Wordle #87
top, list glassy, unfolded, itch, rushes, slicks, listen, sign, lighten, tragic, visalility, milky
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A Material Gift to Honor the Man
Who Did not Collect Material Gifts
List made
Checked twice
At the top
A gift for you
With glassy eyes I stare
At the milky blank space
Where the gift should be written
No idea…
There is no word for lack of it
Fold and unfold the paper
Wrinkled and torn like a photo
By the Starns twins
Palms itch
Idea after idea rushes to be rejected
None seem right
I listen to the songs of the season and sigh
Holiday load would be lightened
If only a slick idea
Would materialize
Christmas morning will be tragic
For lack of gift to give
Snow is expected
Visability low
Note: Â Sometimes it is not the buying of the gift at the shopping mall, but the idea of the perfect gift to give. Â The holiday has become one big “potlatch.” Â And we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to find that perfect gift. Â I selected the image of the book, The Gift, one of my favorites. Â Â And Merry Christmas to all…….
annellannell 
Perhaps the perfect gift is that you will be there in the morning..I hadn’t heard of ‘potlatch’ before..what a lovely word..a gift for me..the book looks interesting too..happy Sunday to you Jae x
Funny I don’t think I was really writing about a gift, but that is what happens with the wordle. A potlatch is a Native American tradition, especially in the Northwest. Competing Chiefs tried to out do each other with the gifts, and expected reciprocation.. The Canadian government had to make it against the law (I’m not sure why?)
The book is very interesting, and I would like to read the update.
It snowed yesterday,and transformed the landscape, all is beautiful. The sun is shinning, and everything sparkles.
Hope you are feeling good for the holidays. Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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I think I am beige rather than shinning and sparkling..but that can be like a blanket that is needed..it’s funny these words we get given..I wonder if they allow us to think/write in a way we might not have..or if they may have found their way in at some time anyway..Sunday hugs back x
This cannot be! For one so creative must be a bright color, like a Christmas Tree. I have a favorite little blanket, it is very old, very warm and very snuggly, I have mended it many times, when the moths had taken a light lunch. It is a beautiful blue, red, and many other colors. It was woven in Ireland many years ago. The wool is scratchy, but I still like it best. So beautiful is my blanket, like you.
Yes, sometimes when I am waiting on the early words, and thinking ahead to the write. I think I have nothing in my head, and nothing to say… that is why I like the wordle because you have to work with words you might have never chosen. I like to see what I do with them. I surprise myself, I think you are right about the “think/write in a way we might not have…” I’m not sure if they may have found their way in at some time anyway? Interesting thought. It may be true….
xoxoxo Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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Jae I went through your last emails…looking for the one, where you said something about the “words we get,” referring to prompts. And that maybe they weren’t really random. I repeated something about that to another poet, and she loved it, and thought maybe that was true? Maybe the words aren’t really random, but meant just for you. Fate, or chance?
I want to think that is is true…because of how different, or unique each person responds to the “words.”
Hope today is good for you! xoxoxoxoxo Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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I have to confess that I gave up long ago waiting for slick gift ideas to materialize. It just puts too much pressure on me. If I could, I would ignore the season entirely. Grinch? Maybe…
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Actually there is so much wonder in this world, I don’t really have a problem finding a gift, but I know there are people who do. And as we have gotten older, we do less each year…but it is a choice. I keep thinking we are creating new traditions….with less. Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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O wonderful wordler, thank you for the lighthearted gift today amid all the dark tragedy.
There is that old joke floating around; What do you get the man who has everything? And the answers are: either a lawyer to prove where he got it, or penicillin to cure it.
I remember one of my favorite stories is ‘The Gift of the Magi’ but the title you offer looks interesting too. No real snow here. It’s our location. We get cold, but not a lot of snow.
Thanks for your visit. I like how the wordle lists twist from the list and grace our pages. I’ve also added to my story verse this week:
http://julesgemsandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/12/sw-87-story-verse-living-dream.html
Great wordle. I stopped worrying about giving gifts a long time ago. The real reason for why we ever have Christmas is being lost now to whole generations of ‘I wants’ So sad to think instead of being a pleasure, it has now become a nightmare. Your gift has a lot of thought behind it, and, a strong message too.
RYN: I don’t mind the snow…I do mind having to shovel it. lol
so much pressure and expectation comes with the holiday…i think the greatest gift we can give each other is our time, being together…so much magic in that…not the material but the experience….and in the end what we do give if given with heart is special…
Thanks Brian for the “true” words. Yes, and we will be “present” for each other as we speak, sing, write, from a distance. You enrich my life. Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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merry christmas annell….smiles.
Glad to see you found how to make snow, I was wondering how it would look with your photos of Taos. Love what you did with the words and one of the reasons I keep coming back to the wordles is because I’m curious to see where everyone takes them or ends up. And I think you are right, that the older we get, the less pressure we feel to get the perfect gift. The past few years, I’ve worried more about how long it will take and how quickly it can be done. I’m not much of a Christmas person anymore.
Elizabeth
http://soulsmusic.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/last-chance-angel/
Me either. But this year, I have been listening to Christmas music which I haven’t done for years. Perhaps I am softening.
Yes, I love the wordles. I’ve wondered what would happen if I made up my own wordless, collected words?
What if the words are not really random? What if they are supposed to come to us, and we are using them as they were meant to be used just by us alone? I wasn’t planning to write about gifts, didn’t have an idea in my head.
I want you to know I am very grateful for you in my life. Even from a distance, you enrich my life. Thank you.
May this Christmas by your very best Christmas yet! Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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I was thinking, just this morning, that perhaps poetry itself is a ‘last chance angel’. That the words themselves are never random, but just what we need? I really liked that idea.
Last night, my daughter and I went to my nephew’s Christmas party. Drove through the dark streets all lit up with Christmas lights, and sang along with the carols on the radio. When we arrived, I got huge warm hugs from three of the most beautiful men I know. Now that’s Christmas, yes? My wish for you is that your holidays will be filled with soft laughter and warm love.
Elizabeth
Oh, the best! Everything your said. And that is why I love you much! And you enrich my life.
Back at you with the Christmas wishes! xoxoxoxo Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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Merry Christmas to you, too, Annell.
I am pretty much a bah, humbug! person myself, Annell. Christmas has become such a commercial overrated time of year. I look forward to a nice meal with my husband and that is about it for me. Nice lighthearted write.
I see you got the snow working 🙂
Pamela
And for us too. Although I like to go to Pueblo and celebrate Christmas Eve with the native people. It is based on something so ancient and so old, other worldly, and nothing commercial. Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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I like this – clean and simple, what it says it what it is. we had a lovely Hannukah this year, with lots of friends to share in our holiday traditions, and share yummy food (I’ll be cleaning for a week). have a Merry Christmas, and remember, the perfect gift is always Love!
Thank you for that reminder I consider it a gift! Annell Livingston HC 74 Box 21860 El Prado, NM 87529
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