Responding To The Eclipse

               We're gathering for Poetry Friday today thanks to our host,  Jone MacCulloch at Check It Out!

         I traveled last week to my brother and sister-in-law's home in mid-Missouri to see the eclipse. My daughter and granddaughters joined us on the weekend. Being on their small farm and then traveling to their antique store in nearby Boonville, Missouri to see the eclipse made it all a wondrous trip. There are words aplenty to describe our experience, but I've chosen only a few in response. This town is by the Missouri River; the bridge walkway was where we viewed the eclipse. FYI - Our totality was about 1:18 pm.

Celebrating The Week, Future, too!

          Celebrating with Ruth Ayres and others today. Come visit to see how lovely it is to celebrate all the delights of the week! 

Happy August!

       This week continued to be busy, but it was one that I was happy to have. I managed to check off some things that have been on a "to-do" list for a long time, like a talk with my insurance agent to be sure my coverage is okay. It is. I also had to get an emissions inspection for my car to renew my license. It passed. I'm glad those are complete! They are those "things" that that are not hard, but take time. 

         The week held some happy celebrations, too.

Work at the bookstore, meeting new customers,
a great talk with a young boy about his
favorite books.

Smiles "after" the girls' performance at
the Denver Center for Performing Arts
drama camp. Each group's play is written
by the players, and oh so cute, with songs
and dancing, too. 

Celebrating Every Day

              I celebrate each Saturday with Ruth Ayres at Discover Play Build - It's a close community that celebrates together. Come join us!          Tweet at #CelebrateLu

It's rather lovely to find just the words for this Saturday Celebration.  I didn't write them, but sure wish I had.

"Jet" by Tony Hoagland
                 and it is good, a way of letting life
                 out of the box, uncapping the bottle
                 to let the effervescence gush
                 through the narrow, usually constricted neck.

      The week flew, ending today with an absolutely wonderful thing,  meeting Penny Parker Klostermann this morning IN PERSON, and helping her celebrate her book at a local favorite bookstore, The Bookies. She is a blogger friend and I've loved reading her blog, wrote a guest post with Ingrid recently that was lots of fun to create. You can find the post here.