W.Words: Yellowstone Blows Up

 

Jerry had packed a suitcase weeks ago, checked off days on his Hot Babes calendar, and read everything possible about Yellowstone National Park.  This had been his lifelong dream, so much so that he had saved intensely for fifteen years. I can scarcely believe it...Yellowstone! Yellowstone, at last!

Jerry sprinted to catch his Bus, tripped over a case left on the sidewalk by a curvy blonde and fell hard on his knee.  Even though his scrape bled like a son of a gun, Jerry stopped to put his packed suitcase into the belly of the beast.  The case popped open, spraying his clothing onto dripping oil by the bus.  Hot Babes was forever disfigured.

Finally ol' Gray rattled out onto freeway from Burton, Florida, heading straight to Yellowstone.  In 30 minutes or so, ol' Gray wheezed to a stop, and all could see the radiator boiling ,sending steam straight up.

Jerry felt his colon cramp and his stomach become a knotty mass of anxiety.

When ol' Gray returned to bus station, Jerry was nearly crying.  While there had never been any sort of competition between calendar to calendar, Jerry had kept years of Hot Babes calendars, crossing off days after days.  This was the month...the month...


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While this is a blurry map, it does show the extent when the caldera blows.  Bad news for all.

  Ironically, the next day it was announced that the immense caldera beneath Yellowstone Park blew, exploded, blasting apart all states from Canada to Texas, Nevada to Illinois, over to Oregon and down the western coast, and all parts in between. Clouds of ash covered the skies around the world.

It was a royal mess.

Jerry's head hung down despondently.  Gone, it was gone.  As he tacked his new Hot Babes calendar, Jerry pondered where he would go instead.  Iceland?  Iceland would be nice...He crossed off another day, heading toward Iceland in a decade or so.

Oh, Jerry, poor uninformed Jerry.

Stupid tourists with falling boulders from YouTube

The above italicized underlined words are a gift from Wednesday Words back in 2014, which were provided by Elephant's Child.

 

Each week during one month, volunteer bloggers provide a writing challenge by posting 6, 12 words and/or a sentence/photo prompt.  This gives writers a jolt to experience winding those words into a cohesive poem, prose, short-story, whatever genre.

Participants may post their take on these words in comment section, or indicate that your post will be at your site.  This helps readers to find you, which is nice.

Trees have the right of way.

 Trees are patient.  Trees go and grow wherever there is food, water, and light. Trees do not care what year, decade, century or millennia it is. 
 

The rainbow eucalyptus trees are exotic, grow in warm climates. They are real!

 

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 Trees have right-of-way. Do not stand in one place for too long.  Just saying.

 

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 The Methuselah Tree is considered to be the oldest tree on the planet a 5,000 year old bristlecone tree. Methuselah Tree, oldest tree

We plan to see National Parks over the next years. Trees are amazing.

Trees are impossible to describe accurately. Amazing, works as well as anything.

Staying true to God

 

 With all the mess in the Hollywood crowd, people will be taken down. Christians must be voices of faith. Sometimes those voices are silent, especially when living in a viper pit. Sometimes those voices do and say the words they should have taken time to consider.

Will Smith is the latest in the swamp of public condemnation. What he did was undoubtedly unwise, crazy. He will be wrestling with that for his entire life. Even so, Will Smith recognized his need to God.

Denzel Washington, Tyler Perry, and Bradley Cooper encircled Will Smith, praying with him.

 What about these people in the video below? Were they perfect in their lives? No. Did they make some bad choices? Yes. Did they repent and recognize that God has some plans in their lives? I think so, I hope so.

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This video is about 8 minutes long. Worth every minute. They sincerely believe in Jesus, acknowledge they would be lost without Him. Their beliefs are internal, personal.

Please watch this, at least in part.  

The measure of a man is not how he handles weakness, but how he moves on to become a man God holds in His Hands.