Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wednesday 29 December 2021

Words for Wednesday 29/12/2021

 




This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

The prompts will be here this month.  Huge thanks to all those who offered to provide the prompts next year.  We have all of the year covered and I will put up a post soon to tell you where to find them.

This week's prompts are:

  1. Beautiful
  2. Elusive
  3. Endurance
  4. Deep
  5. Determination
  6. Extraordinary

And/or




Have fun.

I have been remiss.  Early next week (if not before) I will put up a post to show where the Words for Wednesday prompts will be next year.


122 comments:

  1. The day (and the year) is going, going but not yet quite gone.
    This year has felt a bit like an endurance feat, for me and for the world. Extraordinary events have become the norm, and it has taken determination to keep putting one wobbly foot in front of the other. Equanimity has been elusive, and has often slipped my grasp.
    Just the same, I have continued to find consolations (often in the natural world). For which I am grateful. There will be no resolutions from me as the new year dawns but a deep and abiding hope that I will continue to find and celebrate all that is beautiful – in my life and in the world.

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    1. Done with grace and style, Sue. I expect that this largely biographical.

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    2. May (y)our hopes come true, Sue.

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    3. Absolutely spot on. Your words and thoughts could have come right from my own world and heart and soul. May we all be blessed.

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    4. Beautifully written. Both heartfelt and heartwarming.

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    5. My prayer for all of us is peace, joy, and all that is good and lovely.

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    6. We find our consolations in the most ordinary events and emotions.

      Beautifully expressed.

      XO
      WWW

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    7. Such a natural expression of your perspective--your gift of finding the silver lining. I wouldn't know this is based on prompts if I didn't know it's based on prompts.
      Hugs across the miles.

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    8. Hi EC – I suspect many of us feel as you do … even in this thick misty gloom I can see that the sun will appear … and bring forth those marvellous Spring flowers … we survive with hope.

      Thanks for all you do – I hope my name is down for one month of setting the words … cheers and a peaceful year end … and a blessed 2022. Hilary

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    9. Spot on EC. Let's hope for a new and better year.
      I hope to read many more of your wise thoughts in the coming year.

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    10. Thank you all. And yes, Hilary, you are down for a month. Next month.

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    11. Oh my gosh - thank you ... I'll email you later on ... words to go!! Happy New Year to you and one and all ... xoxo

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    12. Well done with the prompts! And I share your hope. :-)

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  2. Beautifully written. It has been a challenging year for every one. I'm glad that you have kept your equilibrium through it all and have decided to find consolation in the natural beauty.

    Hugs, Julia

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  3. A new year is upon us and we dive in with a lot of uncertainty. I hope that I'll be able to take in all that is beautiful and to look for the simplicity that is to be found in this extraordinary and diverse world we live in.

    Peace can be illusive unless we fine tune our endurance of our differences. With deep determination, I plan to look for the positive in the new year. May all the sunrises and setting of the sun brings you hope in the new year.
    Happy New Year everyone.
    Hugs,
    Julia

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    1. Julia: I love this - and so say all of us.

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    2. Well done, Julia. We should all look for the positive, although at times it's hard to do.

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    3. Not the worst plans for next year. Good luck.

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    4. Yes, I agree with you in every word. May there be peace and not just good but great beyond words for all!

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    5. Praying you find much that is positive, and hopeful.

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    6. A beautiful wish.
      Thank you.

      XO
      WWW

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    7. Hi Julia - humans need patience, time to think and reflect - peace around us can be there ... all the best to you - Hilary

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  4. 2021 was a tough year! Hope 2022 better. I believe that it will be BEAUTIFUL.

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    1. bread&salt: I really hope you are right but am sure that there will be many, many beautiful moments to come.

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  5. The DAWN of another day broke with the same EXTRAORDINARY heat that had been a feature of the entire spring. It was becoming a test of ENDURANCE to live through this kind of weather. One needed the DETERMINATION to get through it without falling into a DEEP abyss of sorrow that anthropogenic actions had caused to planet’s climate to go off-kilter in this way. The land was parched, the streams dry, the rotting carcasses of animals seeking refuge littered the landscape. This valley that had been so achingly BEAUTIFUL was a stark reminder of man’s inaction and denial. Who could have believed that common sense would have proved such an ELUSIVE commodity?

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    1. David M.Gascoigne: Oh David. I wish that this was fiction. How I wish it. With all of my heart.

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    2. Dystopian for sure David, I often have nightmares of your well written piece.

