Day: October 9, 2023

Halloween, Cemeteries and Earthquakes

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Daily writing prompt: What is your favorite pastime?

Artist Marc C Green

Today I wrote some posts that I was very happy with,

yesterday my dog sensed an earthquake and decided to cut our walk short and go home- (I’d like to say I felt it too, but I didn’t)

tonight I am going to go home, get ready for my trip next week that will involve attending Halloween festivities with my Granddaughter and visiting some cemeteries.

I am always on the hunt for my next favorite pastime because they hardly ever come to you- you have to get out there and track them down yourself.

The Party

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Sometimes when you look at a prompt and just let the first thing that pops into your head as you turn it over in your mind, there’s no telling what you’ll get.

Here is a and image prompt provided by Experience Writing for their October 8th prompt-Connecting The Bones

My takeaway was strange- but fun.

Sometimes you have to get out of the way and let a story tell itself.

 

My Grandmother’s coffin looks shiny and new

even though we dug it up 14 days ago.

As we six drove her home, we wondered aloud,

will her bones smooth and white?

Are her rings still on her fingers, are her nails still painted red?

 

 

Will  her hands still  be clasped

upon her chest

did her wig fall off her head?

Is her mouth opened or closed, we’ve asked each again and again.

 

When we got my Grandmother home

and put her coffin upstairs

we didn’t just pop it open

we knocked on the lid with care.

 

And from inside we heard a tap

then we silently filed downstairs

to wait for Grandmother to join us in the Parlor

for tea

with the curtains drawn on all of our windows

of course.

Treat Time

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Experience Writing  Photo Challenge: Seeing In The Dark ( Treat)

When I am out walking my dog along the same route we take everyday, I could say dramatically- ” This walk is so boring, there is nothing to see. ” Then with a clear conscious  I could stare into my phone or the back of my dog’s head and WILL him to  potty so that we could go in and eat snacks.

But that’s not true.

On that same stretch of road I see big things like crows in the middle of an air fight with an eagle.  Sometimes I see things that shouldn’t be there-  like bears or odd people standing nonchalantly next to cars that do not belong to them.

Sometimes I see little things that I can add to  my curious shelf- little bits of bone, egg shells that fall from the birds nest, dried flowers.

I know that is why  I consider this picture that I got to be a treat- because to me it is both odd and curious:

Photo A.M. Moscoso

I looked down and there in the dark on the ground I saw two perfect Autumn leaves side by side.

Placed there by human hands or not, by fate or just the wind blowing in the right direction,  I ‘m glad I saw them there.

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