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Sadje is our host for What Do You See? You can find all the rules here.

For the visually challenged reader, the image shows a black chalk board with a caption, “Before I die” on the top. Below are slots where people can write their opinions.

The life coach stood in front of the group. He had given this speech many times before. He needed to make each person identify their goals.  That required that they knew not only what they wanted, but how to reach their goal. He always started with the group bucket list. This group activity opened the eyes of his clients to more possibilities than they could imagine.

This was their first meeting. It was the first time he had ever worked with this type of group. Behind him sat thirty, terminally ill cancer patients. He wasn’t sure how much time…

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Cynthia held on to the feeling of grief for a few minutes more till it was reflected on her face. The eyes were swimming with unshed tears, and her face told the story of a tragedy.

“Cut, and that’s a wrap” , the director yell, and she walked towards her trailer. She still bore the persona of a girl who was suffering from deep grief. It was a part of her talent and also a curse. She would immerse herself so fully in the character she was playing that it took her some time to snap out of it.

The assistant director knocked on the door of the trailer before coming in. “You were as usual excellent Cyn! The director wants to shoot the party scene today too as we would be traveling to Italy for the next shoot. Are you ready for it?”

She thought for a…

I peek through the window
And see beautiful fireflies
In the darkness of night’

And wandering fireflies in the night sky

They bought lovely light
In the darkness of night
They remove my fright
Of haunting ghosts and dark

I tried catching them
With my hands
But they are as fast as planes
Or train in a rail

And roaming fireflies in the night sky

As shiny as diamonds
So Lavishing looking fireflies
And shiny little lighters
Because they are night natural street lights

And wonderful fireflies in the night sky

Full of Joy
And happiness
Makes me feel sleep
….. Good night

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #216

You need to imagine this as a character in a story plot, and write about her.

• Give her a name.

• Mention the geography she lives in.

• What could be her temperament?

• Is she prone to melancholy, or is she faking it to fool someone?

• Is there someone she is thinking about?

• Where could she go next from here?

Julianna huddled against the cold brick of the derelict building. She would not cry, she never cried. She was a professional. She was trained by the most prestigious and high ranking military faction in her home country, Russia.

She believed in her country. She believed in her government. She believed they had the best interest of her people at heart. She had believed it. Now, she it knew it had all been a lie. Everything she had…

Morning after guilt set in for Joni, as she went all the way with her boyfriend last night, probably because she was always taught to view sex as a bad thing.  She had just moved to the big city after living her whole life in a rural community and she wanted to fit in with the new crowd of friends that she was hanging out with now.  All the other girls had done it, but Joni was raised in conservative Catholic home and the furthest she ever went before was touching with her clothes on, but she didn’t think that was going to fly with her new group of friends.  Her boyfriend David was more lustful and eager than she was, as Joni was hesitant, and she did this to accommodate him rather than with enthusiasm.  This peer pressure came from her friends who were constantly saying that sex is cool…

Three
college friends
lost under the weight
of work
came together in an

unknowable way.

So meeting
each other
was incredible
and unfamiliar
but
their love
for each other
was boundless

and unexplainable.

All three
were invited
for the carnival parade
as judges.

After the meeting,
some memories
of college
came to light.
There was a lot of laughter

and some gossip.

They had learned
the hard lessons
of life
and were relieved
to learn them.
They knew
that everything
was fleeting

and that nothing was permanent.

©️ Jane Aguiar

Written in response to:

Reena’s xploration Challenge

What Do You See – Sadje

Thank you for reading.

Stay Blessed 💞

how my silly friends
turn life into loud laughter
~unexplainable

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #215

Prompt#215

The words to lead your piece for this week are

1. unknowable
2. unexplainable

When the shoe pinches

Pain

and

discomfort

is

unknowable

to

others, 

and 

unexplainable

too

as

the

wearer

only

knows

where the shoe pinches

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #214

I was raised in an extremely strict household. Literally, children were to be seen and never heard. Children did not speak at the table, and so forth.

When my children entered the world, I vowed they would have the freedoms I never had. Freedom to explore their surroundings, to learn about themselves and to question authority, respectfully of course, when a task, request or command felt wrong. Not to just bow down to the “because I said so” mentality I grew up with, without explanation of why.

I’m sure most if not every parent who is reading this, is now rolling their eyes and have predicted the outcome of my very noble endeavors, correctly. I raised, unknowingly, naively even; iconoclast children. Rebel mongers. Rule breakers. Social outcasts.

Yet, I can not say I am sorry. My children know themselves, really know themselves…