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 colour for April is Missing Green.
This week's prompts are:
- Beauty
- Missing
- Totally
- Roundabout
- Belief
- Suddenly
- Peace
- Rose
- Calamity
- Solve
As always, have fun.
I am sure you will join me in wishing good things for River who has her first cataract surgery tomorrow and may not join us this week.
Hi EC - so glad you're feeling a little better this week ... and no that colour, as such, doesn't ring any bells ... but here's my story ...
ReplyDelete"Rose was seriously worried her green make-up had gone missing … she'd flown round the roundabout at least ten times looking for it … in the belief that this was where the calamity happened.
But – could she solve where she'd lost it … she was totally sure this was where it had disappeared.
Suddenly peace came about … Beauty had returned … and all was well … the roundabout was planted with plenty of Peace Roses, which had lots of green leaves – no longer missing."
Cheers Hilary
Love it. A v different take on fairies. And what a responsibility to take on - colouring the roses (all of them?) and their leaves.
Deletewonderful!
Delete;-)
DeleteVery enjoyable tale!
DeleteThe fairy who lost her color is very beautiful..
DeleteI liked it a lot!
I'm glad the fairy found her missing green.
DeleteSuch talent, Hilary!
DeleteExcellent job, Hils. Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
DeleteSort que sabia on l'havia perdut. ;-)
DeleteWonderful, Hilary.
DeleteLovely
DeletePeter’s funeral was tomorrow. Rosa and Sharon would be there, both claiming the limelight as his totally bereaved and bereft sister. Sadly, any time they met an argument ensued. Noisy, nasty and destroying any peace. If the event was not to be a calamity Rebecca needed to put her thinking cap on.
ReplyDeletePeter and his sisters had been as different as chalk and cheese. Just thinking about the scenes his sisters made and delighted in turned him a nasty shade of missing green and made him shrink down inside himself. She knew that he would have wanted a serene and ‘civilised’ send off that celebrated beauty and love and with drama completely missing.
Suddenly an idea rose up in her head. A roundabout convoluted sort of idea. Not totally ethical perhaps but it could be made to work and it would solve tomorrow’s dilemma.
In her capacity as Peter’s executor Rebecca rang, first Rosa and then Sharon. She told them, which was true, that Peter had left them a remembrance in his will. She also told them that in her role as sole executor if either of them made a scene, started an argument or even spoke to each other she would drag out the settlement of that will for as long as possible. Both sisters were greedy. Both, grumbling, agreed.
And fingers crossed disaster had been averted.
thecontemplativecat here. Excellent. Well done! Rebecca is a clever girl.
Deletewhat a brilliant solution to the situation!
DeleteA piece of fine diplomacy.
DeleteSmart, very smart!
DeleteI didn't expect this development,
Deleteit's well written.
Thank you!
Let's hope everything goes well for River with the surgery.
You chose very beautiful words and color,
chances are that wonderful fantasy stories will be written!!
Very clever EC to have Rebecca threaten the sisters like that. I'm sure the funeral will go well.
DeleteSean Jeating: You will have noticed that Rebecca didn't even hint about what form that 'remembrance' takes.
DeleteI would always want to have Rebecca on my side.
DeleteLove it, especially the chalk n cheese reference;)
DeleteWishing you a health-filled day.
Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
De vegades amb una sola frase, tot s'arregla. ;-)
DeleteBon relat, Sue.
Love it! If only all executors were as wise and resourceful. :-)
DeleteGood for Rebecca.
DeleteTo be missing green is to be totally missing the belief in beauty, and in a roundabout way, missing the scent of a rose.
DeleteClever!
DeleteHi EC - well done - excellent ... just what the programme ordered - it'd make a good tv show ... I wonder if Peter had a huge inheritance ... fun to read - thank you .. Hilary
ReplyDeleteI love it! If I had ten minutes to spare, I'd jump in. Goodness, I miss the old days of challenges, sharing, and online friendships. Time, stop marching. Life, stop being so complicated.
ReplyDeleteCrystal Collier: I hear you on the time and complicated life front. I think that most of us do.
DeleteCrystal Collier: How much I agree with you,
Deletetime, stop for a moment and let's live!!
As always the words are different and inspiring. Will try to be back. Migraines are aplenty in my house.
ReplyDeleteSusan Kane: (I assume this anonymous is you). I do hope your migraine passes quickly.
DeleteI am glad to know you are feeling better. Your posts are very enjoyable as always.
ReplyDeleteLinda's Relaxing Lair: Thank you.
Deletemine is here!
