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 |   Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts |
 "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." CHARLIE CHAPLIN  Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte        This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts. |
| Prompt: “A gush of bird-song, a patter of dew, A cloud, and a rainbow's warning, Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue– An April day in the morning.” ---------- Where I am, this April morning is humid and hot. The kind of exquisite mornings the quote hints at, I said goodbye to those in February. Although, at this time on 10:36 in the morning--according to the time on my laptop--I still have the doors and windows open, to air the house, and in another half-hour to an hour, I'll have to close everything and turn on the AC, since it is very humid today and the temp may hit high 80s or even a 90 something. Yet, I remember April mornings of long ago in LI, NY, when we lived with our children in a house with a two-acre yard filled with oak trees and bird songs and perfect blue skies. But life goes on. Now my grown-up children have their own homes and lives, and I am left here by myself, although nothing's too bad, and I can't complain of the weather since the warmer climate is good for arthritis and its co-dwellers in my body. So, I may go out on the porch in a little while and expose my knees to the direct beams of the sun to get the best kind of vitamin D3. |
| Prompt: When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles. -- Winnie The Pooh Write about this in your Blog entry today. -------- To be frank, I’m all puddled out. Playing in the puddles, I suppose, is good when you’re a pooh bear, not when you’re an 80 yr. old woman. I find, however, the idea of putting things into a sunnier perspective and allowing myself a moment of reflection--before jumping straight back into living the immediate life and handling the daily toil and challenges--works okay for me as it lets me see a situation through completely different eyes. And who knows, sometimes, I can even come up with a new way to tackle the challenges. In general, though, writing down what needs to be taken care of and doing it immediately, knowing what may distract me, not multitasking if I can help it, and sticking to a daily ritual make my life go smoother. Then, in every day affairs, being able to laugh at my own goof-ups helps, too. I guess that can be substituted for playing in the puddles. |
| Prompt:"Make a Mistake" Write a poem for the first day of National Poetry Month. Have fun. -------------- April One soon April will commence fully from beneath the surging time when I have perched on the edge of memory where, through oak trees a ghostly light shines down on dark woods, but here-around me-are the Windmill Palms, their hands opening high to the sky, for blessed indeed are the songs of warblers and sparrows yet, again, I'm a fool today with my naive poetry its lines executed so hastily then to be left alone like a wet painting . |
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