Where It Landed When He Tossed It (Wordless Wednesday) and Words for Wednesday

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Linking up with Wordless Wednesday, Keith, Catsynth, and Sandee at Comedy Plus.     

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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, yours truly is providing the prompts on my blog.

Please feel free to use some of the prompts, none of them, or all of them as you see fit.  The point is to get the creative juices flowing in whatever manner your muse leads you.

This week's prompts are:

horizon

consciousness

theorist

great

enhance

enter

and/or the following sentence

It took him a while to realize that everything he decided not to change, he was actually choosing.

As an additional prompt you may wish to use, Charlotte(MotherOwl) has chosen Straw Yellow as the color of the month.

Mr. Zabriski woke up one morning with the CONSCIOUSNESS something wasn't right in his world, but he didn't quite realize what.

In his work, he'd been a brainiac, a THEORIST, a scientist, always on top of the game.  In the company he'd worked for, he was well respected and his team's developments had done much to ENHANCE life for people.

He missed his wife terribly and he'd been dreaming of her the night before, she of the sky blue eyes and Straw Yellow hair.  They'd lived in her dream home, and when she died so unexpectedly and so young, he couldn't stand to stay there.  He'd moved into an apartment, the same one he was in now, continuing to work until he reached retirement age because what else was he going to do?

He'd made friends with the people who lived in the complex, including some of the staff, never letting them know the GREAT living he'd made all those years because, what was the use of it if he had no sweetheart to share it with?

As he looked out to the sun rising over the HORIZON, he tried to get his thoughts to clear, but he felt like he was in a mental fog.  He sat down at his computer and tried to ENTER the pin code to open it, and found he couldn't remember it.

His parents had both been brilliant, and then suddenly weren't when the dementia came.  He had realized he'd probably have the same thing happen, and knew he'd needed to make plans for someone to help him and take care of things when the time came.

It was too easy, though, to keep putting it off for a more convenient season, to change nothing, to hope it would never really come down to needing it, to needing to make those decisions.

It took him a while to realize that everything he decided not to change, he was actually choosing.  Now, he understood, he might be beyond the choices he needed to make.

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Today is:

Banana Lover's Day

Be Kind to Humankind Week:  Willing to Lend a Hand Wednesday 

Birthday of Isis -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Day Sacred to Consus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of graineries, horses, and mules)

Feast Day of Pan -- Ancient Greek Calendar (date approximate)

Feast of Incandescent Rebellion -- on lots of websites, and supposedly something celebrated in China, but no detail as to what it is really celebrating

Just Because Day -- internet generated, enjoy something ordinary you like to do, just because!

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)

National Pots de Creme Day

Petroleum Day -- on the anniversary of the opening of the first commercial oil well in Titusvilla, PA, US, in 1859, a day set aside to work on figuring out how to do without petroleum

St. Caesarius' Day (Patron against fire)

St. Monica's Day (Mother of St. Augustine; Patron of abuse victims, alcoholics, difficult marriages, disappointing children, homemakers, married women, mothers, victims of adultery and unfaithfulness, victims of verbal abuse, widows, wives; Bevilacqua, Italy; Mabini, Bohol, Philippines)

"The Duchess" Who Wasn't Day -- birthday of Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, who wrote under the pseudonym "The Duchess" and first said, "Beaty is in the eye of the beholder" in her novel, Molly Bawn

Volturnalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of water)

Ziua Republicii -- Moldova (Independence Day, 1991)

Birthdays Today

Sarah Chalke, 1976

Chandra Wilson, 1969

Paul "Pee-wee Herman" Reubens, 1952

Barbara Bach, 1947

Tuesday Weld, 1943

Tommy Sands, 1937

Martha Raye, 1916

Mother Teresa, 1910

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1908

C.S. Forester, 1899

Samuel Goldwyn, 1882

Theodore Dreiser, 1871

Charles Gates Dawes, 1865

Hannibal Hamlin, 1809

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Good Sex! with Dr. Ruth Westheimer"(TV), 1984

Mary Poppins(Disney film), 1964

"Prométhée/Prometheus"(Fauré tragédie lyrique), 1900

Today in History

The Persian invasion of Greece is halted with Greek victories in two separate battles, BC479

Koreans battle and prevent Japanese invasion, 663

The first unmanned hydrogen balloon flight reaching 900 m altitude, 1783

Petroleum is discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well, 1859

The shortest war in world history occurs from 09:00 to 09:45 between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar, 1896

Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes", 1912

First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft, 1939

The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA, 1962

Turkish military diplomat Colonel Atilla Altikat is shot and killed in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1982

The Rainbow Bridge, connecting Tokyo's Shibaura and the island of Odaiba, is completed, 1993

Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, 2003

Curiosity, the Mars rover, broadcasts its first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet, 2012

The UN releases a report saying that Myanmar military leaders should face genocide and crimes against humanity charges for violence against Rohingya, 2018

Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020), 2019

Gymnast Simone Biles wins her record 8th US Championship in San Jose, California, 2023