Soul Food Cafe Prompts

It’s Like This, Honey

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Inspired by the SFC Prompt: Tholos Dreaming

My favorite wild animal is the Wolf- my second isn’t an animal its an insect.

It’s the Bee.

Like Wolves, Bees are important to our environment and where they have been eradicated or hunted down or poisoned the environment fails. 

Maybe my love for these animals stems from their underdog status.

Or maybe when I see them I remember how fragile our connections to each other and our world is and it breaks my heart- but not in a bad way.

Photo A.M. Moscoso Christmas 2021

 

The bee was originally the symbol of an early Anatolian goddess who the Greeks later identified with their goddess, Artemis; so close was the connection that the priestesses of the goddess were called “honey bees.”

Corner Of My Eye

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SFC Adventure Calander Day One-PORTALS

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Is the portal that I am looking a scarred oak door with leather hinges  in a haunted house?

Is it a coffin lid, soft and eaten away with wood rot and mold shrouded in dust in a crypt made of rough stones and broken marble?

Is the portal a broken window? The attic stairs in my Nan’s empty house?  That dark corner, in my Aunt’s sewing room that smells like vanilla when it gets cold outside?

Is the portal I need to find, to make the words for my stories come alive  truly a door, or could  it be a candle in a dark window that a lonely lost soul like me can see from miles and years away?

Is the portal a door or is it a shadow that I think I see for moments at a time from the corner of my eye?

Not Quite Alice

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Inspired By SFC ” Monday Madness ”

This is a clown fish at home.

The Clown Fish lives with Sea Anemones where it is protected by the Sea Anemones’s stinging tentacles. The Sea Anemone also provides the Clown Fish with food.  In turn the Clown fish protects The Sea Anemone from it’s parasites and predators and it feeds the Anemone too- and the only thing I can compare that  feeding too is when my dog used to eat my cat’s poo from the litter box.

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This is the Amanita Muscaria- it’s a relative of the Destroying Angel.  The Destroying Angel will kill you. End of Story. Full stop. If you know what you’re doing Amanita Muscaria you won’t kill you, but it will make you very sick.

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This is a dress that I think was inspired by Amanita Muscaria- I thought when I saw it  thought that I would  like like a Princess from a Fairy Tale preserved in one of those old volumes you see under lock and key at an antique shop.

What would the caption under my picture say of me in my dress-? Would I be standing or dancing? Would I be on the arm of a Prince or would I be entering The Great Hall with a sly smile on my lips?

Anita Moscoso- the caption under the picture of me in my dress might say- she won’t kill you but if you don’t know what you’re doing she could make you really, really sick.

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Smile

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This is my Granddaughter Jemma.

For Halloween she decided to be Pennywise for Halloween and she killed it-well. You know what I mean:

Photo: Moscoso

A month or so ago she grew into a the motorcycle jacket I bought her when she was just a couple of years old. I got it for her because it was a copy ( almost ) of the one I bought for myself when I was 16. I wore it into my 40’s until it was worn out beyond repair. I have it stored in one of those boxes you store wedding gowns in,

Hell. I didn’t even go through that trouble for my actual wedding dress.

Recently Jemma picked out a dress, put on the jacket and posed with the family dog for a picture:

Photo J.M Moscoso

She said she was dressed up as the Bride of Chucky:

Her Mom said she reminded her of Buffy The Vampire Slayer- the original Buffy, not the TV version. I get that because Jemma is an athletic kid and the Tv Buffy Buffy didn’t carry herself the way Kristy Swanson- or for that matter the way Jemma does.

I think Jemma captured Tiffany’s spirit ( ahem ). It was something in that smile:

Inspired By The SFC prompt; The Aisle of Ancestors