ReplyDeleteCindi: I have read and enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteCindi:
DeleteTant de bo en Kael trobi la manera de tornar al bosc aviat.
M'agrada com segueix. ;-)
The beauty of peace that suddenly rose out of calamity and thus would solve mankind's eternal problem:
ReplyDeleteYou have that belief?
Ha ha ha!
You will have to witness that human history is permanently on a roundabout.
Where is the difference between a certain ex-president in spe and Goebbels: "Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?"
Ach! Have I totally been missing green?
Human nature is human nature, isn't it.
DeleteVery beautiful,
Deletemany times I feel like life is recycling...
Good use of words!
I too always wish for peace and know thta it will never completely happen. Mankind is greedy and too ready to fight for what he wants.
DeleteSean Jeating: Sigh. The more things change...
DeleteHere’s a really original statement: We never change!
DeleteLa humanitat no perd mai la seva manera de fer, són (som) incapaços d'aprendre de les errades...
DeleteAferradetes, Sean.
Hi Sean - glad to see you here. Just shadows of history - you can certainly be missing green - bearing in mind what we're having to live with. Look after yourself - cheers Hilary
DeleteI guess my earlier comment went up into the ether somewhere.
ReplyDeleteMy post will be over here.
messymimi: I will check spam in a bit, but few comments (and those mostly mine) have been going there recently.
Deletemessymimi:
DeleteÉs el millor talent que es pot aprendre, sortir-se sol de tots els imprevistos, sent autodidacta. ;-)
I told her in a roundabout way that the belief in her beauty was totally missing the point.
ReplyDeleteMike: Whose belief in her beauty? Hers or yours.
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DeleteMike: La bellesa està en els ulls de qui mira... ;-)
DeleteI wonder if she got the point. Roundabout doesn't always do it.
DeleteHi Mike - I wonder if she's bright enough to pick up your thoughts - succinct - thank you - Hilary
DeleteI'm having a go this week. It's been a while.
ReplyDeleteLovely tales above.
I heard this CALAMITY outside, so raced to the back door and what I saw was amazing.
There in the backyard was this huge kangaroo eating my PEACE ROSE, I watched with great intent then SUDDENLY the kangaroo took off down the driveway at the side of the house. I will just have to SOLVE the problem of how it got through the gate myself.
Margaret D: How lovely that you have joined us again. I wonder whether the roo came through the gate or just hopped over the fence. Great story and I love the Australian flavour.
DeleteAixò és més greu que t'entrin formigues a la cuina. ;-)
DeleteI imagine he just couldn't resist the delicious snack.
DeleteHi Margaret - clever to bring the kangaroo into the picture ... I should think one mouthful would nobble your Peace Rose. Looks like it didn't need to get through the gate, as it could just get in via the drive ...
DeleteCheers Hilary
Thank you. The Roo just came through the gate, there is a high fence and someone left the gate open!
DeleteMissing green - that adds an interesting layer to the challenge.
ReplyDeleteAlex J. Cavanaugh: It does - and the contributors have been more than up to it.
DeleteDid you see the latest colour chart? It’s MISSING GREEN. MISSING, yes, TOTALLY, not there, vanished and banished, expunged, purged, absent, no green, zippo! This DEI stuff is getting ridiculous (okay, it was always ridiculous). And these are people who profess BELIEF in god (whoever she is) and preach PEACE and BEAUTY – well, their version of it anyway. When I was a child at school, in one of my very early classes, when religious propaganda was still mandatory, I was taught that a ROSE was made beautiful only by the green of its leaves, a colour chosen for every flower of every hue in all the world. So, it’s a real CALAMITY to find that green has been given the heave-ho. I wonder how “they” are going to SOLVE the problem of green being everywhere, right before our eyes? And SUDDENLY it’s not, or at least it’s not supposed to be. Someone is going to have to tell all the taverns on St. Patrick’s Day that green beer is no longer de rigeur. I suppose that in a ROUNDABOUT way, even if it looks green, as long as you don’t call it green, it will be okay. Maybe someone will be able to sneak in a reference to Teal, or Aquamarine, or other such euphemism. I bet that George Orwell is chuckling in his grave and if he says, “I told you so,” who can argue with that?
ReplyDeleteDavid, Thumbs up. A fun read, as always.
DeleteSandra sandracox.blogspot.com
;-) Molt bo!
DeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear. And what will happen when 'they' decide that rainbows are woke. I shudder to think.
DeleteIt's not easy being green, but that's not a reason to get rid of it.
