Alone today and quiet, happy with it “I think you write more than I do, even though I write for a living.” “I love it,” I say. It is my daily quiet writing time: four am. No one is here but me and the cats and they just ate and are grooming each other. Just me and paper and pens and computer still dark out and cold. I check to see if it is clear. No, not today. I hope to see the green comet. Little hopes, small ones, quiet ones, that do not bother anyone. No one is jealous or wants to take them away. I hold them warm in my heart, Beloved, and do not think of love.
Heart of wood, by the sea
What do the spirits say to me?
His heart is stone not wood you see
And he’ll never come back, never come back, never come back to me
Tree torn from land by flooding water
bark and branches torn asunder
thrown back to the beach stripped and bare
bleached and dried lying there
grass and sand and stones on strand
I wonder how much a heart can stand
This doesn’t really fit today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt. I was looking for another photograph which fits and found this one.
I chose a more difficult word for the Ragtag Daily Prompt than I realized! I was thinking of imminent, but came up with immanent when using spell check. Then I puzzled because it did not mean what I thought it meant. In the ragbag ragtag immanence of my mind, I was really thinking of imminent, meaning about to happen or near in time!
It’s a nonsense poem, so the picture has nothing to do with it.
Words in my mind are immanent but the Ragtag prompt is imminent spellcheck I thought was eminent turns out it is more cinnament now I’m in my element nonsense poems being elegant and Tuesday being swellegant and you’re wondering if I’m intelligent don’t worry, this won’t be permanent which doesn’t really rhyme with immanent
Today’s Ragtag Daily Prompt is prompt, because we need a seventh person. Sounds pretty easy, right? To pick a word once a week and post it and then watch the replies.
It is easy and it isn’t! That day sneaks up on me. Now I try to post the Tuesday prompt 5-7 days early and set it to post on Tuesday morning.
If another prompt is missing, I can check the Ragtag site. Sometimes a prompter is gone or has something happening in their life or has put 9 pm instead of 9 am! I can intervene and fix the last problem. We fill in for each other, too.
This is an international group and a prompt for peace! Peace us and join us! I love seeing photographs from all over the world. I am itching to go to Australia to see all the birds and to India and back to Alamosa, Colorado and in fact, I would go to any of the areas that people post from. With all of the stress from the pandemic and the ongoing war, this is a daily place that makes me hopeful that people can get along and that we will reach the point where the color of our skin matters no more than the color of our eyes. It is Martin Luther King Day in the US and I am celebrating peace and hope.
I heard a wonderful sermon yesterday from a man who works in our school system, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfmPjcEIbBA. I went to a music jam which had wonderful diversity of music. I went to hear Chicago Bob play and I have to say that I did not expect him to play Teddy Bear’s Picnic. A friend came to dinner too.
Ooooooo! Listening to Mitch Ryder and the Wheels Sock it to me baby, one of the songs here.
My muscles are BACK. Sometime in the last two weeks, while I was helping a friend in Michigan, my muscles came back. Three days ago I felt better than I have since before March of 2021. My normal energy level was back.
So what did I do? Overdid, of course. I did a beach walk on Thursday and then a local walk with a friend on Friday and then went to hear Johnathan Doyle on Saturday, fabulous! I had to dance!
Paid for it yesterday. The fast twitch muscles are back but it doesn’t mean they are strong. They are NOT strong. I have to be patient (I am not patient!). Yesterday I spent most of the day lying on the couch. Everything hurt and cramped. Ow.
BUT I can build those muscles up!
Here are some of my ex’es and my favorite bands and songs from jitterbug and lindyhop dance back in Washington, DC. I was delighted to see that Little Red and the Renegades is still playing. They played at the Kennedy Center early on New Year’s Eve. My spirit wanted to go but the body did not.
That is not a song they played back in the 1980s. We all get older!
And Doc Scantlin and his Imperial Palms Orchestra! We danced to them and I know the gentleman lindy hopping at the start. Probably others there too. We loved the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo.
And this was one of my ex’s and my favorite recorded songs to dance to… gosh, how naughty but true right?
I am so happy to have my fast twitch muscles BACK. Now I just need to build them up!
The photograph is from 1989, at our wedding. We are doing a move that was called “New York Kicks”. I think the photographer is my ex’s uncle. The band was Darryl Davis who is also still playing and is a friend and have you seen any of his Ted Talks?
Clouds two days ago on the Fort Worden Beach. Washington State.
I was back east over the winter holidays. Nine days got added on for an ill friend. I was lucky to be able to change my flight and be able to help. This is the early morning holiday lights on the way to the hospital.
Clouds further blurred by water. Taken in Ontario, Canada in 2012.
Water blur study. Somewhere in Washington.
More water.
Sunrise, a new day, blurry but beautiful anyhow. Mount Tahoma, Washington State.
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