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Friday, March 6, 2015

Wednesday Words: Charlotte




Photo: Spider web sagging with dew
Nat'l Geo
He had been in Charlotte’s house for an indeterminate amount of time, and days blended into each other until there was no distinction. She moved from place to place, always watching him, as if she were a spectral being and not herself.

Being a female, her enhanced spider-like sense could detect his slightest movement and shift.  It was not as if he was dissident in any way; he was just different and destructive.  She stared down at him in wonder.


Wherever he moved, immediate mayhem followed.  Finally Charlotte scooped him up.  “That’s enough for you, Wilbur!  You need a diaper change, and badly.”  They both giggled and Charlotte covered his face with kisses.

An unexpected writer


The above bold underlined words are from Delores at Under the Porch Light
who faithfully provides 6 words and/or a phrase prompt.  Writers can grab those words and take off with a poem, prose, fiction, whatever.  Please click on those frozen cardinals in the sidebar to access her site.  There are some strange people out there.

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Old Age is something to share.


In the early years of our parenting, we were either on the floor playing trucks, assembling Legos, changing diapers—daily life.

When children were almost asleep, we watched TV and our favorite shows.  The actors were about our age we guessed, and I don’t know if their hands every touched a diaper, clean or whatever.
Then and now

They exuded everything we were not: glamorous, glittery, or bulgy muscles, and great haircuts.

Recently I discovered something called “Cake Watch” in the newspaper; it is a summation of birthdays of the celebrity clan.
 
Apparently while we were aging, so were they!  Here are some examples:

In their 80s:  Robert Conrad (Wild Wild West), Willard Scott, John Callum (Northern Exposure), Harry Belafonte, Sophia Loren, Maggie Smith, Sean Connery….

Creaking Bones?

In their 70s: Roger Daltrey, Robert Redford, Patrick Stewart, Jane Fonda, Burt Reynolds, Shirley Maclaine, Chuck Norris, James Caan…

In their 60s: Goldie Hawn, Tom Selleck, Helen Mirren, Jaclyn Smith, Tommy Lee Jones…

This, somehow, reassures me.  Oh, and Justin Bieber is 21.



Monday, March 2, 2015

Shadows

Source
Shadows
Across
The road.

Long
Straight
Shadows
Across
The road.

Flicker
Light and dark.
Waiting
Growing longer.

Until sun sets
Shadows

Disappear.