Words for Wednesday - December 28, 2022 - Aunt Jemima's Story 3

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Troubles led her to bow out, but the meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator.

  Essentially the aim of this meme is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given some prompts. These prompts can be words, phrases, music or images.
  What we do with those prompts is up to us: a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore ...
  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

  Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog. This fun meme includes cheering on the other participants.

  And the more the merrier goes here as well, so if you are posting on your own blog then please tell us in the comments, so that all other participants, can come along and applaud.

Elephant's Child who is supplying the prompts for the Wednesdays of December has given us these words for today:

Wonderful
Resilient
Worse
Pain
Valid

And a photo:

I just plunge right in where I left off last Wednesday. As usual using the words in the order they were given:

"But yes," Kai continued, "he was a wonderful man. I do understand how Aunt Jemima fell in love with him. They were nothing if not resilient as long as they had one another. They took everything in stride, the death of their only daughter, Carl getting laid off more than once, every ill fortune was met with "It could have been worse." We had a hard time thinking it could have been. And Aunt Jemima's pain and loneliness after the unfortunate death of her beloved Carl is a valid excuse for her cool and reticent exterior. But inside she is still young, loving and kind. You just have to find your way in there. And I do not know how," Kai ended his tale and looked stiffly at the carpet below his feet.
Tage broke the awkward silence: "Look!" He said very loud in the silence. "Look! There's a double rainbow out there. It is a good omen!"