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A Box Of Dolls

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RDP Tuesday: TOYS

Photo A.M. Moscoso
New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum 2012

On my last trip to New Orleans I bought some Voodoo Dolls.

They weren’t the scary kind of Voodoo Dolls- I mean they looked scary but their purpose was to ward off bad spirits and the kind of spirits that follow them.

I loved my dolls because shortly after I got them good things happened like I got the most amazing puppy ever, a couple of toxic people in my life crashed and burned and I even lost weight. I started to really write again.

And then I moved.

When I moved I put them in one box, labeled it and set it next to me on the car seat.

What happened next is the sort of thing that happens when you move- something gets lost or broken and in this case what was lost was my box of dolls.

I went back to my old place, I dug through the trash in case they had been tossed out. I unpacked very single box and even looked in places where my box of dolls could have been put in the haste of moving.

I am sad to say that the box never turned up and I still go through totes and containers that I’ve looked through a million times for the past three years to no avail.

Sometimes I wonder what happened to my box of dolls and then I remember, they were designed to ward off evil spirits that might choose to bedevil me and I can’t help but to think maybe they are off doing that right now as I write this.

After all, things have been going pretty good recently.

Pretty good indeedy.

New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum
Photo A.M. Moscoso

 

Remember Jemma

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RDP Tuesday: ASK

Photo A.M. Moscoso

The next time you

wonder if you’re good enough at writing or singing or if you should speak out

I would ask you to consider my Granddaughter, Jemma.

We were at a Children’s Museum in Olympia, Washington and one of the interactive exhibits

was a stage with a toy mic, a curtain and at the side was a mixing board where the kids could run sound of

audiences cheering and clapping.

Jemma took to the stage and in front of a crowd of people she sang her song  ( ABC’s) and she tried to

project her voice over the sounds of the museum- kids playing at the other exhibits, laughing, talking because if you

noticed, the mics are only props.

She didn’t use that noise to hide her light under a bushel.

When she was done she exited the stage with flair.

I don’t know about you, but the next time I am doing something I love -I’m not going to ask if I should be doing this.

I’m going to remember Jemma taking the stage.

It’s Like This

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RDP Monday: PROLIFIC

Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa-Photographer Uknown

Each grain of sand

each droplet of water

each tide that makes it way to shore

weighed down, just a little by bone and ruined wood

polished on it’s way to shore when no one is really looking.

They all have a story to tell, a poem to share, a picture to paint

if you are willing to dive into their world

and listen to them

one by one

on your own and all alone.

I Still Wonder

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RDP Monday: COLOSSAL

From the Colossus of Rhodes  to the statue of Zeus at Olympia, of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient world only one remains…

The Colossus Solis Artist: Philip Galle Date: 16th–17th century

Olympian Zeus in the sculptured antique art of Quatremère de Quincy (1815).

The Great Pyramid of Giza is all that is left of the Ancient Wonders.

Great Pyramid of Giza -The Last Remaining Wonder of the Ancient World

I don’t know about you, but when I was a kid I memorized the Seven Wonders and read every story I could find about them. I even wrote my own stories and vowed that one day I would visit the places where they once stood.

Well. You know. Maybe I will one day.

Ad Deir (“The Monastery”)- Petra

I’ve chosen pictures that I’ve liked from the New Wonders, not necessarily the image of the sites voted on- and I’ll explain why-

From what I understand there are now 7 new sights that have been declared The New Seven Wonders and though I don’t disagree that these new wonders are magnificent in their own right, I can’t help to feel that-

because

they’ve been logged, recorded, and their images have been used in political photo-ops, travel commercials and backdrops in countless movies

there isn’t a lot of room for ‘wonder’ to take place- which I guess is a little sad to me.

Chichen Itza -The Jaguar Throne inside the Temple of Kukulcán (“El Castillo”) pyramid is red and inlaid with jade

On the other hand, the two New Wonders that I’ve pictured above do have a little magic and maybe- if I’m lucky I’ll hear a story or two coming from their way.

After all, a million people voted  on these sights and made them our new Wonders and a million people can’t be wrong, can they?

amm

NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

Chosen by over one hundred million votes- HERE