Paula is the host of Thursday Inspiration
Welcome to Thursday Inspiration! This is my weekly prompt post and hopefully it will inspire you to write something creative, perhaps a poem or a piece of flash fiction.
This week’s theme is adventure and the picture is below. Here is the song snippet from “Born To Be Wild” recorded by Steppenwolf in 1968:
Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Picture from the Happy Color app.
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It was a sudden urge to go climbing
An unplanned adventure thrust upon me
Reluctant and unprepared, I had to become
The hero of my own adventure
The climb to the shallow hill became a challenge
No one to rescue, no knight is shining armor
Only me to help me in this unwarranted situation
Limping and cursing I came down holding onto
A brightly decorated climbing stick left there
But some kindly and thoughtful soul
Never again will I undertake such an adventure
Now I know my limits so I shouldn’t step
Out of the natural limits imposed by age
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I love the picture! Even more, I understand your narrative. It is what I am feeling. Near here is a place called Crack in the Ground. It is a 7-mile hike into a lava tube. I’ve wanted to do this since I moved here. So I’ve decided to try and drive to the spot and carry a fold-out chair with walking sticks. Each time I will go a little farther until I’ve made it. After I am recovered from the last trip to town (a three-hour round-trip drive on rough roads and lots of shopping). Maybe I should put that picture on my walking sticks to give me energy!
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Thanks a lot! Yes slow and gradually increasing the distance is the sensible way to do it.
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Natural limits imposed by age?? Yeah, some forced on you by Mother Nature, some by the wisdom obtained through the years and some by fear or apathy! Limits? We don’t want no stinking limits!! Sorry! parody on an old movie quote!!
xoxo
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Wisdom and age together dictate that we should not bite off more than we can chew! 😊
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Yeah, I keep having to relearn that lesson from time to time. I’m still waiting for that “Old enough to know better to kick it”!! LOL!
xoxo
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I don’t know if it ever does! 😜
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