Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
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Out of the cold
Amsterdam's wind, slicing through November, carried a chill that clung to every exposed surface. The city’s canals and cobblestones seemed complicit...
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Better late than never
Every cloud has a silver lining, at least that's what they say, So though storms may loom, they’ll soon pass away. Just as in my odd verse, the heavy...
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"Before They Call, I Will Answer, While They Are Still Speaking, I Will Hear." Part Three.
Years later, while Paul and I settled into life with Eric in our lives, for he’d now become a part of our lives now. It went from him going into his...
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As the sayings go …
Too many cooks get under each others’ feet …
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