“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”. – (Act III, scene I).”
― The Merchant of Venice
If you don’t do it on Facebook or Instagram …sorry Mr Shakespeare- in a word the answer is NO.
Dickens’ wrote in a Christmas Carol that we should keep Christmas in our hearts year round.
Can do will do Mr Dickens!
But it will have to share room in there with Halloween.
amm
RDP Monday: DUENDE
She asked her husband, once, why he never read what she wrote
she asked her best friend
her sister
and her son
the same question.
” Because, ” her husband said
and her sister and best friend told her
and
her Son admitted
that it was bad enough to see the monsters
looking out from her eyes
and to hear the ghosts in her voice
and catch the Devil in her face
but the thought of seeing them
on a page
and in their hands
now
free of the house
where they live with me- under word and key
would mean that the ghosts and devils and monsters
were
loose and that the Ghosts and Devils and Monsters
know who
my
Husband
and
Son
and Sister
and best friend
are
and where they live and sleep.
Several years ago, just before my birthday
I had to remove the remains
of a woman my age
from a care center
where she died alone.
There was a little yellow Beanie Baby Bear on her nightstand and someone had put pale blue fuzzy socks on her feet. I think one of her care givers gave her the bear and bought her the fuzzy socks.
It must have been nice for her, to have someone care for her like that in the end.
Since then when my birthday rolls around – which had never been a pleasant time for me- I think of it as ‘our Birthday’ and it makes the day a little more tolerable.
Sad.
But tolerable.
RDP-Sunday- EGREGIOUS