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."