when life
throws
you

a
curve(d)

ball

reach up
into the

sky

catch that

ball

with both

hands

and shoot for the

horizon

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*image with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, wall mural, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Eight: Curve. Thanks to Ben Huberman, Michelle Weber and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

Mind the curve.

below
this

(ancient) bark

below
this

(majestic) trunk

below
these

(spreading) branches
(fluttering) leaves
(clear,blue) sky
(wispy) clouds
(recently refreshed) atmosphere

below
the

(super) moon
(our) sun
(wandering) planets

below
these

(pointed) stars
(spinning) galaxies

below
all this

a
pale
blue
dot

on which

we

all
live

 

and

together,

we

will

rise above this

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*image with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, below a tree, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Seven: Below. Thanks to Ben Huberman, Michelle Weber and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

Rise above it all.

hands,
for holding
in happy

times

hands for
wringing, when the
bell,

tolls

hold tight,
hands across, the

water

across, the

world

across, the

generations

until
the sun, shines

again

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*image with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, wall mural, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Six: Hands. Thanks to Ben Huberman, Michelle Weber and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

Hold tight.

chopped
sliced
sprinkled
salted
coriander’d
served up, as
a

dish

(with roast,
chicken)

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*image with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, my studio apartment, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the newly reconstituted, and sorely missed, WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Five: Dish. Thanks to Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

i’d trade my street for yours
if i thought it would mend
your,
heart

our street(s)
today
winding toward nowhere

all our
streets
yours – mine – theirs
blocked

but, the street(s)
inside
our hearts

yes, even
yours

remain open, to our world

– a poem inspired by further on up the road, bruce springsteen and the sessions band, dublin

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*image with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, wall mural, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the newly reconstituted, and sorely missed, WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Four: Street. Thanks to Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

one sunny mornin’ we’ll rise I know
and I’ll meet you further on up the road

– lyrics from further on up the road, bruce springsteen and the sessions band, dublin

sing me

a

song,
replete with sun-
shine

shine
your sweet, light
on this world
in,
pain

pain
shared by so,
many

many
the roads, we
must
travel

travel
as,once
we
did

did
we once,
sing
together

a

song?

– a poem inspired by a song for someone, u2

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*image handmade with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, wall mural, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the newly reconstituted, and sorely missed, WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Three: Song. Thanks to Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

If there is a kiss
I stole from your mouth
And there is a light
Don’t let it go out

– lyrics from a song for someone, u2

open
open me
     open me and 
     open me and I 
                 will
protect
                 you
always
     any way, up
     or
down

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*image handmade with iPhone 11 Pro 4.25mm f/1.8 lens, wall mural, cantonments, accra, ghana*

For the newly reconstituted, and sorely missed, WordPress community’s latest initiative Discover Prompts Day Two: Open. Thanks to Ben Huberman and the WordPress Discover team for stepping up to the plate.

Stay safe and well and let’s fight this thing together, and make sure we don’t forget the lessons we learn when we reach the other side.

When one door closes, another opens.