylvia decides to go looking for him, because, after all, he is her soul mate and only true love. Madame Radome, who has numerous outstanding warrants for her arrest, tells Sylvia she will lead her to Rodger for one-third of the gold. Sylvia purchases two plane tickets to Hawaii, and the two women begin looking for Rodger and the Gold.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for DAY 1495
Creative Saturday, have fun with these eight words. There's a merit badge for the most creative.
spill, identification, curtain, chin, pool, wash, option, indication

Chose Joy

Look deep into the pool of your past,
find joy in the memories
that hide
behind the curtain of regrets.

Life is full of joy and sorrow,
but you have the option
to chose,
which emotion dwells
in the valley of your soul.

Let go,
forgive yourself
for falling on your chin,
for the milk
you spill
on the coffee table
of your hope,
and wash away
the fears that hold you back.

If you look into the mist of your future
there is a good indication
that you will find
more joy and more sorrow,
so now is a good time
to begin
the process of identification
and elimination
or transformation
of yesterday's tears
into today's
laughter.