Writing

Source: Chobir Dokan For the prompt: Lovingly The glint in her eye Belies the set of her jaw Lovingly, she leaves

Image Source: Mabel Amber (Unsplash); for the prompt, Craft Without, bland and cold; Within, the Joy of crafting Brightly coloured things.

For the prompt, Clean – With deep contrition I pour out a libation. I wish to be clean

With a riot of Colour, the breaking dawn births Peaceful Solitude For Day 3 of the Everyday Inspiration course, and the prompt Solitude

Beach Boulevard, The ‘Deen; for the prompt, Resist With fear in their wake, The crashing waves come ashore Shaken, I cower. Pressure makes broken Things whole again, digging deep I resist in Hope

For S, and the Discover Challenge One-Two-Three – How easy it is To laugh, to bask in the glow Of infectious Joy; How the patter of Your feet, like the sound of rain On a sun-baked day Brings relief, and hope That tomorrow will come in Peace, and you’ll return

Source [ Afolabi Sotunde]. For the WordPress Discover Prompt, Outer Layers --- When asked to describe my look, I tend to go for scruffy chic, this being my attempt to rationalise away what is my laissez-faire approach to dressing up. Left to my devices I default to four objects: jeans, a t-shirt, super comfy shoes and a pair of glasses which I am increasingly dependent on. On the occasions on which I have deviated from these, they have tended to be to the relative safety of a shirt and a blazer over jeans; the full shebang - a suit and a tie - only coming out for weddings (the last of which I agonised over before buying a new suit) and black tie dinners, which I tend to avoid. I suspect I have managed to get away with this, particularly at work, because I work in the Engineering field and have largely worked for employers where a formal dress code has never really been enforced. ...

For the prompt, Hike. Image Source – Crisp air, fallen leaves- Crunched to dust by pounding feet, Delirious Joy. Hike

For the Daily Post prompt Here and Now: \\\* Between Here and There One waits; Tomorrow’s Promise? Beginning again.

Brexit - full – It’s official, we’re the leaving kind after all. Voting last Thursday concluded with a 52% majority that Great Britain’s future path lay outside the EU framework, ending a 43-year association. The easy conclusion - particularly given how much the result has been affected by voted cast south of the Solway-Tweed line - is that insular England has held the Union hostage, but I suspect things are far more nuanced than that. ...