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lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown | Reflections on Life through poetry, essays and photosReflections on Life through poetry, essays and photoslifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown | Reflections on Life through poetry, essays and photos lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown Reflections on Life through poetry, essays and photos Menu Skip to content HomeAbout Me Books for Adults Children’s Books Contact Me Lifelessons: What You’ll Find on This Site Poetry/Pictures/Prose Retablos Why “Grieflessons” ? Intimacies for dVerse Poets 19 Replies Intimacies Remember that delicious walking, arms linked, down the middle of the gravel road in your pajamas at five in the morning when you were twelve? That first slumber party in your safe small town when you all stayed up all night for the first time in your lives? That eerie first sight of the sun coming up when your head had never hit a pillow since it went down? And then you knew for the first time the delicious pleasures of being a night owl— of finding time that everyone else was wasting through dreams. And you have been an aficionado of night ever since. All of your term papers and exams studied for at the last minute, all night long. Books written, poems written mostly in the dark while towns and cities around you slept. That power of having all of your time for yourself with not a chance of phones ringing. Some magic happening once you had the world to yourself so ever afterwards you have survived on as little sleep as possible. During your party years, dancing and drinking till three, then going for breakfast with the single crowd and driving straight to school at six. You were invulnerable. Even married, sneaking out of bed once he’d fallen asleep and working in your basement studio all night long, sometimes sneaking back to bed before he awakened, at other times caught. “It’s nine in the morning! Have you been up all night again?” Feeling that little terror, like a vampire caught by light. Then at 54, with no more husband, no more job necessary, with a new country and a new studio above ground, guilty pleasures no longer needed to be hidden— watching light after light go out as you sat piecing art together in your studio—until suddenly, impossibly, light after light went on again so you were going to bed as your neighbor was arising to start his day. Then, improbably, at 62, internet romance entered your midnight-and-after world. Every night serenaded to sleep from 1500 miles away by an equally night-addicted lover bard at two or three or four a.m.— or whenever pillow talk led to it. Skype became your love letters and your trysting spot now and then all day long; but still, night better swaddled that intimate invisible union through the dark air that has always been magic for you, but which now joins instead of sending you into the single space where you unite with that within you which you keep separate from the world. At night, united or alone, you know exactly what it is you want and live it, with no world to lead you elsewhere.   For dVerse Poets we are to write about a moment of intimacy. I wrote about a number of them…and then, the ultimate. Unfortunately, I looked through photos for an hour and couldn’t find the right illustration. If you have an idea for one you’d like to donate, I’d like to consider it! Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Poem, Uncategorized and tagged dVerse Poets, intimacy, love poems, special occasions on May 21, 2025 by lifelessons. “Tell Me A Story” (New Prompt. Please Participate!!) 17 Replies Can you furnish a better story for this photo for me? HERE is the pingback to include with your post to make sure we all see it. Short Short Story No place for a nap could be crasser or baser. It’s clear that that beer was simply a chaser. Overly tired, three sheets to the wind,I think that this fellow is overly ginned! Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Humor, Poem and tagged photo prompt, silly poem, Tell Me A Story on May 20, 2025 by lifelessons. Prosopagnosia (Facial Blindness) and Other Bonding Adventures 29 Replies In reply to a post where I admitted to a medium case of both directional dyslexia and facial blindness,the latter of which often causes me to confuse two people and think of them as one,  I received this message from Ana Daksina, who ironically discovered that she, too, had thought that another WP poet and I were the same person! I love the irony–especially when Forgottenman revealed the fact (the first time, to me) that he, too, had facial blindness. He even put a name to it, which I will repeat if I can find his comment.  Here is Ana’s: Ana Daksina 11h agoThe Poet’s Public Record You have face blindness? Only about two percent of us do! Usually, we’re very exceptional people.Since you ran a post about encounters with the famous soon after my post, I was pretty sure that, out of the two of you, I’d run you as a tribute ~ now I have to go check. Hey, there’s an institute which studies this disorder, did you know that? They would probably benefit by you filling out one of their questionnaires. Okay, I did go back and check, and the tribute post was indeed about you. Apparently as soon as I figured it out I did go back and correct it, too, because the introduction no longer says you spent your salad days hobnobbing with the greats (sic!). Usually I send a link to anyone I feature ~ yet another strange thing about this series of events ~ here you go: (Note from Judy: She must have sent the link to that other “me,” as the first time I saw it was when Forgottenman forwarded it to me. I forgive thee, Ana, as I know this problem so well….) Here is a reblog of her reblog of my blog!  Phew. https://thepoetspublicrecord.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/technically-flawless-funny-as-hell-wps-poetic-expats-tipsy-rhyming-rants-%f0%9f%a4%a3/ The final note from Ana was: Haha, what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, and we have the beginnings of a friendship now! Take care 👩‍❤️‍👩 okcForgottenMan I’m also somewhat faceblind (Prosopagnosiac?) I have a story about my self discovery. Maybe I’ll tell it. Or not. Pretty sure this is the website you’re referring to: https://www.faceblind.org Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged facial blindness, Prosopagnosia, Reblog on May 20, 2025 by lifelessons. The Numbers Game #73, May 19, 2025. Today’s number is 194. Come play along. 35 Replies Click on photos to enlarge. Welcome to “The Numbers Game #73”  Today’s number is 194. