Preparedness

I'm joining with Words for Wednesday.

I used all 12 words.

Onerous, meme, steadfast, yawp, copacetic, savant, and

akimbo, wreak, haphazard, advise, tare and vindicate.



"No one knows the future,
but the present offers clues and hints,
on its direction."
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Florida Keys, Key West, Florida.


"You may choose to look the other way
but you can never again say that you did not know."
William Wilberforce

"We are not preparing for the world we live in,
we are preparing for the world we find ourselves in."
Michael Mabee


My 12 words follow.

So many unbelievers now have an onerous lease
to be educated in climate change.
Many Stood Akimbo, Refusing to Believe.

Expert, knowledgeable savants advise describing these recent hurricane memes as something unprecedented, epoch-making in fact;
 on the brink of destruction only days after Harvey swept across Texas.
Again faithful landowners ready themselves for another vengeful hurricane, this one named, Irma as her unforgiving yawp could be heard as she
methodically wreaked havoc in an unwavering, haphazard motion like a determined copacetic tare forcing her way across our land vindicating all climate change believers.

This year, it's not like any hurricane they've ever seen before.



Yet in the end, these diligent folks endured, survived Irma's akimbo attack to now begin their onerous tasks in a steadfast order to bring their lives back to some sort of normalcy.  

Discharging a debt of gratitude 
that through it all, they are alive.

Florida Keys

"There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot."
Steven Wright

Unless of course there is a raging hurricane reaching for landfall.
Therein lies all the difference of standing on shore. 

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose."
"The more things change, the more they are the same."
Think about that. 

Sending healing energies to all effected by these recent disasters,
 hurricanes
 and raging fires.

Sixteen Years Later

Sixteen years later, where are we now?
Are we any better off?

Of course this,
Remembrance to 9/11 
We Shall Never Forget

Ours lakes, and waters abound.
Again, we find our way to Lake Harriet in Linden Hills.
Some close by, many from afar.
But we gather together, stronger united.

"Taking an image, freezing a moment, reveals how rich reality is."

Ansel Adams

"The deepest rivers make least din,
The silent soule doth
most abound in care."
William Alexander

"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty.
Act with integrity.
The greatest problem with communication is 
we don't listen to understand.
Roy T. Bennett

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway

Listen for what's behind the words.

Music isn't just to be heard, it's to be felt.
But even more important
it's meant to be remembered
long in our memories.

Music is a wonderful association to relive 
what we once experienced.

Please,
Don't hide your face.

Be free.

"Our selves are rough and unrehearsed

 tales we tell the world."

William Alexander

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, 

perhaps it's because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music he hears,

however measured or far away."

Henry David Thoreau

There isn't anything we can't do 

it's only a matter of doing. That is all.

Always,

let your rock bottom

be your

trampoline.

March to the beat of your own drummer.

Important fact.

About photography, to carry us day by day.

Capture things.

You may want to recall them years later.

True fact, not fake news.

"There is one thing the photograph must contain,
the humanity of the moment."
Ansel Adams

A look at the backside of this year's Minnesota 9/11 Tribute.

I ask you, what more is there that we can do 

to make things better?

"You have not lived today
 until you have done something for someone 
who can never repay you."
John Bunyan

We can be who we were born to be. No matter what that is.
Imagine anything is possible.

and just think,

"The nice thing about say baking alone in the kitchen before dawn,
(or quite frankly doing any little thing, like writing or drawing)
is that you can talk to yourself like a crazy person
and no one suspects you're a crazy person."
William Alexander
and Me


Our children hear us cry
go be you
no one can be a better you.

and yet where are we?

Hawthorne ends the story this way;

He failed to look beyond the shadowy scope of time,
and, for living once in all of eternity,
to find the perfect future in the present."

and this,

I have to admit my best part of the evening is watching folks, especially the children, and couples with their wicker picnic baskets, and the American flag proudly waving in the wind.

2017 Minnesota State Fair

It's always sad once the state fair opens in Minnesota 
because it pretty much closes the door to summer.

Welcome 2017 Minnesota State Fair

and

The Scarecrow edition

If you want to know what's happening in the hearts and minds of a place
then go to the fair and view their scarecrows.
They are always reflective of the current events.
So what are my fellow Minnesotans thinking?

Note: No pails (or kitchen gadgets) have been harmed in any of these scarecrow creations.

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."
Seneca

"You can't fix yourself by breaking someone else."

