If like me you have the malady of saying the wrong thing at the right time or the right thing at the wrong time, let me tell you it’s called foot in the mouth disease!
The awkward pause in the conversation tells you that you have done it again. But try what I may, I don’t seem to shed this habit. The problem lies in my brain. It has to blurt out the truth no matter how uncomfortable or inappropriate it is for the occasion.
Sometimes the consequences are more hilarious than embarrassing. But nevertheless, it does not result in increasing my popularity with those I am with. My close friends and family are more resigned to this character flaw. Though there are still the mild reprimands of” did you have to say that!” Or ” why do you always say the wrong thing “
One of my friend tries to give me eye signals. Or with face and head movements tries to dissuade me from uttering the blooper. The good news is that she sometimes succeeds. And sometimes she would talk over my faux pas so that others don’t notice it.
Having lived with this habit I have accepted it as a part of who I am. So awkwardness is becoming acceptable too.
Weekly prompt – fable – a fictitious narrative or statement: such as a legendary story of supernatural happenings; a narration intended to enforce a useful truth especially: one in which animals speak and act like human beings.
prompt image – Nov. 18, 2019
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Reading to my little girl
I chose to read her tonight
A fable, something with
A lesson for her to carry
Wisdom learned from her mom
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The story starred a lazy hare and a diligent turtle
Just at the start, she interrupted me with this caveat
Why did the hare agree to compete against the turtle
If he knew how lazy he was, he was sure to lose the race
I was thinking of an appropriate response when another objection arose
Did the turtle already knew that the hare would not complete the race
Living in the same forest, I am sure he’s would have heard the rumors
I think that this race was fixed and unfair from the start, she declared
Let’s read a story about Cinderella tonight mom, at least it is a fairytale
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Scratching my head, I gave in to her demand
Thinking that the fables of old need a revision
To fit in the world of today, we have to come up
With stories which can answer the questions
With more logic, to satisfy their clever little minds
Weekly prompt – folklore– traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people. Synonyms – legend, lore, myth, mythology, mythos, tradition.
prompt image – Nov. 11, 2019
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Stories are woven in the fabric of history
Full of wisdom, magic, and tales of bravery
Threads of this tapestry are interspersed
With the tradition of our ancestors carrying it on
To the next generations so that the words still live
Long after older lives have closed their tired eyes
And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither …
–Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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Weekly prompt – enchant/enchanted/enchanting– placed under or as if under a magic spell; having or seeming to have a magical quality; made to feel delightfully pleased or charmed.
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In her innocence, she enchants
Her smiles are so charming
My heart, she holds in her tiny little hands
It so gladdens me when wrinkling her tiny nose
She beams at me, her lips parted in a toothless smile
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Weekly Prompt– psychic – (noun) – synonyms – channeler, medium, spiritist, spiritualist. (adjective) – sensitive to nonphysical or supernatural forces and influences:marked by extraordinary or mysterious sensitivity, perception, or understanding.
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She came up to me and said in a conspiratorial tone
I am a psychic you know, can tell you all that you want to know
Anything in your past or your future that needs to be examined
I will dish it up with my special talent, all authentic and true
I looked up at her with a skeptical smile and shook my head in a no
Thank you but I am better off without knowing what the future holds
Since no one can change it neither you nor someone else
What happened in my past, I know very well, since I have lived it
You should use your special talent for someone who believes in it
Tis the night — the night of the graves delight and the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without the wild winds shout, but no, it is they — it is they. – Cleveland Coxe
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Weekly prompt – haunt/haunted/haunting
prompt image – October 21, 2019
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The haunting
Every year on the all hollows Eve
The specter rises to perform the annual ritual
That it has been entrusted by the spirits that are in command
To create the proper atmosphere for the celebration
Which was now what the people called Halloween
Ghoulish ghosts and spirited spirits to haunt
The neighborhood and scare the delighted children
They could never know that under all the disguises
Real monsters were doing the community service
Of making Halloween a source of freaky delight for all
Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.– Marsha Norman
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Weekly prompt – supernatural– (adjective) – of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe especially relating to God or a god, demigod, spirit, or devil. Departing from what is usual or normal especially so as to appear to transcend the laws of nature. Attributed to an invisible agent (such as a ghost or spirit).
