This is my post for 5 minute freewriters 2603 prompt brand new canvas hosted by @mariannewest
Can you believe this is the last day of 2024? When I think about it becoming 2025 I wonder where time went. When I was young, I can remember thinking about the 2000 years and how cool it would be if I lived long enough to see it and now here I am, 25 years past it.
It is a time for a brand new canvas, a time to change the things you do not like about yourself, a time to set goals, and a time to heal the spirit and let those who have passed away live in your heart. Letting go will be my hardest but it has been 3 years since Mom passed and every day I look at her picture, rub her face, and talk to her. I don't know if doing that helps or hurts but it makes me feel close to her.
Just like when Dad passed I now feel that I never asked Mom enough questions. All of her knowledge about her family and her childhood is gone. This is the reason I write like I do, working in prompts with pictures, or writing them into a childhood memory or any memory that fits the prompt. I know I can not remember everything from the past, but if I write what goes on in my life today, it will be the past the time most of my children read it. I am not saying my memories will hold anything special, they are only of my life and for my children and grandchildren.
Now I am thinking about knowledge and how much has been lost in history. Are we getting smarter or dumber? When I was a child, my grandmother knew many things, like what time of year to cut your hair or plant the garden and how to make your own medicine. One thing I can remember is if you got cut and it was bleeding pretty bad, she would take a cobweb and press it on it. Spider webs she would sweep away from the corners of her house, but she never took down a cobweb until needed.
I remember my Dad taking the paper off a cigarette and chewing it until it was soggy. He then would put it on the stick when someone came to him that got hit by a catfish or stingray, he held it there with pressure until they said it felt better. I remember him scrapping a potato putting it on gauze and wrapping it around an area with a boil or other type of infection. He would also make us a Hot Tottie to drink when sick. A Hot Tottie was a drink heated with honey, whiskey, and lemon................
I like to wish all of my Hive friends a very Happy New Year
@jacobpeacock, and @jongolson I want to thank you two for helping me get started on the other site and bringing me to get here on Hive. If not for you, I would still be posting on FB, which now I rarely post.
@deeanndmathews, thank you for keeping the story going and for your words of inspiration. You have helped heal my heart more than you will ever know.
@owasco Thank you for always telling it like it is, I love your wit. It is funny how you can care for someone who you never meet. Your friendship means a lot to me.
@hafiz34, Thank you for your kindness toward others and the lives you have saved or changed for the better. I enjoy our exchanges.
@scribblingramma We have so many things in common but are so different, thank you for sharing your canning and gardening knowledge with us on Hive.
@wakeupkitty You are one tough kitty, thank you for being what I would call a good friend and for your caring heart towards all animals, I see you as strong as the wolves you keep.
@iamraincrystal, Thank you for keeping track of time, it goes by fast, and if not for you I might lose track of it. I look forward to your posts and hearing about your kitties, you are a special person. One other person you remind me of is my granddaughter she was what they called an "indigo child" She could see colors around people when she was little but no longer sees it, she had and still has a sentimental heart with all animals just like you.
@solominer, Thank you for all of your informative posts, I started following you when you were wandering the woods looking at different rocks and then raising and building nests for wood bees and now the trials and tribulations of being a farmer. I hope your gardens grow this coming year.
@jacobtothe, You were a good mistake, I clicked on your post thinking you were my son with the same first name, I had cataracts and could not see well. I liked what I read and followed you. Thank you for being informative, and for your library goings on. I had no idea working in a library could be comical and stressful, thanks for showing us the behind the counter happenings, and for your at home cooking recipes.
@hivebuzz, Thank you for always being here, thank you for keeping track of all of my replies, comments, and posts. May your calculator never break.
@carolkean, There is no way that I can write as eloquently as you. I have never seen a negative reply from you for me or anyone else. Somehow you always know the perfect words to write. Thank you for always being positive and making us feel better about ourselves.
@ericvancewalton, Thank you for #memoirmonday and for being my newest friend.
@mariannewest, Thank you for starting #freewriters and the pictures you post of your hikes, I look forward to seeing the places you visited.
@snook, thank you for your humor and your writing with honest feelings, I feel as if you do not sugarcoat things and I like it.
@tydynrain, I admire you and your wisdom, you show courage and weakness together like I have never seen written about before. Thank you for being true.
@wandrnrose7, I don't see you as much as I used to but thank you for our friendship
@zirochka, If not for you writing about the invasion from Russia I would not have followed you. Your writing about what was "really" going on was both heartbreaking and informative, thank you for posting the truth. I keep following you because you write interesting things about your culture and your pictures of your Country look as if they were cut from a magazine, they are beautiful. I pray this year you get peace.
@justclickindiva, I do not read all of what you post but try to give you a vote every time I see one. I try to read the posts that are from life experiences, it is because I am not into fantasy stories. Thank you for being you and keep writing what you feel.
@edgerik, I hope you and your wife have a great new year, and thank you for being a friend.
@ironshield, and his growing family, Happy New Year. thank you for the memories you bring back to me with your posts about day to day life with kids.
@flaxz I do not know where you are but hope you are still with us you are missed. Thank you for being a friend and all your photos.
@fitnfun, you and @wonderwop are no longer with us but still mean the world to me, if not for @fitnfun I would still be posting to thin air, she told me to write for a community, which was #freewriters.
@wonderwop I have one word that comes to mind when thinking of you. Encouragement, thank you and you are also missed.
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