Avalanche!

(No, my photo doesn't reflect TODAY'S weather in Ohio ... but it does look cold, doesn't it?)

You mean ... it’s Saturday? ALREADY?

It seems like only last night that I was racing the clock, trying to pull together another installment of S&G ... racing against my self-imposed deadline of having it online for those early risers who look forward to it on Saturday morning.

Oh, but it wasn’t last night ... it was a week ago last night that all this feverish activity was taking place.

Last night ... and I assure you that I didn’t simply forget (though I’ve had plenty of practice at forgetting all kinds of things) ... nor did I simply decide to delay ... stall, if you will ... but I did seem to be running out of time (there’s another long story involved there), so I decided to give myself an evening off.

What a luxury! Normally I try to keep busy ... to keep my alleged mind occupied ... but last night, late last night, I just loafed ... and it felt good.

I see that Professor Squigglee is giving me one of those looks ... but what’s done is done. I hope you ... and he ... understand ... and forgive.

Mind you, I’m not even promising that it won’t happen again. But I do hope I’ll be given another chance ... and another ... and ...

-S&G-

PEARL OF WISDOM (noted by LOREE, Kansas) written on the chalkboard at the senior center: "Worry is nothing more than an overactive imagination."

-S&G-

TODAY’S QUOTE: "I’ve noticed that drivers ... as regards the posted, LEGAL speed limits ... appear to be divided into two groups: (1) The Speeders, (2) The Heeders. I’m not sure, though, that the second category should be listed as plural." - Professor Squigglee

-S&G-

THOUGHT FOR TODAY: "If you leave me ... can I come, too?" - (courtesy of HELEN, Florida)

-S&G-

"WOKE UP THIS MORNING ... " began a recent note from LOREE (Kansas) ... "to very cool temperatures, and a light, misty sort of wetness ... hard to call it a real rain, as it was very puny at best!

"And it didn’t take long for me to change from a sleeveless top and shorts (my summer uniform) into a shirt, sweatshirt over that, and blue jeans. Even then I was too cool to be comfortable. The temperature got headed in the WRONG direction and just kept going.

"Since it is May, I am chalking it up to ‘Blackberry Winter’ for sure!"

(And now, Loree ... that weather has moved East ... MY fingers and my nose are cold ... as I sit here flailing away at the keyboard ... and I’m wondering where I hid those flannel shirts from myself)

-S&G-

SPEAKING OF COLD WEATHER ... this from RUTH (Florida/Ohio): "If you’re going to try cross-country skiing ... start with a small country."

-S&G-

"BLESSED ARE THOSE who can give without remembering ... and take without forgetting." - courtesy of TIL (Illinois)

-S&G-

RECENT SOS from HELEN (Florida) who’d had computer problems ... and, in the process, had lost her links to S&G and ... oh, no! ... "Chosen Words," too. Needless to say, I immediately tossed her the best electronic lifeline I could lay my hands on.

-S&G-

TODAY’S POEM ... I’ve said it before ... and I’ll say it again: I can’t rhyme worth a dime.

It’s true. Oh, I can sometimes put a couple of lines together, maybe, but then I get so bogged down in the mechanics of it that I can’t tell the story I started out to relate.

So, I stick mainly to what I CAN do ... and that’s what’s called free verse. It has a certain rhythm to it, a certain amount of rhyme, though not always where expected (end rhyme, for example), and I do ... sometimes ... manage to tell a story, or get a point across.

(Oh, how I envy those who have the gift for creating structured, rhyming poetry which tells their story for them!)

And now, Exhibit A in the case for "can’t rhyme worth a dime":

AVALANCHE!

When I wrote my first poem,
It was really quite a chore,
But I just had to show 'em
I could do one, maybe more.

Now poems spill off the end
Of my desk, across the floor.
If this continues, my friend,
They'll be sliding door-to-door.

(originally published in PKA's Advocate)
　
-S&G-

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-S&G-

UNTIL NEXT TIME ... take care ... see ya!

-S&G-
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