Poetry, Short Prose and Walking

1 John 1:5

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

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The Age of Mistaken Mythology: Forwards or Backwards

During the Age of Mistaken Mythology, folk like Gabriel believed he could go backwards in time. If he could go forwards, then why not backwards (getting a loan from time he had no intention of repaying)? Of course, being the skeptic of the bunch, he wasn’t sure if he was here anyway, but I will save that nonsense for another episode.

Edgar, the brain of the bunch, told Gabriel to prove it. Brian, not the brain of the bunch, said, “Yeah, prove it!”

When the pizza delivery guy rang the bell, they all had better things to do.

Denise offers “loan” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

James 4:13-15 NKJV – 13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.”

Backward or Forward in Reverse?

Forwards or Backwards Along a Trail at Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Autumn in Black and White

Dale offers the prompt, “autumn in black and white”, for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I used fallen autumn leaves in different contexts.

I used GIMP’s Colors > Components > Mono Mixer to construct these images.

Ten Things of Thankful: November 7, 2026

I am thankful to the Lord for everything mentioned below and all of His other blessings.

The photo captions help tell their stories.

(5) curves in stones and (6) wondering how they got there

(7) trails I didn’t take because they were too steep and (8) flatter trails

(9) deer and (10) woodland for them to make a home

Matthew 10:27

Linda G. Hill’s One Liner Wednesday.

The Age of Mistaken Mythology: Infinity!

During the Age of Mistaken Mythology, Edgar wondered whether adding one to infinity made it bigger (and my grammar checker wondered if I’d ever stop writing this hollow nonsense).

Brian said that it would be bigger by one.

Gabriel said that nothing is bigger than infinity, so no.

(I had an opinion on this, but decided to keep it to myself.)

Brian asked, “How could anyone get an infinite amount of anything anyway?”

Gabriel said, “Just pretend you’ve already got it” (which is what Edgar already did).

Denise offers “hollow” as the prompt for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

Psalm 103:1 KJV – 1 A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Autumn Colors

Dale offers the prompt “autumn colors” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

On Friday, we went to Crowder Mountain State Park in North Carolina.

Here are some photos of the challenging trail to Pinnacle Peak.

The trail goes back and forth up the side of the mountain.

We went up the steps, but stopped when we had to climb the rocks.

But Edgar wanted more, because more was more than what he had before. An urge to splurge began to surge. He rhymed and rhymed some more.

Denise offers the prompt word “surge” for this week’s Six Sentence Stories.

More domino tricks

1 Timothy 6:10 KJV – 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.