Welcome to the first Five Minute Friday of August . . . This one is special, because it’s my ELEVENTH anniversary hosting the FMF community! Eleven years!! I can hardly believe it myself.
Thank you for being here! Sorry I never managed to post last week . . . Believe it or not, my home WiFi *still* won’t connect to my website, so I’m sacrificing on my precious hotspot for you all this week. 😉
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This week’s FMF writing prompt is: ACCUMULATE
Setting my timer for five minutes, and . . . GO.Â
One of my neighbors was moved into an assisted living facility a few months ago. She is widowed and has dementia and wasn’t able to live on her own anymore.
From the time we moved into this house five years ago, she hasn’t been able to see or hear very well, but she remained dedicated to her garden, faithfully pulling weeds from her landscaping with her stark white hair and her black leather pants.
Her children are getting ready to put her house on the market, and this past weekend they had an estate sale.
My husband told me I should go walk through the house just to see it, so I strolled across the street during the sale and let myself in.
What a strange thing to see the accumulation of a person’s life spread across tables and shelves.
So many things, and she has left it all behind. And because of her illness, she doesn’t even remember any of it.
It made me wonder what my life will look like when it comes to an end.
Will people line up outside to walk through my abandoned house and pilfer through my forgotten, dated things?
If so, what will they find?
It’s shocking how much we’ve managed to accumulate just in twelve years living in America.
We keep earning and spending and buying and what does it matter in the end?
STOP.Â
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Join us with your own five-minute freewrite on the prompt, ACCUMULATE, below, then visit your link-up neighbor to read their post and leave an encouraging comment:Â
You never have to apologise, Kate. We appreciate you SO MUCH.
I wish I could accumulate
the kind of holy Godly grace
so I could avoid the fate
that God ordained that I must face.
This last week was a living hell,
something none should ever see,
but I lived it kinda well
building Barb a Flying V
ukulele, my design,
but where should those ol’ soundholes go
to make its voice maybe quite fine;
do you, my dear sweet reader, know?
But it’ll be Candy Apple Red,
and looks alone, it’s gonna shred.
the hole be in the middle, Andrew! 😀
Kate – we have had very similar experiences lately which spoke to my heart as well. Congratulations on your hosting anniversary! I so appreciate this link up and the community you have developed here to share our thoughts on one common word each week. Blessings!
Happy 5 Minute Friday Anniversary! Thank you for keeping this space so that we can connect and encourage one another.
11 years! Congratulations, and you’ve been a great host! My participation has been sporadic, but I’d really like to get back into it. This was a word I could relate to. LOL
Blessings!
Congratulations Kate. And thank you. You’ve encouraged me to at least write a response to your prompts each week, even if I write nothing else. I guess I have accumulated a great quantity of blog posts over those years and thanks to you!
I also love how it is a little community and I look forward to reading how others have responded and where they are at in their lives.
You have made that possible. Thank you and thank you to all those who contribute posts and who read and comment on others.