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English: A Geocaching Geocoin

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Geocaching – The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site. Okay, I will admit I am a total Noob. Though I have been on the inside of some finds because I have an ID on the site, I still feel like a Muggle, what the true GeoCachers call the outsiders. Today, though, I am in Vegas because my friend wanted company on the long trip. She will be attending the GeoCoinFest.

Me, I wanted a road-trip and then a chance to veg in the hotel room. The trip, well, the prep for the trip, then the trip nearly killed me. Fibro is worse today. But at least I’m hurting with new scenery. Speaking of the hotel. It is a suite. It has a kitchenette, bedroom, living room, etc. Which was welcome for the two of us on our total lack of incomes. (The trip was a gift to my friend, I am just lucky to be the tag-along.) The gripes are, we had no dishes or liquid dish detergent for the few cups we do have. Even worse was the internet costs $12.99 a day. Luckily, I was able to check and send emails on my cell, but the screen is so small I was bug-eyed within moments. Still, I was able to get an email to my hubby who somehow missed texts telling that we arrived safe and sound.

Back to the Geo-caching. We found a few on the way, and my friend has picked up a few from the con for me to list. Yippee, me! Some parts of me really feel excited about the finds, like finding the golden ticket on the Easter Egg Hunt, but other parts of me think of it as busy work. I can see that it will get me out of the house and won’t cost money. Yes, really, there is something out there that is free and healthy–and fun! AND there is no deadline so I can do this as I can.

Negative? I am sure I will soon find it fun, is registering my finds. Which I must do now while I am thinking of it. Many people are addicted to this so maybe you might be, too? Go check it out. If you are a cacher let me know, be my friend, darscache, teach me or we can learn together. ๐Ÿ™‚

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I recently found a spiral notebook full of exercises I did during a writers group in 2006. This must have been between the time when I wrote on my Palm Pilot via ย portable keyboard and laptop or tablet. Most are crap, some might spark an idea for future scribblings. I have been Dragon NaturallySpeaking them into my yWriter project I’ve titled Anthology. This one I felt held promise.

Prompt: Renaissance, unfold, somewhere, consequences.

English: A Butterfly Taken at Tropical Wings i...

English: A Butterfly Taken at Tropical Wings in the butterfly house. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Butterfly Wings

The consequences unfold, somewhere the Renaissance begin again.

The consequences unfold,

somewhere the Renaissance begin again.

Oppression has had her awful reign.

Foreign and domestically,

monies have met their doom.

Religious Right-wing Activists.

Real wings will unfold.

History repeats itself globally.

No longer will others suppress expression.

Without money to back itself,

the vocal minority slinks back in revolt.

The poor house value, creativity, love.

Those they couldn’t express for fear

Fear of reprisal, jail, or even death.

Now rising from Renaissance’s ashes,

the Phoenix of truth takes wing.

Somewhere out on an island

in the middle of the Pacific

a cry is heard.

A shout that travels

over the island,

over the seas.

A very small being

makes itself heard.

The drummers send signals

attesting the sound.

Dancers prance out

the message,

while singers unite

in harmonious chorus.

They whisper to us,

as the shout is heard

around the world.

Newscasters learn of this event,

walk off the job,

to new lives.

Employees learn crafts to barter,

while Wall Street shuts down to silence.

Murals depicted on subway walls,

and freeway underpasses,

proclaiming the truth once more.

Learning to live and survive

then thrive as wings unfold

everywhere.

What is the message?

Who shouted out?

It was that butterfly

that batted it’s wings

once maybe twice,

the bird above soaring

and everyone heard.

Be alive!

Be free!

Be unique!

The world celebrated

the small butterfly

his three days of life–

set the world free.

copyright 2006 Darlene Milner

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Today a coworker stepped into my office to invite me to a function celebrating World Animal Day. She handed me a flyer showing photographs of native wildlife, house pets, and exotic animals. I told her that might be fun and I laid the flyer on my desk.

โ€œHey, do you have any pets?โ€ she asked.

โ€œNo, I donโ€™t.โ€ I answered.

I live alone in a third floor condo. Between work days and weekend travel, any pet I owned would spend most of its time alone. Unfair, I think. Before I could explain that to her, she had a question.

โ€œYou donโ€™t like animals?โ€ she asked, in apparent disgust.

I tried to respond, but she interrupted.

โ€œYour parents never let you have pets.โ€ she assumed, and rolled her eyes.

Again I tried to respond, but she had another question.

โ€œYou never even had a hamster?โ€ she asked as she appearedโ€ฆ

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