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Strange Bouquet

Just when flowers felt safe to grow, a little snow came calling. It's a "strange spring tradition" and the inspiring prompt at Poets and Storytellers United. A greater oddity is that we exist at all in a world where life self-perpetuates uniquely amid its more barren neighbours. Earth is surely the only place in our galaxy where a daffodil unfolds.
     
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Friends Forever

"The dead never grieve. Their comfort, our strife." - from poems by my sister Tamara
The recent photo (above) was taken at Kwomais Point Park in Ocean Park. It's a place of contemplation where, beneath changing skies, one can muse about days gone by. 

My siblings were considerably older and busy with their lives so I filled time with picture books and imaginings in my early pre-school years until a girl across the way became my dearest friend. We invented games and shared clothes; strangers thought we were twins. We spend every possible moment together until suddenly she no long wanted to play. I never understood why and I cried for days. It seemed a little piece of me broke off due to the shock. I still don't know how closeness can turn so cold. This now grown woman, wherever she is, likely had/has no idea of her impact on me. But perhaps I've done similar to another. We rarely consider the magnitude of our power, I thought, prompted by the Poets and Storytellers United suggestion to "write about someone who made an impression on you as a child (for good or ill)".
   

Over the years I've had other dear friends, mostly human but a few pets as well. Some more enduring than others. Now I'm older I've seen some pass away. I try not to dwell on sad endings but rather the spectrum of snapshot moments that comprise differing lives and relationships. They'll be ghostly clouds in my head until I, too, drift away.
   
Above are old photos of me with two of our family pets, Bubbles (left) and Oliver (right). In times of stress and joy, they brought comfort to our home.
   
Beneath the umbrella (above) is my longtime much-loved friend, Kay, who recently passed away. We encouraged one another for decades prior to blogging. Her site still lives on. You might enjoy visiting it at: An Unfittie's Guide to Adventurous Travel.

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