For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: bail.
The little red pram is older than I am and leaks. Last summer we got it out and my daughter sailed and bailed with ease. She is on the racing team at Western Washington in Bellingham, racing FJs.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: bail.
The little red pram is older than I am and leaks. Last summer we got it out and my daughter sailed and bailed with ease. She is on the racing team at Western Washington in Bellingham, racing FJs.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: rock.
One of my favorite early morning rocks, in Ontario, Canada.
The mergansers like it too.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: immerse.
My daughter loves the water. Here she is going into Lake Matinenda in Ontario. She swam across it, miles, with me in a small canoe.
My daughter took the photograph. This is the first summer after my sister died.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: cook.
I really do like to cook. Eating is a pleasure too and I am blessed with children, now young adults, who always liked to eat. No fussy eaters in our house! I wouldn’t allow sodas in the house and when we went to restaurants, they could choose soda as a dessert or a dessert but not both. I harped on the evils of sugar and television, at least, too much of either. We did and do eat chocolate.
This is my cousin’s cabin, at Lake Matinenda, from 2012. The earliest cabin is from the late 1930s and they all have pretty basic kitchens. We filter the lake water now but used to drink it straight from the lake. My family stayed in a tent mostly and my parents, mostly my mother, cooked on a single burner camp stove. Bless her! A lot of work! We all took part in the cabin work. Trash taken out by boat, filling water buckets, working with hand tools and cooking on burners. The propane refrigerator is much better than trying to function out of a cooler! It taught all of us good camping kitchen skills and we have family recipes for the lake stay.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: ripple.
I took this at Lake Matinenda in Ontario, Canada in August.
today goes deep
I let it
when someone says “You are too emotional.”
it means “I am not comfortable with your emotions.”
it is them not me
I could care less
what they think
what they feel
whether they are comfortable with my emotions
they will be on my shit list
until they learn
I am comfortable with my emotions
today goes deep
I let all the darkness rise
grief
anger
disillusionment
humiliation
and my small child
is wild
with joy
this day is yours
small child
I am with you today
all day
you I the Beloved
no shoulds today
no list
nothing that you do not want to do
food
music
warmth
church
beach walk
I will not clean
I will not pay bills
I will not sit with fools
who say I am too emotional
we can laugh
or cry
or rage
would you like to smash a plate?
no
says small child
food
warmth
outdoors
birds
deer
music of the spheres
here
dear one
we go deep
For Saturday six word stories.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: slippery.
The front rocks at the lake slope down into the water. The rocks are terrifically slick when it first rains.
They are also slick when we try to step into the lake to swim.
We invented a new way to get in this year. On the edge of the water, go forward a bit and then…
slide in….
For Wordless Wednesday.
Daily haiku or senryu for fun
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