Happy Thanksgiving 2018

On Thanksgiving Day,

November 22, 2018

I am thankful for the many good things in my life:

Health

Family

Friends

Freedom

Traveling

A home

Food

Brain

Cats

Nature

Clothes

Music

A soon to be published book

The list is endless! I’m grateful for life. I think that sums it up pretty well.

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Also and furthermore I am thankful to have all of you here on Writer’s Treasure Chest, to make my writing journey an adventure. Thank you so much for all your support!

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I wish you and your families:

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Another Year Completed

 

Sometimes my joints are aching, walking up the stair,

some other time after only a few steps I feel I need a chair.

my yell is not as loud as it once has been

when I read I do admit, without glasses I had never seen

the little letters in the book, the story should be told

Once I do buy audiobooks, I’ll know I’m getting old.

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Today however, I celebrate, that another year has passed

where I survived and did my best, working on my future and forget about my past.

Every year is a new start and things should be taking off

(even though I started this year now, with a cold and quite a cough.)

However, the number on my bones climb higher some days I feel like fried

or like I had been cooked alive – and afterward been mummified.

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Hold up your glass and celebrate that despite all the lows and highs

finally, in long, wide strides, AJ’s slowly getting wise!

CHEERS!!

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(Copyright, Aurora Jean Alexander, January 2017)

 

 

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Father’s Day 2017

June 11 it’s been 20 years ago my Dad unexpectedly had been called from this Earth. Still I miss him, but I do carry him in my heart and sometimes I still hear his heartily laughter.

What I regret is, that I can’t tell him anymore what an amazing Dad he was to me!!

 

Happy Father’s Day up there, Dad.

 

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The Aesthetic of a Full Figured Woman

E. R. Smith from “bronxbeyondborders.com’ published a fantastic blog post I can’t resist re-blogging. It is an article about the ‘Aesthetic of a Full Figured Woman’; a subject that I hold dear and near. I think she did an amazing job with this post. Please, check it out.

Bronx Beyond Borders

By: E. R. Smith

Reflecting on aesthetics, I couldn’t get Alessia Cara’s song out of my head.  Really, I am still humming it as I write.  She sings “Scars to You’re Beautiful”.  She tells the tale of a girl, like me, that you don’t see in magazines.  A girl craving the adoration reserved only for the beautiful, or so she assumes.  Alessia’s observation is that, “She don’t understand she’s worth it.”  

I decided to take a look at full figured aesthetics in the arts; and how artists reflect on what is striking, sensual, lovely.  Artist Peter Paul Rubens offers vast examples of women considered full figured at the time; but like the plus sized models of today they rarely measure past size 14. Yet, still there is no Twiggy here.  Venus at the Mirror (1615) and Ermit and Sleeping Angelica (1628) are two of…

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September 11 – It’s 2016! Time to Remember!

July 28, on FB, Steve Woodall, posted a picture of 9/11.

That’s what he wrote:

Does anybody remember the day when Color, Race, Religion and Political Affiliation didn’t matter? The day when Police and Firefighters were the Biggest Heroes on the planet.. The day when we were all just Americans?? Don’t let it take this … To bring us back together.. Please feel free to share.

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Please, remember!! REMEMBER!!

And become ONE NATION AGAIN!!

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