DAILY PHOTO: A Grand Cafe, Frankfurt
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PROMPT: Stronger
Daily writing prompt
What’s a moment that made you realize you were stronger than you thought?
Many times. In many ways. Not always good. One time in a packed conference room for a mandatory graduate seminar, I realized I’d forgot to wear deodorant on an Indian summer day in Georgia, and — thus — smelled stronger than I’d thought. (Maybe, I’d put on the deodorant, but it — being as exhausted as I — hadn’t the will to stay in the fight.) Of course, when I first caught a whiff, my internal monologue was like, “Oh man, who skipped the shower!” But after a couple pit sniffs made as surreptitiously as I could manage, there was no lying to myself further. (No lying about the smell, and no lying to myself that pretending to wipe my lip on my collar was really any less gross than just owning the sniffing my own pit.) I — on that occasion — was the stinky kid.
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DAILY PHOTO: Stairway to Heaven, Tikal
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PROMPT: Simple Pleasure
A breath of air.
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Drunkard’s Cask [Limerick]
A drunkard put a cask atop his car
so he wouldn't always have to find a bar.
Under that kind of weight --
The car's range: km - 8,
But his own range per liter wasn't that far.
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Snail [Limerick]
The snail's friends and family were critics,
claiming -- despite being hermaphroditic:
so, with two ways to coit --
neither did it exploit,
but read books in its shell, strange & cryptic.
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Winter Sunlight [Tanka]
low winter sun
shines upon the city
while residents
walk shadow-dimmed streets
and fluffy clouds grow angry.
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DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Kossuth Lajos tér
PROMPT: Erase
Daily writing prompt
If you could erase one movie from your memory and watch it again for the first time, which one would it be?
If Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind taught us anything, it’s that one shouldn’t go around erasing memories. So, I decline to answer. [FYI: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is not my answer because I don’t need the lesson all over again.]
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DAILY PHOTO: The Taj Mahal
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Tiger Riding for Beginners 