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Each day this week i have shed a tear, or actually more than one.
Thursday is Six Sentence Story Day, but for many years, Wednesday has been Words for Wednesday. Delores started it, she would post prompt words on Wednesday and many of us would write stories or poems incorporating as many of those words as we wanted, or all of them or none, the point was to get the creative juices flowing and write.
When Delores stopped blogging, Sue, The Elephant's Child, took over, coordinating several participants to take turns providing the prompts; she also did the Sunday Selections, where you post any pictures you want as long as they aren't rude or vulgar.
This past weekend, Sue died unexpectedly for although she had cancer, we and she hoped she was beating it; this news has hit all of us hard.
Sue was an amazing person, and our mutual blog friend River will continue to post the WfW prompts this year, and another friend and participant Lissa is taking over for next year and many of us will simply keep posting Sunday Selections; meanwhile, because the word prompts were delayed this week, my story from this week's words is at the bottom of this post.
Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Tear.
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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:
It's hard to believe the news these days,
I'm tired of seeing the latest fashion craze,
I don't care what the talking heads say,
I think I'll just watch animal videos today!
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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 for the influence my friend Sue had on my life, and thankful there is a plan to keep the blog hops she loved going forward.
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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, Sean Jeating is providing the prompts and River is posting them on her blog.
This week's words/prompts are:
1.hear
2.modern
3.influenza
4.physical
5.organs
6.original
7.pea
8.human
9.rather
10.size
Charlotte's colour of the month is Pumpkin Orange.
Some of the PEA SIZE ORGANS in this here HUMAN frame of mine having been giving me RATHER a puzzle for the doctors to solve, or not. For those who might not know, i am pint-sized, having stopped growing taller at age 12 i am only 4'10" now, so everything in me is kid size, including the part which is currently causing a small issue.
It's nothing so easy as INFLUENZA or a cold, something which comes and goes. No, since i am getting up in years and still have almost all my ORIGINAL parts (minus the appendix and the baby incubator), and i'm past the warranty, my check engine light just kind of stays on.
Thus each year at my check-up and complete, thorough PHYSICAL with Dr. BowTie i end up getting at least one or two test results i'd rather not HEAR but have to pay attention to anyway.
This year, it resulted in the dreaded, "I'm sending you to a specialist, you'll love her!" and while i actually did and do love her, she's fabulous, having to get my kidneys and bladder checked by MODERN equipment isn't exactly what you want to be doing with an afternoon after work.
Turns out, as the specialist said, "It's nothing, just age, the skin gets thin, capillaries can leak and you can get blood cells where they shouldn't be but it's not dangerous, if you still get the same results over the next few years, come back and we'll run the tests again."
Please do not misunderstand, i am very thankful the tests are available and i am glad to have a check-up and the ability to find problems while they are still small and solvable or treatable, but going through the testing is not always a day at the park.
For getting it done in spite of not wanting to, i will treat myself to a Pumpkin Orange muffin, as a bakery around here has a vegan one, and i will plan to show up in this doctor's office in a few years again, because some things you just know are inevitable.
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Today is:
Batik Day -- Indonesia (UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage)
Bring Your Bible to School Day -- US
Day of Appearance of the Primordial/Eight Great Netjers -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Durga Puja -- Hindu (celebration of the goddess Durga)
Gandhi Jayanti -- India (Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary)
Go for a Stroll After Dinner Night -- because it's healthy
Guardian Angels Day -- recognize and thank your own Guardian Angel
Feast of Guardian Angels -- Spain (patrons of the police force)
Independence Day -- Guinea(1958)
International Day of Non-Violence -- UN, in honor of Gandhi's birth anniversary
Mehregan -- Iran (pre-Muslim Zoroastrian festival of Persia to honor Mehr, which means friendship, affection, and love; also called Persian Festival of Autumn)
Name Your Car Day (and i hope you don't have to name it "Old Unreliable")
National Custodial Workers Day -- US
National Fried Scallops Day
Old Man's Day -- Braughing, Herts, England (in honor of a 16th-Century man's escape from premature interment; he left money for a street sweeping and celebration on this day which is still observed)
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day -- he made his famous wager stating he could circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, according to Jules Verne, this day in 1872
Semana Morazánica, una Fiestas Patrias -- Honduras (through Saturday)
St. Leger's Day (a/k/a Leodegar; Patron of blind people, millers; against blindness and sore eyes)
World Farm Animals Day
Yom Kippur -- Judaism (began sundown yesterday, ends nightfall today)
Anniversaries Today:
Redwood National Park is established in CA, US, 1968
Birthdays Today:
Paul Teutul, Jr., 1974
Kelly Ripa, 1970
Lorraine Bracco, 1955
Sting, 1951
Annie Leibovitz, 1949
Donna Karan, 1948
Don McLean, 1945
Rex Reed, 1938
Moses Gunn, 1929
George "Spanky" McFarland, 1928
"Sheriff John" Rovick, 1919
Alex Raymond, 1909
Graham Greene, 1904
Bud Abbot, 1895
Ruth Cheney Streeter, 1895
Groucho Marx, 1890
Cordell Hull, 1871
Mahatma Gandhi, 1869
King Richard III of England, 1452
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Moon Over Buffalo"(Play), 1995
"Ben Casey"(TV), 1961
"The Twilight Zone"(TV), 1959
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents"(TV), 1955
"The George Gobel Show"(tv), 1954
"The Jimmy Durante Show"(TV), 1954
"Comedy in Music"(Victor Borge one man musical), 1953
Peanuts(Comic strip by Charles Schultz), 1950
"Ah, Wilderness"(Play), 1933
Volkskrant(Dutch newspaper, first edition), 1919
Today in History:
Saladin takes Jerusalem from the Crusaders, 1187
Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal), 1535
Kazan is conquered by Ivan the Terrible, 1552
Jan Lippershey completes a prototype of the modern reflecting telescope, 1608
George Washington transmits the Bill of Rights to the States for ratification, 1789
The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales against Mexican troops attempting to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, and meeting with stiff resistance, 1835
J Osterhoudt patents the tin can with key opener, 1866
John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system, 1925
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá, 1928
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published, 1950
The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television, 1959
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court, 1967
NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11, 2001
American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan, 2004
NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico, 2005
The parliamentary election in Georgia is determined by the OSCE to be "fair and free", 2012
Veteran broadcaster Vin Scully calls his final LA Dodgers game (7-1 loss in SF) after a record 67 MLB seasons, 2016
US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young are awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for Work on the body clock, 2017
A massive oil slick from a pipeline is discovered off California's Orange County coast covering 13 square miles, 2021
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for discoveries that enabled mRNA vaccine development, 2023
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is spotted over Hawaii; it last visited Earth 80,000 years ago, 2024
Great way to use the words, I like the pumpkin orange muffin at the end. I hope all your parts behave themselves and don't cause any more concern. You are the same height as my sister and one of my grand daughters.
ReplyDeleteWell written WfW. The ending sentence "some things you just know are inevitable" resonates with me -- my life right now.
ReplyDeleteI would be a half giant compared to you - I'm 176 cm, now you get to do the conversion ;) - and so would the rest of my family (hubby is 198 cm).
I do not know what's better, we always bump our heads on door-thingies, beams, roadsigns, ... the shirts are too short in the sleeves and far, far too wide around the middle, same with pants. It has become better since my tall dad was young. Shoes was a nightmare for him. Sorry for rambling.