Time to Change the Station (Six Sentence Story), Neighbor's Fence (Good Fences), Sit a While With Me (Sammy's Poetry Day), and Work Blessings (Brian's Thankful Thursday)

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"What is my station in life?" was the thought that bubbled up to her as she woke, shaking her head and trying to clear out the images of trains and the trips she took with her Grandmother when she was very young.

The sudden sounding of her alarm caused her eyes to snap fully open, and she once again realized that the only reason she didn't keep a hammer nearby to smash the alarm was because it was also her phone and she wasn't made of money.

That thought, as she silenced the dratted thing (and debated whether to dismiss the upcoming back-up alarm set in 15 minutes, always there just to make sure), brought back the thoughts about where she was in life compared to where she wanted to be.

A soulless drone in a cubicle in corporate life was what she answered herself, the unspoken question of every day for her was when it would all change, something she tried to push to the back of her brain but this day simply could not.

Today, she thought, today is the day I rise up and do something about it, if not for my sake, for Grandmother, who was the only person who ever believed in me.

Rolling out of bed instead of grabbing those few extra minutes the back-up alarm promised, she grabbed the thumb drive from the drawer in the nightstand, determined to spend the next hour of getting ready for work rereading the stories she'd written, stories her Grandmother told her, stories she promised herself would be published -- today, she would start to edit, no matter what the boss said.

Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Station.      

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Gosia at Looking for Identity has taken over Good Fences, and it's now Good Fences Around The World.  Post a picture of a fence or gate, link back to her blog, and go visit other blogs to see what interesting fences there are out in this big world.    

This is simply a neighbor up the street's fence and gate that i happen to like:

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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    

Where two or three have gathered,

He has promised there to be.

So why don't you come over

And sit a while with me?

Our assembly may be small, it's true,

But don't dismiss the size,

For each true prayer is precious

In our Father's eyes.

We can read the Book where He has

Written of His deep love,

And pray that He will send us

That peace from up above.

Perhaps we'll ope' the hymnbook,

And of His graces sing,

We'll usher in the dawning,

And make the rafters ring.

Gather up your prayer needs,

Come over and you will see,

You will leave this place refreshed of soul 

If you sit a while with me.

(Addendum, if you are a praying person, please pray for a former employee of the cat shelter, Ms. A.  She is in her early 30's, with a seven-year-old son and a four-year-old daughter, and her husband/their dad was killed in an auto accident the other day.  Thank you in advance for any good thoughts and prayers sent their way.)

  

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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  

Today i am thankful that i have steady work, that even though my schedule has changed, i am provided with the chance almost every single day to earn an honest coin.

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Today is:

Bad Hair Day -- birth anniversary of Don King

Birth of the White Buffalo -- Lakota Native American rituals honoring the birth of the White Buffalo in 1994, signaling the return of the White Buffalo Woman (manifestation of the Star Goddess Wohpe), who gave them the sacred peace pipe

Boil Over Thursday -- Fairy Calendar 

Dial the Phone Day -- the first rotary dial phone patent was applied for by A. E. Keith, John Erickson, and Charles Erickson on this day in 1896

Feast of Asma -- Baha'i

Hijra -- Islam (New Year, began last night at the first viewing of the new moon crescent)

Independence From USSR Day -- Estonia

Lemonade Day

Moon's Birthday -- Aztec Calendar (according to some websites, but i haven't confirmed it; if you want something to celebrate, this is as good as anything else)

National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day

National Radio Day -- on the day WWJ(AM) radio first signed on in Detroit in 1920, one of the earliest news broadcast stations

Revolution Day -- Western Sahara

Revolution of the King and People -- Morocco

Sour Herring Premiere -- Sweden (by ordinance, the year's supply of sour herring may begin to be sold on the third Thursday in August)

St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Day (Patron of bees and beekeepers, candle makers, wax refiners; Burgundy, France; Cistercians; Gibralter; Queens College, Cambridge, England; Speyer Cathedral)

Stop and Smell Your Dog Day -- and, depending on the results, maybe even Give Your Dog a Bath Day

St. Stephen's Festival --  Budapest, Hungary (National Day for all of Hungary)

Thoth orders the healing of the Eye of Horus -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Virtual Worlds Day -- internet generated, as well it should be

World Mosquito Day -- commemorates the day Dr. Ronald Ross discovered the link between mosquitoes and malaria in 1897

Birthdays Today:

Amy Adams, 1975

Tara Dakides, 1975

Jan Allen, 1956

Theresa Saldana, 1955

Al Roker, 1954

Robert Plant, 1948

Connie Chung, 1946

Don King, 1931

Jim Reeves, 1924

Jacqueline Susann, 1921

Eero Saarinen, 1910

Edgar Albert Guest, 1881

H.P. Lovecraft, 1880

Eliel Saarinen, 1873

Benjamin Harrison, 1833

Bernardo O'Higgins, 1776

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"1812 Overture"(Tchaikovsky Op. 49), 1882

Today in History:

Hungary is established as a kingdom by Stephen I, 1000

The Dutch bring the first African slaves to the colony of Jamestown, VA, 1619

The Spanish establish the presidio that will be the town of Tuscon, Arizona, 1775

The Lewis and Clark "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis 1804

Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" debuts in Moscow, 1882

Rotary Dial telephone is patented, 1896

The Big Blowup, a huge fire in the Northwestern US, burns 3 million acres, 1910

Adolphe Pegoud makes the first parachute jump from an airplane, 1913

Stainless steel is first cast, 1913

WJM,8Mk, Detroit, becomes the first commercial radio station to start daily broadcasting, 1920

UK becomes the first to use radar, 1940

Plutonium's weight determined, 1942

Launch of Voyager 2, 1977

George and Joy Adamson, the Born Free conservationists, are gunned down by poachers, 1989

The Oslo Peace Accords are signed in Norway, 1993

The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec may not secede from Canada without federal government approval, 1998

As part of ongoing political reforms, the government of Myanmar announces it will end media censorship, 2012

Measles cases reach a record high in Europe with 41,000 infected in the first six months of 2018 and 37 deaths according to WHO, 2018

NASA confirms it is planning the Clipper Mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to take off in 2025 to explore the moon's oceans and find out if it can harbor life, 2019