Anita Marie Godfrey
1967
Honokaa, Hawaii
Photo Catalina Godfrey
When my nieces were little girls, I was telling them stories about our family
and it came up in the conversation that I was half white and half Filipino
and my niece who was about three at the time had an ‘ ah ha ‘ moment and she said
” Oh! So you are a Jalapeno! “
I pondered on this for a moment and then I said-
” Yes. Yes I am. “
WP Daily Prompt asks: What are your favorite emojis?
My answer is short and sweet and simple-NONE of them are my favorites.
I believe that if you want to convey a feeling or a story in an image, make them meaningful. Make them pleasing to the eye and have them tell a story.
These images from the Egyptian Book of The Dead do that.
So the next time you are tempted to use an emoji, use something like these images. No cheating. Don’t turn them into Memes. I like meme but these images already tell a story.
So why use these images in part or in all of their glory you ask?
Because the internet is a wasteland and emojis are the dull Patron Saints of all who dwell there.
Daily Prompt asks: What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
Victorian Greeting Card
The only holiday that I really love to celebrate is Halloween
Christmas is ok, I like the music, most of the time I enjoy putting up the tree and I also like it when it snows.
Wait a sec.
Does my dog’s birthday count as a holiday? Well. It should be. He’s pretty awesome.
Hamish Macbeth Turns 8!
Photo A.M. Moscoso
I guess what I love about Halloween is that every year you can change it up, you don’t have to stick to a script and it’s okay if turn it upside down and shake it by it’s heels.
By that I mean, you can celebrate it alone, you can celebrate it with bunch of people at a party or at a Haunted House. Nobody is going to bat an eye if you don’t dress up or you don’t carve a pumpkin.
Halloween is a holiday that wants you to make your mark on it.
You can spend the season reading spooky stories, you can write them too ( ahem ) You can visit graveyards and go to places, ‘where once upon a time something really strange happened ‘ and you can take pictures or just sit there and soak in the atmosfear.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Starting in June I start to write up my Halloween posts and stories. I don’t get to far ahead of myself because sometimes the Muse shows up and we sort of strike out on other topics and that is okay. I just bank those stories and use them later.
I can say this without skipping a beat:
What I love the most about Halloween is that it calls on me to be creative, daring and to jump into the human race and celebrate the night with gusto and joy.
That is why Halloween is my favorite holiday- and with that let’s close with Macbeth and his three Witches because, like I said there is no one way to express yourself where Halloween is concerned.
amm
Artist Unknown
RDP Tuesday: BUCKET LIST
[Blue Graveyard]
Hugo Steiner-Prag1880/1945
fill a grave
by moonlight, by starlight, at dawn
I do not care
if it is raining or snowing or a hundred degrees in the shade
give me a spade, a shovel and a bunch of flowers to plop in the urn when I am done.
Haunt a house
draped in a soft white sheet
my hair in a braid
hanging to my waist like a severed noose, my fingertips torn and twisted
I will haunt my house, your house, the empty asylum
where all of the clocks stopped at midnight and the basement doors are nailed shut.
Take a long stroll in the darkness
on a road with no sidewalks
lined with elm trees and broken streetlights
houses with missing windows and weed chocked yards
where there will always be a car that breaks down
and the only other soul on that will be on that street beside the the driver is me
under the elm tree in the darkness on a street where nobody lives
I am sure that all the driver and I will be thinking about
is our bucket list.
Nina Leen1944-11
Night in cemetery where author Washington Irving is buried.