Share what you know about the year you were born.
Sometimes the daily prompt is too personal, and this is one of those days. I submit to you this meme in hopes that you have a wonderful Day Before Christmas Eve.
Hard Pass
Tag: dailyprompt
Claircognizance
Are you a good judge of character?
My mother told me that when I was little I would stare at people to size them up without saying a word. But she didn’t need to tell me that I did it, I remember doing it. I did it even before I could talk. I can imagine a baby silently observing an adult would be a little unnerving for the adult. As I got older and continued to do it, people would say that I was a brat or spoiled or whatever other hurtful phrases they sputtered because they were afraid. These were people that had something to hide. I’m not quite as obvious about it anymore. I do it with every person I meet, it’s not an ability that I can control. I sense the essence of a person, whether good or otherwise, without them ever saying a word. I was born this way. There are other attributes of claircognizance. Check out this page for more information about the phenomenon. Do any of you have the ability? Or any other ability that seems unique to you? I’d love to read your comments!
Creatively Speaking
When are you most happy?
When I am creating another world through writing, showing a glimpse of a world through photography, sometimes combining the two. Making basil pesto pasta sauce from scratch. Baking brownies. Spending time with animals. Wrapping Christmas presents.
Creating something or some things that will be perceived by or given to others for their hopeful enjoyment is usually when I am most happy.
Watching tennis makes me happy. I’m not creating anything but noise for anyone else, but I enjoy watching tennis, especially from the stands.
I am also most happy in the summer. When I can walk through the soft, cool grass, with bare feet and feel like the warm air is an enveloping calming blanket, I am content – the combination of happiness and stillness.
Play Every Day
What was the last thing you did for play or fun?
If you don’t have kids, you have to imbue a kid like Spirit within yourself by yourself. The best way to stay young at heart is through play. Play is really creativity with a silly face.
I play every day. I play with my cat, I put googly eyes on candles, I send my friends silly memes, I break out into song and dance without forewarning.
Kids are always a big inspiration for fun things, so if you have young kids in your family, or your friends have young kids, sit with them on the floor or hang out with them outside looking at Christmas lights. But don’t spend too much time analyzing what they’re doing, just get on the floor and play. Use your imagination to build a Barbie house or a big fort. Imagine among the Christmas lights live tiny fairies that bestow positive wishes on each person who passes underneath. Write a kids’ story with a kid. There are a million ways to play, and to have fun each day you simply have to look for your opportunities. Before you know it, you’ll be playing.
Happy Holidays
List your top 5 grocery store items.
5 golden rings (is that my phone or yours?)
4 calling birds (it *was* my phone! Why are birds calling me at the grocery store?)
3 French hens (fancy birds, oui?)
2 turtle doves (look, I have enough game in my grocery cart already, I don’t need any turtle doves, whatever they are.)
A partridge in a pear tree (I already have 9 birds in this cart! And how am I going to fit an entire pear tree in here?!)
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$14,587.42 (and my cart has directionally challenged wheels)
My Mother
Describe a *person* who has positively impacted your life.
She was both mother and father. Even when my father was alive, my mother was my father. Everything good that I’ve learned, I’ve learned from her. It was not a perfect relationship, but she was my best friend, and positively affected my life. My father, for his part, gave me these hands and these eyes, and this technical brain. Don’t get me wrong, he was impactful. Sort of like an asteroid hitting earth. Someone wise once said, “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.” Mary Oliver.
Thanks for the darkness, dad.
Thanks for the light, Mom.
I Don’t Think A Year in Advance
Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?
When it’s Sunday, I think about Monday (begrudgingly, and with pre-Monday morning blues)
Tuesday I focus on Tuesday, hoping to hear some good news
Wednesday is mid-week, we’ve made it over the hump
Thursday is pre-Friday, which brings a smile to my face
Friday is Friday, no need to explain
Saturday is actually called Caturday (cat “staff” will understand)
And Sunday wraps it up and simultaneously starts anew
To think a year in advance, I would miss all this present day living there is to do
C’est Paris
She Probably Has Your Cat
Tell us one thing you hope people say about you.
The odds are that I do. The Cat Distribution System seems stuck to me like cat hair. I’ve tried turning it off and on a couple of times, but still the cats arrive. Until they fix the system, if you have misplaced your cat, I probably have it.
Orphan
Tell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc.
November 19, 2020
I woke this morning without a mother
I didn’t see you yesterday
When you breathed your last
I think you did it because I wasn’t there
Daddy died years ago
In my second semester
I almost failed out
I awoke today
With no parents
It’s the first and the last
Today
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