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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Prompt: Your Country What do you think is the most misunderstood thing about your home country by other people in the world: its culture, education, wealth, friendliness of people, or anything else you can think of? I immediately think of freedom when I read this prompt. We are not free to inflict damage on other people's rights. We are free to grow in knowledge, actionable reactions, and individuality. We have laws which control the way freedom is used improperly and to help people reassess their definition of the word freedom. Just keeping an eye on the situation in which the word freedom is being used helps understand the definition of freedom. We watched the Memorial Day concert in Washington D.C. We do this on Memorial Day and on July 4th. I was thinking of the Ukraine during the whole concert. Remember the USA is a complicated country. A melting pot of ideology and sociology. Our congress, president, and legal elders have to make decisions for everyone to abide in a peaceful manner. |
I'll make me a sound and an apparatus and they'll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life." by Ray Bradbury “Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep References from: {link: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/fog} For Prompt about metaphors: Sometimes fog is clear enough to see through other times is is so thick it obliterates whatever it covers. People who rewrite my postings to suit themselves are not able to see the individuality of the human mind. Hope you are having a good day. Keep on Keepin on. |
Write about something you may have learned from the guy in the basement or something he's said that may have been helpful to you. P3 The basement guy says he is not aware of where all the doors out of the basement lead. He is sure they all go somewhere. I noticed the basement guy is always around. Not necessarily when he is needed. The basement guy reads the Blogging Bliss Newsletter first. By example reading other bloggers blogs is important. The lists in the Blogging Bliss Newsletter are especially entertaining. Basement Guy: 1. Basements are used for storing things you cannot get rid of/ 2. tying up or locking up innocent victims / 3. drawing moisture /4. thinking yourself upward with high ideals/ 5. hiding from bill collectors. How do you get to know the guy in the basement if you can't find him? All word count from WDC:144 |
P4. Today's Prompt: What's behind the door behind the bar? See the thing about the door behind the bar is; if you go through it, you never know where you will end up. Sometimes it takes you directly to the basement. The first time I went through it I was following a troupe of visiting monkeys. I ended up in Monkey Land. Today I thought, well I'll just take my book down and sit quietly in the comfy chair upholstered in a riotous flower pattern and drink a cup of oat stem tea, while I read for a while. I'm right in the middle of "Tastes Like War" a memoir by Grace M. Cho. One of her quotes really charged me to read on; to find out what happened to her in her life--"How many times had women who told the truth been muzzled with the label of madness?" The thing about today is when I walked through the door Red the Orangutang was standing there. Wordsmitthy says, Red is Andre's 4th cousin 6 times removed, family. Also, I felt kind of woozy because of the expanse of open country before me. Red was holding on to a two-seater bicycle he motioned me to take a seat. What could I do? I have to say I was quite hesitant but after all a bike ride? I can ride a bike. It can't be all that bad except Red the orangutang was in the front seat driving. Red is actually wider than me. I tried to lean a little to the right to look around him to see where we were. eek! Warning watch this at your own risk. Anyone with a heart condition should be exceptionally cautious. A Actually, it wasn't too bad until we took the right wing of the V in the trail. All word count on WDC:308 |