Category: Ten Things of Thankful,
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Ten Things of Thankful
Two weeks into the April Poem-a-Day Challenge, and I’ve not run out of ink yet. My Ten this week are centred around home. Spring is coming on fast paced; chores done and more created; a new garden project. The charging pod for my car is installed, so no more power cords hanging out the kitchen…
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Ten Things of Thankful
This is the 20th year that I’ve participated in the Writers’ Digest April Poem-a-Day Challenge. Over that time, I’ve managed honourable mention a few times, and placed 2nd twice, but never won the competition. It’s true — the joy is in the participation and meeting up with old friends again, but I sure do wish…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. A walk in the spring sunshine along the coast. Thankful of this view of Seven Sisters and Beachy Head. II. A 10-metre 3-pin charging cable. Thankful the electrician understood what I was saying; you can’t draw 30-amp off a spur. III. Thankful that the clocks are finally on British Summertime: spring ahead one hour.…
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Ten Things of Thankful
I. Blackthorn is in full bloom, and that means spring — except the temperatures plummeted again into overnight single digits. I’m thankful that thermal-wear isn’t needed again — it’s all packed away. II. My crow, who’s not really my crow, left me what appears to be a chicken bone this morning. Be thankful it isn’t…
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21 March: Ten Things of Thankful
A week of birthday celebrations, fresh air and spring gardening, and food shortages. 1) Thankful for getting two Mother’s Day a year. The one in the UK is called Mothering Sunday, and it’s for everyone who ‘mothers’ — so being a mother isn’t a requirement. And then in May, I get the one that America…
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1203: Ten Things of Thankful
It’s all about Sahara dust in the air this week — it’s not joke, so my Ten Things are in disordered order. 10) Thankful for a walk this morning. Sahara dust cleared overnight with rain, and the sun found its way through clouds. 9) Thankful for Denise’s weekly Six Sentence Story prompt. Here’s mine for this week,…
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0503: Ten Things of Thankful
1) Attention to detail. There is sheer joy in the beauty of noticing things. (the iron hinge on the village church door.) Things are old around here — I’m thankful that they’re appreciated. 2) Snowdrops in the church graveyard. Every spring they bloom over the heads of those below. No, it is not morbid or…
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2602: Ten Things of Thankful
1) I am thankful that when he woke in the middle of the night, hungry, and prepared an apple—leaving the core and knife on the kitchen countertop overnight—that it was an apple rather than ice cream. 2) Never turn your back on the dead. That orchid that I declared dead a few weeks ago, is…
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2002: Ten Things of Thankful
1) It’s still raining but I’m thankful for the occasional thin winter sunshine that encourages anemones blossoms to open. 2) I was claustrophobic, cooped-up indoors from rain rain rain, so I took a walk on a rare bright morning, and discovered a knoll of snowdrops. The wild garlic has also broken through the muddy clay…
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1402: Ten Things of Thankful
We’ve had 42 days of rain, not all day (thankfully!), but the reservoirs are full again (thankful), and the water tables are nearly where they should be (thankful) — however the lawn is completely slurpy-squishy, which isn’t going to percolate deeper any time soon. But this week reminded me that gratitude is often not loud,…
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