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Sandbox Writing Challenge 2018 — Exercise 21
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What have you left undone?
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This is actually a very timely post for me, for there’s one rather important thing I HAVE (WE have) procrastinated about and left undone.
We recently had our house put in a trust so the kids would have everything sorted out for them when we take to our big RV in the sky. We wanted it done before we left on vacation or were flying anywhere, but here the paperwork sits still needing to be filed with our credit union. And we leave day after tomorrow for a wedding in Maryland…
Hm… I wonder if we still have time to get it taken care of? BAD Carters!!! 👎☹
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Picture Source:
Bed — andreadekker.com
Trust —Yelp
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Sorry Calen,
Work in progress, if you please click on vulnerable people you will see list of posts at the bottom, just click on.
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Oh well, here is my post Calen. I’ve not yet mastered the “ping-back” task…
https://ivors20.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/what-can-i-do/
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Wow, Calen,
I do get carried away on here. Thanks for the like. I had forgotten about my comment posting after getting rid of my ‘stuff’. Later today I found the clearing process enabled me to revisit my blog.
Take care
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So what kind of illness are you struggling with, Margaret? And where in the world do you call home?
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Hi Calen,
If you read my post ‘growing up’ you will find out about my illness which has been in ‘remission’ with medication for 18 years.
Regarding where do I class as home, I live in u.k., visit Ireland parents country of birth and Gambia regularly. The jury is out.
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Having trouble finding the post. In fact, it won’t let me go anywhere from your About page. Help?
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Well done, Ivor. I could feel the emotion flowing out of your words. And I really liked the song! Not heard it before, so thank you for that intro to it.
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It went with the poem perfectly, didn’t it Fim…
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I found a puddle
of time
trapped
where the earth
is cool,
soft,
behind the hulk
of a toppled tree,
but quickly,
it dried,
burdened
by the heft
of a hot afternoon.
New sparrows
discovered
their thirst.
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A puddle of time… Now that’s an interesting concept. What would happen if you fell into it? So good to see you back again, btw. Hope all is well. {{{Scott}}}}
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P.s enjoy your wedding not holiday (can’t you tell I’m focusing on my tale, sorry 😐
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Hi Caleb,
Please accept my apologies Caleb for addressing you as Cheryl in previous messages, somehere along the line I had obviously become mixed up in the blogging process.
I believe your outstanding paperwork & all that that entails will be done when you feel the time is right & only then. Do enjoy your vacation.
Thank you so much for this posting which has prompted me to rip up slot of my old work papers containing reflections and a few other things. I had been keeping everything in a drawer along with a photo album spanning my nursing & health visiting career hoping to write a memoir. I now feel there were difficult periods in relation to my illness where I had to ‘jump through hoops’ to prove to management I could do the job standing on my head really. I proved it and retired with no blemish on my work record solely with the support of my brother who is a lawyer who I am indebted to & also my late mother who had the forbearance to put up with the whole circus.
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Oh hey, Margaret. You can call me Cheryl. Most folks know me by my RL name as well as my Calen alter ego. (Huge Tolkien fan! Calen in Quenya means Green. Sar in Sindarin means stone. Iel is the female ending for a name. My birthstone is emerald from the beryl family, which is what Strider left on the bridge for the Hobbits in LOTR. So I ended up being Maiden of the Green Stone — literally Green Stone Maiden. 😀 )
Writing a memoir sounds interesting. I’m a journaler and I’ve always felt like I was an archivist Don’t know if that’s the same thing or not?
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Hi Calen,
Will revisit this comment as want to make brekkie. Just googled Wikipedia definition of memoir & maybe already doing it. You will see on my ‘vulnerable people’ posting the reference to my journaling & starting a blog.
Thanks 😎 Nice day here
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Hi Calen, I wrote this one Years Ago, I can’t even remember the year. I was procrastination over decisions I had to make, one way or another, and so this poem was born, I’ve never posted it and hardly anyone has seen it, I suppose I thought it was too introverted a piece and nobody would be interested. Anyhow here goes, I’ll type it directly here for you and others who might happen to read it. Do you think that the poem is ok to publish.
What Can I Do
What am I expected to do
When is so much, too much to do
Why am I so scared, what can I do
What is the future, for me and for you
How will I say, I’m too tired for you
When is the day, to tell you
Will I hurt too much, to be without you
How will I know, when the time’s due
Why is it so, what can I do
Where is the place, I’m putting you
Why am I frightened, no, no, not easy to do
When I finally have to, and don’t want to
Who am I, to have this over you
What is the answer, for me and for you
Now or never, can that be true
How by myself, I’ll never be able to
Oh, the answer to all of my procrastination, I decided to keep her at home, and we lived happily ever after. I didn’t listen to the advice of others, and in the end it was the best decision of my life, for me and for her …xx There’s a song to go with it, which coincidently came out after I wrote my poem…..
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OML Ivor! That is so heartbreaking… I’m all teary here knowing some of what you and Carole went through. Both your poem and the song are beautiful and sad at the same time. “How will I say, I’m too tired for you…” That just made me suck in my breath. Of course you should publish it, dude! It’s so full of honest emotion… ❤
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Oh Calen you’re so good for me. I think I need you as my PR person. 😊 I know the poem is an emotional piece for myself, now thanks to you, I realise that my words have relevance for others, and what I thought was just an emotional jumble of thoughts, might actually make sense to readers !! 😉Again thanks my friend for helping me see my poem more clearly, you’re so good for my self esteem and confidence, I might post it when I get out of bed here 😊it’s 6.30am and only 2’C. 😊
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You must be freezing your keister off with all that damp cold over there, dude! I’d just stay in bed if it were me!!! And you’re more than welcome about the poem. Me think you underestimate yourself, my friend. 😉 Post that poem!
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