Oh Janice when you write like that I sm floored...totally seduced. O have to catch up with reading your pieces - you used minimalism again but here it fits like a glove. It is a sincere joy reading good stuff. My comment looks like it is in Persian style, but was spontaineous!
Oh Janice when you write like that I sm floored...totally seduced. O have to catch up with reading your pieces - you used minimalism again but here it fits like a glove. It is a sincere joy reading good stuff. My comment looks like it is in Persian style, but was spontaineous!
Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #38 A Trip Along Memory Lane #1 Carpe Diem Special How happy! Bathing in the tub full to overflowing The above one line poem by Sumitaku Kenshin (1961-1987) really sent me down memory lane. Until I was a teenager my family lived on a farm. The year Sumitaku Kenshin was born, my family moved "in town". That move brought us into a new age, indoor plumbing. Until that time there was a galvanized tub for baths and a path for other bodily necessities. Baths were taken on the screened in back porch during the summer months. There would be 3 to 4 inches of water in the tub. Water drawn from the well just outside the house. Some of the water would be heated in the teakettle on the stove in the kitchen. Youngest child would bath first. Then up through the ages of the children. Daddy was always the last. In the same 3 to 4 inches of water. Once baths were done, the tub was overturned and the porch scrubbed. Cause water was is
Lovely lion, Janice :)
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DeleteLove this one Janice!
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DeleteBeautiful Janice. Santoka Taneda's "free-style" used in a tanka. Nicely done.
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fluttering butterflies
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Hari OM
ReplyDeleteA fine tune!!! YAM xx
Thank you, namaste janice xx
DeleteSimplicity and free style. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Rall.
DeleteOh Janice when you write like that I sm floored...totally seduced. O have to catch up with reading your pieces - you used minimalism again but here it fits like a glove. It is a sincere joy reading good stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy comment looks like it is in Persian style, but was spontaineous!
Thanks for taking tie to stop in to read, enjoy and comment. Some days the gloves fit and others they do not!
DeleteOh Janice when you write like that I sm floored...totally seduced. O have to catch up with reading your pieces - you used minimalism again but here it fits like a glove. It is a sincere joy reading good stuff.
ReplyDeleteMy comment looks like it is in Persian style, but was spontaineous!
Conveys well the feel, in not so many words!
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Thanks for the visit and kind comment.
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