Prompt 42 [5 is next]
Added 2024-12-29 20:10:02 +0000 UTC
Added some missing [Prompt] posts to our lil' collection - should be complete now.
[I'll try and squeeze one more unboxing in before 2025]
Also if you're a parent - way to go. I don't understand how y'all get anything done in a day and I never will. Magic women, y'all are.
Prompt 5 is next
Aww, the final "heh. Stupid" of 2024 🥹💖
Margaret Peffy Margie Maggie
2025-01-02 01:41:56 +0000 UTC
Ahh welcome back to Jersey, Caro. The “donate” pile is a tough one, hope you’re ok. (Your parents too)
Thank you for sharing this treasure. The treasure found in your parents full home and your words. ❤️
Delicada19🫀
2024-12-30 16:37:04 +0000 UTC
Well, it’s balmy this Monday after a Jersey Christmas in white
And these boots made for walkin’ are muddied with plight
My arms older and stronger carry childhood over thresholds
In boxes labelled “thrift” “donate” “sell” like address codes
Now the shed in the woods has room for another’s tread
And the old green truck is filled with memory’s deathbed
Home for the holidays but clearing out parts of home
All conundrum and then some, as age and ache roam
A battle of Yesses and Noes, the dreaded Maybe pile
“Could you use this at yours?” an everyday trial
I love these collections of reflection, connection, affection
But sometimes sorting Life feels like fighting infection
I moved abroad for more schoolin’ and stayed there for more “more”
But this little ol’ house of my people still brings warmth to my core
And it’s weird to let go of/pack up/give ’way this homeplace safety net
When the one I built in my city is with shattering holes lately met
Been riding it out through this dreary December
With painted face, liar’s smile, “all good,” I defend her
The woman, me, my mind full of queen-less bees
Directionless, falling, no one and too many to please
They say it’s a tapestry, this funny ol’ life we build
But can a tapestry love you back, even if so willed?
I’m facing the face of unpredictable futures
Trying my hardest as change seam-rips my sutures
But the beauty of helping my folks as they feel their life getting smaller
Is seeing how very big their lives have been and are, with these eyes of a daughter
Sunlight still touches emptied rooms, our older hearts, heads, and hands
And this kind of lucky love is woven out of that mighty stuff that withstands
caroscope
2024-12-30 16:15:05 +0000 UTC