Thanks, Adobe!

I wanted to do a post yesterday on the odious process of cancelling my Adobe creative cloud license, here is a relevant post and my comments:
This is relevant to me as yesterday unbelievably I cancelled my Adobe cc license. And I can tell you it is not an easy process. First of all I had only wanted to sign up for a year. But what happens is that after a year you automatically get signed up for another year. With fifty percent cancellation fee of the annual amount if you decide to stop anywhere in that year. Which is what I decided to do. And what a process to cancel. You have to speak with an agent (live chat or phone call), and the agent is obviously incentivized to do anything to keep the credit card payments. I was offered multiple free months if I decided to continue (free months for software I already said I don’t use), or wouldn’t I rather love a photograph app (‘the best photo app’) for only $9.95 on a new annual subscription. It took more than ten minutes to cancel my subscription, and I still got hit with a $60 cancellation fee because I opted to not pay 4 installments of $20 and 3 months free for the remaining 7 months of my second annual subscription which I didn’t want in the first place!! Gosh, glad I’ve got that off my chest

Kevin J. O'Conner's avatarOrdinary Average Thoughts

Adobe doesn’t get a lot of love these days. Or maybe they do, but I don’t see it because I no longer subscribe to the magazines that usually cover their software, no longer receive any of their marketing e-mail, and don’t keep up with the websites (such as Lynda.com and CreativeLive) that present online seminars and tutorials.

Today, I am going to give them some love. I am going to thank them for something they have inadvertently done for me.

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Memories

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Memories in my mind
Question their being
Beg me to share
The brief moment
They were

Briefly and fleeting
Created with care
And lasted but
A few blinks only
Of the eternal prayer

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/fleeting/

Standing Still

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We started a game
It is not yet done
The pieces stand still
Nowhere to run

Awaiting your move
What will you do next?
I gather my strength
Deny your request

Take one step away
The game incomplete
Surrender my queen
Admit my defeat

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/incomplete/

Famous Last Words

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Please don’t hurt me, I cried

I don’t want to be hurt

It’s not my style, you replied

Turbulence

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Turbulence
Takes the calm
Shakes up what used to be
Like a whirlwind whirling
It’s way through the
World
And produces a new
Way of being:

What was is no more
And what is was never before

City Slickers

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I was in the car with my daughter and her friend, in an area we don’t normally frequent. Actually, we were on an excursion to track down some Vietnamese-inspired cuisine to cross off an item from my husband’s bucket list. So off we went.
On our way back I spotted this wonderfully healthy looking tree spotted with apples. I couldn’t help but exclaim, look over there, can you see the apples on the tree? The two girls looked over and my daughter’s friend piped up, I’ve never seen apples on trees before. She will be eleven this year. Her comments stopped me in my thoughts. Is it really possible to be that disconnected from nature? When last did I see an apple on a tree?
Yes, all those piles of apples in our supermarket every day, the most common of fruit, they really do grow on trees.

Beyond Conprehension

Why do bad things happen? So bad that it is beyond conprehension. This past week I read of the poor woman who was trapped in an elevator. No one rescued her. No one cared. The situation she was in is beyond imagination.

And on Monday a sixteen year old went jogging with her mom and sister. Tokai Forest, Cape Town. We picnicked there as children. She decided to run ahead, and ended up dead. Raped and straggled and murdered.

Where is the light? Why do these things happen? I don’t understand.

Black and White

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Sketching you
In black and white
Drawing you
With darkened stroke
Preserving every
Memory
Until one day
One day you may
Return to me
I will wait forever
Forever for you
To add your color –
Breathe your life into
My black and white

Legacy

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I see you in my dreams
I hear you in my mind
I feel you in my heart

I remember the very night
You flew from the land
And from my life

I am married now
I have a beautiful boy
And a daughter who looks like you

You are a grandmother now
Your legacy to the world
Your purpose lives on

I live your lessons every day
In my heart and in my life
And all I have is one tiny message

From my heart to yours
After all this time and what has been
Your baby girl is okay

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