Tag: Missed Opportunities
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The Daily Stranger
This is personal. I’m sorry about that. This is the only way I can communicate with you. I’m sorry about that, too. I see you walking, I don’t know if you notice. You brighten the dullest of mornings as you walk along the pavement. I can’t speak to you as we pass each other, I…
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
WC Fields said that. William Claude Dukenfield, January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946, according to Wikipedia, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. I always thought that WC Fields was a woman, not meaning to be impolite toward the memory of WC, or to WC himself, I hasten to add. It’s an easy…
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Out and about…
Walking around the lake the other day, I stopped off to have a quick lean against one of the rocks and to watch the fish and the ducks swimming. I’d been leaning for a few minutes when I spotted this chap or chappess basking in the bright sunshine. He (or she!) was not in the…
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Lunch
As the raindrops patted the ground around, the blackbird stood and waited. It was looking for a nice, juicy worm for its lunch, and knew they couldn’t resist the temptation to come out of the ground in the rain. The blackbird caught site of a worm in the corner of its eye, and flew…
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Self Portrait
I look nothing like I think I do. I think I look exactly as I did years ago, but the mirror tells me otherwise. The mirror lies. The mirror points out flaws I never knew I had. Truths I never believed existed. Flaws that would never exist on me. I’m perfect. Well, apart from the…
The Mansionic Perspective 