Today I am offering the prompt over at the Imaginary Garden. I chose the random fate of finding serendipity in a dropped book. There is a scene in one of my favorite Indie flicks, Next Stop Wonderland, starring the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Hope Davis. The main character Erin is in a bookstore and drops a book.
(after Erin Castleton has dropped the book) : Don't close it. You should never close a book until you've read something from it.
What?
Well, just a sentence or a word. It can be very, very revealing. Just read something, anything. Well, read from the top, then.
(after Erin Castleton has dropped the book) : Don't close it. You should never close a book until you've read something from it.
What?
Well, just a sentence or a word. It can be very, very revealing. Just read something, anything. Well, read from the top, then.
I dropped Anne Lamott's book, Bird by Bird.
On the page I noticed this paragraph and one sentence stood out:
Anne is writing about Faulkner's books. He expresses life through his characters. All you can give us is what life is about from your point of view. You are not going to be able to give us the plans to the submarine.
My sentence is:
"Life is not a submarine."
I'm Crying
Beatles fell off
blackbird's broken wings
I'm crying...
Strawberry Fields Forever bloomed
in an Octopus's Garden
for 8 Days a Week
I'm crying
Tangerine skies
shine on cellophane pretty maids
all in a row
giving you the wrong medicine
I'm crying
where did you
go
You are my yellow submarine
No pigs don't fly
I'm crying...
hold me
love me
tell me
it's alright
I'm crying...
Your beautiful
I saw you on Abbey Road
you said Let It Be
it's been a
and I'm crying...
Ellen Wilson
I had an adverse reaction to my meds. Yes, I need Help-"I appreciate you being round."
I have taken the same meds for fifteen years and was recently prescribed the generic version!
My symptoms: Headaches, nausea, fever and dizzy-that's me~
Oh, and the meds they give me for the dizziness-says warning on the bottle: May cause dizziness?!
Comments
Sorry you're having a bad reaction. Will pray your symptoms vanish and soon.
Beetles crooning in the lines...
lovely
I hope you feel better.
No, life is not a submarine, even at Disneyland.
Thank you for the challenge, Ella!
Take Care!
CC-Thank you! I had no plan on going in this direction. My muse took my hand and convinced me ;D
Hannah-You bring back happy memories! Yes, those stages are the best ;D ! My neighbor was getting a new deck and we performed for the whole neighborhood-lol. Thank you~
Renee-Thank you! I had fun arranging the songs and of course I had to listen to many~ A lot of memories arrived~
Liza-Oh, this makes me happy! Did you sing with them?! ;D
Susie-I am sorry to hear that~ My mom has too. I was worried when I saw the pills were a different shape and made a call. I just thought it was a head cold, middle ear, sinus. Then my symptoms got worse-now I know.
Thank you-you are sweet! Take Care
Susan-lol! You are so funny-life isn't a tea cup either, or a small world after all-sorry! tee,hee
Thank you~
Grape-You have a way with words and onions! ;D Thank you~
L. Diane-Thank you! I had fun and wish I had made it a Beatle challenge instead~ You are sweet!
Brian-Yes, it was fun to play with titles. I didn't see it coming-my muse thought of it-Thank you Brian!
Sherry-Dizzy-now that is another song-lol! I hope you are feeling better. I went to the Dr and have a new script-won't be able to fill it until Monday-but I am happy to know my symptoms will change soon!
Thank you Sherry!
Alex-Thank you Captain! It is crazy-I kept thinking same ole allergies, until the other symptoms arrived. I hope you are doing well- Happy Friday!
Happy Friday everyone~
So sorry about you and the meds, though. I took one medication for years before I found out it was causing horrible-awfuls. I just thought it was my life, not my meds.
Take care now.
Love, K
I've too had tones of strange, and mostly bad, medical experiences, so I understand you. My heart pills say - may cause nightmares LOL As if having a poor ticky ticker isn't a nightmare on itself :)
John
I hope you are doing well-thank you for being you~ I so hope you are enjoying spring and taking tons of photos-I will stop by~
ATB
Dezzy-I didn't know! This makes me sad- Thyroid is the Master Gland-slow or fast I am okay, but tired of the side effects~ Thank you for sharing with me! Do take care! I am sorry you know this battle~
Kay-I thought it was the weather and the pollen count! I knew the symptoms were adding up-the headaches are the worst. I am sorry you know this dance! Do take care~ ((hugs))
That was a really clever poem with all those song titles thrown in!
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I love when the pill bottle says that it may cause what it is meant to treat. :/
Hank
Sorry about the allergy--hope you get it sorted right away!