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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
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Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
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This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

October 23, 2016 at 12:56am
October 23, 2016 at 12:56am
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PROMPT: Is there a choice or decision you've had to make in the last year that you wish you could reverse the outcome of? How should it have ended up?

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The title of this entry, in no way, points the finger at the presidential candidates. It is about shoes, but I guess flip flopping tires anybody out whether it is in the head or on the feet.

Thus, chugging along, this prompt is a tough one because I don’t usually sweat over my choices or decisions. I think what’s done is done and go forward from there. A decision with an outcome I didn’t like has been difficult to dig up.

It may sound silly but the only thing I could think of at the moment was a pair of pink flip flops I bought, only because hubby wanted me to get them. Why I agreed, it passes me by. I guess I gave in to his good will or his wish to do something nice for me. It isn’t that I never wear flip flops. I do and a lot, but they all have a good amount of sole and excellent arch supports.

These flip flops, however, were a name brand but plastic and made in China, had very little support, and they cost over $60. For such a thing, if I were shopping on my own, I wouldn’t even spend $10. Still, just to please him, I said yes when he said I should get them, and I honestly tried very hard to wear them after we took them home, but they weren’t comfortable to walk on. They were probably meant for 14 year-olds since their soles were flat and thin.

So without saying anything to him, I wore them a little at a time, and less and less often. After a while, they took a permanent spot at the end of my shoe rack, and then, they found themselves in the AM-Vets donation bag.

I really didn’t like to give them away because they meant something nice concerning my husband. I wish there would be a way I could have worn them or I wish I could have steered his good will toward something I could use, something fitting for my presidential feet.





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