🌍 If you could live anywhere for a year, where and why?
If I could live anywhere for a year I’d hop on a rocket and make tracks to Mars.
I want to wake up in the morning and see a new sky. I want to hear an alien windstorm. I want to feel dust that maybe carries the remains of an ancient world that may be gone but haunts the entire world and not just a building.
Most of all I want to look for ghosts on Mars and cemeteries created by hands different then my own.
” Mars ” Ray Miller
These are the Christmas cards that I have sent out for the past five years:
Some have black envelopes and some are red, but it doesn’t matter because they aren’t full sized Christmas cards so I had to put them – card and colored envelopin a larger envelope.
Nobody ever said they exactly liked getting my Krampus cards so I changed things up a bit.
Last year I found some cards that featured Labradors, so I sent those out.
Around New years I started to get messages from some of the people I sent cards to.
They wanted to know if I was doing okay- and
why didn’t they get a Krampus card?
People. Just when you think you’ve got them figured out you learn you don’t.
Word of the Day Challenge: CHRISTMAS CARD
I used to hate it when my Dad strung the lights on the Christmas tree because it took FOREVER and he wanted it done perfectly so we would sit in the living room with the ONEÂ box of ornaments we were allowed to hang and watch him put up the lights and I remember thinking,
” I hate Christmas tree lights. ”
That all changed the year my Dad bought a couple of boxes of ” bubble lights ” and I was enchanted.
They looked like something that a Mad Scientist would hang on his tree so of course I asked if we could get MORE of these lights and my Dad was so happy that I wasn’t laying face down on the floor cursing Christmas Tree lights and the horse they rode in on that he actually did go out later and by some more.
I went on line to find a picture of vintage bubble lights and discovered they have an actual history that predates the time I first saw them by over 40 years.
My Great Grand Uncle had lost his wife and two of his three children in a house fire, so my Dad’s family were overly cautious when it came to most things electrical and in the case of older bubble lights they contained methylene chloride which is converted to carbon monoxide in the body, so I can see why they wouldn’t use them.
I mean, all regular light had to do was twitch and my Dad would toss the entire string.
Nowadays I use fancy LED lights and if you don’t think I still don’t touch the bulbs to make sure they’re not hot…you’d be wrong.
Sometimes though, I think it would be nice to string some bubble lights up for old times sake.
For RDP Monday: BULB
Every Christmas Season I hope I won’t spiral into depression.
Every New Years Eve IÂ try to not look at myself in the mirror and sigh at the face looking back at me in overwhelming in disappointment.
Every year I hope I won’t do these things.
That’s something, I guess.
Midjourney creations and styles by Irina Shamaeva
RDP Tuesday:Optimism!