Category: Gratitude



Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “contrast.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

Do you remember when we had the light/dark button and the contrast control button on our boxy TVs? I liked playing with them making everyday objects or people look freaky. Dad hated that.

That makes me think of D’Maggio carrots on Sheriff John. TV was black and white, but I could swear I saw the brilliant orange vegetable with leafy green tops, I could almost smell the earthy garden they came from.

Still, I hate black and white movies or TV. From the moment of landing in Oz I loved color. I love the variety and contrasting colors presented. We need that .

White snow hitting the windshield during the day looks black. The same snow at night makes you feel like you are traveling in space.

Great contrasting conditions. But shadows and highlights help supply our shapes and depth.

I’m so grateful that I can immerse myself in all the layers from contrast to shades of grey.

It’s like music for the eyes. Without the rest of quiet the rhythms and melody becomes muted, boring.


Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “neat.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Neat as a pin upon the head  where a thousand angels dance. Impossible concepts.

All my life, messy was my other middle name. The actual middle name implied the perfection planned for me.

Desk cleaning day in grade school had me in utter devastating humiliation.

In highschool was the locker cleanup day.

My bedroom was a disaster until the cat peed on my clothes. No longer did my mother have to scream at me. I never let my clothes drift to the floor. Hamper or closet or chest of drawers. The clothes solution stuck. But eek, the rest still shames me daily.

I finally get control of one aspect when ‘life’ happens and throws a wrench in schedule and neatness. And who left that tool out here to trip over?

Grief, then TV guy, messed up all my regulated plans for self improvement, just as I got ready to tighten the schedule for house improvement, so now the swinging the pendulum is working to get me on track.

Not for perfection but enjoying passions fully while aiming to stay healthy.

Neat may never happen. ADHD keeps life moving.

Adding yoga and meditation. At least I’ll feel more peaceful about it.


A part of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday.

“Nothing is impossible: the word it self says. “I’m possible!”
-Audrey Hepburn


Your prompt for JusJoJan January 25th, 2026 is “transmission.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Yay! Finally my word! What was I thinking? And with some very deep things happening in my family right now, I forgot why I chose this word.

The father of my children and husband of 20 years is at his end stage of life. So in his honor I will let you know which direction his thoughts about the word is. Yes, that important part of a car, he knew cars inside and out, back before computers took over.

But now I’m remembering deeper. The transmission of energy.

As parents we have tried to promote love energy to our children. Good times and bad we transmitted what we thought was right. Sometimes, we were human and fallible.

But watching my adult offspring, since their dad started his decline in health has made me proud of the people they have become.

They’ve become love transmitters, too. My heart is breaking for their father and them.

Just Jot it January, Opinion


Your prompt for JusJoJan January 11th, 2026 is “opinion.” Use it any way you’d like. Have fun!

When I was visiting my grandparents on Sundays after church, I didn’t realize how blessed our families were.

Looking back at the many dinner tables full of relatives with many different opinions, I don’t remember anyone being disrespectful to anyone else. Nobody called names, or belittled. Discussion and eventually people chose to agree to disagree. Everyone got along.

It is the hardest fact I’m trying to accept, that somehow folks can’t do that anymore. My biggest worry is for after. When the change happens everyone wants, regardless of which side of the fence holds you in, how can we ever get to respectful interaction? Too many violent opinions. Not enough love and peaceful feelings hold up our world.

And that’s MY opinion.


This post is part of Just Jot it January, and the prompt word, “celebrate,” is brought to us by Wendy. Check out her blog here!

Celebrate is the kind of word you can’t be sad saying. First thing that happens to me is hear

Or

Celebrate life’s moments. It need not be a party or cake. It’s inside. It’s life. Let me live with my brain intact and less than overwhelming pain to be 130.

Every moment is worth a celebration, a smile, a dance, there’s always something to breathe in thankfulness.


Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “usual.” Use it any way you’d like. Enjoy!

Today has been not only UNusual, it has been spectacular! You know how it feels when you get to chat with someone you haven’t talked with in years?

I feel like I met with royalty. Well, in my life that’s where family, Cuz’ns land. I’m still smiling.

We reminisced about simpler times hanging out at our grandparents’ home, ringer washers, clotheslines, washtub swimming pools, the kindest people who raised our family. The Sunday afternoons, after church in a house that love built. And that felt usual to us. And we felt blessed.

Moe

One-Liner Wednesday


To those who celebrate: Happy Thanksgiving (Happy Thursday to the rest of the world!)

Linda just published another book! Congratulations! And this is one of her prompts

Happy Monday


Looking forward to visiting family tomorrow. But wish my energy was at Thursday level.

Sunday Funny


This reminds me of our Sammie. Or is it the other way around? That scrappy feral kitten is looking more and more like Garfield. I’m constantly telling the other guy to show down on the treats. He’ll do it for affection.
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