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"Being a writer and turning out stories isn't like being a well-oiled machine, you should know! They don't just crank off the assembly line one every so many days, months or years."
She and her editor glared at each other, until finally the editor looked down with a sigh.
"I get it, sometimes the words come and sometimes they don't, I just think maybe you need to write anything, any words at all, even a school style essay, just to unblock."
"How about my grocery list?" she smirked.
"Yes, anything, and turn it into a poem, whatever you decide, just remember the same way motion is lotion in physical therapy, writing is writing and leads to more writing, and this dry time will pass."
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Machine.
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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! This is the end of holiday fences until next December.
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It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day! This week's image and my poem:
Little girls, big dreams,
mirrors hold no shame
moving is delightful
what changes, who's to blame?
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Angel Brian's Family of Brian's Home - Forever hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop. It's time to share something for which i am thankful.
Today i am thankful Ms. SE and Mr. DE are back at work after the holidays, and the kids are back in school. We love them dearly, but they do get underfoot and cause some mayhem when they are in the house and it's easier to clean without them there.
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Today is:
Balloon Ascension Day / Aviation in America Day -- the first manned free balloon flight in the US was on this date in 1793 at Philadelphia
Duelo Nacional -- Panama (Martyrs' Day)
Feast of the Most Holy Black Nazarene -- Quiapo District, Manila, Philippines (culmination of the celebrations; a 400 year old Catholic procession with a black life-sized wooden statue of Jesus)
Festival of the Agonalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (gifts given to Janus)
Hatsu-Ichi -- Maebashi, Japan (a daruma -- good luck doll -- market, to start the year off right)
"I Will Stay" Day -- Brazil (anniversary of the start of the Independence Movement in 1922)
National Apricot Day
Peace Agreement Day -- South Sudan
Positively Penguins Day -- a day to celebrate all things penguin
Republic Day -- Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Static Cling/Static Electricity Day -- on some sites, listed as April 26; i can only ask why it's listed anywhere for any reason
St. Marciana's Day (Patron of those with wounds)
Stepfather's Day -- not official, but it should be, there are some great stepfathers out there
Stuffed Animal Laundry Day -- give that old bear a bath!
Toka Ebisu -- Japan (parades and shrine rituals through Japan, but especially in Kyoto, Osaka, and Fukuoka; through the 11th)
Word Nerd Day -- originated by Maria Schneider of WritersDigest (to celebrate those who enjoy playing with words)
Anniversaries Today:
Connecticut becomes the 5th US State, 1788
Birthdays Today:
Sergio Garcia, 1980
Dave Matthews, 1967
Joely Richardson, 1965
Mark Martin, 1959
Imelda Staunton, 1956
J.K. Simmons, 1955
Crystal Gayle, 1951
Jimmy Page, 1944
Joan Baez, 1941
Susannah York, 1941
Byron Barlett "Bart" Starr, 1934
Bob Denver, 1935
Judith Krantz, 1928
Lee Van Cleef, 1925
Les Paul, 1915
Gypsy Rose Lee (Rose Hovick), 1914
Richard Nixon, 1913
Simone De Beauvoir, 1908
Chic Young, 1901
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, 1859
Gracie Fields, 1898
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"It Takes a Thief"(TV), 1968
"Rawhide"(TV), 1959
"Dear Abby"(newspaper column), 1956
"Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze"(Film), 1894
Today in History:
Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, 475
Seven hundred Jews, believed to be causing the Black Death, are burned in their homes in Basel, Switzerland, 1349
The first sighting of manatees by a European (Columbus), 1493
Philip Astley stages the first modern circus in London, 1768
The first hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, 1793
Income Tax is introduced in the UK (to fund the war against Napoleon), 1799
Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral, 1806
Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery, 1816
The Daguerrotype photo process is announced at French Academy of Science, 1839
Thomas Henderson makes the first measure of stellar parallax, of Alpha Centauri, 1839
The Astor Library opens in NYC, 1854
The first hostilities of the Civil War, at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, 1861
The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow, 1880
New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts, 1894
Alfred Tennyson's son, Hallam, the Second Baron Tennyson, becomes the second Governor General of Australia, 1903
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded, 1914
The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated, 1916
Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain, 1923
A fire at the Laurier Palace movie theatre in Quebec, Montreal, kills 78 children, 1927
Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians, 1964
Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh, 2005
Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group sign a peace agreement in Naivasha, Kenya, 2005
Venezuela's Supreme Tribunal of Justice determines they can defer the latest inauguration of President Hugo Chavez while his cancer operation recovery continues, 2013
Car manufacturer Hyundai unveils a model of a proposed walking car for first responders, 2019
St Paul, Minnesota becomes the first large US city to swear in an all-female city council, 2024
I like the idea of turning a grocery list into a poem...
ReplyDeleteI like your six sentence story. I don't know that my list could ever be a poem though, maybe a very short one:
ReplyDelete"butter and cheese?
Yes please."
I agree it is so much easier to clean when the house is empty of people.
Love the fences lit up with Christmas lights. That's the one thing I miss with a dark dark winter, is everyone puts their Christmas lights away including me.
ReplyDeleteMom finds the best way to write is in your head when you are out in nature, walking, your mind is free to go where it wants to go and ideas start popping in like popcorn.
ReplyDeletetook the opportunity I found (yeah, I know!) in your Six to write another Café Six
ReplyDelete...thanks!
If good fences make good neighbors, I cannot help but wonder what lies in wait just the other side of the beautiful fences you featured.
ReplyDeleteMy muse hides, often for years at a time. I have learned to be gentle with her, for I have faith that when she does return, she will bring me something I did not even know I needed.
The first fences of 2025.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.