Wednesday Words: Carol, Brad, and Skippy

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This was a stupid idea.  Carol knew it then and now, especially in a horrible, frost-fear-filled moment.

Her normally brilliant husband Brad insisted that Carol try the zip line, that it was totally safe.  After all, his best friend Skippy worked for the hotel activities director and was an experienced zipper.

One…two…and go!  Skip gave a firm push and off she went.

It had been a mistake.  Carol’s life flashed before her eyes as the line broke and she fell.

Carol wondered if there were telegram services from the luxury hotel as the ground loomed closer.  I told you so! her parents would say when they read it.  They had never really liked Brad.

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The bold underlined words are from Delores at Under the Porch Light, who somehow grabs words from the air and challenges participants to see what can be written with them.  Thank you, Delores, for opportunities to have fun with your interesting words!

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PhotoPromt#6: The Old Man

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Frank gazed at his hands in disbelief tinged with anger.  How could this have happened?  He berated himself as he reviewed this part of his life, step by step.

He had been so careful even to the point of being called ‘overly-cautious’.  Every move he made was planned out with all its possible consequences.  That had given him great success all throughout his life.  “That Frank, boy, he never does anything without thinking it through a dozen times.  Slow, but Frank is something else!”  People had said about him for all of his 72 years. 

Buy or sell…left or right…that was how Frank lived his life.  And now this.  How could he not have seen this happening?  The clues were all there, he realized that now.  And now?  What would he do now?

Frank should have forged forward when he had the chance.  Taking chances on a whim wasn’t his way, but that was what Frank had done.  He should have seen the walls closing around him, suffocating him, taking away his very breath.  Too late, too late now.

With a heavy sigh of resignation, Frank reached across the board and knocked over his King.  “Damn you, Jenny.  I resign.”

“Oh, Grandpa!”  Jenny giggled.  “It’s just a game!”

Seeing the End of the Road

 

YouTube: Scott McCreery and Tim McGraw

American Idol 2011

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Live Like You Were Dying

Tim McGraw

He said
"I was in my early forties
With a lot of life before me
And a moment came that stopped me on a dime
I spent most of the next days
Looking at the x-rays
Talkin' 'bout the options
And talkin' 'bout sweet time"
I asked him
"When it sank in
That this might really be the real end
How's it hit you
When you get that kind of news?
Man, what'd you do?"

He said

"I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"
And he said
"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying"

He said 

"I was finally the husband
That most of the time I wasn't
And I became a friend a friend would like to have
And all of a sudden going fishin'
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad
I finally read the Good Book, and I
Took a good, long, hard look
At what I'd do if I could do it all again
And then

I went skydiving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fumanchu
And I loved deeper
And I spoke sweeter
And I gave forgiveness I'd been denying"

 

And he said

"Someday I hope you get the chance
To live like you were dying
Like tomorrow was a gift
And you've got eternity
To think about
What you'd do with it
What could you do with it
What did I do with it?
What would I do with it?"

Life is urgent, it is now. Believe and then act on your beliefs.  

 John 11:25-26. Our life in Him never ends.

 

 Last summer I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. 

It has a learning curve that changes each day. When I wrote this 2019 and re-posted it 2023, my life was on a set course until last year.  

 This has more meaning now than it did then, so I have re-re-posted this.

 Everyone dreads that phone call or letter from doctors. Sometimes that call or letter doesn't happen.  Sometimes it does.