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This is the continuing writing adventures of Prosperous Snow. The title of my first blog is "The Snowflake Chronicles"  [18+] please visit it.Snow Melt Goals  Post at least every other day, if not every day Use different font sizes, styles, and colors Use graphics or photos when possible and appropriate Experiment with different writing methods and genre Don’t change my method of dating, but add the time the entry was composed Include a quote in at least one entry a week Include an interesting piece of writing I’ve reviewed at least once a week
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| 359. I'm slowly catching up | ID #610976 |
| Posted: 10-4-2008 @ 4:01 pm EDT Edited: 10-4-2008 @ 4:16 pm EDT | |
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Jalál (Glory), 8 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Saturday, October 4, 2008 about 12:54 PM Pacific Time |
| 358. I have a three-day weekend. | ID #610749 |
| Posted: 10-3-2008 @ 9:28 am EDT Edited: 10-3-2008 @ 9:48 am EDT | |
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Istiqlál (Independence), 7 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Friday, October 3, 2008 about 6:25 AM Pacific Time |
| 357. surfaces | ID #610563 |
| Posted: 10-2-2008 @ 6:26 am EDT Edited: 10-2-2008 @ 6:33 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by mood indigo  for October 1, 2008."surfaces" can't talkusually just lie there remembering in silence first one action after another; actions which took place on top of them, concealing their secrets beneath from everyone except those who know what took place; surfaces can't talk. |
| 356. I bought it. | ID #610560 |
| Posted: 10-2-2008 @ 5:43 am EDT Edited: 10-2-2008 @ 6:00 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by highly evolved for September 30, 2008."I bought it." I bought my own negative self-talk and managed to shoot myself in the foot, again. So, it's probably just as well that my aim isn't any better then that because there are many more vital organs I could have hit with that arrow. I will recover, I will be stronger for it, I will be less likely to listen to my extreme negativity, but for now I will just limp along until the foot recovers. I am improving! There was a time when I couldn't write at all when I was depressed or upset. Now, however, I can write and I can pray; I will recover! |
| 355. I heard weird noises during the night | ID #610120 |
| Posted: 9-30-2008 @ 7:41 am EDT Edited: 9-30-2008 @ 7:52 am EDT | |
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Fidál (Grace), 4 Mashiyyat (Will), 165 B.E. – Tuesday, September 30, 2008 about 4:38 AM Pacific Time |
| 354. Meet the Characters | ID #609943 |
| Posted: 9-29-2008 @ 6:17 am EDT Edited: 9-29-2008 @ 6:56 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by Emy for September 28, 2008."Meet the Characters" I have, I just don't have a home for them, but it is going to be a children's story.Spot - a black and white cat. Received name because he has a white spot on his throat where his vocal chords are located. Spot has the power to make anyone petting or hearing him purr happy. It don't matter how bad there mood was before Spot crawled on their shoulders, curled himself around their neck and begins to purr, his purr changes there mood. Pearl - 87 year old who has a slight short-term memory problem at specific times during the day and the night. These problems occur at regular intervals, eventually she remembers what it was she forgot, but at odd times during the following day. Ann - a rag doll that is bewitched and either blesses or curses the person picking her up. The blessings and curses are random and no one picking her up ever know which is going to occur. Andy - another rag doll, but he can talk to people. The person he is talking to is the only one who can hear him talk. When someone picks him up he talks to them. Sara - Pearl's granddaughter and a witch. She lives with peal and takes care of her when necessary. Joy - Pearl's daughter and Sara's mother. She holds down two and sometimes three jobs. Therefore, she is seldom home. She doesn't trust her husband, Clay, and believes that the money he gives her is counterfeit. Clay - Sara's father and Joy's estranged husband. He appears at holidays with gifts for Sara and Pearl. He always hands Joy an envelop containing fifty or hundred dollar bills. Morgan - Clay's sister and Sara's aunt. She is never around at any holiday because Clay is around. She isn't on speaking terms with her brother. The reason for this isn't clear because each time she is asked why she gives a different explanation. Jake - Joy's twin brother and Sara's uncle. Jake shows up at Thanksgiving and Christmas. He always brings food and a gift for each person in the family. The gifts he brings are completely inappropriate for the person getting the gift, but appropriate for someone else in the family. |
| 353. people are surprising creatures | ID #609777 |
