Tears for Sue (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, Brian's Thankful Thursday and Wednesdays' Words on a Thursday

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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