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and  post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album. Click on photos to enlarge. Our Lady of the Moon 1948 1949 People (detail) People (detail) People (detail) Food People Dishes Animals Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged images of drawers in studio, Quilt I made for my Mother, The numbers Game on May 18, 2025 by lifelessons. I Really Want a Puppy is a Finalist for the Indie Book Award 18 Replies We just found out that I Really Want A Puppy was a finalist for the Indie Book Award. It was a group effort between these four people! (Click on photos to enlarge and read captions.) THE BOOK THE WRITER, Judy THE COMPOSER OF MUSIC, Christina THE ARTIST, Isidro THE SINGER/ARRANGER, Becky THE AWARD If you are wondering about why we needed musicians to publish this book, the book has a QR code on the front that sings the entire book to you. I wrote the book, Isidro Xilonzóchitl illustrated it, Christine Anfossie wrote the original  music, Becky Mcguigan rescored and rearranged the music, adding backup, guitar instrumentation and her own vocalization of the lyrics, and the Indie Book Awards rewarded us by declaring us finalists for the award. A real group effort, and I’d like to thank all those friends who made it possible.  You can find out more about the book and buy it if you wish by going here: https://bit.ly/3SIJzZC  The winner has already been announced. The Puppy book was one of the four other finalists. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Books and tagged Children's books, I Really Want a Puppy, The Indie Book Awards on May 18, 2025 by lifelessons. For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 707, May 18, 2025 5 Replies   Origins Does our legacy lie buried in altars far below or in the sky above us in that universal glow leaving signals of its visits in the shadows of those scars that are the vestiges of planets or of stars left by burning meteors that spin their gleaming trains across the sky before they bury what remains deep in the earth to rustle and come to rest in earth and perhaps seed vestiges of an alien birth so our world thus mimics some world that gleams above. As we gaze at the heavens, training our thoughts on love, do we intuit tender mercies that were our beginnings? Are those specks of stardust our true underpinnings? Our scientific knowledge breeds pollution and cancer without ever really giving us an answer as to what man’s origin was in the beginning and what led us away from it and to our present sinning.   For The Sunday Whirl Wordle 707, May 18 2025 the words are: legacy scars altar sky mercy burn mimic rustle gleam gaze shadows train Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Poem and tagged The Sunday Whirl, Wordle on May 18, 2025 by lifelessons. Isidro’s Art Show, May 17, 2025 for Cellpic Sunday 5 Replies Photos from Isidro Xilonzóchitl’s Birthday show at the La Ribera Center for Culture and the Arts that opened today, May 17, 2025 Waiting for the show to open Sketch done when we were at the beach in La Manzanilla Isidro and Grandchildren Another lost heart and someone in the background who looks like she could have been its model This morning I received word that the fourth book Isidro and I have collaborated on was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. (I write the story and he illustrates.) This afternoon, I went to his birthday exhibition at the La Ribera Center for Culture and the Arts. For Cellpic Sunday Here is a link to a week’s vacation Isidro, Kristina Trejo and I took at the beach earllier this year.  Isidro’s self portrait with Kristina shown above  that was on view in today’s show was done during that trip! Today, Kristina kept busy playing the piano for Isidro’s show. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Art Show, Cultural Center, Isidro Xilonzonchitl, Kristina Trejo, La Manzanilla on May 18, 2025 by lifelessons. Between the Lines for One Word Sunday 1 Reply   Screenshot Shell Fossil For Debbie’s Ond Word Sunday’s Lines Prompt Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Between the lines, lines, travel with intent on May 17, 2025 by lifelessons. What Ever Happened to Bobby Jerry? For Six Word Saturday 8 Replies I was going through my computer erasing duplicate files and found about 12 copies of this  letter my four year old sister Patti sent to my mother when she was in the hospital after having me. She dictated the letter to my 11 year old sister. A bit of a puzzle because she says she celebrated her birthday the day before so it must have been July 10 when she wrote it and I was born on July 3. Did they keep new mothers in the hospital for a week after delivery back then? At any rate, I love these lines, especially “I am glad I have a baby brother. I want to name it Bobby Jerry. Not Hazel! I don’t like that! (She had heard my dad say jokingly that if they had a girl, he wanted to name her Hazel.  Patti insisted I was a boy right up to the day they brought me home. I also like the lines, “Oh, bumble bees is on flower to flower today,” and “a rose is getting purty good today.I am getting purty good today!” I’m just surprised at the handwriting as Betty Jo, who wrote it for her, had immaculate handwriting by the time she was in high school.  I wonder if she wrote it in the car on the way to the hospital to pick my mom and me up. The nearest hospital was 60 miles from where we lived. I can’t find a photo of Patti when she was four, but here we are when I was five or six and she was nine or ten.  And, the plot thickens, for  70 year later, when I flew to St. Louis to visit Forgottenman, he met me at the airport with this sign! For #Six Word Saturday Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Humor and tagged Bobby Jerry, family photos, forgottenman, Letters, Nostalgia, Patti, Saturday Six Word Story, six word saturday on May 16, 2025 by lifelessons. Last Straw for SOCS, May 17, 2025 14 Replies   Last Straw I’d make conversation but my upper plate seems to be grinding my lower of late. I fear there’s a fissure that’s preventing their matching and somehow my back teeth just seem to be catching and locking which creates a problem in chewing, so eating’s another thing I won’t be doing. I’m bungling everything done by my jaws. At talking and eating I’m taking a pause. For now I’ll just listen and watch you eat pie. If you give me a straw, I’ll simply get by by sipping my tea and nodding my head in avid agreement with everything said. I could have stayed home and stared at the wall, but I couldn’t face not seeing y’all, so I will just sit here and soak in the news, forsaking my own chance to thrill and amuse. Until I’ve seen my dentist, you’ll just have to wait for the juicy story I was going to relate! The SOCS prompt this week is “straw.” Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) WhatsApp Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window) Pocket Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window) Telegram Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Like Loading... This entry was posted in Humor, Poem, Uncategorized and tagged silly poem, SoCS, straw on May 16, 2025 by lifelessons. Post navigation ← Older posts Search my blog Search for: Follow Blog via Email Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. 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