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TEA APP HAIKU 4U

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedTEA APP HAIKUWhen you're spilling teamake sure to hide your I.D.lest tea spill on you Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

MEE MEE RAPs

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAfter Funeral, me embarrassed at my bawling:💖MY PREACHER-SON: its okay mom lol u can't embarrass me any more than u already have💖ME: O really?>62 yr old MeeMee loudly freestyling Jesus Rap to key alarm in car while Son's inside paying for gas🎤Rest in Love🕊️ Ruby Snow

🔥THE ART OF ADULTING as a HOT MESS:🔥

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedWARNING: I am probably reaching critical emotional mass... ah well, no guts, no glory. EXCELSIOR HOT MESS INCOMING: Not gonna lie, I am THIS CLOSE to becoming a Facebook ScandalText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSome of you may have noticed I'm a little less active and a little more reactive on here of late. Let's call it a teachable moment on the Art of Adulting as a Hot Mess. Now, I can hear some of you already, probably because of DMs:"But why, pray tell, are you a Hot Mess, DubbleWide Doomer, and how is that different than any other day?" Why, thank you for asking DON'T MIND IF I DO! HOT MESS BECAUSE:❤️‍🔥My Mother in Law is in Hospice at the Ending of Alzheimers, and it is a hard journey.💔Hubby is with her and God is with them; it is still hard. ❤️‍🔥Waiting for my Daughter and her unit to return from Search and Rescue deployment in Kerrville. Her 1st week with on night patrols was rough. Unit was moved to general response the 2nd week, and she is amazed by the outpouring of love and help from everyone everywhere. HEB *is* Texas FEMA.❤️‍🔥I'm taking care of my Granddoggo while she is gone. He's an adorable Texas Heeler Pup... nuff said.❤️‍🔥GrandBoy due ANY MINUTE💖His Mama and Daddy are doing Ranch Duty.❤️‍🔥I've got no running water because I got the brilliant idea to do a major wall remodel right before Hell broke loose. It's on hold so I'm drinking from a 5-Gallon Berkey and using all my awesome offgrid camping gear but at least I have sweet sweet A/C. Thank you Jesus🙏 This is Goodest GrandPupText within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedDESTRESSING as a HOT MESS:❤️‍🔥Taking comfort in Jesus and Dogs. ✝️🐶❤️‍🔥Limiting my own online exposure - I am so emo right now, I'm no fun on a podcast.❤️‍🔥Praying for people who have way more stress than me. ❤️‍🔥Sending love and resources to those people. Nothing make a human more self aware than a Disaster.❤️‍🔥Believing "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" ❤️‍🔥Take a nap. YOU HEARD ME.WRITING as a HOT MESS: ❤️‍🔥Creative flow for writing new scenes requires laser focus for me; since I have no focus right now, I am editing instead. ❤️‍🔥5k words added to the series since July 4, mostly dialogue or action for existing scenes. ❤️‍🔥I wrote a lot of poetry, because Dark Emotions lends itself to poetry, and put that on my substack at http://rhsnow.substack.com Some of it may end up in the series.TL;DR for the HOT MESSES in OUR MIDST: ❤️‍🔥If I can do it you can too.💖Now, pardon me while I go on a Chicharrones Bender.Never Surrender.🔥 STOP JUDGING METext within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

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QUALITY CURATION in INDIE LIT: LET the READER DO IT

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedHow should the Indie Community curate Collections of Quality Books? LET THE READER DO IT. Make a SIMPLE, FREE Platform where Readers and Authors can create their own communities of desired Book Attributes or Reader Attributes, with a VERY FEW platform-wide parameters (CHOOSE WISELY: Books only, No CP, No Doxxing, No DECLARED Terrorist Orgs etc) then let them Mod their own communities. FUND with Book Ads.if an Author or Reader someone doesn't like books one community chooses, or if someone feels under-represented, they can't shut a community down - BUT THEY CAN START THEIR OWN. Mod the Platform to avoid illegal content but DO NOT MOD COMMUNITIES from ON HIGH - let communities rise, live or die organically. LEARN FROM THE LINUX, REDDIT, MINECRAFT AND 4CHAN COMMUNITY DEBACLES. Make it impossible to sell out the platform. Write terms of service to avoid the platform takeover of Ideological Activists and Political Arbiters. Then make it easy to search the list of communities and LET READERS DECIDE. Basically, Reddit before Reddit got stupid -call it ReadIt. I reserved the Domain if someone with skills wants to take a whack at it - let me know🥰Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

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TEXAS STRONG

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedFire and Flood, Wind and Storm;Forged from flame, Spirits form;Quenched in tears, Faith made pure-Texas Strong Hearts endure Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

WHIRLIGIG HAPPINESS

I was sad so I bought a LadyBug Whirligig...

it doesn't change a thing about the world; it doesn't change the tragedy of the floods, or the loss of loved ones -

and yet, it is there, whirling free in frivolous serendipity. It is the ephemeral joy of the moment, a Whirligig Happiness.

THE NIGHTBIRDS

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedUp from the river and over the hillsfluttering soft through the shadows of night, soaring aloft on a moonbeam of light, the Nightbirds take flight - Over the mudplains and river-rock rills,singing a song of the wide open skies,leaving behind all the wherefores and whys -the Nightbirds arise...Springing from silt where the searchers search still,past mourners weeping on wild river's shore,to ones that wait for a knock on the door...the Nightbirds shall soarHome again, home where the Heart always wills,Spirits aflight with a song in the night;"Farewell", sing the Nightbirds, "Farewell and Goodnight-"winging their way to City of Light...the Nightbirds take flight

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THE FLOOD

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedSo I'm looking for the rainbow in the swirling sea of rainand I'm trying to find a reason to get up and try againbut I'm only finding sorrow in a raging flood of painand I don't know if I'm fit to stand the strain...there's a ocean's worth of heartache with a grain of sand of hopeand a tiny hand is clinging to the end of someone's ropewhere the mud and blood has buried it beneath a wave of copeand I don't know if a future's in my scope...but the sun in shining sideways through the raindrops in the airand tomorrow's creeping forward through the anguish and despair; when there's nothing left but do or die, all we can do is dareto cling to what is left of what we share;the memory of love beyond compare...the rainbow in a raindrop in the air Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

ELOISE and LILA

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedTwo little Friends, their lives lived in love -swept away together, sheltered in each other's arms;two little Souls, now Angels abovekept as Friends forever, safe from all the hurts and harms...Even Death could never severtwo little Friends💔 Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published