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 lissa and can be found here
This week's words/prompts are:
During a rainy spell a
few days later, Josef, William and David were sitting by a warm fire at the
retirement village and reminiscing of days long gone. Each held a mug of hot
chocolate to warm their hands as they sipped, with their musings occasionally
interrupted by the kerplunk of fat raindrops hitting the base of the drainage
pipe.
Josef took a deep
breath before saying; “the World keeps trying to do the right thing but they
get so much wrong trying to erase the bad parts of history as if they never
existed. These parts need to be remembered so that solutions to the original
problems can be found.”
David said, “the Bible
tells us the meek shall inherit the Earth, but what kind of inheritance will
that be when the bullies have beaten everyone into submission? The meek need to
stand against them.”
“I remember my mother,”
said William, “she was quite meek about a lot of things, but when it came to
pleading for help and resources for the poor in the community, she became quite
tenacious.”
Good chapter, and you used all the words. ... it's still fun that for me it's Thursday afternoon (quarter to 5 pm) when I read you "Wednesday's Words on a Friday"
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; It's fun for me too, reading things that happened yesterday for me and today for everyone above the equator.
DeleteThe first time I played "Kerplunk", I could not erase a certain bunch of unhappy memories from my consciousness. They all concerned my abject failure in a range of parlour games - from "Monopoly" to chess and from "Cluedo" to "Scrabble". Utterly useless! And I thought it would be just the same with "Kerplunk". Consequently, I felt very meek when the game began and I decided I needed to plead with the other competitors for their kind forbearance. Afterwards, my game play was tenacious and I ended up with the fewest dropped marbles by far. At last, I had won!
ReplyDeleteNicely done! I'm glad there's something the protagonist is good at.
DeleteYorkshire Pudding; nicely done. I have never played kerplunk and had forgotten it was a game.
DeleteA thoughtful moment. Good use of the prompts.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day.
lissa; thank you. rainy days and a warm fire are great for thoughtful moments and quiet discussions.
DeleteLike your short shirt story. Sigh. Shirt?
ReplyDeleteI'll let you know when I'll do another fun writing exercise. We barely know eachother and you're making me sign in.
Codex; thank you. I'm not making anybody sign in, that's Blogger playing games. I had to sign in yesterday at someone's blog.
DeleteWho knows maybe the meek will when the rest tear eachother apart?
ReplyDeleteCodex; it's true, the meek may eventually rise up while all the rest are fighting against each other.
DeleteWell told! Meek is not supposed to be weak, it is supposed to be strength under control.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; thank you, that's what I was thinking when I wrote about William's mother.
DeleteGood story R. Well done.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; thank you.
DeleteExcellent work. Makes me wanna hear more about the mother.
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk; thank you. I'm not sure I can imagine more about the mother
DeleteWhat is nice is that when you tell a story, I often want to know more. That's a good thing. A compliment to your story telling and writing.
DeleteThe Happy Whisk;😀
DeleteI agree about the erasing of bad history. It's there. It happened. Burying it won't make it go away. At least not until everybody who lived through it is dead. It should be a reminder of things we never want to repeat. Use it to do better, and move forward.
ReplyDeleteVal; Bad history does need to be learned from, but recent events in your country and others indicate those who most need to have learned, haven't. Yet we still shouldn't erase the memories, but instead write it all down, the bad and the worst, and hope that future generations do learn.
DeleteGood use of words. I agree. History shall never be forgotten. Just so sad "we" do not learn from it... or have to fight to explain... quite a field...
ReplyDeleteIris; many have learned, but others haven't and those are the people making the troubles we have today. Hopefully future generations can do better.
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