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Sue Cauhape's avatar

As usual, Fran, your post is filled with delightful bits that I want to comment on. This time, I made a list.

I loved your poem about backgrounds, especially the lines "deep, deep inside, there are flames / while inside, an alabaster fort." So true that we keep our fires subdued within the stone walls. They're too bright to others' eyes.

Generosity inspired thoughts around donations of hand-made things to organizations without getting any notice of their affect. For years, I've enjoyed knitting caps for cancer patients and lap blankets for nursing home clients. I will never know if they were well-received or not, but it doesn't matter. I enjoyed the designing of them and the women in the shawl ministry I met with once a month.

Watching that man try to load coins in that tube made me squeal. I used to wrap tons of quarters from our vending machines, lining them up in the ditch of two fingers and slipping that tube over them with no problem. Slick as a whistle! Also, our bank does have a counting machine in the entrance, but it's often broken down. Screws, bullet casings, and thumb tacks don't go down well, apparently.

My husband commuted five hours away for work and knew he was getting close to home in the mountains when he could smell the "butterscotch" aroma of the ponderosas.

This is too long a comment, but I couldn't resist telling you how your posts affect me every week. Thank you, Fran.

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Mason Currey's avatar

Thanks for the shout-out, Fran! Glad to have you in Worm Zoom.

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