      XO
      WWW

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    3. Excellent David - beautifully written ... the dystopian world caused by us humans, not helped at all by leaders - brutal many of them. I do hope 2022 will be kinder to us all ... Hilary

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    4. Ohh, sad, but unfortunately too close to home. For a wiser 2022!

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    5. I couldn't have said it better and it's getting worst every day.

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  6. Bowing to the writer. Excellent, David.

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  7. Goodness, these are such joyous and beautiful words offering us a grand determination to carry on this extraordinary feel of deep cheerfulness especially, for those experiencing an elusive wintertime blues mindset, while searching for the endurance to banish any and all darkness from within.

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    1. Nathaniel Hawthorne would be delighted. I am! ;-)

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    2. 21 Wits: Oh yes. Definitely something to aspire to.

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    3. You used those beautiful words quite well, too!

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    4. Hi 21 Wits ... we need light and know it is there for all humanity - so true ... thank you - Hilary

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  8. An endurance of friendship can be quite illusive but when determination runs deep, friendship is both extraordinary and beautiful.
    And here's to the friendship between blogger buds.

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    1. Sandra Cox: Applause - and a big YES to the friendship of bloggers.

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    2. Blogger friends are some of the best, especially the ones i've met in real life.

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    3. Thanks Sandra for reminding us we are a thoughtful bunch of souls, caring for each other ... cheers from a blogging buddy, Hilary

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  9. Looking back he had lived an extraordinary life, so far; somehow elusive, but also beautiful. Certain experiences made in those past two milennia had been enough to, after all, convince him it was no longer necessary to dig deeper. If not en detail, by now he was quite sure about mankind's future.
    And it dawned on him 2022 for him personally was to become an interesting year.

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    1. Sean Jeating: NOT I hope an interesting year in the terms of the purportedly Chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times'...

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    2. This sounds hopeful for him, but not necessarily for the rest of us.

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    3. I gather this person has lived for a very long time? Well written.

      XO
      WWW

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    4. Hi Sean - yes ... we are in times of major change as far as the world goes ... I just hope he will be there for his place in the world ... we just need to make sure we give of our best for those around us and for him. Interesting comment - thank you - Hilary

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    5. Let's hear it for extraordinary lives and an interesting (hopefully in a good way) 2022.

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    6. So very true. Well done...

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    1. messymimi: Your cap fits well and I am sure you will produce something to marvel at again.

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  11. The monsoons produce annual floods that Malaysians face with continuous endurance. It is an elusive dream that our drainage systems will be improved to steer the deep and muddy waters away. With determination we return with vigour to start anew our beautiful homes as ordinary Malaysians revealed their extraordinary qualities.

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    1. Kestrel a great informative take on the words.

      XO
      WWW

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    2. kestrel: This is a brilliant use of the prompt. How I wish that the drainage systems could be improved. Soon.

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    3. Hi Kestrel - too many man-made problems ... I do hope for everyone's sake things become easier ... take care - Hilary

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    4. Well done!

      We get more flooding rains now than we did before, and like you, we know the drainage will not be catching up any time soon. It's not easy, i admire the courage Malaysians show in the face of destructive water.

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    5. Living in a flood prone area, I've seen first hand how destructive flooding can be. I sure hope that you'll get a better drainage system soon.

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    6. Both informative and moving. Well done.

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  12. This is a true story of a dear friend who cared for her afflicted husband until she no longer could. All words and pictures used.
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    She had to watch him closely as the sun went down. She had never studied the sky so intently in her life.

    She didn’t think how beautiful it was, how deep the splendid colours, how extraordinary was the turning of this planet away, even though briefly, from the life- giving healing light.

    The timing was so elusive, it varied with the seasons, with the daylight shortening or lengthening.

    Her determination paid off at times, at others she missed it by a minute or so.

    His endurance was strong in the face of her anxiety
    as she rushed towards him closing the curtains before he could look out and see his childhood, his farm, his father on the horse and wagon, his mother shooing the chickens to the coop, his sisters calling him.

    Sundowners, they called it. Alzheimers Sundowners. When the hallucinations and his enormous distress began as he looked out on their suburban road, when his childhood family didn’t respond to him banging on the glass.
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    XO
    WWW

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    1. Wisewebwoman: Heartbreaking. Dementia is one of the very cruelest of illnesses isn't it?

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    2. @ WWW - you've brought those challenges experienced by many - with thoughts to your friend ... and all who suffer - Hilary

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    3. Oh, this sadness, this helplessness, this despair. All one can do: Trying to stay calm and being kind.

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    4. Such a heartbreaking story. I've watched my neighbour quickly decline and one day, she just stopped breathing. Such a devastating illness.

