Forget Shoes, a Big Chair to Fill (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday.

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Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and has become a moveable feast of word or picture or music prompts that encourages us to write stories, poems, or whatever strikes our fancy.    

This month, the prompts are being provided by Lee at Kitchen Connection.   

This week’s “Words for Wednesday” are listed below:

Comedy

Shadows

Loss

Rainbow

Emotional

Heart

OR 

Contradictions

Sensitive

Legendary

Engage

Forever

Never-ending

They had been together long enough to know that life wasn’t all RAINBOWs and sunshine.  That’s why, though it broke his HEART, he had to have the discussions with her now, while she still could.  Now, while her LOSS wasn’t imminent, and she could still ENGAGE  in a lucid discussion of anything.

For her part, she kept seeing the COMEDY in the situation.  They’d always assumed she would outlive him, just like happens to most couples.  This part of their lives had become what she called “a bundle of CONTRADICTIONS,”  nothing going the way they’d thought.  She the intellectual, facing the loss of her faculties, he the mechanic/handyman/jack of every trade you can imagine, having to learn how to do the bookkeeping and what he always called brain-work.

She didn’t allow the discussions they undertook to get too EMOTIONAL.  Most people think of the wife as being more SENSITIVE, but that would be to assume these two were typical.  Had she outlived him, she would have been saddened by the loss and yet have continued to make a life for herself.  He was totally unnerved by the idea of being  without her for any length of time, much less FOREVER.

“It’s not forever!” she reminded him sternly one day.  His maudlin attitude that morning had brought out something he hadn’t seen in a while, her LEGENDARY mama bear side.  In fact, since the kids had grown and gone, he’d never seen it.  She called it up now, knowing he needed it.

“You know that it’s the next life that is NEVER-ENDING!” she scolded.  “Here is just the SHADOWS of the life to come.  You have grandchildren who need you to teach them to build a tree-house and work on a car.  There are the widows at church who will still need your handyman skills.  You can miss me all you want when the time comes, but you better promise me you are going to live and love and laugh and enjoy our family and friends and church just as much as you can while you still draw a breath!”

He had promised, and in years to come, keeping that promise is what gave him both the happiest and saddest and richest years of his life.

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Please note that i am still having trouble commenting on Wordpress blogs, even using my Wordpress account.  Sometimes it won’t publish them at all, but please know, i’m still reading and trying to comment.

Curious as a Cathy, my computer is now saying your site certificate expired and that a copycat site may be trying to steal my personal information.  Also, yours is one of the main ones i cannot comment on, not sure what’s up with all that, but i thought you might want to know.

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Today is:

Bonza Bottler Day™

Children's Day -- North Korea

Clean Air Day -- Canada

D-Day -- 74th Anniversary

Drive-In Movie Day*

Global Running Day    

Helicopter Day -- the first one was tested in Berlin on this day in 1936

Hyun Choong Il -- South Korea (Memorial Day)

Judgement Day -- Fairy Calendar (Petal Hats)

June Bug Days -- Baldwin, WI, US (music, tractor pull, free outdoor movie night, and more; through Saturday)

National Applesauce Cake Day

Nationaldagen -- Sweden (National Day)

National Gardening Exercise Day -- because gardening is good for the body and soul

National Huntington's Disease Awareness Day -- US

National Yo-Yo Day -- Donald F. Duncan, Sr.'s, birth anniversary; go get out your old Duncan and see if you still remember how to go around the world (but not near Great Aunt Mabel's antique lamp she left you, please)

Russian Language Day -- UN

St. Norbert of Xanten's Day (Patron of peace; Bohemia; Madgeburg, Germany; against birth complications)

Tailor's Day -- the first Wednesday of June is noted on many sites as the day to thank your tailor

Teachers' Day -- Bolivia

The National Tournament -- Spruce Meadows, Calgary, AB, Canada (features the Spruce Meadows Show Jumping Championship and the Nexen Cup, with live entertainment and activities daily; through Sunday)

Turtle Races -- Nisswa, MN, US (Wednesdays through August 22nd, go race a turtle, it's only $5 to adopt a turtle for the race and get a participation racing button!)

Birthdays Today:

Staci Keanan, 1975

Max Casella, 1967

Paul Giamatti, 1967

Ena, 1966

Amanda Pays, 1959

Bjorn Borg, 1956

Kenny G, 1956

Sandra Bernhard, 1955

Harvey Fierstein, 1954

Harvey Fierstein, 1952

Robert Englund, 1947

Gary U.S. Bonds, 1939

Marian Wright Edelman, 1939

Billy Whitelaw, 1932

Thomas Mann, 1875

Robert Falcon Scott, 1868

Alexander Pushkin, 1799

Nathan Hale, 1755

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"20/20"(TV), 1978

"Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust"(Album release), 1972

"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"(Song release), 1965

Today in History:

Twenty-four wagonloads of Talmudic books are burned in Paris, 1242

The Qing Dynasty Manchu forces led by the Shunzhi Emperor capture Beijing during the collapse of the Ming Dynasty; the Manchus would rule China until 1912 when the Republic of China is established, 1644

The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university  museum, 1683

A devastating fire destroys one-third of Moscow, including 18,000 homes, 1752

Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte is crowned King of Spain, 1808

The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London, 1844

More than 100,000 inhabitants of Bombay are killed as a cyclone in the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbour, 1882

The eruption of Novarupta in Alaska begins, the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, 1912

The Chrysler Corporation  is founded by Walter Percy Chrysler, 1925

*The first drive-in theater opens, in Camden, New Jersey, United States, 1933

A new Instrument of Government is promulgated making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy, 1974

Mongolia  holds its first direct presidential elections, 1993

A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya with an estimated force slightly greater than the Nagasaki nuclear bomb, 2002

Tamil is established as a Classical Language in India, 2004

In east London, archeologists find remains of the Curtain Theatre, which opened in 1577 and was where some of Shakespeare's plays were performed, 2012

A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun, 2012