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Poetry Challenge #84: To Be or Not To . . .

I’m no Hamlet—never played one, don’t live in one either. But…I do know the beginning of Prince Hamlet’s Act 3, Scene 1 Soliloquy:

“To Be or Not to Be that is the quest...

Back to School Sale!

Friends! Can you believe it’s already August? Back to school time! Sending hugs to you teachers and parents (and kiddles) gearing up for a new school year! I know you’ve got plenty to do so this will be a quick post:

Familius is having a huge sale on “educational” titles—including The House That Ruth Built—and other great books too. This is a excellent time to stock up on gifts—birthdays, babies, holidays, teacher/library gifts... Check it out!!!

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Poetry Challenge #83-Feeling Pet-Ish

Which animals make the best pets? Dogs? Cats? Lizards? . . . Rocks?

. . . If you ask me the answer is Goldfish! Definitely Goldfish! (But it’s not up to me . . . )

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Poetry Challenge #82-Diamond in the Rough

“Square cut or pear shaped, these rocks don’t lose their shape”…take a listen; great lyrics!: https://youtu.be/KsRqhCWYfsQ?t=4

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Poetry Challenge #81-I’m Feeling List-Less

According to Psychology Today , Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Let me count the ways”…wasn’t just pie-eyed, moonstruck rambling. It was good old-fashioned self care.

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Poetry Challenge #80-Scribbles

Really, would the tike in this pic do a naughty thing like that?

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Poetry Challenge #79-Fibonacci Awakening

Hurrah! Everything is in bloom! Take a close look at the way the leaves on a plant and petals on a flower grow. Notice how they often grow in a pattern: One in the center; next row 2; third row 3; fourth row 5; fifth row 8 and so on. This pattern, which allows each leaf/petal to have maximum exposure to light and moisture while maintaining a tidy spiral pattern, called is the Golden Ratio, is the Fibonacci Sequence in action! Pure poetry, right! Which leads naturally to today’s prompt:

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Come Fly With Me!

(I fully intended to send this update right after the 4th of July. But with the flooding in Texas and all those people lost…and the devastation, there was no celebrating. There was only hoping, praying, sending strength and energy.) We continue to hope with love and light.

Hello dear friends! If you are reading this, you are one of the reasons for this post. Because without you I would have given up writing—scratch that, don’t think I’ll ever give up writing…(I might have given up trying to get ...

Poetry Challenge #78-Bloomin' Luck

“With a little bit of Bloomin’ Luck!” Alfred P. Doolittle sings in My Fair Lady. I know exactly how he feels!

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Poetry Challenge #77-Heave-Ho!

Sing-Alongs are always challenging—and sometimes embarrassing—even for me. (And those of you who know me, know I love to sing—badly.) The worst is when someone sticks a microphone in my face and I don’t know the words. That’s when I resort to the trusty mumble-mumble-murmer-murmer— la-di-dah-daaaaaaaa

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