This Brown Lacewing has graced my bathroom the last few days. He/she seems great company. Never flying in the way, never arguing. A listening wing or two. Sweet.
I think languishing is happening. In fact, I think he/she may be dying. They’ve been hanging out on the sink.
Does my weirdness show as I feel sad at the upcoming loss?
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is โstarts with โgl.’โ Find a word that starts with โglโ and use it any way youโd like. Have fun!
Glance at a list of words starting with GL, and you will find yourself in a world of glitz and glamour, glad tidings of glory or land in the gory medical terms like glioblastoma and gliocytes.
Then there are the gloomy words of the gloaming. Well, that took a dark turn!
Most of all, I see another language Duolingo could teach me. GL-ish.
On July 2, 1982, a truck driver from California flew 16,000 feet into the sky in a lawn chair.
Larry Walters, 33, from San Pedro, had dreamed of flying his whole life. He bought 42 eight-foot helium weather balloons, tied them to a regular Sears lawn chair, strapped on a parachute, packed a BB gun to pop balloons to descend, a CB radio, sandwiches, and a six-pack of beer.
He expected to float a few hundred feet above his backyard.
He cut the rope and shot up like a rocket โ to 16,000 feet. He drifted directly into the main approach path for LAX. Two airline pilots radioed the tower: they had just passed a man in a lawn chair holding a gun at 16,000 feet.
For 45 minutes, he floated over Los Angeles, freezing cold, too scared to shoot balloons because he might fall. Finally, he started popping balloons one by one and slowly descended.
He landed tangled in power lines in Long Beach, California, causing a blackout. When police arrested him, they asked why he did it. He said, “A man can’t just sit around.”
The FAA fined him $4,000. He became a national folk hero โ Lawnchair Larry โ and inspired the movie Up.
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I love Nora Roberts writing. And I love January LaVoy’s narrations. But the suspence of this book made it hard to use as my bedtime book. If kidnapping and murder stay with you read this during the day like I did. That got me past the scary parts. Without that bit the rest of the story about families and relationships pulled me in and wouldn’t let me go.
The book came to me during a time of recuperation. Watching the main character push her recovery and rebuid her life was inspiring to my own health. Despite the thriller parts, this was good for my health.
I wanted a cartoon to represent today. The frog, climbing out of the well, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. But this Paula Abdul video cheered me up.
Tomorrow I call the Doctor. Just finished my antibiotics but everything seems back to the beginning. At least my inner child gets to dance with the cartoon cat.
Working on my series: Haven.
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I have been on disability/retired for 10 years now from depression, anxiety and fibromyalgia.
Hi! my name is Sebastian (You can call me Seb!) ...welcome to my Blog. I'm a photographer from Worcester, Worcestershire, England. Thanks for dropping by! I hope you enjoy my work.
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