Wednesday's Words on a Friday

 

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems.

The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind.

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along to read it and add a few encouraging words.

This month the words/prompts are supplied by Elephant's Child and can be found here

This week's words/prompts are: 1. wonderful 2. resilient 3. worse 4. pain 5. valid

and a photo which I will use.

Here is my story:

“We always thought she would last forever, she was so wonderfully resilient, bouncing back after storms, the big flood, even a lightning strike, but now, just look at her, it’s as if she feels Grandpa’s pain and as he gets worse, so does she.” Jenny turned to Simon and leaned into his shoulder .

“Grandpa’s father planted her the day Grandpa was born, he learned to climb almost as soon as he learned to walk. He taught us how to climb and we would sit in her branches and feel the wind. She dropped a few branches last year and put out only a few leaves in the spring. Birds don’t nest in her anymore either.”

“She’s a beautiful tree still,” said Simon. “I was hoping our children would enjoy climbing too, but the arborist said we may have to take her down before she crashes,  he said the roots appear to be dying as well as the branches.”

“Can we bring Grandpa out to see her one last time?” asked Jenny. “Of course we can,” said Simon, “they can say goodbye to each other, but it will have to be tomorrow, Doctor Brooks said Grandpa won’t last more than a day or two now.”

“Look,” said Jenny, “there’s a rainbow now the rain has stopped. Let’s open Grandpa’s curtains and show him.” "It's a double rainbow," said Simon. "Look."




Comments

  1. This is beautiful. I love that they are taking Grandpa out to say goodbye to his long time friend.

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    1. Elephant's Child; thank you. I still haven't decided what type of tree it is. Something with low, wide spreading branches for easy climbing though.

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  2. Very nice and clever again. Oh, I miss my family´s cherry-trees. Bro had to put them down for the same reason... And he sent me videos of that...

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    1. Iris; thank you. I miss my cherry tree too, the cherries were so crisp and juicy.

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    2. Yes, we had very, very dark and nearly yellow ones, both were soooo yummy. Those from the store... pffffft.... only if from the fridge! That we had this summer often!

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  3. What a sweet, sad story. Trees are supposed to outlive us. Hope he gets to see not only his ailing friend but that double rainbow also.

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    1. Arkansas Patti; it's true trees are supposed to outlive us, but this one seems to have such an affinity with Grandpa who is dying aged 98.

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  4. Well written, sweet and sad at the same time.

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  5. Vladimir Putin did not feel wonderful when he woke up on Christmas Day. He used to think that he was resilient to physical ailment but this morning he felt worse than on Christmas Eve. There was a shooting pain in his chest and it was valid to consider his historical heart condition. When he died - just before his breakfast arrived - a double rainbow appeared in the sky above his luxury Moscow mansion. Perhaps it was a promising sign for the embattled people of Ukraine and for the young Russian men who had been drafted into the army to fight his pointless war.

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    1. Yorkshire Pudding; thank you, I like this. If only it could be true.

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  6. I thought they were talking about a person at first, silly me. Trees and double rainbows are amazing things. Sad but kind of a sweet story.

    Have a lovely day.

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    1. lissa; thank you, I wrote it that way, so it seemed like a person at first.

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  7. Grandpa loose his love of his life.
    Coffee is on and stay safe

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  8. When I saw the rainbows, I was afraid Grandpa wasn't going to make that last trip, and that he and the tree were on their way to another adventure, in another dimension.

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  9. A beautiful and sad story. Just right.

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