Cattitude and Gratitude

I am writing this to the picture prompt for  Wordy Wednesday  at Blog A Rhythm. We're supposed to write a minimum of 100 words.  Since I like the challenge of writing to an exact word count, I made it exactly 100 words. Two men are walking towards Heaven’s Pearly Gates. First Man: I can’t wait to get to Heaven. It’s gonna be great! Nobody is as good a Christian as I am. A crowd is gonna be waiting to welcome me. Second Man: I know you. In life, you were an evil, selfish man who hurt many people. First Man: Lies, all lies!  The bridge crumbles and the first man falls into the fiery Hell below. AAGGGGGGGGGGGGH! The bridge reappears and the second man continues walking to Heaven’s Gates. Second Man: That’s what you get for building walls instead of bridges, Donny. 

Blog A Rhythm Wordy Wednesday I am participating in Blog A Rhythm's Wordy Wednesday 100 word blog post for this week using the following phrases: Fast asleep Fifteen minutes of Fame Fly in the ointment Four corners of the earth It's a great challenge to fit in the phrases and come up with a coherent story in such a short word count. I managed to make it 100 words exactly. Not for the faint of heart, I tell ya!! “Sally?” Sally pretended to be fast asleep but her sister poked her side. “Go away, Belinda. I feel like I’ve traveled the four corners of the earth , I’m so tired.”  “I hate to be a fly in the ointment but the earth doesn’t have corners.”  “You’re just as bad saying a fly in the ointment." “It’s an idiom meaning a minor irritation that spoils the enjoyment of something.” “That’s you exactly, Belinda. Now what do you want?” “Who’s Andy Warhol? “He’s that artist who said we will all get our fifteen minutes of fame .”

"Do you want to talk about it?" I said, after a minute. But she did not look from the television, and after a minute or two, I realized the conversation was over. These two sentences are from "After You" by JoJo Moyes.  This is the sequel to the first book "Me Before You" since readers wanted to know what happened to the main character, Louisa.  I found I connected to the lovable Louisa in both books and and I am rooting for her to succeed. I am enjoying this book much more than the first one.  If you fancy joining in, here’s how… Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title and author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

This painting of a girl reading reminds me of myself as a young girl with my nose always in a book. I was a shy, artsy and dreamy kid who took things very personally. I didn't have a lot of confidence and always thought others knew more than I did.  It's a shame that I didn't know that I was just as good as the other kids with a lot going for me. Too bad we don't get the insight and wisdom of age when we're young. Youth is wasted on the young as they say. Oh well. I can't regret as I can't go back now and change any of it. It has made me the person I am today, both good and bad. I wrote this poem exploring these thoughts.  When I was young I didn’t know much I was fairly clued out and not in touch, I thought that others knew more than me It was mostly untrue, but I couldn’t see, I wish I hadn’t worried what others thought It always made me so distraught, I didn’t know that failing was a good thing to do It meant that I