100 Words – From the Trenches of the Snowpocalypse
2011
Snow, snow, snow, blah blah blah.
I feel like a broken record, but it just keeps snowing. AND, I still love it. Now if only the Internet would go down – not in the Egypt way, just in a too much snow kind of way – I could actually take a snow day. It’s a delicious thought – to be snowed in, kept from work by Mother Nature, the whole visible world silent and white. To sit by the fire with and do nothing but read for hours on end until the plows and electricians and cable-men/women bring the noise and urgency back.
Sigh.
I was tickled to see Gabriel Gadfly on the 100 Word party list this week, and he didn’t disappoint:
Inertia
There is nothing harmless about inertia.
Inertia is doing all I can
to keep from crashing into you,
and crashing into you anyway.
It is pouring love like cement
into a sidewalk crack that won’t fill up.
It is being rooted to the spot,
unable to grasp you hand,
when I ought to grasp it.
It is words spilling out when I ought to stifle them
and words not said when I ought to say to say them.
It is being unable to love an unfilled crack.
There is nothing harmless about inertia.
Bodies in motion stay in motion.
Bodies at rest stay at rest.
Be sure to check the original out on his blog, since mine is being stubborn about formatting. Just wish his blog allowed comments. Speaking of blogs allowing comments, if I haven’t commented on yours it means I don’t have a Google account so I can’t comment.
The prompt this week is from a 1914 essay by Alice Meynell titled, Mrs. Johnson.
HONOR
And English literature has had no better phrase for her than Macaulay’s–”She accepted, with a readiness which did her little honour, the addresses of a suitor who might have been her son.”
*Admin Stuff - Have you noticed how a lot of things on the Internet that used to be free are no longer free? I guess people are finally realizing that they can’t keep working for nothing. Case in point, the LinkyTools I use for this blog is moving to a paid subscription, and I can totally sympathize with the guy. It’s a great tool, so I’m going to pay for it.
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Very nice choice, I love this one. His entries are always a delight.
I saw where the linky thingie was no longer a freebie. Donation button? I will give a little.
TinfoilMagnolia recently posted..Decisions
I’ll have to look into that. Thanks for the support!
I tried to send this via e-mail, but it bounced back. I’m guessing you have a new e-mail address. Or the snow is just too heavy… Anyway, here it is:
Thank you for visiting my blog and for your kind comment.
I totally credit you for awakening the sleeping dragon with your memes in November 2009. That was when I began my blogging life, when I had no idea what a meme was, when I posted to no comments but yours, when you were unfailingly encouraging.
It’s been over a year now, with over 300 posts on four blogs (one fiction and poetry, one creative non-fiction and musings, one photography, and one just for fun).
Thanks to you, I found my voice. Oh, boy, did I ever.
Thank you!
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Patti, you sweetheart! I’m so touched, and so very glad you’ve found your voice. For whatever small part I played, I am grateful.
Great choice this week. Gabriel Gadfly’s poetry always makes me stop . . . and think . . . and sometimes smile.
I may come up with a more traditional view of HONOR later, but Honor Among Thieves came immediately to mind last night when I saw your challenge.
Gotta love small town livin’.
Barbara recently posted..Honor Among Thieves
Small town livin’? I’m familiar.
Glad you’re enjoying the snow. We got…rain. I don’t usually enjoy rain. HOWEVER, I do enjoy the accompanying thunder and lightning…especially when it occurs juuuuust as I’m crawling into bed. Ahhh…it was nice last night. Drifting off to sleep with the sounds of a small southern Georgia storm. Snuggle yourself down, now, with a good book, a cup of hot chocolate, and a roaring fire in the fireplace…and while away them hours, y’all.
Hey June, too bad about the rain. By the way, you are one of the few blogs that I can’t comment on because I don’t have a Google profile for Velvet Verbosity, and I just can’t stomach creating another profile to log into. You know?
I SO understand! No problem. How about I just assume you love them all?
Seems like that’s a win-win.
Velvet Verbosity recently posted..Sensuality – From the Archives
I just now noticed you picked my poem! Haha. Oops. Thank you so much.
Just for the record, comments are enabled on my website now, as of a few days ago.
Good news! Just think of all the comment love you’re going to get now!
I love the choice for the last prompt!
Now on to writing for the next one…
Can’t wait.
Velvet Verbosity recently posted..Sensuality – From the Archives
I was happy to see another entry from Gabriel too. He writes so beautifully.
Tara R. recently posted..Junkyard
Indeed.
Velvet Verbosity recently posted..Sensuality – From the Archives
ruh-roh! They took your linky list away.
Happy to help if I can, VV
barbara recently posted..It’s a mystery
EEEEP! Argh. I knew about this last week and it totally slipped my mind. Hopefully when I subscribe tonight the list won’t be lost. We’ll see.
Velvet Verbosity recently posted..Sensuality – From the Archives
Whew! Linky list is back! Will be writing the post tonight.
I wrote this in my head long before the deadline, but I was off in the piney woods of East Texas leading a retreat for leaders. Perhaps you’ll honor me with a visit to my blog for a reading of Naturally.
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