I think when you've only got 50 words, either you go super specific or super big, and you've gone super big here, to great effect! I love comeback stories! Also - are they your plums Sharron? They look delicious!
I hope you are right about the “great machinery”. I have my doubts. Great Machinery” is an apt sobriquet, as is one other I heard this week from Justin Deming “Overhead Radar”
Bright Side of Life ))) ONe of my favorite songs ))) I really should learn this one to sing out loud now and then. It applies. I tend toward the PollyAnna.
Silly kid! No drowning allowed. Have a nice BIG chunk of chocolate cake with icecream.... or half bottle of rum... maybe all together. Then a nap with a big smile on your face. Is it snowing there yet? Got up to freezing today ))))
I sure don't know but I think humans are flawed and will ever be so. I think we are getting more right than wrong but right and wrong are made to butt heads.
Thanks for the great prompt. Your prompts always take me somewhere I have never considered writing about. It is good for me to break out of my usual themes.
Haunting, Sharron. It reminds me of the song “Wooden Ships” by Crosby Stills & Nash, which describes a conversation between two survivors after a nuclear holocaust.
One verse goes like this:
“Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
I think when you've only got 50 words, either you go super specific or super big, and you've gone super big here, to great effect! I love comeback stories! Also - are they your plums Sharron? They look delicious!
No, not my. plums, but, for sure, my small understanding of the cycle of life... Thanks Conor, for reading my small stuff.
We are all just small cogs in some great machinery serving something beyond us!
I hope you are right about the “great machinery”. I have my doubts. Great Machinery” is an apt sobriquet, as is one other I heard this week from Justin Deming “Overhead Radar”
Can't take credit for that one I'm afraid - stolen from a line from a Fleet Foxes song - I like it too!
Needs no pruning. but a seasonal delight, delicious.
Hah! Yes. Thank you, Richard, for being such a loyal reader over here at Leaves
What are friends for? Leaves me with mulch to consider growing a tree. Bonsai.
ha ha ha!
Bright Side of Life ))) ONe of my favorite songs ))) I really should learn this one to sing out loud now and then. It applies. I tend toward the PollyAnna.
Yes, I know that about you, my friend. You keep me afloat sometimes when I am drowning.
Silly kid! No drowning allowed. Have a nice BIG chunk of chocolate cake with icecream.... or half bottle of rum... maybe all together. Then a nap with a big smile on your face. Is it snowing there yet? Got up to freezing today ))))
33˚ and bright sunshine in a clear sky this morning. Frost on the roof here in Santa Cruz. Flannel PJs weather for us sissies.
33! YIKES. Are you sure you live in California????? Maybe making quilts for the Gkids wasn't such an odd idea after all. ))
It is only 32˚ from 4:00 - 6:00 am. We'll be fine. ha ha ha
Nuffing left to say, cept Maybe ... maybe there is still time.
Thanks Joel, for your optimism! Goodness knows the world needs it now.
None of us can save the world, but maybe all of us can. Do your part. Thanks for the reminder.
Ever optimistic, Wade! That is what I like about you. Well, that and cookies.
THE ending and beginning of all endings and beginnings. You nailed this one, Sharon.
Thanks Ken. I has been said a thousand times before, I know, but It helps to look on the bright side once in a while , however tweaked it might be.
Sad yet optimistic ☹️😬
Yes, well, without a bit of optimism, what is the point, I say! Thanks Connie. Now get cracking on the email avalanche....
Very nice, Sharron. "We’ve been given one more chance."
I wonder how many chance the human race has already been given... hmmm. Which cycle IS this? And are we failing again...?
I sure don't know but I think humans are flawed and will ever be so. I think we are getting more right than wrong but right and wrong are made to butt heads.
Beautiful work, my friend! Thank you!
Thanks for the great prompt. Your prompts always take me somewhere I have never considered writing about. It is good for me to break out of my usual themes.
"We’ve been given one more chance." -- I can't help but feel we're squandering our *only* chance at the moment.
Thought-provoking, Sharron. Thank you.
We are all asleep at the wheel, I am afraid.
Haunting, Sharron. It reminds me of the song “Wooden Ships” by Crosby Stills & Nash, which describes a conversation between two survivors after a nuclear holocaust.
One verse goes like this:
“Say, can I have some of your purple berries?
Yes, I've been eating them for six or seven weeks now,
Haven't got sick once.
Probably keep us both alive.”
Thanks for reading, my friend. Wooden Ships! Yes.
Ha! Brilliant! And THANK YOU for the Monty Python link - always an absolute hoot! x
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Loved this one
Thank you, Vince! And welcome to Leaves. It is a huge Substack Universe, but I hope you come back sometime to this little meteor.