sweeps away all the crickets
Challenge #135 (sparks) is now closed.
Challenge #136 is circles.
Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
Faith ,'End of Days'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
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Lee - Nov 27, 2006 6:22:58 am PST #8678 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Connie Neil - Nov 27, 2006 6:35:48 am PST #8679 of 10001
brillig
I'm sorry nothing sparked for me with the last challenge. I blame my headcold and holidays.
Circling around
"It's a wonder half my cousins don't have extra fingers, the way everyone back home is related to each other. At least I know I'm not related to you, you were born in California."
"Um . . ."
"What?"
"My mother was born in West Virginia."
" . . . what part of West Virginia?"
"Grafton. That's nowhere near where you grew up, is it?"
"No. Nowhere near. It's probably a good 30 miles away."
"Well, that's a long way, what with all those hills in between."
"Long for the horse and buggy, not so long for the small world."
SailAweigh - Nov 27, 2006 7:40:48 am PST #8680 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Heh. That's a good one, connie. It makes me think of New Guinea, where 30 miles means 5 different languages in between, not a lot of marriages made when you can't talk to each other, much less get there for the terrain.
Sad to say, I just haven't been in the writing mood. When it will kick in again, nobody knows.
SailAweigh - Nov 30, 2006 5:23:50 pm PST #8681 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Meeting Point
Trace a circle with your finger, it appears never ending. Unbroken, the circle is complete, center and limits of its own universe, nowhere to go despite its infinite length. A tangent is a line that intersects that circle at just one point without breaking the circle. It exists simultaneously as part of the circle and apart from it. No matter the length of the line, there is just the one tangent.
Fortunately, my car wheels don’t care that there can only be one point in common with the road and they take me on endless tangents to anywhere I want to go.
Zenkitty - Dec 01, 2006 10:03:19 am PST #8682 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Rockin', Sail. Love it!
SailAweigh - Dec 01, 2006 10:20:09 am PST #8683 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Thank you!
Lee - Dec 04, 2006 8:54:09 am PST #8684 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Challenge #136 (circles) is now closed.
Challenge #137 is in the parking lot.
Amy - Dec 05, 2006 5:52:17 am PST #8685 of 10001
Because books.
In the Parking Lot
It was after hours on a Saturday evening, and the parking lot was empty. A blank canvas of blacktop, neatly divided by faded white lines. Dad had waited until it was perfect weather, nothing slick or slippery on the pavement to trip me up.
Nothing but our impatience, the trait that linked us more closely than even our features. None one ever mistook us for anything but father and daughter.
“No, don’t slam on the brakes. Honey.”
“I didn’t. Daddy.”
“You want to turn now. Now!”
“I am! See?”
He did. He saw me driving away from him one day.
SailAweigh - Dec 05, 2006 5:53:15 am PST #8686 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Aw, man. I think you broke me.
Connie Neil - Dec 05, 2006 5:56:28 am PST #8687 of 10001
brillig
Parking lot driving lessons. I remember them well.