| Posted: 9-28-2008 @ 8:24 am EDT Edited: 9-28-2008 @ 8:41 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by flex for September 27, 2008. Yes, "Invalid Entry" in more ways then one. Mom got a letter from my stepsister on Friday, it surprised me. Not that it surprised me she wrote, that didn't. What surprised me was that it was a letter written on a card, I expected an e-mail. I didn't know people sent cards like that anymore. Of course, P. is close to my age and we were raised at a different time, when it was more common to sent cards and letters.I'll either pick out a couple of nice cards at the store or print off something from the computer. I'll probably print it off, since it looks like I'm in my last week at my present job. I doubt that I'll be getting an assignment some place else. So the next couple of months is going to be even tighter. I haven't told Mom yet, there is no use worrying her until I have to. I'm not sure what I'm going to be doing after this week, but I'll deal with that when the time come. I've put off responding to this because I didn't want it to be so down. I enjoyed that job, but ... forget about what i was going to write. It was nice hearing from P. again. I'm going to focus on the positive and see if there is any lesson I can learn from this experience. It's still dark outside and I'm always a little more depressed in the dark then I am in the light. I enjoy being surprised by people. It's nice to have your faith restored in the human race once in a while. It's the drivers in Las Vegas that usually surprise me with their courtesy. |
| 352. 'I Have A Dream' was taken... | ID #609552 |
| Posted: 9-27-2008 @ 9:00 am EDT Edited: 9-27-2008 @ 9:38 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by katwoman45  for September 26, 2008."'I Have A Dream' was taken..." and the world is interconnected. A event or political concept in one nation has an effect on the rest of the planet. The realization of the interconnectedness of life and nations began to dawn on humanity in the middle and late nineteenth century. Each decade and century since has revealed this interconnectedness in greater and greater detail through devastating events across Earth.The twentieth century was a century of war. There was World War I, (the Great War) the War to end all wars, which it didn't. There was World War II and the dropping of a two atomic bombs on and enemy nation. I could go on listing all the wars of the twentieth century, but the history books do that much better then I can. The books may not tell everything that led up to each war, but they tell enough for one to get the idea of what was happening. Unfortunately, the history of a war is usually written by the victor and not the defeated. The twenty-first century arrived, with humanity still fighting wars. However, in this century the interconnectedness of the world is seen in greater deal through the wars and crises themselves. Part of the problem is the screw you attitude of greed, but this is only one component of the crises. Another component is the belief that one religion, one nation, or one individual is better then another individual because of some specific criteria. There are other components, but it is the combined effect those components that reveal the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Humanity is a single species, living on a planet that is interconnected. What happens in on part of the planet has and effect on the rest of the planet, politically, materially, physically and spiritually. The present crisis will not be solved by people and nations working independently of each other, but by those who work together for the common good. So when we write our politicians let them know we think the world is interconnected and that we want them to work toward the common good of the planet not just their individual cities or states. |
| 351. like a piece of fruit in a Caravaggio | ID #609543 |
| Posted: 9-27-2008 @ 7:24 am EDT Edited: 9-27-2008 @ 8:11 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by ~j  for September 25, 2008.My thoughts "like a piece of fruit in a Caravaggio" are related to each other only because they in the same container, my mind. This morning, my thoughts are variegated threads of randomness; crazy tangled unconnected threads moving through my brain ******** A friend, now passed into the next world, once said: "The things I worried about never happenedd, the things that happened were so far off the wall that I would never have considered worrying about them." Sometimes that's the way with my worries. At other times the things I worried about did happen, but they were never as bad as the way I envisioned them. ******** I have a tendency to second guess decision, I can do nothing about. I should on myself, which can be a very messy thought process. It's probably a good thing, that I can't go back and change my decisions after I've made them and put them into action. If I could the space-time continuum would be as screwed up as I think my life is sometimes. ******** I have worries, I have fears, every human being has fears and worries, but most people don't obsess on them or do they. Maybe there's a really good reason we can't read other peoples' minds most of the time. ******** My worries and fears are vain imaginings, illusions meant to distract me from my purpose in life; my purpose in life is to know, love and woship God. ******** I have a tendency to shoot myself in the foot, figuratively. Most people call it sabatoge, but that doesn't really explain the way I do it. |
