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Thursday, January 18, 2024

No Lower to Go (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy’s Poetry Day and Brian’s Thankful Thursday

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"With all due respect, from where I stand, it looks like you gave up."


"I did."


"May I ask why?"


"When you can't get away from the ones who kick you down over and over, eventually, you stay down."


"Tell me, does staying down help the situation?"


"It does -- after you've suffered kick after kick and fall after fall, if you stay down, you only have the pain of the actual blows, not the pain of hitting the floor after, because you have no further down to go."



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





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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!





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






We went for a sail, just us two,

we thought it would be romantic,

then this crazy bird comes along,

it became a disaster titanic!



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Angel Brian's Family 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 we seem to have survived the very cold (for us) weather without any perceivable damage.  Our neighbors had a pipe burst, we're thankful it was easily accessible and fixable.






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Today is:


Anniversary of the Founding of Lima  -- Lima, Peru


Confession of St. Peter -- Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican Christian

     Feast of the Chair of St. Peter -- Roman Catholic Church (celebrated as the founding of the papacy)


Feast of Neith -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (goddess of war and hunting)


Four an' Twenty Day -- Scotland (24 days after Christmas)


Hair Dryer Appreciation Day -- no history on this, but if you love your hair dryer, more power to you


Jazz Day -- Jazz gets recognized, it plays the Met!


National Peking Duck Day


Nosso Senhor de Bonfim Festival -- Salvador, Brazil (Our Lord of the Happy Ending Festival, at the church by that name, the celebrations begin with washing the steps of the church today and celebrations run through this Sunday and to the next)


Revolution Day -- Tunisia


Royal Thai Armed Forces Day -- Thailand (former Siam)


Santa Prisca Day -- Taxco, Mexico


Thesaurus Day -- birth anniversary of Peter Roget


UFO Day -- see the history section, 1644


Unsliced Bread Day -- from this day in 1943, until the war ended, US bakers sold only unsliced bread loaves so no steel had to be diverted from the war effort for slicing machine blades


Week of Prayer for Christian Unity -- Christian (from the celebration of the Confession of St. Peter to the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul, Jan. 25)


Winnie the Pooh Day -- birth anniversary of Winnie's author A.A. Milne



Anniversaries Today:


Wesley College, Melbourne is established, 1866

Henry VII of England weds Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, 1486



Birthdays Today:


Jason Segal, 1980

Dave Bautista, 1969

Jesse L. Martin, 1969

Jane Horrocks, 1964

Kevin Costner, 1955

Bobby Goldsboro, 1941

Davis Eli "David" Ruffin, 1941

Curtis Charles (Curt) Flood, 1938

Ray Dolby, 1933

Evelyn Lear, 1931

John Boorman, 1930

Constance Moore, 1920

Danny Kaye, 1913

Cary Grant, 1904

Oliver Hardy, 1892

A.A. Milne, 1882

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, 1856 (The African-American doctor who performed the first open heart surgery.)

Thomas A. Watson, 1854 ("Come here, Watson, I need you," said Bell)

Peter Mark Roget, 1779

Daniel Webster, 1782

Daigo, Emperor of Japan, 885



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"The Jeffersons"(TV), 1975

"Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour"(TV), 1948

"The Nose"(Shostakovich' opera), 1930



Today in History:


Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong, 1126

Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru, 1535

The first documented UFO sighting in America, by some very perplexed pilgrims in Boston, 1644

Pirate Henry Morgan defeats the Spanish defenders and captures Panama, 1670

San Jose, California is founded, 1777

Captain James Cook stumbles upon the Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i), 1778

The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay, 1788

Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, the first US electrical journal, begins publication, 1840

Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, J. C. Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom, 1884

Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England, 1886

The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896

President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States, 1903

The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania, flown by Eugene B. Ely), 1911

English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before, 1912

Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia, 1915

A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri, 1916

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden, 1944

Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut, 1958

A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War, 1974

Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease, 1977

Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs), 1981

The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family, 1983

Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, 1997

The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth, 2000

Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over, 2002

A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia, 2003

The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, 2005

Hurricane Kyrill becomes one of Western Europe's deadliest storms, 2007

An amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England, discovers a new, Neptune-sized exoplanet, 2012

For the first time ever, lifeguards in Australia rescue endangered swimmers with a drone, using it to drop a rescue pod flotation device, 2018

Indonesia's parliament approves bill to relocate its capital to Borneo and change the city's name to Nusantara (archipelago), 2022

A series of atmospheric river storms pummeling California finally subside, after more than 500 mudslides with "extensive" damage to 40 out of 58 counties, 2023

20 comments:

  1. Sadly your six sentence story is very true. I am so glad you escaped the cold weather without damage. And smiled at your poem.

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  2. Ouch, what a despondent 6 sentences. And that photo with your poem. All full of hurts. I hope they are in your writing only, and not in real life.
    Glad you got off from the frost with no damage, it can be a bitch and do real bad damage. We're still having a cold spell, with all freezing temperatures day and night. But sun, so it's wonderful, and I'm not complaining, but happy!

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  3. Not only do I see a beautiful wrought iron gate on that fence, I also see beautiful sunshine.

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  4. Kind of a sad story but it is also the truth. Constantly getting beaten down is something that one can only take for so long.

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  5. Good day - 'Hair Dryer Appreciation Day' - I had my hair cut and coloured today!

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  6. That was a somber story! I enjoyed your fun poem and I'm thankful the super cold temps didn't bother much at your place. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  7. Oona: "National Peeking Duck Day? What is the duck peeking at? It had better not be peeking at Oona!"
    Charlee: "Peking."
    Oona: "THAT IS WHAT OONA SAID!!!"

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  8. Great fence photo ~ fun poem ~ glad the cold temps have passed and all is well with you ~ hugs,

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

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  9. damn!*
    * a compliment to the skill in writing for maximum impact (as opposed to sentiment in human terms)

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  10. A very moving six. Trust a gull to spoil the moment - it's something I'm quite used to, living beside the sea!

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  11. Funny poem. We had 6 degrees this morning. XO

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  12. Your six sentence story is heart wrenching. Really put me into a reflective mood. Then you gave me a chuckle with your poem. Clever lady!

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  13. It's true, once you are all the way down you just can't get any lower. Unless someone hands you a hole digger.
    I like your image and poem too.

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  14. That was brutal. The harsh reality is it happens over and over until somebody dies. ~ Nancy

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  15. Your Six reflects a practical, yet sad perspective. One I suspect may be more prevalent than we realize.

    Ouch!

    Hopefully, not too many more deep freezes for the southern states. Glad you've come out of this last one unscathed.

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  16. Perfect shorty poem - that photo was just impossible to ignore.....it was begging for some poetic insight! Thanks for joining us Mimi.............

    Hugs, Pam

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  17. Rest awhile, roll along, then, new place found, lift your head and look around. The clear blue sky is beautiful and Spring has arrived!

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