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Just jest!  Pun fun!  Loads of laughs, cartoons, puns, puntoons. Get the hang of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Puntoons-Jest-Health-Mack-Rowe/dp/075963999X

Do you know all of these puns?  Are you able to use them correctly?  

power of touch soothes, embraces humanity, smiles heal masseuses

Beautiful.  Worthy of replication ~ 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2017/may/03/best-photos-of-the-day-a-dirty-rotten-job-and-a-tory-poster#img-8

gilded paradise lovers cavort, make a date: meet me in the reeds?

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neighbor’s peonies brightened our morning, petals dropped, nonchalant

living in mundane gradations in umber tell history goodbye

[I find this photo captivating, but am challenged to explain why.  It has haunted me this week.]

A photograph by Russell Boyce (taken in Gdynia, Poland), with the caption: “A woman smokes a cigarette on her balcony"

lunar tug of war parallel universes collide in my mind

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Staring at the moon I often (imagine that I) feel cosmic energy, feel as if my pulse is shared by some ‘something’ out there…

I feel these waves, waves of soothe and torment, soothe and torment, and the grit left behind to mull over needles me like the sand used to inside my bathing suit after a day on the beach.

Does the moon do that to you, too?

peering at me; wonder which of us sees more magic? spider finds inside

[While studying the garden through the globe the other day, I realized there was a tiny spider INSIDE the globe.  So far no web visible inside.  Guess the spider sensibly decided that he/she might not catch much inside a globe?   (Though since that day, I have also seen a carpenter ant scurrying around the inside too.)]

some call it a weed mullein, whorls spread cushioned pads truth: lung-healing herb

I love the soft caress of mullein leaves (reminiscent of lambs’ ear leaves).

Whenever they appear (courtesy of birds’ droppings, I imagine), I let them flourish.  From this whorl, a tall stalk (sometimes ruffled) will appear, and then at the top, circles of soft yellow flowers will bloom.  

coming soon to this  little plot of mine -- blanket covering magic chamomile, cosmos,  hyssop, borage, zinnia,  love-in-a-mist, more

neighbor’s giveaway ‘transplanted’ treasures mark edges, shade critters, delight

Weeding, planting seeds: even the bluebird approves! Birdbath: flowers float.

WoW7 = words of the week (times 7)

1.  pollster

2.  upholster / upholsterer / reupholster

3.  opposer

4.  holster

5.  squalor 

6.  bolster

7.  boisterous

This week’s list is a bit odd.  I hope you’ll spend time practicing the pronunciations, and really paying attention to how your mouth shapes the words.

/s/ vs. /z/

/l/ vs. / r/ 

different vowel sounds

Try to identify the pronunciation differences between ‘upholster’ and ‘opposer’.  

Rumor has it that the upholsterer lives in squalor.  He reupholstered my divan and bolsters last year and did a fine job.  

It really bolstered my spirits to have the room look new.  Even the pollster who made the rounds of the neighborhood last week commented on the fabric I chose!  

bluets are singing! with Quaker Lady resolve all spirits lightened