| 350. Day 7 Journal Challenge: Tortured Light | ID #609382 |
| Posted: 9-26-2008 @ 6:13 am EDT Edited: 9-26-2008 @ 6:35 am EDT | |
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The Final Challenge – Tortured Light: Inner Thoughts to Ensnare the Soul Sometime inner thoughts can distract an individual from become her true self and achieving our purpose in life. I think each individual born into this world has a purpose and an ultimate goal to achieve while on the material plain. An individual's inner thoughts can prevent the soul from achieving that purpose. Inner thoughts, if the individual isn't careful, can cause the individual to pursue vain imaginings rather then his or her true purpose in life. This is why knowledge of self is so important. A human being has two natures, a spiritual nature and a physical or material nature. The soul or spirit is the spiritual part of the individual, while the body is the physical or material part. To become one's true self an individual must develop the spiritual nature as well as the physical/material nature. Developing the material nature and the body isn't difficult because part of developing the body is a natural growth process. The individual goes beyond this when he or she does physical exercise or pursues a career to develop his or her physical and material attributes. In most cases development of our soul and spiritual attributes part of the natural growth process. The individual must make an effort to develop the spiritual attributes. Prayer and meditation helps in this process, but other things that help as well. Sacrifice also helps develop the spiritual nature of the individual. When an individual has a choice between two different things he or she wants to do, but can only do one of them. Then the individual chooses and makes a sacrifice, this sacrifice helps develop the soul. Some sacrifices are more important then others, but only the individual and God know which sacrifices go further to develop the soul. |
| 349. Day 6 Journal Challenge: Ode to a Blank Page | ID #609218 |
| Posted: 9-25-2008 @ 9:48 am EDT Edited: 9-25-2008 @ 10:05 am EDT | |
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Since I found no prompt today, this is what my muse came up with considering that I have two hours before going to work and I still have to put water in the radiator. The page lays before me embryonic perfection marked by word, phrase, line or stanza. How am I to fill this page? What am I gong to write? My inner critic is rolling on the floor laughing and tell my muse it's impossible an author can't write to a blank prompt. My muse just looks at him she know better, but refuses to voice her opinion because it will bring on an argument, after all my inner critic has made up his mind and neither logic nor fact will change it. My muse takes a deep breath and begins to compose an Ode to a Blank page; true it doesn't rhyme and odes should rhyme so maybe we will have to rewrite, but that's OK. Rewriting will come later now we just need to get it written and posted. If this isn't the intended prompt then we will simply write another Day 6 Journal Challenge response. |
| 348. Everybody needs a little time away | ID #609213 |
| Posted: 9-25-2008 @ 9:27 am EDT Edited: 9-25-2008 @ 9:33 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by earlybird for September 24, 2008. "Invalid Entry" to refresh themselves, meditate and pray. My little time away usually ends up occurring on the back patio or in my car driving home from work. I'm going to change that this coming 19 days. I set new goals and some of them require about 15 to 30 minutes alone, in the morning or evening.As a results, I'm considering closing my bedroom door and going in there. I'll just tell Mom I need some time alone and that I don't want to be disturbed unless it looks like the world is coming to an end. I don't have to answer the phone and Mom can see out the window of the front door, so she doesn't have to answer it if there is a stranger there. I'd like to take the 15 to 30 minutes after I get off work, but I couldn't do it consistently. After I get off we go someplace on one or two days a week. Not that I'm going to be driving much until I can raise $1,500.00 for a car, but we'll have to go somewhere at least one day a week until then. Or until the car refuses to go any more. |
| 347. Denial into acceptance | ID #609208 |
