Monique
@starfish_72
Bob & Nora stories 🌿🚫 no mass-tagging, #vss365 🌿🌻 back-up: @verasmum1 🌿Less is more
Nora loved "Keeping up Appearances," especially when Hyacinth described her sister #Violet. "She's the one with the Mercedes, swimming pool, and room for a pony." Nora would frequently quote from the show and Bob never grew tired of it. #vss365
I suppose I could sit stare into space None knowing thoughts Spinning thru my mind But wouldn’t that be a waste of time I could just be a bit braver Pull you in with me Slow dancing lights low This fantasy all mine It’s #purpose only the madness Fleeting time knows #vss365
News from the garden front: This young starling had a lot to say to me. He tried every one of the hundred languages he knew to tell me something, but learned I'm a dolt. Besides, I was ignoring him. He was probably telling me to get out of his yard like all the other birds.
It’s not a conundrum even from a mountain view, it’s more than balancing the scales of i injustice, it’s tears for the dying & bread for the hungry Museums are full of humanity’s folly
"See, this is why I admire your mum, Nora. She #tore up the Les Misérables tickets after being stood up. She's a force of nature." Nora glanced at Bob. "Will she ever find love again?" He shrugged. Her dating life had been anything but a smooth ride. #vss365
Communion with earth knowing the grace of her care the air we breathe. #haiku #NaturePhotography
She is Melody A moment of starlight Far beyond Where ocean mist Rolls in And Meets land Holding in comfort His heart That's she And more A distant light Holding its own Upon Horizon Resolute on becoming dark But she will not Cede She will subsist To play Music From her soul
Sing for me oh summer wind Through dandelion seeds Setting free the ensconced want In the wisdom of a need Make not a promise Tell me no lies Give not an answer Or reasoning why #vss365
When I was young, the future had such promise, the Librarian said. We were going to have equal rights and free choices. Now we are less free. What happened? We must promise to keep fighting for a better future, said the ronin. #vss365 #promise
#vss365 The smallest little promises, my love—I could not, never kept Like the first promise, I said: Our feathers will never shed & we are as light as seagulls, flying over the ocean Until I unburdened my heart, to outrun the black soot of jealousy, billowing from my chest
Life’s #promise of hope Carefree Butterflies dancing. Mother Nature’s gifts. #vss365 #haiku
DEVOTION When Irish Gran and Grandpa got married, they took their vows seriously....except one. When they married in the 1940s, women would #promise to ‘love, honour and obey.’ It was no doubt Gran loved and honoured Grandpa, but it was Grandpa who was the one to obey. #vss365
"I'll be trying on dresses," Nora said, "but you must #promise to say which ones work and which ones don't." Bob sat up like he'd heard an alarm. This was anything but a simple request from Nora. It needed his full attention. #vss365
#vss365 #WritingCommunity As old age claims me slowly but surely it becomes harder to know my #purpose
Sit with me In quiet wonder Of being alive Knowing it’s unchosen Like a light lit by light Nor invoked As a gift #Purpose driven Of highest kind A seamless ribbon Of earth & divine Blood of dust & holy mud Mother & Father Forming as one Above sun Below moon Inside love #vss365
I try to be spiritual, the mother badger said. What is my purpose? To love and take care of my boys, but is there more? Yes, said the ronin. We must love and be kind to all life, and take care of each other. #vss365 #purpose
In a refugee camp people draw strange figures to give suffering a face, they scrawl phrases only empathetic hearts can read, every week a benevolent woman brings essentials and pastes bandages onto the drawings her purpose to make someone believe in kindness again #vss365 #366FF
Though she seemed surprised each time a wild rabbit hopped into her garden, Nora had left out a plate of greens, berries, and apples on #purpose. She’d settle quietly on her patio, waiting for long-eared company to arrive. #vss365