Category: Family and Friends

Daily Writing Prompt for April 20, 2023

Daily writing prompt
Describe a decision you made in the past that helped you learn or grow.

Two Poems

autumn leaves
the caregiver finds time
to rest

“autumn leaves” was the Daily Haiku for August 14, 2019.
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog

fragrance of leaves
in the gardens
what good friends
we became
as we grew older

“fragrance of leaves” is from my post for November 12, 2010 at Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin.

October 22, 2019 at this site, Poems From Psalms And Nature.

They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku. Edited by Robert Epstein. Middle Island Press, 2017.

Time Of Singing – Volume 46, Fall 2019

Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
August 8, 2020

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Grace

What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

Daily writing prompt

Grace was my mother’s mother.

cross-stitch from the
grandmother I didn’t meet:
“Put the coffee on”

Published by:

Parnassus Literary Journal (2004)

Ellen Olinger – Three Questions (haiku series edited by Curtis Dunlap).

My haiku was also posted on March 29, 2015, as part of the Daily Haiku series at Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog.

Thank you,
Ellen Grace Olinger

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Remembrance

Do you believe in fate/destiny?

Daily writing prompt

My father was called Home in March, 40 years ago this year. He was a veteran and history teacher. Once he said to me, “Everything will be OK in the end.”

My parents had “big picture faith.”

One day at a time . . . we try our best and also learn from what life teaches.

For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD:
thou art my trust from my youth.

Psalm 71: 5

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Thoughts, Poems, Photos

Who are your favorite people to be around?

Daily writing prompt

As I pray the Psalms, there is a sense of love and strength through time. I think of my parents and others no longer on earth. Love endures and grows. Friendships change too, as life asks different things of us. Blogs and books, faith and prayer, are constants. I remember how my mother reconnected with some old friends in their old age. Thank you for visiting today.

peaceful time
with my blogs
remembrance

rearranging
art on the walls
cards, and small gifts
from friends
I see them anew

spring colors
poetry journals and books
on a brown tablecloth

April 21, 2022
April 21, 2022
April 21, 2022

Snowdrops
Garden Journal 2022
Photos by Karl

“a lamp unto my feet”

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

Daily writing prompt

I wear good shoes with good support. Old shoes for the garden and newer shoes for other places – but the same kind of walking shoes. I am careful to avoid falls.

I learned a lot about safety and preventing falls when I helped with my mother’s care, and all we did for her and at her home. So here too.

And I searched the site for a verse that goes with the prompt.

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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119: 105

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