| Posted: 9-25-2008 @ 9:01 am EDT Edited: 9-25-2008 @ 9:10 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by Paige Turner for September 23, 2008.Paige Turner wrote “Gratitude…turns "Denial into acceptance" , chaos to order, confusion to clarity.”I love my toxic sister. I am grateful that she doesn't live with Mom and me. I pray that the next time she say "Can I come live with you and Mom for a while?" I have the sense to say "No, you can't" All right, I have a problem saying NO. I know that saying YES is enabling, but I couldn't help it in the past. The present and the future are completely different stories. Now it's a simple matter of self-preservation. My mother depends on me and I can't have someone living in the house I can't trust. There, I wrote it, the phrase I've been thinking for years. Now the next step is to say it face to face, which may or may not ever happen. At one time, I wanted to be close to my sister. I know women and girls who are best friends with their sisters. I would have like that, I suspect it may be too late now, but there is always that distant shadow of hope. I'm too stubborn to give up hope, after all I take after my father. I'm just no longer going to be foolish enough to let that shadow interfere with logic and numerous past experiences with my sister. I love my toxic sister. Sounds like a good bumper sticker. However, since I'm not going to have one made and wouldn't waste the bumper space to put it on my car; I'll just have to use it as the title of a short story or poem. |
| 346. bring me the blood of the outlanders | ID #609199 |
| Posted: 9-25-2008 @ 8:05 am EDT Edited: 9-25-2008 @ 8:27 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by MaryLou for September 22, 2008.All right folks, "bring me the blood of the outlanders" whose mothers do things to aggravate them as well. Mothers do things like that, without realizing that's what their doing. Mothers presume they are helping. I think God every day that my mother, who is 87 is still with me. True she does some rather odd things at times and her self-talk, which she does aloud can be distracting, but that's OK.Mom is still with me and I'm still her baby. Despite the fact that I'm 61 going on 62 years old and the oldest of the four children she gave birth to. I learn a couple of years ago that she had a miscarriage before me. I learned this year that Mom has been fighting low self-esteem for years. When my mother gets up each morning she kisses me and gets us coffee. I make the coffee, but she likes to get so who am I to deprive her of something she likes to do. She likes cleaning house, but she isn't as fast at 87 as she was at 78. Since she doesn't want help cleaning house and gets aggravated at me when I try to help I have two choices. First, I can just let her do it at her pace and tell her what a good job she's doing. Second, I can wait until she's asleep and do some of it myself, while telling her what a good job she's doing. My mother tells me every other day or so, how much I act like my father. This is probably a good thing since it means I'm too damn stubborn to give up. I know my mother loves me despite the fact that she put orange juice in the red pitcher I usually use to fill the coffee maker with water. So I use a glass until the pitcher is empty. Since she can't drink apple juice, the orange juice belongs to her and the pitcher is being used until she finishes the orange juice. I looked at myself in the mirror one day and frightened myself because I realized how much I looked like my mother. I listened to my self-talk one day and frightened myself because I realized how much I sounded like my mother. |
| 345. Day 5 Journal Challenge: The 80/20 Rule | ID #609124 |
| Posted: 9-24-2008 @ 6:42 pm EDT Edited: 9-24-2008 @ 6:55 pm EDT | |
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“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.” -- Nido Qubein The 80/20 rule explains why I'm getting no where fast. This challenge came at a good time for me. I set my goals on a 19-day schedule, with a daily to do list based on that schedule. After asking myself "Which tasks are directly related to what I most want in life? " I realized I was putting the important tasks at the bottom of the list and not the top. When I work on my goals, I work from the top down with the highest priority goals at the top. I begin a new 19-day period on the evening of September 26 (I'm working on a solar day from sunset to sunset). I will rewrite the next 19-day goals so that the highest priority items are on top and the lowest on bottom. In the mean time, I will just work with the present list the way it is and work around the "screwed up" priorities. I keep my "to do list" in an excel spread sheet and make daily entries on the achievements. This way I can bring myself to account each day. |
| 344. Day 4 Journal Challenge: The Color of Envy | ID #608831 |
| Posted: 9-23-2008 @ 9:21 am EDT Edited: 9-23-2008 @ 9:30 am EDT | |
