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November 6, 2019 By

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Pretty simple, isn’t it?

 

This week’s prompt word:

nEST

“You are capable of so much, it would be a sin to waste your talent.”

From above, a branch, really no more than a twig, breaks off and drifts toward the earth. The simplicity of a child makes all things possible but comes at a cost, lacking the ability to the distinguish between opinion and fact, they live at risk of damaging infection from well-meaning advice as any infectious germ or lethal virus.

“How can you do so well on the aptitude tests and bring home grades like this?”

One more twig or small broken branch, falls in a new forest and finds its decent halted by similar ideas and, linking, changes the world, a seemingly necessary adaptation shaping the host.

“Maybe they’re right,” even an obviously false certainty can survive, provided it finds a place in the soul to build a nest; the entangling of not-individually-damaging thoughts, immune to others of its kind begins to spread like a transparent cancer.

 

 

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clarkscottroger About clarkscottroger
Well, what exactly do you want to know? Whether I am a clark or a scott or roger? If you have to ask, then you need to keep reading the Posts for two reasons: a)to get a clear enough understanding to be able to make the determination of which type I am and 2) to realize that by definition I am all three.* *which is true for you as well, all three...but mostly one

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  1. phyllis0711 says:
    November 6, 2019 at 6:15 pm

    Childhood is a dangerous place.
    Child-like adulthood is so much better.

  2. GirlieOnTheEdge says:
    November 6, 2019 at 9:04 pm

    We, all of us, are subject to influences beyond our control and comprehension. From infancy through childhood, our “tablets” are being written upon. I suppose for some, adulthood is for searching and finding the eraser.
    Thought evoking Six.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      November 7, 2019 at 10:42 am

      yeah, that fricken eraser! where the hell did I put it (not that I could imagine needing it at the time)

  3. messymimi's meanderings says:
    November 6, 2019 at 9:07 pm

    How i remember the well-meaning words that did so much more harm than good.

  4. Lisa Tomey says:
    November 7, 2019 at 1:08 am

    The nests of life…as happenstance, influence and spirit come together for a great six!

  5. Reena Saxena says:
    November 7, 2019 at 3:31 am

    A very sensitive story! Beautifully penned!

  6. Violet Lentz says:
    November 7, 2019 at 6:58 am

    So true, Clark.The soul can be such fertile soil, which is equally a blessing and a curse. So well written.

    • clarkscottroger clarkscottroger says:
      November 7, 2019 at 10:43 am

      Good thing we were not so aware of that duality at the time.*

      *speaking for myself, of course.

  7. UP says:
    November 7, 2019 at 9:08 am

    Reminds me of a few people I grew UP with. The path to adulthood can be a rocky one. Good six. YO!

  8. Kristi says:
    November 7, 2019 at 11:32 am

    So sad, and yet true.

  9. Pat Brockett says:
    November 7, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Thought provoking and true. Being able to distinguish between opinion and fact can be a challenge long after childhood for many.