Brigit's Flame, December, week 3

[keppiehed]

Title: Lucky
Author: keppiehed
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Word Count: 1221
Prompt: “Lithosphere”
A/N: Written for week #3 at Brigits_flame.

Comments

[rubyelf]

I'm not sure what to say about this, my dear... it's just too lovely and sad, and the picture of the daughter standing there holding very still while her mother dusts just a little blush on her cheeks...

[keppiehed]

Now be honest ... was this the picture of smarm? This prompt really threw me! I felt like it was way too heavy handed and I just struggled to shoehorn the prompt in. It felt really unnatural this time! So I trust your opinion, but I was cringing more than usual when I hit "post"!

[rubyelf]

Silly woman. if I didn't think it was beautiful I wouldn't have said so.

It's your ability to make small moments beautifully real that really make this particular piece very sweet.

[keppiehed]

Aw! *blushes* I didn't mean to fish for compliments, but I'll take them just the same. Thank you. Your reassurances have me feeling much better! *whew*!

[hbart]

Hmmm ... I don't know what to say about this one. It is simplistic, and yet it packs a punch because it hits home in some sort of unidentifiable way. I find myself wondering what moments my kids would look back on fondly, and then I just hope they have some. This was really happy and really sad all jumbled up. Love it.

[keppiehed]

EEEK! I was really nervous about the melodrama potential of this. Mothers and daughters are a tough one, and in first person, too! And having to work that prompt in almost killed me. I thought for sure I was way off base. Hearing you say you loved it makes me glad I went for it after all. Thank you for saying the thing that makes me feel like I'm floating! How do you do that?

P.S. I got your huge letter and I cracked up so much that Sander said you should write a blog. He said no one makes me laugh like that, so you must be very humorous and everyone would want to read your musings on daily life. I thought you'd like to hear that! :D

[hbart]

Sander is my new best friend. Sorry, Kep, you'll have to move over and let him to the front of the line :) Glad my ridiculous life could make you laugh!

[keppiehed]

It was something about the cat. Sorry. I know I shouldn't laugh?

[bluegerl]

Keppie, you honeybun. This is lovely, and sad, and beautiful and what memories are made of, for and why they ARE... You make it all so clear, that little girl watching her adored Mama dress up and all the magic things she was doing, and never being able to explain the how/why/what of falling in love just like that.

Poor Keppie, but be glad your Mama had that... its a pressie an awful lot of folk never even understand about, let alone have! So, be glad with Mama... she Fell in Love Boom...wow. Poor Dada.

It reminded me of a little picture of my Mother going out to a Ball somewhere and coming in to kiss my Sister goodnight. She wore a deep mauve silky-shiny dress that had like a grand ruff of massed deep purpley violets all around the swirly edge. She had some on her top as well. I fell in love with the dress. Thank you for remembering me the dress. It was so beautiful.

[keppiehed]

Well, I feel a little bit bad, because it isn't actually a memory, and thankfully for me, my mom is alive and well. Although I was the sort of child who did sit and ask my mom endless questions about falling in love, and about getting married, and if everyone would really stare at me when I kissed the groom and about pretty much everything, and she was amazingly patient with me about always trying to answer my curious mind!

But I do think there is a part of us that is stuck as that little girl, thinking of our mother that way, no matter how old we get. So I am glad I could capture that, and I am glad you remember your mother fondly. I love to think of you dreaming of dresses with purple violets. What a lovely remembrance to have. Thank you for sharing that. *hugs and squishes you*

[w_x_2]

Absolutely beautiful.

It flows so smoothly, and the memory had just so many little details.

I absolutely loved it.

“No. It sounds scary.”

[keppiehed]

I have missed your input! I respect your opinion more than you know, and your encouragement means so much to me. Thank you so much for stopping by to read and give me your thoughts, especially when I've been so absent lately. *squishes you*

[w_x_2]

Sorry, because I've been so busy, I've not been reading as much. Let's not even no talk about leaving comments.. *squishes you too*