Beijing Magpie “May the magpie of happiness return to roost in our trees” - Chinese saying Pica pica please don’t fly away Our smoggy air is not a Four Pest ploy. For health, good fortune, wedded bliss please stay. We need your dapper black and white for joy. So you are thief, rogue, louder than… Continue reading Beijing Magpie
Tea dialects I flick on electric kettle and offer chamomile, peppermint Red Rose, Earl Grey, or green pour steaming water over gauze pouches into clear mugs that show off emerging jewel colors. Recall the ceremony of biscuits and creamy English Breakfast on a tray served in porcelain by an aunt before breakfast in a Winchester… Continue reading Tea Dialects
Spring Collection Polka dots, ruffles salmon pink haute couture let’s hear it for Rhodos sweet, classic, demure, © 2017 by Violet Nesdoly (All Rights Reserved) ************ Prompt - Inspiration: Around this time of year, the rhododendrons start opening in all their glory around here. This carries on through May. This April 2014 poem was inspired… Continue reading Spring Collection
No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity by John C. Maxwell My rating: 5 of 5 stars Though he’ll be 70 this year, John C. Maxwell is still going strong. No Limits, his latest book, gives readers an understanding of what drives him with lots of how-to on staying productive themselves long after one… Continue reading No Limits (review)
“Glider Crash Lands on Store” The kid set his glider down on the roof. No, I’m not kidding it isn’t a spoof. He’s a registered pilot not prankster or goof. It sounded like lumber that fell off a truck. The plane made a hole and the pilot was stuck near traffic lights, wires— incredible luck!… Continue reading “Glider crash lands on store”
News of the day Where were the police at LAX? “I’m not resigning,” says Mayor Ford. Journalists killed by Senegal mob and our son-in-law has a brand new job. Leveraging was new to me. More healthcare government outages planned. Big trucks give auto sales record torque but the kids are moving way up north. The… Continue reading News of the day
Duty revisited Forget what I said earlier about Duty being a stern mother and a tiny house where I kept stubbing my toe on “You shoulds.” Lately Duty has become a pool noodle that keeps me happy playing in the safe shallows instead of risking the big surf of the deep, a tether that won’t… Continue reading Duty revisited
Rhoda’s Story My fluster undeniable they labelled me emotional but it was unbelievable— Simon was at the door! With death sentence official our prayers were sacrificial could answer be incredible he with us as before? Your hope is artificial makes hearing prejudicial As joke it is despicable. He knocked and called some more. It’s him,… Continue reading Rhoda’s story
Mountain “By Your favour, O Lord, You have made my mountain stand strong.” Psalm 30:7 The hill outside my Golden Motel is a face of barren gravel nourishing only weeds though pines grow up it’s angled backbone— everyday grace from hard mercy. The gunmetal peak rising behind it appears impermeable, immovable. Now partly obscured by… Continue reading Mountain
Out of my element I bushwack through brush trying to remember to hand off face-high branches to the hiker just behind keep an eye out for stinging nettle, poison oak haul myself up thigh-burningly steep hills, inch down steep declines side-footed with the caution of an arthritic senior but when we reach the stream bridged… Continue reading Out of my element
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