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Today’s Jumble haiku:
ReplyDelete(Today’s verse is another of my Words-to-Live-By series.
This one crossed my mind when I was on vaycay in N’Awlins; hence, the Cajunesque title.
This is one of a series of…)
“Jambalaya Keithers”
To halve the amount
of grime, threaten to thrash those
who’d foul the crisis.
Here is the longer statement (sorry to preach my specialty)…
”Thrash the Trash (or ‘Grime’)”
“Grime” is what we call
any gumming-up an audience finds
to distract them. Call it a sprawl
of focus that during the crisis blinds
them. Grime effectively halves their view,
their ability to enjoy the purity
of “recognition”—of “reversal,” too—
by burying it in obscurity.
~ OMK
Wordle 25 Jan. ‘23
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Wordle 585 1/6
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“Genius!”
I read hints on line for
this one, then decided
to plunge ahead and
trust my “guess” as my
starter word. I take no
credit, but wanted to
see what compliment
the Wordle folk would
pay me.
~ OMK
ReplyDeleteHarvest in pioneer days was the priority. Roofing the sod house was next. (Why the small hesitation before agreeing?). The women were left to clean up.
Thatch, eaves? (er) - Aye
Thrash that grain,
No time to complain.
Don’t cry sis
Over the grime from this.
We have lye soap-
It’s amazing.
Ach! The Blogger censored my original Wordle post and comments! Great work OMK. Genius indeed.
ReplyDeleteWC, were you being innocent with your third guess? I had a beautiful shade of lavender before I found the Dad joke.
OMK- great advice in both of your offerings today. Perhaps politicians are the best at throwing grime on an issue to distract the public from the problem. Perhaps they should be thrashed. The answer today was a devil to create a Spoonerism. What is a Keither?
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ReplyDeleteThe family had been high achievers
but then lost all their cash,
which made them sad, and made them grievers
who in crisis did painfully thrash.
Their home turned into a place of grime
but some got to work on a staff,
and so they avoided committing a crime
and their poverty managed to halve.
The family may no longer be achievers,
but they are now frequent gift receivers.
Just a quickie answer to CEh’s question:
ReplyDeleteA “Keither”? C’est moi!
It is a nickname my Mom gave me many, many moons ago…
In today’s context, it is a saw, one of my many sayings.
~ OMK
My favorite of CEh! embedding today is "Don't cry sis."
ReplyDeleteIt rings the bell in several ways, including how, when we were kids, the usual person involved in a crisis (at home) was a female sib.
Misty's poem today would seem an out-and-out political statement--if we didn't know her better.
I mean, here we trace a family's trajectory from being "high achievers," meaning--presumably--high earners (maybe even employers of others?) to their new status as a family of "receivers," i.e. living on the dole.
It's a very good thing "some" of them got to "work on a staff"--clearly not an entrepreneurial gig.
At least, that's keeping them from exercising their felonious option.
What will it take to get them back on their feet, able to drop entitlements and resume paying enough in taxes to want to see them slashed?
~ OMK
OMK, I guess the answer to your question is that it will take a different set of Jumble words to come up with a different description or recommendation. I try to be positive, but when I get words like GRIME and CRISIS and HALVE and THRASH it just isn't that easy. Let's look forward to a more cheerful set of Jumbles tomorrow. If not, maybe I'll just do a Wordle.
ReplyDeleteI was not criticizing you for your family's grief, Misty.
ReplyDeleteYou needn't always be optimistic.
But since you bring it up, you must realize you're in greater control than you choose to believe. CEh! & I had the same words, but would you say our responses were negative?
Just speaking of my own, I used the words to (a) marshal support for a way to reduce "grime" and (b) describe the distraction to be avoided when staging Aristotelean tragedy.
Isn't it just as easy to say "let's fight grime" than to give in to it?
~ OMK
I’m late returning.
ReplyDeleteThanks OMK for explaining Keither. I can see how your Mother could call you that. Great memory.
And I took you down memory lane with the cri-sis. I used to get my older brother in trouble (usually when we were travelling) by bugging him until he punched me; then I would cry and he would be blamed. But we still love each other!
Misty- your family has certainly seen hard times. But on an optimistic note, they did manage to avoid crime and cut their debt in half. With added gifts, they may be able to pull themselves back up to their previous status. If so, let’s hope that they will then be more aware of the needs of the poor. Sometimes the results of “thrashing in crisis” may be painful, but eventually positive.
They were looking for Owen at the other blog, and we have been missing him here too.
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