Better Heed This One (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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

This month, the prompts are being provided by Lissa.  

This week's prompts are:

1. belong

2. miserable

3. memory

4. quiver

5. ghost

And/Or

6. woven

7. shiver

8. maybe

9. sunshine

10. beneath

"Did you ever know that you're my heroooo," warbled Aunt Marigold.

"I know it's the pain meds the dentist gave her," June said softly to Alan, "and I'm glad she's not MISERABLE from the pain, but does she have to sing so loud?"

Aunt Marigold had sailed into the dentist's office a very different way from how she sailed out.  The return journey had taken all three of them to get her both to and into the car.  Alan and June had both been glad not to have tried to get her there alone.

"Youuu are the wind BENEATH my wiiiiings," floated from the front bedroom, sending a SHIVER through June.

Alan just sighed.  "If my MEMORY serves me, when I was younger she had a dental visit while staying at my cousin's house.  He said pain medicine has always had this effect on her, makes her think she's a singer.  He also said she thought she saw a GHOST and invited it to sing along, but it was just the SUNSHINE reflecting off of a mirror."

June laughed and at that moment, Aunt Marigold stepped out of the bedroom. 

"It sounds like joy and merriment out here, kiddos!" she said, but with a bit of a QUIVER in her voice that was quite unlike her.  "MAYBE you can fill me in on the joke?"

"Oh, it was nothing, Aunt Marigold," June said, trying to think fast.  Alan came to her rescue, "We were just delighted with how well your dentist appointment went, that's all."

"Well, I'm delighted, too!"  Aunt Marigold was heading for the kitchen on a path that had her bumping the walls and furniture, just the way she'd been when she left the dentist's office.  Alan grabbed her arm gently and steered her toward her favorite WOVEN rattan chair, where she went down with a most ungraceful and un-Marigold-like plop.

Once seated, she continued her slightly slurred commentary.  "Your dentist was wonderful to go ahead and fill that tooth right away so I don't miss my flight out day after tomorrow.  Meanwhile, I'm fearfully hungry..."

"Supper's almost done," June headed for the kitchen.

"Well then, I'm sorry I went ahead and sat down," Aunt Marigold started.

"We're all eating in here on TV trays," Alan said, loud enough for June to hear.  Going into the kitchen closet for the trays, he murmured just loud enough for June to hear, "The less she walks around tonight, the better, and if we eat in front of the TV, she won't need to talk or sing to entertain us!"

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Today is:

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Willing to Lend a Hand Wednesday 

Birthday of Set -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

First Thnork of the Year -- Fairy Calendar

Gaura Parba -- Nepal (women's festival for the goddess Gauri to ask for health and long life for their husbands)

Heroes Day -- Namibia

Ilmatar Day -- Finland (Water Mother, goddess of the heavens)

Make Your Own Luck Day -- for those who refuse to sit around and wait for it

National Cherry Popsicle Day

National Day of Repentance -- Papua New Guinea

National Dog Day -- sponsored by the Animal Miracle Foundation   

St. Adrian of Nicodemia's Day (Patron of butchers, prison guards, soldiers; against plague)

Women's Equality Day -- US (commemorates Women's Suffrage)

Yoshida no Hi Matsuri -- Yoshida, Japan (fest to mark the end of Mt. Fuji climbing season; through tomorrow)

Birthdays Today:

Chris Pine, 1980

Macaulay Culkin, 1980

Christopher Burke, 1965

Branford Marsalis, 1960

Leon Redbone, 1949

Ben Bradlee, 1921

Mother Teresa, 1910

Albert Bruce Sabin, 1906

Christopher Isherwood, 1904

Peggy Guggenheim, 1898

Lee de Forest, 1873

Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria, 1819

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, 1743

Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, 1740

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Cincinnati Reds vs. Brooklyn Dodgers Doubleheader(first MLB games televised), 1939

"Lightnin'"(Play), 1918

"Elijah"(Mendelssohn Op. 70 MWV A25), 1846

Today in History:

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pieta, 1498

The Pennsylvania Ministerium, the first Lutheran denomination in North America, is founded in Philidelphia, 1748

John Fitch is granted a US patent for his working steamboat, 1791

Charles Thurber patents a typewriter, 1843

The first news dispatch by telegraph is made, 1858

Major eruption of Krakatoa, 36,000 dead, 1883

19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the vote, takes effect, 1920

The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, 1939

The USSR announces the first successful test of an ICBM, 1957

The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec, 1977

John Paul I is elected Pope, 1978

The agreement on how to divide the Czech Republic and Slovakia is signed, 1992

Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia, 2008

Israel requests that Germany arrest Klaas Carel Faber, a Nazi war criminal who killed 20 Jews at Westerbork concentration camp, 2010

Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion, 2014
Half a million people take part in a peace march in Barcelona after terrorist attacks, 2017