Great & Small

It is the day before Thanksgiving and it seems everyone is out picking up last minute items. People are everywhere and the traffic is crazy as impatient horns blare.

I reach into my pocket and her list, hand written in pencil, is crumpled around my keys. I fish it out, smoothing it as I squint to read :-

Red peppers
Green peppers
Ginger
Onions
Scallions
Garlick
Greatnut ice cream
Bizzy

Bizzy, she makes tea from this. “Good for the knees”, she says while rubbing it. I still have trouble figuring out which of her home remedies are mostly old wives tales. That matters not, though. It’s what she gets from it. I suspect they have more to do with her refusing to just give up. Or, to leave her fate in the hands of another.

Arthritis is taking its toll. That right knee is markedly larger than the left. So it can’t be comfortable. And she has given up on doctors. “They’re not doing anything for me, they’re just rifling through my insurance”, she complains. And soldiers on.

At age 87, she is still a warrior!

sparrows in a ruckus
above the roar of traffic –
how’s this possible?
I pause – from atop street light
an unlikely burst of nature

Pat R
11/29/19

A Tanka haibun having to do with giving thanks for things great and small. For Tanka Tuesday over at Colleen’s, also over at Frank Tassone’s Poetry Challenge where the prompt is Thanksgiving.

 

# Wordless Wednesday – Gatun Lake in Panama

Pat R

11/27/19

On Gatun Lake

 

Chaos

strewn with browns

tangled, intense mess –

then comes spring

 

Pat R

11/25/19

For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge

 

SOL: Restraint

MIND / BODY / SOL

your name is the one
word I refuse to let slip
past my lips again.

3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 128.”

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Thursday Doors

 

The Royalton on E43 in Manhattan. It drew my attention because I stayed at their property in Mexico. It was gorgeous. Love the details on the surround in this.

This is a school entrance in Brooklyn. I particularly appreciated the inscription by Lincoln above the door…given the times we are living in. Only two this week.

Pat R

11/21/19

For Thursday Door over at Norm’s. Stop by and take a peek at fabulous doors.

 

FOTD Challenge – BEE

Pat R

11/14/19

FOTD – November 14, 2019 – Sunflower and Bee

Grace & Style

under the bluest sky
and warm caribbean sun
coconut palms sway –
such grace and ease of design,
no worries of wintry days

Pat R

11/13/19

For Tanka Tuesday over at Colleen’s where the prompt words are synonyms of Grace & Stlye. I used Ease & Design. So stop over at Colleen’s where fun things are happening and do some reading here.

 

 

 

#Wordless Wednesday

Charred Earth

nurtured by nature
charred earth yields tender new growth –
to new beginnings

 

 

 

Pat R

11/11/2019

For Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge where the challenge words are Nature & Nurture. For more responses go here.

 

Thursday Doors

Some sketchy doors this week from my recent trip that was way too short.

Taken in the Bahamas ( Half Moon Cay).

Sitting there by itself as decor in an outdoor restaurant in Aruba.

Alto Vista Chapel, a small chapel in Aruba.

I remember watching these being made by the boys as a kid. They actually pushed each other around in them.

Pat R

12/07/2019

For Norm’s Thursday Doors