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    5. Oh, hearthrending story. Sad, sad times for that poor lady. You made me see them clearly.

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    6. It reinforces why we support euthanasia.

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    7. Kudos to your friend and you for honoring her. Alzheimers is such a wretched disease.

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  13. The pictures are pretty, did you take them?

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  14. All of the entries here are very very good. Thank you, writers.

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  15. Her deep endurance was beautiful and elusive while exhibiting extraordinary determination.

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    1. Mike: I like it - but what made you choose a female protagonist? The words would have fit a man equally well.

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    2. One word, beautiful. I don't think I've ever used the word beautiful when talking about a guy.

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    3. Mike: I see - but have NO problems in describing people's attitudes or actions as beautiful, regardless of gender.

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    4. Hi Mike - so succinct ... and interesting commentary between you and Sue ... cheers Hilary

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    5. I was also taught at school, beautiful for women, handsome for men ;)

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    6. Charlotte (MotherOwl) and Mike: Handsome for appearances yes (though I have known some beautiful men) but for actions and ideas?

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    7. You do these sentences very well.

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    8. Mike, a man of few word but you deliver the punch.

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    9. Yes, EC, ideas, abrstractions and so on, I'd use beautiful. So you're rigth, I was too quick, the protagonist here could be either.

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  16. I will have my story on my blog tomorrow since I have something else planned for Friday.

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  17. Having nothing to do with today's words--- I am glad you could see the colors!

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  18. Hi EC - I'm combining both as 2021 nears its end ... :

    2021 the sun rose, they all had that deep determination which thankfully is part of the human endurance … while freedom remained elusive …

    … what is extraordinary the sun keeps rising, sometimes nebulously hidden, yet as 2022 comes around we are still here … that bright circular globe ensures life springs forth …

    … let's hope this year and ever onwards … humans remember the life force that is not their eternal right … and learn to appreciate and care for this wonderful world.

    Thanks for organising these fun challenges! each week ... have a blessed and peaceful New Year ... cheers Hilary

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    1. Hilary Melton-Butcher: I love it - and hope (fervently) that more of us do remember...
      And thank you.

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    2. Well said, Hillary, and may it be so.

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    3. We need to remember, our lives depend on it.

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    4. Our lives sure depends on it. I can't imagine a world without sun. Everything would freeze and ceased to exist.

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    5. Sun = life. Yes; we'd better not forget.

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  19. She was elusive and that made her beautiful. A determined whisper, deep endurance, in all of these things she was extraordinary. But it meant nothing because, as you can see, when she wasn't elusive she was a fool. No endurance, no beauty, only the deep determination of self-destruction. Extraordinary! Be elusive, girl, always.

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    1. Dandi: What an interesting take. I suspect many of us have at least two sides - and that the 'wrong' one is frequently on display.

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    2. You called me dandy! 😂

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    3. A fascinating take on the prompts.

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    4. Like EC said, an interesting take. I don't quite get it but you used the prompts effectively.

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    5. Sandi: I am sorry. Dyslexic fingers and woeful proof reading.

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    6. I think it's fortuitous that her 'wrong side' showed as well. Else woe the poor guy who was taken in by her elusive beauty.

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    7. Ele, no need to apologize. Dandy is good thing to be called, even if by mistake! 😊

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    8. Sandi: Thank you for being so understanding.

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    9. Charlotte, well, ouch! 😳

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  20. Hello, EC. Not very creative today. And my ADHD dog took his green ball, red ball, and a stuffed squeaky toy outside and forgot them there. With the amount of snow we had this week, he won't see them until spring. What a doofus.

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    1. The Blog Fodder: I hope (and am sure) that your dog will find other things to play with - or that you will find his favoured toys for him.

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    2. Tanya bought him a new soccer ball for Christmas and three new tennis balls. He loves his soccer ball more than anything. And he can't lose it in the snow. We are good to go. Happy New Year.

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    3. The Blog Fodder: I am very glad to hear it.

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  21. Here's wishing you an extraordinary, healthy and safe New Year! Hugs, RO

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    1. RO: Thank you so much. And to you - and the world.

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    1. Kinga K.: Thank you. I am blown away each and every week with what people make of the prompts. Have a wonderful New Year.

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    1. Mary Kirkland: Thank you - and to you and your family.

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  24. HAPPY NEW YEAR to you and your family Sue. I hope 2022 will be a healthy, happy and peaceful year for you

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    1. Margaret Birding For Pleasure: Thank you - and to you and your family.

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