Loose Boards

This morning, on Facebook - today's substandard substitute for a morning newspaper on your doorstep - these words appeared on a glowing screen, such a far cry from the crackling newsprint of old.

"Smile on, good friends, smile on in spite of it all, for your smile is a sign to others, a life not beaten down, a hope still resilient, a love at work, your smile speaks all that and more, so smile on, in your courage and conviction, smile today that others may smile tomorrow."* 

And there it was again, what wise writer friend Jeannette Buck described as the loose board of grief. Cue Bugs Bunny warning his fellow Looney Tunes compatriots of that board only to make one mis-step - SMACK!!!

I miss her.

Above is the post I intended to write - the post that came to mind when I read Steven Charleston's morning inspiration, celebrating the smile that defined my mother. 

And I began and finished but here's where my wild mind took off - that writing mind that I've been training in years (gulp!!) of writing practice.

This morning, on Facebook - today's substandard substitute for a morning newspaper on your doorstep - these words appeared on a glowing screen, such a far cry from the crackling newsprint of old.

Newsprint - does anyone even know about newsprint anymore?

.... you're going to have to wait a bit to read where my wild mind went!