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The Corner Project

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Linda G Hill’s  Stream of Consciousness Saturday Prompt: “In the Corner.”

Artist: David Ospina

At the end of February  2020 I neatly stacked in the corner of my workroom a selection of books, some craft projects and mystery puzzles/adventures,  each labeled with dates noting when I needed to start each one.

I even had a calender for the books I wanted to read for my Goodreads Challenge.

I have a goal to read a hundred books a year- and no I’ve never hit 100 but I can get over half of them in so I keep that goal the same. Last year though, I only read 10.

I never completed a craft project and I never even started my Mystery Box Adventures because shortly after planning out my year long project the Coronavirus shut down the state I live in.

So over Christmas- which was not exactly a big red letter day, I decided to pull out my neglected projects from their place in the corner and I took them to my dining room table and went over them one by one.

I could have had so much fun last year, I could have a little less bored, weary and instead I could have been inspired.

So I have two choices.

I could scrap the lot and choose new books, projects and games to work on.

But- do you know I have miniature models of little houses that I could still put together- they actually light up and one of them is a model of a living room with a little dog standing at a piano. There’s a mystery box adventure about a fire at a theatre where everyone in the audience went insane and it burned down. A lunatic asylum is involved. How did it start? Who was responsible? It’s a fun puzzle and I had actually been inspired to take a few notes for a story.

The books- what a selection- there a ghost stories, books by Dickens and some that I bought because the man who owns the bookstore I shop has never let me down and I just know they’re going to be great.

And my guitar- I had my acrylic nails taken off so that I could start playing again.

My guitar is in a corner and I played it a little today.

It felt great.

So I’m thinking that I don’t have two choices about my corner projects. I have one.

I have to go back and do them.

For the first time in almost a year, I’m actually looking forward to what I will do tomorrow.

amm

Drawn To It

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For Linda G Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday Prompt: Magnet

I like to look up,

into the sky

with my eyes wide open

even if it is raining

or snowing

Or pigeons are flying over head

desperately shedding feathers and poo.

 

I like to look down at

ruts in the road carved by cars and running water

and ice puddles

with cracked surfaces that remind me of aged skin

and gardens that have gone to seed patiently waiting for next Spring

 

I’m drawn to them all

like magnets to steel

like silly girls to pretty boys

who wear to much cologne.

October

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Forr Linda G Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “starts with ‘m’.” Use any word that begins with the letter “m” as the subject or theme for your post. Enjoy!- 

I chose ” Macabre “

Each day in October

I give myself permission to capture

each dark cloud  that drifts by.

Each day in October

I  go looking for monsters

from the second I open my eyes to when I close them at night.

Macabre and Merry Mayhem

strikes my still heart  to life with a peal of thunder

each day in October

and every single night.

Hide The Knives

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Linda G Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday Prompt  is “sharp.”

 

While gathering up some fun facts for my upcoming Halloween posts, I came across a very interesting Halloween tradition from Germany.

It involves knives.

I’ll just let that roll around in your head for a second.

I learned that from October 30th until November 8th, Catholic communities remember and honor their dead by visiting their graves and bringing flowers.

Nice, right? I think so. Seeing all of those pretty colors in the Fall in cemeteries which are sad places by nature is a lovely gesture for all involved- both for the living and the dead.

Sadly,  as we know sometimes when certain people pass on we aren’t going to bring them flowers in death because there’s no way in heck we would have brought them flowers in life.

They could have been mean, vicious, bad tempered, murderous and cruel and can we expect them to change in death?

Maybe they could or maybe they don’t change.

To be on the safe side- during the time of the year when welcoming back and remembering those of us who have moved on, nobody want to  risk that a few malevolent spirits could sneak back too, so the Germans have a tradition where they hide all of their knives.

I don’t care if people say German efficiency is a myth. I think it’s true. So there.

About 5 years ago I came home from work one day and I went straight into the kitchen to get a drink of water.

I stopped dead in my tracks because in the middle of my kitchen floor were a pile of knives.

I felt like I had just wandered into a horror film.

To put a point on it ( see what I did there ) almost every single one of my knives from my knife rack and the ones that had been drying with my dishes on the countertop dish rack were on the floor too.

No kidding, I was about to head out the back door when my dog ( who at this moment, in my mind had failed as any sort of guard dog ) strolled in slurped some water from his bowl and then he  jumped up and put his paws on the counter that is right next to his food and water bowls.

He reached into my dishrack, pulled out a butter knife and from his standing position turned his head and dropped it into the pile with the rest of my cutlery.

He wagged his tail.

I decided to drink  something a little stronger then water.

I love my dog, but I have a sneaky feeling that the wise thing to do, after he and I have shuffled off this mortal coil, is that if you think of us around Halloween.

Hide the knives.

Hamish Macbeth
Photo by A.M. Moscoso