Jottings and Scribbles
By Lee Benson
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Wonderfully absurd verse and short tales in Milliganesque style
Lee Benson
Lee Benson is an award-winning journalist with 30 years of experience as a newspaper writer, columnist, and author. He is currently a metro columnist for the Deseret Morning News and wrote numerous columns about the case as it was unfolding.
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Jottings and Scribbles - Lee Benson
For Lynne
CONTENTS
What Does It Take
Frimsday
Vitamin D
Water
Communication (In The Modern World)
Junk Mail
Junk Haiku
Cycle Of Hungry Life
Picking Up That Call
Watching The World Go By
The Man With The Mangle
What Nonsense
I Am What I Am
Wrong Path
Wilderness Migration
Everything You Own
M Cocktail
Reflecting
The Spirit Of The Sea
Hurl the Rock
Bird
Nikki: A Vision
Pooka Pooka
Spiders
My Daughter – Staying Over For The First Time
Different Lives
Kathleen From James Tissot (1836-1902)
Dick Terrorpin
Albert Tross
Sometimes
Light
Will You?
It’s Only A Dream
Chameleon
Give And Take
Shy
I Believe
Bear Owl
Time
I Love
The Queen
Another Day
Is Life Such A Ball
I’m Sad
Bed Time
The Death of David Bowie
Josie and Marissa
Old Soul
I Like My Hat
Do We Really Know
Albi
Rubbish
I Am Old
Astral Plain
Film
Bean
Love On The Phone
Why Won't You Leave Me Alone
Oh Lucky Me
Through My Window
Space
Party
Thinking About Death
Brand New Day
Transition Demise
Playing the Game
Tuscan Dawn
Feet
Sleep
Magical Potions
Two Birds
Crufts Etiquette
Alcohol
The Right Note
Testosterone Turbocharge
Out of the Night
Just That
In Tune
WHAT DOES IT TAKE?
What does it take to walk a line
What does it take to strike a chord
What does it take to ring that bell
What does it take to go that extra mile
For some I fear, it takes too long.
FRIMSDAY
Have you ever considered what might be achieved with an extra day in the week.
Not the weekend, for two days are enough to enjoy and any longer would be a holiday or a mini break.
I mean an extra day because as you go at full pace, work all hours, physically and mentally you’ve still have not completed your tasks.
Well, the answer is at hand. A simple entry called Frimsday, usually added between a Thursday and a Friday, with enough hours to enable you to chill afterwards, to put your feet up, to pour a large drink or to simply sneak off to the cinema in the middle of the day and watch that particular film before it vanishes off the big screen.
It’s so easy and useful except for one thing. Human nature might hijack it, adding extra repeats along with overtime and the like, to stress, yes to stress, to stress you more. So now you’d have a real eight day week and no time to stop, no life. Just no time.
Stop! I mean it. STOP!
Take a breath. You don't need my special day. It's mine and she is copyright to yours truly. So find your own way of