DeleteHi David - well done ... molto bene ... missing green - these Hex colours are a bit muddling and there are plenty of them to boot (Wellington black boots) not khaki ones, nor Racing green, nor 'viridis' - we may well be heave-hoeing 'green' for grey soon ... fun take - thank you - cheers Hilary
DeleteFALTEN deu minuts per les dotze, na Mercè vol aprofitar la part del matí per parlar amb na Joanna. Sap que aquella hora és la millor per no trobar ningú al local on treballa. Davant el mirall es retoca el rinxol entestat a no deixar-li el front lliure; es posa la faldilla ROSA amb motius VERDS que li havia regalat ella, es mira un cop més i agafa les claus per sortir. Va repetint les paraules que li vol dir, com si es tractés d'un mantra, respira fons per no semblar nerviosa, però li tremola tot el cos. En sortir del pis, agafa la primera ROTONDA i DE SOBTE s'atura, mira cap el cel i suspira, té la CREENÇA de que tot anirà bé, TOTALMENT convençuda segueix fins al portal del local. En arribar, mira des de fora si hi ha clients, una PAU immensa es respira, la cerca amb la mirada i és allà, just darrera la barra. Pensa que mai ha vist tanta BELLESA en un sol cos i aixeca la mà, saludant-la.
ReplyDelete— Hola! què hi fas per aquí?
— He vingut a veure't...
— Espera un segon... quina CALAMITAT que sóc... avui tot em surt tort!...
— Potser no vinc en bon moment...
— No, nooo!... passa, passa i asseu-te que preparo alguna cosa per picar.
— Veuràs... es que vull explicar-te el que em passa...
— Et veig molt seriosa, ho hem de RESOLDRE!
— No... res greu... crec que m'he enamorat...
— I qui és ell?, el conec?... explica'm...
— No, no és ell... és... és...
— Va dona, qui és?
Just en aquell moment entra un noi saludant-les, passa per darrera na Joanna, la besa al coll, mentre li passa la mà pels cabells.
— Mira, Pere, la meva amiga Mercè! Mercè, en Pere!
— Molt de gust!... Joanna crec que vindré en un altre moment... ara me'n vaig...
— No dona, pots quedar-te amb nosaltres!
— Un altre dia, he d'anar-me'n aviat...
— Va, dóna'm dos petons i vine quan vulguis i m'expliques, sí?
— Sí... ja... adéu...
— Adéu, Mercè!
Aquí et deixo el meu enllaç, un plaer com sempre:
https://elraconetdesalluna.blogspot.com/2025/04/creences.html
sa lluna: Thank you so much for joining us. I had to divide your story into two parts before google translate would agree to play - but am glad I did.
DeleteSuch a sad story. The course of love never runs smooth.
It's not easy to work up courage and go talk to someone, especially when it doesn't quite turn out as you wish.
DeleteSue:
DeleteGràcies per provar-ho i per deixar-me participar amb la meva llengua!
L'amor és complicat de vegades.
messymimi:
DeleteSí, ha de ser fotut que no surti bé, després d'estar preparada per parlar. Gràcies!
Healing wishes to River!
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk: Lots of them. I hope she is home again now.
Deletethecontemplativecat here. I have had surgery on both eyes to remove cataracts. went well, vision is awesome. but , expect to wear reading glasses.
ReplyDeleteSuddenly Peace ARose
ReplyDeleteCalamity Solved!
Amen! 🙏🏽❤️
Cloudia: Short and sweet. You are rivalling "Captain Succinct'
DeleteUma proposta que vise dinamizar o blog é sempre de louvar.
ReplyDeleteEspero que tudo corra bem para River.
Bom fim de semana.
Abraço de amizade.
Juvenal Nunes
Juvenal Numes. Thank you. I hope River's surgery went really, really well.
DeleteIf I didn't wish River well, sending best wishes now.
ReplyDeleteAND YOU have a weekend filled with bird song, sweet smells from the garden and good health.
Sandra sandracox.blogspot.com
Sandra Cox: Thank you so much for those comprehensive good wishes.
DeleteLate on the scene:
ReplyDeleteThe Café Roundabout.
It’s a quirky, peaceful place.
An under-stated beauty—
Deep, teal-coloured walls
Flowers, roses, on the tables,
Totally eclectic cutlery and plates,
People drift in. And out. Or stay.
Coffees are made, consumed.
Nothing happens suddenly.
No panic, no calamity, just calm.
A place for a poet to retreat,
To consume coffee and eggs
To solve the mysteries
Of the prompts.
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J Cosmo Newbery: Love it. Thank you. It sounds like a wonderful place.
DeleteI think this is a link to it: Cafe Roundabout
ReplyDeleteJ Cosmo Newbery: The link works.
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