Tag: Roses

Happy New Year

 A happy and prosperous new year to all!

Warm Welcome

With the muddy weather and her stupid waitressing job, London wasn’t as much fun as she’d imagined. Why, the customers never even looked at her! Back home she’d be cozily gossiping over the counter. Here was that cute fellow again: she bet she could wake him up!

Tea, coffee, hot chocolate, or an erotic massage?
He looked up, startled.
Just kidding, she smiled. We do have delicious muffins…
He blushed. I’ll … I’ll have some of those, then. And some tea.

Thanks. He smiled shyly as she put down his steaming cup. I’m… hmm, I’m Patrick. What… What’s your name?

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The 100 word challenge for grown-ups at Julia’s Place: …tea, coffee, hot chocolate or…

Nostalgia

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Nostalgia
is something we think of as fuzzy.
But it’s pain.
Pain concerning the past.

− Peter Carey

Silent Sunday

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Shadows

Shadows
– sometimes people don’t see shadows.
But I noticed these shadows
and I knew it meant it was sunny.

− David Hockney

Silent Sunday

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Promise

Beauty
is the promise
of happiness.

— Edmund Burke

Another one for the Weekly Photo Challenge: Nolstalgic.

Tears in the Rain

All those moments
will be lost in time,
like tears in the rain.

– Rutger Hauer

A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rose

I seem to have run in a great circle,
and met myself again
on the starting line.

― Jeanette Winterson

 

Winter Buds

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My old grandmother always used to say,

Summer friends will melt away like summer snows,

but winter friends are friends forever.

― George R.R. Martin

Silent Sunday

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Beauty

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Beauty is but a flower

Which wrinkles will devour;

Brightness falls from the air;

Queens have died young and fair.

– Thomas Nashe

A Litany in Time of Plague.

Happy New Year

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What’s in a name? that which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.

– Shakespeare

I wish everyone a happy and prosperous New Year. And of course what this particular rose is named for: Peace.

Dark Days

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