Some days are hits, and some days are misses, and today was a little bit of both.
Some hits are the crack of a baseball against a bat, and some hits are a slap a universe gives your face, to see if you’re still alive.
The good news is, I’m still alive.
Sometimes a miss is the whoosh of air an opportunity breathes as it slips by you, and sometimes a miss is a heart-filling that pangs a beat to your bones and writes the morse code of the story of everything you’ve ever loved.
The good news is, I have spent all my life in love.
I am riddled with code; bones so pressed with story, I walk like a keyboard sings. My jaw is kiss-lifted, my cheekbones, in perpetual auntie-pinch. I blink like ocarina whistle.
“Que hermosa,” Mamasaur says, when she looks at me, no matter what type of day I’m having. This story, this two-word story, is written in my skull, making me an instrument of its own making.
Today was a little bit of a hit. As the slap came down, as the cool fingers of the universe cracked against my face, my heart-fillings pushed back with the vibrations of my every love.
I am buffered in chord, shrouded in song.
I am never out of tune.
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Today is Day 1 of NanoPoblano and tomorrow is the last day to join our merry band of Peppers. (If you’re a Pepper, feel free to leave a comment with a link to your day’s post.)
NanoPoblano is the World’s Least-Official November Blog Challenge. Follow along for 30 days of posting. Click the Pepper below to meet some new friends!
rarasaur 
I think I will give it a stronger go this year to complete. I hope you have been well, good lady.
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Should I add you to the Pepper list? 🙂 Or did I already add you? Apologies, today was a day. 🙂
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I don’t think I am. I can empathize in it being a day. All the love, dear friend.
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As Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes fame) says, “When life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own.”
Hopefully things will turn around soon.
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Happy nano-peppering. I hope you have a good month. I’m excited to read all you share.
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As always, wonderfully written. Imagery, simile, positivity, the list goes on.
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That darn universe and its slaps in the face. (But also I love the universe and being reminded I’m alive 🤷🏼♀️) Glad there’s some good news 🦖🌶❤️ Happy Cheer Peppering!
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Today was mixed for me too. I felt slaps and misses, kisses and listeses (my word for too many things to do and not enough me to do them!) But i *very* glad to be here with you, peppering in November!
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Am. I am! (jump skips)
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Yesterday I committed myself to celebrating with Ka this November and now I’m seeing your post and to add some pepper into my November mix sounds spicy❤️🎶💃🌈 So I’d love to join you this month and get to know you better❤️ A beautiful first post and I look forward to reading and meeting new friends here, Thankyou so much, much love🥰🌈
Barbara at me, my magnificent self💃🌈
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Yay!
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Hi Ra,
As always, your post was raw, endearing, clever, heartfelt with a hint of humor and whimsy! I love your writing, just sayin’. Please add me to the list.
peace,
Linda
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Yay! Will do!
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Hi, Did you add me ? I just checked and I do not see my name on your list. thanks, Linda
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Beautiful post to start the month. Unsurprisingly, I missed yesterday, but hope to get a post in before midnight on day 2. Happy blogging, Queen Pepper!
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You have such a beautiful way of expressing emotions, Ra: I feel it in my body.
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What an exquisitely written post!
Sorry not to participate this time, but after the year I’ve had, just too exhausted to commit, plus what little energy I have has been going to get out the vote activities… Am enjoying reading posts so far though!
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I love your writing, so raw it is breathtaking!
Blessings!
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