"When nothing goes right, go left!"

"Sometimes me think, What is a friend? and then me say,

Friend is someone to share the last cookie with."

Cookie Monster

Don't forget to feed the birds in the winter too!

Are you keeping track of the number of pails?

I CD your eyes!

"A recipe has no soul
as the Cook
must bring
Soul to the recipe."

Have bike will travel.

"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."

We cannot change the cards we are dealt.
Just how we play the hand.
That is all.

"For I consider brains far more superior than money
in every way.
You may have noticed if one has money without brains
he cannot use it to his advantage
but if one has brains without money,
they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days."
L. Frank Baum

We are free to turn it on or tune it out!
It's all up to us.
Learn, listen, hear, read and learn some more.

We would be so in the dark without our medias!

Use with caution but use.

Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
the smaller version.

Bemidji, Minnesota

See yourself.

Look closely into my mirror!

As a matter of fact I do cook, sew, I hold the record in threading a needle and cook some more.

Don't forget to enjoy some egg coffee!

If you haven't tried it

why not? It's delicious.

Kitchen gadgets are my life!

Don't forget to step outside away from the scarecrows.
 You'll find a path to the looking glass,
and enjoy a cup of tea with the Mad Hatter.

Last but not least of my scarecrow selection is the

Cutest couple at the fair this year is,

And

I think Minnesotans have it put together pretty well in this day of age.
What do you think?

I hope you remember these charming little faces all day long!
Thanks for stopping by
and
Take good care of you.

Seems Enigma

Yes, it seems enigmas can be found everywhere we go these days. 

Hello, I'm a sitting mooing enigma.

Beyond the invisible.

"There has to be a certain enigma in it,

which does not immediately catch the eye."

"Life is an enigma.

We have to approach it not scientifically

but poetically."

Ronald Frame

This, not too far away folks. For Minnesota.

Some will say summer is waning. I say winter is a sure thing, sooner than we'd like. No enigma there.

"Life has it's enigmatic events,

that can make it a mystery,

or my misery."

It all depends on how I view it."

Anthony Liccione

Any enigma if thrown into the sea

cast off like a skipping stone

sinking deeply into the murkiness

unable to live as it once did

remains a puzzling mystery

never to be known.

Duluth harbor tours are so worth it. They have special Tuesday $5.00 boat tours all day on any boat too.  Keep that in mind if you plan to visit Duluth. 

"Ever feel like an enigma,

wrapped in a dilemma,

surrounded by a conundrum?

Yeah, so do I."

Nanette Mathews

Bewildering?  Yes, but wholly redefinable.

Before saying thanking you for stopping by, take good care of you, and saying how good it is to spend time with you, I have a bit of humor, through the wise words expressed by Winston Churchill, and a fun photo. Bravo scarecrow designer your work rocks.



"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
Winston Church

Note the wording on the cap.
Hilariously clever!

Enjoy your day!

In 50 Words

You could say I'm one of those people that get caught up in "writing contests" sometimes.  Without hesitation seeing The Peterman Company had a

 Shortest Short Story Contest with $1,000 gift certificate as first prize and 5 four hundred dollar gift certificates I was intrigued.

Wait. Gift certificates? What are they selling?

A sightseeing package maybe?
Nope.

We are to imagine ourselves in search of that perfect item

(whatever it might be)

and tell our story of it in 50 words or less.

Okay, my high hopes drifted to another path, beyond their products. 

We have so many choices in this lifetime journey right?

Here are my 50 words for us, I won't be sending it to The Peterman Company.

Dock your boat take a seat and listen.

Seeking Enthusiasm

(my search for that perfect item)

item being that individual or unit,

 especially one that is part of a list, collection or set.

From a whisper of adventure

unleash your heart's desire.

Be wholly absorbed within a thrilling course

bursting by flight of grateful content.

Anticipation awakens our curiosity by way

of simple exhilaration, as silent joys abound 

with every little laugh that consumes us

let life's cozy blanket lift our spirits

evermore. 

"To find a man's true character, play gold with him."
P. G. Wodehouse

Let life buoy up your soul.

"Flowers are happy things."
P.G. Wodehouse

Remember,
feel
what our country means to us.

"To survive in
 peace and harmony
united together 
divided we fall
together we're strong
we are one people,
one nation, one flag."

"If you want to live a happy life 

tie it to a goal

not to people or things."

Albert Einstein

Enjoy your week and take good care of you.