Frankly Friday

 I was blessed with perfect weather, I'll be at a little chilly but the sun was out and the buses seem to be running on time. I had a number of appointments in the afternoon when was to get my toes done in the other was to have coffee with a friend of mine. I had to get from one point in the valley to the other in less than an hour and that meant catching two different buses. I was able to pull it off the operation and just be 5 or 10 minutes late to the 3:00 appointment at Starbucks. I couldn't believe my luck. I wore my red stuck in cap that a friend of mine here at the apartment complex knitted for me a couple of years ago in a large flannel hoodie that I draped over my legs and lap just in case I thought that I needed a little more warmth than the day was willing to render. I was comfortable for the trips I made on the bus sometimes that's all one can ask for.

My friend Lori and I had a good conversation talking about stuff old people talk about when they drink coffee out in public. I was traveling so I kind of missed lunch so I had a bacon egg and cheese muffin that the coffee shop makes. I could have been really hungry but it tasted very good. We tried not to talk about politics but kept getting drug back to the silliness and political obscenity that this country is currently involved in. Totally blowing our minds at how bizarre the events are that just keep unraveling and nothing seems to be being done to prevent the events of this day. We also talked about where we were in life our station in life. We are the seniors now relegated to be in the background many times living lives of cliche where we are the main actors in the cliche. We fear that AI is robbing the world of great writers by writing greatness out of the writer's skills. We try to plants to write something new in the next coming weeks hopefully by the time we meet again with our writing companion/friend. I don't know if I will be able to pull off such an event. Sometimes I really feel my creative writing days are at a standstill if not over completely. But then I get an idea or a different concept and I want to try it out. One of the things I had been thinking of is finding a piece of writing that I like and then mimicking it by placing my own characters in the Format changing the names and such. I don't think that's plagiarism but it feels like it. My writing friend says that's okay to write this if it contributes to writing something different and more creative and something being able to be finished later on. It's a good enough justification for me. Curious though I don't know if I'll be able to pull it off but I might give it a try- - maybe start at 500 Words and go from there…