“What’s rude?” asked the Muse of Many Questions.
“Sharing a photo of nectarine scoop cake?” Thalia shrugged and wiped crumbs from her cookie duster. “Too bad we can’t share.”
“We can give them the recipe,” Cal offered. “I’d rather die than be rude.”
Urania looked as if she’d been inside a burning building on the equator. Was her hair on fire? “Not one… not one,” she stammered, “… but two readers sent notes this morning inquiring about Typist’s health. You don’t yell sniffles and sneezes in the time of Covid and then simply… disappear!”
Thalia got up and filled a glass with ice and cold water. She handed the sweating vessel to Nia. “We hear you. You’re right.”
“I didn’t consider our readers.” Cal looked as if she might throw up sugared nectarines. “We’re sorry.”
“We won’t bother with any excuses,” said Urania. “Let’s just say… we need a break from our daily commitment. I mean… It’s the weekend again already! How’d that happen?”
“Can we make E.B. White’s — must decline for secret reasons — our own?” Thalia asked. “Something like… BFN will appear sporadically because of life’s mysteries?”
Urania’s color was returning to its normal shade of alabaster. “Well, even though we sound like a bunch of flibbertigibbets… Yes, that’ll do.”
“Quite the opposite,” Thalia replied. “A flibbertigibbet is one who is a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.”
Calliope nodded. “Sometimes silence is golden?”
“One last thing before the weekend,” added Thalia, “Typist submitted our work to an online gallery. Not only have artists from an array of disciplines submitted work — generous curators have organized the pieces into a kaleidoscope of creativity.”
I've been out of the loop, too, Gail, so I completely support you and the muses taking a break. But you never answered the question "Are you OK?"
BFN should post as-needed and as-inspired. (IMHO) That way we look in our InBox and go, "Hey, it's Gail! Neat!" rather than seeing, "It's mid-afternoon... no BFN... is Gail okay... she was talking about cold-like symptoms... THAT ARTICLE ONLINE TALKED ABOUT COLD SYMPTOMS FOR VACCINATED PEOPLE WHO GET COVID OMG SHE COULD BE ON A VENTILATOR ALREADY DO THEY EVEN HAVE THOSE IN WISCONSIN WHAT ABO— oh, new mail, there she is."
But you do whatever you think best, dear lady. 😁