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"Envy is a poison which colors your experiences so that joy is only superficial, serving the ego and not the spirit." by sybil  It's said that envy is a green-eyed monster, I don't think so. Green is the color of life, how can something that kills the spirit and friendships be green. If envy is green-eyed monster then it's shaded by darkness; it isn't exactly a black green, but something darker and more sinister. There is a question about envy, which has haunted me lately. Do the people we envy, envy us in return? We usually envy people for something they have that we don't have and want. Is it possible that we have something they want and don't have? I'm not exactly sure what brought that specific question to mind. It just popped into my head one day. Until now I haven't did anything with it, but it seems like a good theme for a story. I don't think something like that would work very well in a poem, but it would make a good story. |
| 343. Day 3 Journal Challenge: A Glimmer of Hope | ID #608606 |
| Posted: 9-22-2008 @ 6:34 am EDT Edited: 9-22-2008 @ 6:40 am EDT | |
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"When all the open paths closes before you, follow the glimmer of hope in your heart, it will lead you to a new life." Humming bird-smiling again:) Glittering, sparkling, shining a Light within my soul Ignites a flame that Melts the darkness of my doubt and fears, Makes my spirit rise and intone prayers; Each step I take in this dark trackless wilderness Reveals a new opportunity for praise. Of all the fires that in this darkness Flares, the brightest is the flame of faith and hope. Happiness comes to the seeking lover Open to the Possibilities of finding a new path, which Eventually leads to the Beloved and a new life. |
| 342. completely random | ID #608600 |
| Posted: 9-22-2008 @ 4:55 am EDT Edited: 9-22-2008 @ 5:23 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by Wendopolis for September 21, 2008.My mind is full of "completely random" thoughts at 1:48 AM or at least it was until I started composing this response. Now it's gone blank. Its dark outside and dawn is still about three or four hours away. I believe today is the first day of fall. I need to write an Haiku to celebrate the darkness or the first day of fall I'd better save this periodically because my Internet connection is yo-yoing this morning. I can count to 19 using the fingers of just one hand and to 95 using the fingers of both hands. I'm hungry, but I took my thyroid pill about 1:30 AM so I can't eat until after 2:30 AM. I bought a Sunday paper yesterday for the first time in over a year. 2008 has gone too fast. I will be 62 on December 24 and I want to celebrate this year. I've memorized the Tablet of Ahmad. My writing.com birthday is in October. I need to go make some coffee. I have 12 pain pills left in the bottle of meds the dentist prescribed for me. As soon as I can eat this morning, I'm fixing me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. I'm going to put a packet of hot chocolate mix in with my coffee this morning. I need to clean out my e-mail boxes. I need to clean out my garage. I think my mind has just gone blank again. I need to finish the poem I started last night before I went to sleep. |
| 341. Explicitly Succinct | ID #608477 |
| Posted: 9-21-2008 @ 10:19 am EDT Edited: 9-21-2008 @ 10:51 am EDT | |
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My response to the Leading Journal entry by . shadowsinstone . for September 20, 2008."Invalid Entry" : Everything I know about sex by Don Juan Casanova Murphy."What is this?" Lottie picked up the manuscript laying on the coffee table and leafed through it. "And who is Don Juan Casanova Murphy?" "Me," said Calvin, taking the manuscript from Lottie and placing it in his brief case. "So you're writing fantasy novels now are you?" She smiled as she studied the expression on her brother-in-laws face. "No, Lottie, it's a how to manual," he glared at her. "By the way, where is my wife?" "Sue is setting behind the wheel in your car, but she's in a weird mood." "What do you mean?" "She's alternating, at five minutes intervals, between laughter and tears. The neighbors are beginning to get concerned because apparently she's been doing that for the last hour or so." "Any idea what her problem is, Lottie?" "My guess, Calvin, is that she saw your manuscript. If I were you, I wouldn't let her drive in her condition or with that potential book in your car." "Why?" "Calvin, if the cops stop her, I'm not bailing either of you out of jail." "Why should either of us go to jail, Lottie?" "Her for DUIL, Driving Under the Influence of a Liar, and you for being the Liar." Calvin shot an "if looks could kill" expression at his sister-in-law and stalked out of the house. |
| 340. Day 2 Journal Challenge: Perfection Through a Broken Mirror | ID #608471 |
| Posted: 9-21-2008 @ 9:14 am EDT Edited: 9-21-2008 @ 9:59 am EDT | |
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Perfectionism: “We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don't accept others the way they are.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz |
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