Storms & Sunlight

In my continuing efforts to stoke up the creative juices, here are my story cubes from today.  

However, today I will try to use some personal events or thoughts in conjunction with the cubes.  

There was quite a thunderstorm last night.  The kind that has warnings rolling along the bottom of the TV programs and causes cell phone alerts!  I actually heard the thunder and saw the flashes of LIGHTNING.  It surprised me that I woke up as sleeping without my hearing aides, I rarely hear any noise.  I don't even hear the AIRPLANES taking off over our house. I didn't even look at the CLOCK to see what time it was and promptly fell back to sleep.  Besides have a hearing deficit which allows a noise-free sleep, we have room darkening blinds in the bedroom which is another KEY to a good night's rest.

I am quite sensitive to light.  The other day I went to the ophthalmologist and had my annual eye exam....you know where you read the letters like L O V E.   The doctor used a MAGNIFYING instrument in look into my eyes and he found no Diabetes in my eyes, no Glaucoma or Cataracts.  Yea!  He mentioned, and this is first I've been told this, that my eyes have very little pigment in them (light blue); therefore my eyes are sensitive to the sunlight.  I could have told him that, but no one has asked.  

I remember being a student and having to go outside for recess. You know, back in those ancient days when they building the PYRAMIDS just around the corner from our school, kids didn't have sunglasses to wear.  Especially in the winter snow, I literally was blinded by the brightness!  I remember covering my tear-filled eyes trying to keep them open to do anything, even walk without bumping into something.  I felt like a FISH out of water, I couldn't navigate feeling so blinded.

I would have much rather stayed inside to read a BOOK, but the teachers thought I was just being lazy and I "needed the fresh air."  Are teachers today aware of situations like this in their students?  Do they allow sunglasses on the playgrounds?  I sure hope so.  

A Stagnant Story

I feel that my creativity has been on the setting of STAGNANT lately.  Perhaps it's due to so much leisure time (being retired), that I waste away my days playing computer games and looking for trouble.  Just kidding...about the later part.

Years ago, I got this game (Rory's Story Cubes) as a gift or purchase, can't remember which now.  It has nine dice and 54 images which creates 10 million combinations, infinite stories!  So I decided to give my creativity juices a challenge and rolled this combination.  Now, it's up to me to develop a paragraph or story based on these die.

As I was saying to myself, "Where has all my creativity gone?" I know that my actions point to the fact that I have been using my eyes to see flowers and taking photos of them.  Flowers act as a magnet to me and I like to get a macro view and I often spot bugs in the flowers like a beetle or a bee.  I don't need  a flashlight to shine on the fact that I'd rather read words in a book than create my own story sometimes.

Easy, eh?

Oh, what the heck! Let's try another one

I looked at the clock and realized that I only had 20 minutes to get to halls of "justice," the courthouse, for jury duty.  I knew it was a couple of miles from the house, one of the tallest buildings in McAllen.  So I trudged myself in and went through the process of waiting to be called.  It was a good thing I brought a book to read, as the wait was getting very boring. Luckily, in a few hours I was released from duty and escaped outside.  I was drawn like a magnet to the fountain in the courtyard, surrounded by trees.  In the fountain were not only the lucky pennies in the water, but fish and even a turtle.  I bet most of the lawyers in the building don't even notice this treasure! 

That's all folks!