Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

For RDP Monday: EUPEPTIC

When I was good, when I was funny, when I was sweet and kind and I radiated obedience and happy vibes through each and everyone of my sugar encrusted pores my Nan used to say:

” You are so sweet, I could just eat  you up.”

There were a few days when I was not so sweet – like the day I threw a rock at my brother and instead of hitting his head- which I was aiming for, I missed and my rock sailed through our neighbors picture window.

Safety glass was non-existent when I was a child so that window exploded. The jagged shards that clung to the frame looked like they were grinning at me.

Nan decided to scold me in the kitchen and she said not with sadness or anger but great disappointment that I was ‘rotten to the core’.

I was stood  in front of my Nan, posed, I hoped like a very sorry little girl. ” I’m sorry Nan. ” I said.

The kitchen was hot because she had been warming up the oven and there was and acre of chopped potatoes, carrots and onions on the counter.

” I am too. ” she turned to the oven and flipped the dials off.

She was angry.

She glared at me.

“Well. There goes dinner. ”

The Cemetery Tree

RDP Sunday: TREED

The Cemetery Tree- this ‘tree’ is a grave marker ( photographed from three angles ).

A unique specimen that will outlast the treess around it and what rests beneath it.

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Photo A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery.
Beaver Dam WI USA
October2023

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery.
Beaver Dam WI USA
October2023

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery.
Beaver Dam WI USA
October2023

She Who Does Not Laugh

For RDP Wednesday: MOCK

I remember a teacher of mine used to make fun of the way I smiled and laughed.

If I was near him and he heard me laugh, he would lean over stick his face close to mine and mimic my laugh.

It was pretty embarrassing. I hated him for a long time for doing that to me.

I was a Mortician’s apprentice when I saw him again.

He was now a minister and he was officiating the funeral I had directed.

Of course he didn’t recognize me. I was older, darker and taller.

After the service we were walking out of the chapel to the parking lot when he thanked me for my work I had done on the young man who had attended his church and died in a terrible auto accident  and I said,

” I hope you’ll call on me again.”

Then I smiled and when I did he pulled back a little. He flinched and then he said my

name and he said in recognition, ” it’s you, isn’t it. ”

I let his comment pass, then I put my hand on his arm and said with conviction, ” I’m looking forward to seeing you

again. ”

He pulled his arm away and tried to stride off, but he stumbled just a little and that little slip of his did my heart good.

 

Steady On

Every year I make a few New Years Eve Resolutions and every year I can pick them off and this is how I do it:

I never promise to lose weight or to excercie more or to ‘eat healthy’.

I only resolve to do things that I think will make my world- the one that other people visit- a happier place to be.

So I always promise to write more or read more or to get out more and to learn something new- like cooking  new dish or making it my goal to talk to people at the dog park instead of just sitting on the bench with my head down.

I know that we want to make grand gestures to go into the New Year with, but I prefer to meet the New Year calm, cool and unruffled- no matter what I face.

AI ARTWORK BY
CURSEJOURNEY

RDP Monday: UNRUFFLED