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Round-Up on Sayings; Next-Up Drama. 3 past theme posts & new links!
Once I started paying attention to sayings…
I read, said, and heard them everywhere.
Today on Instagram, my yoga teacher posted a saying,
“No one ever regretted practicing.”
She had been teaching and traveling for 10-days and felt out of practice in her own skin. The Reel is a high-speed time-lapse document of her 2-hour Ashtanga, vinyasa, pranayama practice.
“You make it look so easy!” is the saying I would say.
I have been talking to various builders about renovations on the 100-year-old Molino Vega 9 house, and one wise contractor said:
“You can’t live in a theory.”
Which led me to “we’ll have to live with the work of today in the future.”
(These were conversations in Spanish translated into English!)
And further, “We don’t have a pot to piss in.”
Which is physically true. The first floor needs a bathroom.
When talking about money and expenses, my mom likes to say, “It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul” and “You can be penny wise or pound foolish.”
She also calls jeans dungarees ;)
I find sayings fun to examine and even more fun to invent.
Perhaps even tracking the evolution of a Saying as it travels through time, like the telephone game. Or gossip and rumors. Misunderstandings. Song lyrics.
Round Up: Sayings. New Theme: Drama - below!
If you’ve missed a week or you’re starting to feel like you might have a story to contribute, click on a THEME LINK to write 150 - 200 words on:
I always include new posts with unique links in the Round-Up.
4 Contributors weighed in on Sayings:
I wrote about chicken tears, tender nights, how sayings say a lot about the sayer, and how Use It or Lose It is a shapeshifter saying depending on the context.
Carole D knows it’s more blessed to give than receive and has no problem giving; it’s receiving that trips her up and to remember simple gratitude for the gift.
Intact Animal brings a 6ft-11in USMC veteran to life through his sayings and lessons learned in service, the most important being safety and minimal waste.
Tabitha B doesn’t let the art of exaggeration fool her if it leads to a humorous saying, (I long to go to Eleven-erife!) esp. if the truth doesn’t impede a good story.
Amelia believes in her father’s mantra of luck being preparedness meeting opportunity, knowing nothing falls in your lap or is presented on a silver platter.
READ & HEART this week’s writers & SHARE your own story in the comments.
Contributor Priscilla went back to CLOSURE to write about un-speaking the hurt, of using anonymity and distance as a form of healing in silence.
Contributor Kiah S went back a week to NATURAL to write about the fantasy of natural childbirth and the reality of pushing with purpose, parents by her side.
Contributor Melissa went back to COINCIDENCE to write about the luck of a flyer for a musician she’d been wanting to see again for years playing close to home.
(Click on the unique theme hyperlinks to read their stories).
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Next Up: DRAMA
We all have that friend - OR - we are that friend - who brings drama to every situation. I’m lucky to have more than one friend like that, which means I, too, am responsible for a fair amount of drama in my life.
I remember one time early on in my relationship with my partner - who I used to refer to as the 27-year-old before I allowed myself to let my guard down - when I spoke to my mom on the phone about him.
She could hear something in my voice, and said,
“The only way this will implode is if you press the red button.”
In other words, if there was drama to be had, it was in my hands to bring it.
She knows me so well.
Where does DRAMA take you?
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Sincerely, for real.
Michelle