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Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

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Alexander Hall, Baylor University
Alexander Hall, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
 
 
Saturday night. First weekend in
Waco. My room is tiny,
Every bit the size of my closet back home.
Evening spreads over the Brazos River, filtering
Through the Live Oak branches outside my
Dorm room. Above me stars   
Reflect and twinkle, the same Big Dipper over the same 
Earth. Yet everything feels different… The
Allure of laughter draws me into the common room, to a
Mahogany table covered in newspaper.
Situated in the center, a pile of panties? I’m not in
Arkansas anymore… more like the other side of the globe. A
Roomful of girls sit with heads down
Each busy at work.  Days of the week, black satin,
Multi-colored, every style panty imaginable spread
Across the table. They paint names and phone numbers
Down the sides and even on the crotch! My super
Excited roommate, a girl who   
Organizes her Izod shirts by color, squeals it’ll be
Fun! A 100 year old Baylor
Tradition—the first freshman panty raid of the semester.
Hurry! Grabbing my craziest red plaid Christmas bikinis,
I draw a heart and toss my name to the
Sidewalk below. 

Baylor University retro sailor bear
Sic ’em Bears!

 

talya
Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

This was written especially for FEARLESS FRIDAY PRACTICE –Think of a song you listened to over and over at a crossroads point in your life. Note to yourself the emotion you felt connected with this song. Do an acrostic off the title of this song. Write about a specific event in the period in your life the song’s associated with, but DON’T use the emotion or a synonym — rather, let the emotion be expressed by the specific telling of the event.


Somewhere in the acrostic, include the following words: newspaper, branch, mate, globe, plaid, Big Dipper.

P.S. If you are reading this post from your phone, the acrostic phrase may not line up correctly…Oh well.
Musical Pairing:

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Eurythmics

 

Gratitude

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Today I’m excited to be guest posting at Everyday Gyaan as part of a ten day Living Gratitude Series. (Everyday Gyaan is based in India which makes me a virtual globetrotter…) 
November has become synonymous with gratitude. On Facebook, many people are participating in Thirty Days of Gratitude—posting one grateful thing each day in November.
Since I already bombard my friends with blog posts and quotes and pictures several times a day, I decided they (you) would be grateful if I declined to participate in the Facebook gratitude challenge.
Instead, I found another way to work gratitude into November. If you’d like to read more, click HERE to visit my post featured today at Everyday Gyaan. 

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Food. Farm. Garden. Life.

THANKS FOR READING!