Esoteric
The must include word in a monday morning writing contest is PEDANTIC (adjective). This key word is rendered, as always, in all caps. Keyboard communicators have the same opinion of all caps writers that sidewalk based pedestrians have of street preachers. Even if you agree with the message, the medium is too tacky for words.
The writing contest prefers that you use third definition option of this key word. Today, the preferred usage of pedantic is UNIMAGINATIVE; PEDESTRIAN. It is again presented in all caps, with a fig leaf semi colon keeping the peace. This must be an archaic dictionary at work. Today, the unimaginative thing to do is hop in the car, and burn fossil fuels to get where you are going. The enlightened method would be to walk, or to be a pedestrian.
This post is named esoteric, in honor of pedantic’s bff word. (Spell check suggestion: antiseptic’s buff) No one ever accused esoteric of being unimaginative or pedestrian. In tenth grade, PG had a drill sergeant english teacher. One day, the class was discussing “The rocking horse winner,” by D.H. Lawrence. It is a terrible piece of work. One young lady asked the teacher why anyone would write something so esoteric. The teacher had never heard of esoteric, and was enchanted.
Pictures are from The Library of Congress. The first time these pictures were used, they illustrate a poem, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. It was foisted upon the unsuspecting public by a facility known as Cyber Recovery. This is not pedestrian, this is runner… you will want to run away.
Chamblee54 
“with a fig leaf semi colon keeping the peace.” Loved that line!
I can’t see your story. Probably me being a tad stupid :-(
If it’s you being a tad stupid, then I’m right there with you! Can’t see it either. :S
Thanks, as always, for your thought-provoking work. Nothing like seeing the dead gathered, photographically, in echoes of the former lives.
This is a good one.
So many things to consider here! There wasn’t much innocent childhood on the faces of all those boys. They wear men’s expressions. The ladies are my grandmother’s era. The styles were really kind of cute. And the hands — well they obviously had some precursor to Esoterica cream, probably pig fat! :D
Lots to think about here.
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The teacher liking the kid for using the word esoteric is so true.
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