I visited Misk Cooks this morning where Misky shares recipes and some of the most beautiful photographs of food you’ll see anywhere. Today there’s a gorgeous photo of rape fields in Sussex and a link to Mellow Yellow Monday, where you’ll find lots of other photos, weekly prompts, and the rules for participating.
So if your Monday is blue, you might give MYM a try.
Here’s my “yellow” offering for today’s Monday Discovery.
Sunflowers, roadside stand near the Everglades
Here are the words from Wordle 61 at The Sunday Whirl: blend, latch, chest, current, draft, string, crack, spare, temper, refrain, racket, trace, strike.
These words seemed to want to be a poem. Here’s a draft:
Muddle
Outside, the air’s a rare blend of jasmine
and wood smoke from the grill. My chest hurts
from hunching over the computer too long,
this draft a muddle of temper, a racket of voices.
I need something spare: a bare room, silence,
a crack in the face of time. There’s too much noise
in here; it drags me down its racing current.
I wait for the clock to strike the ending.
Where’s the latch and string when I need it,
a simple exit where not a trace of sense
remains: not jasmine, not smoke, not even this
refrain of words, scrabbling to be heard.
cane chair in sunlight
Wordle # 60
It’s been a busy week at The Writerly Life, kicking off with The Sunday Wordle: June 10, a wordplay exercise based on the wordles (word lists, if you want the plain version) at The Sunday Whirl. This week’s list whispered an eerie little story to me–“All Fall Down.” I couldn’t leave the story alone, so Follow-up to the Sunday Wordle, June 10 contains a revised version. It seems to want to be a longer story!
Esther Bradley-DeTally graced The Writerly Life on this week’s Monday Discovery with a lovely guest post about being a twin and also about mortality. Esther will have you teary and laughing at the same time! Find more of Esther’s whimsical, poignant, straight-talk writing at Sorrygnat, World Citizen. Thanks again, Esther! What a pleasure to have you here.
catch
At a Loss for Words: June 12: A beachy slideshow of my favorite place to go and wind down, write, read, watch glorious sunsets.
On Thursday, It’s a Wonder-filled World gave you, I hope, a glimpse of wonder. Since my thirteen-year-old granddaughter figures prominently in this one, maybe I’ll ask her to follow up with a guest post about her first trip to New York. She can handle that assignment, I assure you!
I was delinquent last week re the Weekly Photo Challenge, but this week’s was one I knew I could tackle. Check out the Weekly Photo Challenge: Close for my interpretation of “close.” Too close for comfort!
So there you have it: the week in review here at The Writerly Life. I hope you enjoyed dropping by. I hope you’ll be back soon!
Gerry Wilson 