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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Sandee at Comedy Plus, and BeThere2Day.
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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 and posted by Elephant's Child.
The prompts are the following picture:
And/or
- Gentle
- Ordinary
- Cards
- Simple
- Office
It wasn't often the lake stood still as glass with a hint of GENTLE morning fog.
This was so different from her ORDINARY days at the OFFICE she just couldn't get enough of this feast for the eyes as well as her camera.
How SIMPLE life is here, she thought, snapping another photo. They would come in handy when it was time for printing up greeting CARDS for the holidays, one of her favorite things to do.
Maybe someday, she mused, I'll get to work remotely and be able to move out to an area like this. Meanwhile, she picked up her coffee and headed to the pot to refresh it, settling in to enjoy the time off.
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Today is:
Be Kind to Humankind Week: Willing to Lend a Hand Wednesday
Day of Solidarity and Freedom -- Poland (Anniversary of the 1980 August Agreement)
Eat Outside Day -- as long as you won't pass out from the heat
Eleusinia Games -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate; 3 days of games with grain as prizes)
Festal Day -- Order of the Eastern Star
Independence Day -- Kyrgyzstan(1991); Malaysia (Hari Kebangsaan/Freedom Day, 1957); Trinidad & Tobago(1962)
International Day of Blogs and Bloggers
International Overdose Awareness Day -- prevention and remembrance
Invent A New Sandwich Day -- spread around the internet like good mayo; go ahead, have fun with this
La Tomatina -- Buñol, Valencia, Spain (annual citywide food fight festival in which around 30,000 people take to the streets to pelt each other with tomatoes)
Limba Noastra -- Moldova (Day of Our Language)
Love Litigating Lawyers Day -- yes, G-d tells us to love everybody, even litigation attorneys but He never said doing it would be easy; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
National Trail Mix Day
Samvatsari -- Jain (final and most important day of the Paryushana Parva, the day focused on forgiveness)
St. Raymond Nonnatus' Day (Patron of babies, childbirth, children, expectant mothers, falsely accused people, infants, midwives, newborn babies, obstetricians, and pregnant women; Baltoa, Dominican Republic; against fever)
Birthdays Today:
Jeff Hardy, 1977
Chris Tucker, 1972
Debbie Gibson, 1970
Glenn Tilbrook, 1957
Edwin Corley Moses, 1955
Richard Gere, 1949
Itzhak Perlman, 1945
Van Morrison, 1945
Jack Thompson, 1940
Marva Collins, 1936
Frank Robinson, 1935
James Coburn, 1928
Buddy Hackett, 1924
G.D. Spradlin, 1920
Alan Jay Lerner, 1918
William Saroyan, 1908
William Shawn, 1907
Arthur Godfrey, 1903
Maria Montessori, 1870
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Alice"(TV), 1976
"The Great Gildersleeve"(Radio), 1941
"The Threepenny Opera/Die Dreigroschenoper"(Play), 1928
Today in History:
Traditional date upon which Ayonwentah (Haiwatha) and Deganawidah (The Great Peacemaker) assist the Iroquois tribes in establishing the Confederation of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy, or League of Five Nations), 1142
Lewis and Clark begin their expedition, 1803
A nuts-and-bolts machine is patented by Micah Rugg, 1842
The first professional football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, 1895
Edison patents the Kinetograph, 1897
Mrs. Adolph Landenburg, a horse rider, debuts the split skirt, 1902
Debut of Foghorn Leghorn, 1946
Solidarity Labor Union forms in Poland, 1980
Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul die in a car crash in Paris, 1997
Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police, 2006
In Sudan, the People's Liberation Army announces it will demobilize its child soldiers by the end of the year, 2010
A 19-year-old Indonesian man is rescued after 49 days at sea on his floating fishing trap, 2018
Love that very true sign - nearly as much as I love your use of the Words for Wednesday prompts.
ReplyDeleteI like the local workman's motto. Good write up with the prompts.
ReplyDeleteI like work. I could sit and see others do it for a long time.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Ha ha.
DeleteLove that saying and so true too
ReplyDeleteHave a cheaplesstastic week 👍
That quote is right on and something people need to understand.
ReplyDeleteYour right about cheap. We know that.
ReplyDeleteLove your use of the prompts. Dreaming is a good thing.
Thank you for joining the Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop.
Have a fabulous Wordless Wednesday. Big hug. ♥
The local workman has it right! Love the photo and your take on the prompts! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteThat workman quote is too right!
ReplyDeleteI'll be back to read and comment on WfW when I have written simething myself - or given up.
The workman's quote is completely true!
ReplyDeleteI think everyone would love to work remotely. :) XO
ReplyDeleteLove that sign, so true! Truth be told, if I could have worked remotely I probably wouldn't have retired 4 years early. Good story!
ReplyDeleteYour story is nice, has a very peaceful feeling to it. The quote is good, I've said it often myself but with 'shampoo' substituted for 'work'
ReplyDeleteloves the poem
ReplyDeleteThat photo of the lake/fog does seem peaceful. I think we all like to work in front of such a scene. Good use of the Words for Wed prompts.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day.