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Mish is hosting dVerse Quadrille today. We are asked to use a variation of the word “Smudge” – so many ways this word could be used so I went through my photos, looking for inspiration. Landed on this one and well, just had to use it!
Smeared and smudged
face full of chocolate
Putting on a show
with makeshift microphone
belting out pure joy
at summer’s freedoms
Can it get any better than this?
Childhood is not meant to be
neat and tidy all the time
the hose can wait
He was a surprise, and arrived too soon, and with many challenges. His heart was broken, but they believed it could be fixed, later. In his seven-month, twenty three-day lifespan, I discovered a strength I did not know I had. I discovered I was capable of dealing with a sick child and giving him so much love and the best life I could for the five-and-a-half months we had him at home. He saw his aunt barrel race, he kicked his feet in his grandmother’s lake and in our pool. He was adored by all. I refused to keep him in a bubble, knowing, I know not how, he would not be with us for a long time. No medals, no ribbons, no accolades can ever match the self-respect and pride I feel for handling Austin’s birth, life and death with the grace I did.
Flowers bloom with joy
Nurtured by the sun until…
Silenced by winter
It’s all Merril‘s fault again. I wasn’t going to participate in yesterday’s dVerse challenge because I thought it would be too hard. Then I read Merril’s and decided to go for it. Lillian is the host and she asked us to write about one shining moment in a Haibun WITH a KIGO AND a SAIJIKI – what the hell are these things?
First day of Summer or Summer Solstice, Father’s Day. Sunday! So, to you, my Daddy readers, I wish you a most wonderful Happy Father’s Day!
These Sunday posts are all about gratitude but I must allow a little moment of sadness for my boys who are experiencing their first Father’s Day without their father, and for me, though it’s the second one without mine. We were all blessed to have these men in our lives for the time we did!
Dad and Mick
So, on to business! It was quite a busy week for me, cooking-wise but I did take time to enjoy life! (But I will still tease you with some food images…)
This past week has been one of those ones where nothing in particular has stood out to make me feel “Wow, now this goes on my Sunday list”. That said, it doesn’t mean I don’t have loads of things to be grateful for!
What a great week I had! No, nothing spectacular, just a great ole appreciation for life in general. I choose not to focus on the negative and was about to do a post on “Feeling like I suck as a mother” but didn’t and then lost the urge. Was one of those moments we all feel as parents at one time or another and like all else: “This too shall pass”. Which of course, it did. Sure, we can focus on the things that bum us out or make us feel crappy but, and I totally believe in the Law of Attraction, it will only bring more! Not worth it in my book!
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