Tea Time Talk #34 – #TeaTimeTalk

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Good morning, friends. Can you believe it’s the last Sunday of 2019?  This year has certainly flown by quickly.  Perhaps 2020 will be the year we all slow down and take time to appreciate all we have.  Won’t you join me for a cup of tea or coffee, sit a while, and chat?  🙂  

If we were sipping tea and talking I would tell you: I’ll be taking some time off from blogging.  Life has thrown another curve ball and I need to practice my catching skills.  I will still be posting, albeit, sporadically, until things settle down.  I hope you’ll still come by to visit, read some older posts, and enjoy the new ones, when they happen to pop up. I must also apologize for not visiting some of the blogs I follow.  I’m just a bit overwhelmed right now, and need to re-evaluate my future.  I know you understand.

If we were sipping tea and talking I would tell you: Christmas Day was quiet, with just Lys, Neil & my Mom for dinner. The holidays aren’t what they used to be for me.  I must sound like Scrooge, but with my health issues, things have become tougher to deal with.  So instead of everyone at my house, like it used to be, I stick with immediate family only.  Maybe, one day it will change.  For now, it works for me.

If we were sipping tea and talking I would tell you: it’s a short one this week.  I hope you’ve had a wonderful holiday season, whichever one you’ve celebrated, and that 2020 is the year you hope it to be.

As for the week ahead:

If we were sipping tea, basking in the sun and talking I would tell you: I’m wishing you a very Happy New Year!!  Here’s to 2020!!

If we were sipping tea, basking in the sun and talking I would tell you: it’s off to church I go!  See ya next year, be well, and have a blessed week, my friends!  ❤

#FridayFantasy ~ Tempt the Hands of Fate – #poetry

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Awakening, from a nightmare
I realize, I’m not asleep
Try to pull the blankets up
Find them tangled, in a heap

Sweat pours down, like waterfalls
I try to wipe it, with the sheet
Suddenly, I’m freezing
But, can only feel the heat

Fire blazes before me
Flames devour what’s around
The din, it is quite deafening
But I cannot hear a sound

It dares me to snap out of it
Snap out of what? I have to ask
This dream has taken over
And it’s taken me to task

Of waking to reality, where
The walls don’t suffocate
Breaking free from what possesses me
I tempt the hands of fate

 

©2019 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by Jasmin Key from Pixabay

Same Time, Next Year ~ #poetry of the #holidays

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Two days of eating
Stuffed to the gills
The thought of the clean up
Is giving me chills!

Boxes unwrapped
Colored paper abounds
I’m looking for help
But there’s no one around!

Each year I swear
Next year will be diverse
But who am I kidding?
It’s just getting worse!

At some point, I give in
OK, I’ll host Christmas
Then reality hits me
I should mind my own business

Ah, but everything turns out
Exactly as I planned
As I smile at my family
Thinking, yes, life is grand

To allow us to gather
Around the table together
To reminisce, laugh
And remember forever

Making new memories
Each day that we share
At holiday time
When we are all there

Then I suddenly realize
The table’s now empty
They all seem to escape
When the dishes are plenty!

But, alas, I should know this
There’s no one to help clear
But when dessert is announced
They all, instantly, reappear!!

 

©2019 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay

Frosted Windows ~ #poetry of #winter – #haiku

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Through frosted windows

The light of a new day shines

The glory of God

 

Merry Christmas!  Have a wonder-filled day!  ❤

 

©2016 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Photo via Pixabay CC0

The True Meaning of Christmas (as told by Linus Van Pelt)

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I have made this a yearly posting on my blog, for I feel it is worth sharing again and again. This really is the true meaning of Christmas ❤

May the glory and joy of Christmas bring you peace throughout the coming days. Merry Christmas, my friends, and Happy Holidays to all who celebrate the cultures that make this country so beautiful.

With Peace & Love,

Dorinda

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