Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
Inspiration point
The Fox Hunt
This painting is by Wilmslow Homer (1893), fox frightening crows, crows frightening fox. I especially like that it's a coastal scene and the red berries, and the dark glower of crows.
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Service With A Smile
Image from Wikimedia - Nasch92 , the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: CreativeCommons Attribution4.0 International
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September 15th 2008
Big Fish Eat Little Fish Peter Bruegal 1556, representing the Lehman Brother's crash in 2008 (see attched link below)
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Dennis in Herefordshire
[Sunday, Monday] Dennis passing, rainfall less – though …
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darkness
My eyes were open but it was so dark I couldn’t see. The only glimmer of light was that which was came from under the thick steel door that kept me...
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