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The call had become so faint in these last few years she barely heard its whisper any longer, but it was still there, feather light, tickling at the back of her brain.
Dreams had been long pushed aside as she worked, raised kids, worked more.
It all still pressed in on her, the duties never ending, but the dream is still a coal buried in the ashes, hot enough to start a flame if she ever had time to tend it.
But time marched on, bills come due, cost of living goes up and more work is piled on to meet the rising demands.
Every day is a fresh, new possibility which crashes and burns in the urgency to get everything done.
How long until a dream just up and dies? she asks herself as she hears and has to turn her back, feels the warmth fading and steels herself to another day because there are mouths to feed and they have to come first.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Faint.
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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!
I am sure i snapped these a few months ago, but in a hurry. This time, i tried to go more slowly and get better photos.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!! This week's image and my poem:
it's odd and I can't explain
this is going to be a pain
my insurance won't believe
an earful from the spouse I'll receive
I want to make like a mole
and go crawl in a hole
at least no one got hurt
as I did my car insert
but these other drivers, oy vey
this isn't making their day
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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 for a comment from River about celery helping with blood pressure. I had forgotten about it, but now i have some celery and we'll see if it helps.
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Today is:
Career Nursing Assistants' Day -- and the start of CNA Week
Day of the Living Children of Nut -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Dinosaur Roundup Rodeo -- Vernal, UT, US (one of the top rodeos in the country; through Saturday)
Feast of Epona -- Ancient Celtic Calendar (Rhiannon in Wales, Macha in Ireland, guardian goddess of horses, stables, horse owners, agriculture, and transportation; date approximate, and disputed, she was the only Celtic goddess worshipped by the Romans, and they celebrated her on December 18)
Ides of June -- Ancient Roman Calendar; related observances:
Festival of Jupiter Invictus (Jupiter the Unconquered)
Lesser Quinquartrus/Quinquatrus Minusculae (festival for those who played flutes at religious ceremonies; through the 15th)
Kitchen Klutzes of America Day
Roller Coaster Day -- the world's first "Gravity Pleasure Switchback Railway", patented by LaMarcus Thompson, opened on this day in 1884 on Coney Island, at a cost of five cents per ride
Sewing Machine Day -- why this day is anyone's guess, but we must admit it's a useful invention
St. Anthony of Padua's Day, the "Hammer of Heretics" (Patron of amputees, animals, asses, boatmen, domestic animals, elderly people, expectant mothers, faith, fishermen, harvests, horses, mail, mariners, Native Americans, oppressed people, paupers, poor people, sailors, seekers of lost objects, starving people, swineherds, Tigua Indians, travel hostesses, travelers, watermen; Amantea, Italy; Anzio, Italy; Brazil; Cianciana, Italy; Dorado, Puerto Rico; Favara, Italy; Ferrazzano, Italy; Giano Vetusto, Italy; Lisbon, Portugal; Nocolosi, Italy; Padua, Italy; Portugal; San Antonio Tiayacapan, Mexico; San Fulgencio, Spain; Sandia Indian Pueblo; against barrenness, shipwreck, starvation, and sterility)
a municipal holiday in Lisbon, Portugal and parts of Spain
Weed Your Garden Day -- a reminder to get out there and do a little each day, so the little buggers don't get out of hand
Anniversaries Today:
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded, 1798
Martin Luther marries Katharina von Bora, 1525
Birthdays Today:
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, 1986
Raz-B, 1985
Rivers Cuomo, 1970
Jamie Walters, 1969
Ally Sheedy, 1962
Tim Allen, 1953
Richard Thomas, 1951
Ban Ki-Moon, 1944
Malcolm McDowell, 1943
Siegfried Fischbacher, 1939
Christo, 1935
Paul Lynde, 1926
Ralph Edwards, 1913
Red Grange, 1903
Dorothy L. Sayers, 1893
Basil Rathbone, 1892
William Butler Yeats, 1865
Winfield Scott, 1786
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Closer"(TV), 2005
Roadie(Film), 1980
"Les vêpres siciliennes"(Verdi opera) 1855
Today in History:
Coronation of Alexander III as King of Scots, 1249
Ibn Battuta, who was to become the foremost world traveler of his day, seeing most of the known world in his time, begins his first hadj, 1325
Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves, 1774
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is founded, 1798
Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River, 1803
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1886
King Ludwig II of Bavaria is found dead in Lake Starnberg south of Munich at 11:30 PM, 1886
Yukon Territory is formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital, 1898
The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established, the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines, 1910
Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered, 1955
The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them, 1966
Thurgood Marshall is nominated to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1967
Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid, 1982
Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the solar system, 1983
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, 2000
The US withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, 2002
The Al Askari Mosque is bombed for a second time, 2007
A capsule of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returns to Earth with particles of asteroid 25143 Itokawa, 2010
The U.S. Supreme Court invalides gene patents held by Myriad Genetics when it rules that isolated human genes are not patentable, 2013
Philae, the first spacecraft to land on a comet in the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission, re-awakes after 7 months, 2015
Volkswagen is fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal, 2018
Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in locks) are far older than first thought, as radiocarbon dating puts some of them as being older than Stonehenge, 2019
The world's largest freshwater fish, a stingray 3.98m x 2.2m is caught in the Mekong river, Cambodia, then tagged and released, 2022
Your six sentence story is so very sad, and I hope it is not true for you.
ReplyDeleteHow long before a dream just up and dies? Mine is still alive after many years, though I my have to wait until my next life.
ReplyDeleteGood six sentence and like EC I hope it isn't your story.
Ah ... fences once again.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Never let a dream die - although some of mine will probably be buried with me one day. And I love your fences.
ReplyDeleteAww, that six sentence story is a sad one, and more sad because it is happening everywhere and all the time. I hope it's not about you. We should maybe figth more for our dreams!
ReplyDeleteThose are some fences, especially the Western looking one with the horse head. Fun poem.
ReplyDeleteThese days life can be harsh and dreams can seem to be pushed down the road but one has to hold on and keep working towards those dreams. Never give up.
ReplyDeleteCelery for BP. Good to know. So many places to get active, not sure how you keep it all straight. I'll just carry on and see where I end up! 🤗
ReplyDeleteOh dear, that was very sad.
ReplyDeleteGreat fence photos and hope the celery helps ~hugs
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Hai nice blog. Salam dari Indonesia
ReplyDeleteYour story is well done, but sad. Fun poem. I hope the celery will help with your blood pressure. XO
ReplyDeleteSuch a sad story, but well written. Like everyone else here, we hope it is not a personal story.
ReplyDeleteCelery and blood pressure - interesting - Mom needs to find out more about that.
Woos - Misty and Timber
That was quite the story. I enjoyed your fun poem and that's a good thankful too. Thanks for joining Angel Brian's Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!
ReplyDeleteGood story, but sad. Fun poem.
ReplyDelete"How long?" Imho, never. In a practical sense, if there's still a coal burning, hot enough to be fanned into flame, then perhaps it's not meant to die. Who knows what may rise from the ashes one day.
ReplyDeleteJava Bean: "Ayyy, what is beyond the great horse gates? I want to know!"
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect poem for a puzzling photo! We thought it would be fun to imagine HOW on earth this happened and indeed the resulting poems prove it was fun for everyone. Thank you for playing along with us!
ReplyDeleteLove, Pam and Teddy