Thursday, April 20, 2023

Quiet Second (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day and Brian's Thankful Thursday, an A to Z Post

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(For the Six Sentence Cafe & Bistro Poetry Slam)


In that quiet moment (hush!)


take a second (hold your breath)


look and listen (with care)


life in the balance (as we pause)


at the railroad tracks (clickety-clack!)


don't play chicken with the 5:15!



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







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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!


A client was finally able to finish repair work on the fence.






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




Come, take a quiet walk with me

and pause, and we will sit

by the tafty bush on cushions low and soft.

We can lean over and dip

our fingers in the water, watch the ripples,

feel the cool breezes blow.

And if we need to stretch, we follow

each winding path to the center

and back again.

We will reach up toward the sky

then bend down to smell the

millowmallow flowers.

Pluck the fruit of the heartapples,

I pick one for you,

you pick one for me.

Come take a quiet walk in

this fairy garden, and we may

never come home again.



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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 for the fence pictured above, as it is finally repaired.  This means we can let Cookie run to her heart's content again as we are working, instead of me having to stop work and supervise her out there.  She loved to run out there and play, then run in and rest, over and over, and we like to let her!






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Today is:


Anniversary of Something That Happened So Long Ago Everyone Has Forgotten Day -- Fairy Calendar


Chinese Language Day -- UN   


Get to Know Your Customers Day (celebrated the 3rd Thursday quarterly)


Go Around Humming "You Light Up My Life" Until Everybody Screams Day -- the person who thought this one up should be tied down and forced to listen to Barry Manilow songs for 12 hours straight!


Harpa Month Begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Harp, dedicated to young women as last month was dedicated to young men)

     Sumardagurinn Fyrsti -- first day of summer, a legal holiday


Harvest Offering to Renenutet -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (offering to the Lady of the Fertile Fields; date approximate)


Lima Bean Respect Day


National D.A.R.E Day -- US (by Presidential Proclamation)


National Look-Alike Day


National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day


National Take a Break to Reset Your Mind Day -- because everyone needs a day like this


Ramazan Bayrami Eve -- Turkey


Ridvan begins -- Baha'i (begins at sunset)


St. Caedwalla of Wales' Day (Patron of converts, repentant murderers)




Birthdays Today:


Danny Granger, 1983

Joey Lawrence, 1976

Carmen Electra, 1972

Shemar Moore, 1970

Crispin Glover, 1964

Don Mattingly, 1961

Clint Howard, 1959

Luther Vandross, 1951

Jessica Lange, 1949

David Leland, 1947

Steve Spurrier, 1945

Ryan O'Neal, 1941

George Takei, 1937

Nina Foch, 1924

Ernesto Antonio "Tito" Puente, 1923

John Paul Stevens, 1920

Lionel Hampton, 1908

Harold Lloyd, 1893

Joan Miró i Ferrà, 1893

Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, 1882

Daniel Chester French, 1850



Debuting/Premiering Today:


Annie Hall(Film), 1977

"Your Hit Parade"(Radio), 1935



Today in History:


The last naval battle in Byzantine history, 1453

Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy, 1505

Jacques Cartier begins the voyage in which he will claim Canada and Labrador for France, 1534

Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam, 1657

Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1657

Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales, 1770

René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou, 1828

Edgar Allan Poe's Murder in the Rue Morgue becomes the first detective story ever published, 1841

Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete their first pasteurization tests, 1862

Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride, 1902

Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the next day, 1918

Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film, 1926

Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon, 1972

Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years, 1986

Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race, 2008

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010

Tens of thousands of people demonstrate in Tahrir Square against continuing military rule in Egypt, 2012

The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to Anthony Doerr for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History", 2015

The Commonwealth countries decide that Prince Charles will succeed Queen Elizabeth as the next head of the Commonwealth, 2018

Online streaming service Netflix suffers its first subscriber loss in a decade, 2022

17 comments:

  1. I love both your six sentence story and your poem. Now I am off to read yesterday's Words for Wednesday.

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  2. Hooray for repaired fences, cooling waters and good poetry.

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  3. 👏
    The gravity of your Quiet, Mimi, is pinning us all to our seats...to pause...and listen...and be thankful.
    Brava!

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  4. So glad your fence is repaired. I do love the idea of the six sentence story, must look it up ,thank you xxx

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  5. We don't understand why people think it is alright to play games with trains. Nothing will beat the train if there is a tangle.

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  6. I found that fairy garden on OUT OF HIS MINDS EYE today.

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  7. We did very silly things on ralway tracks when we were kids, fortunately we go away wth them. I really enjoyed our quiet walk.

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  8. lol
    excellent (slam? poem? ... which is the object and which the noun.... or verb?)
    fun
    (as a child, there were train tracks adjacent to our neighborhood. had great respect for them. there was even a trestle, like the one in 'Stand by Me')

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  9. Fun 6 sentences ~ and glad fence got fixed for 'Cookie' to run around and romp ~ Xo

    Wishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  10. Excellent 6 sentences- very wise advise! Glad Cookie is allowed to romp and play! And that watery walkway with a resting spot is totally amazing! Have a care free day!

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  11. I agree, don't mess with those trains! That was a good poem and hooray for the fence getting all mended up. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  12. Nice poem. Glad the fence is fixed. :)

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  13. I can hear your performance/recitation. And it is awesome!
    Your second poem? Icing on the cake.
    Cookie must have been one happy dog, lol

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  14. Yeah, you don't need to play a game of chicken with the train - we already know who'd win.

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  15. Miss Mimi your poem this week was beyond beautiful.....my Mom and I loved it very much. We found you in SPAM but are getting better at remembering to check it. Makes us made you're there though!!!

    Love, Teddy

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