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I've been blogging all through my days without knowing that it was blogging; although, this isn't necessarily the only thing I do without knowing what I'm doing.

Since I write on anything that's available around me, my life has been full of pieces of scribbled paper flying about like confetti. I'm so happy to finally have a permanent place to chew the fat.

So far my chewing the fat is on and off.

Maybe, I lack teeth.

Feel free to comment, if you wish.

Thank you very much, Cindy, for this honor and the beautiful graphic.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

5 Days 18 Hours ago, in response to "“Who in your life told you, you were worthless?”"

Joy--Happy ♥ Day

said:

(((Alfred)))
It is a curse. It needs a lot of anti-hex power to undo it.
Surely, "knowing who" doesn't help in itself, but it is the first step.
In your words, "no longer trying to attain their approval" must be achieved whether they are dead or alive.
But I am looking at it this way. You were very young, very vulnerable, and very impressionable. It left huge scars that still bleed. Yet, you still disproved them. You made something of yourself, and IMHO, something great and very valuable. You must hang on to your successes, not your failures and not other people's opinions/words.
After all, parents, when they talk to you about their children's sensibilities, can be wrong, too. I know I have been wrong in assessing some of my children's negatives and positives, and believe me, I tried my hardest raising my two kids. What is inside a human being is impossible to detect.

5 Days 23 Hours ago, in response to "“Who in your life told you, you were worthless?”"

alfred booth, wanbli ska

said:

Knowing the answer to that question has never helped me.

Now both of my parents harboring those statements are dead. I feel a certain relief at no longer trying to attain their approval, but the inherent insecurity, especially as a man incapable of truly loving, is a real part of who I am.

I know I am a competent piano teacher, but all it takes is one parent who tells me I'm not in tune enough with her child's sensitivities to be an efficient teacher for the doubt to return at a fortissimo. And that's enough to make me forget that for the other 30 students this year, I am sufficiently in tune with their personalities to do what's necessary to help them learn.

48 Days 13 Hours ago, in response to "Jane Eyre is a pushover!"

Joy--Happy ♥ Day

said:

Thanks, Alfred.

I don't like hiding things if the relationship is a true one, especially if those things have to do with the relationship. Unsaid things, yes, maybe, and only if not to hurt the significant other's feelings. Even in such a case, I can't stand for or forgive any meticulous effort to conceal those.
Being upfront is healthier for our relationships and our bodies, as deception requires too much effort to maintain, and it drains energy away from our immune systems, according to Robert Trivers, and evolutionary biologist.
Btw, the dream was for real and it surprised me because the idea of muse was always foreign to me.

49 Days 6 Minutes ago, in response to "Jane Eyre is a pushover!"

alfred booth, wanbli ska

said:

This is such fun, Joy. Well written, contemporary and there's the mildest hint of a morale. We all have spouses hidden in secret gardens; sometimes they are ex-spouses, sometimes they are the dreams we had for our actual spouses, or regrets that we chose wrong.

63 Days 10 Hours ago, in response to "Life Force"

Katya in Lurv

said:

What a wonderful thing!--the bean, your experience of it, and the poem!

I had a brief, lovely chat with a woman named Summer this weekend, about this energy and life force! She uses it to make her art, painting on silk. Silk, she says, contains lots of energy because of how it is made, the silkworms, etc. Fascinating!

65 Days 4 Hours ago, in response to "Life Force"

njames51

said:

If I put a pinto bean in a little pot, it will develop into a vine? God is awesome. Will try that tomorrow.

65 Days 4 Hours ago, in response to "Uber local?"

njames51

said:

Asymmetrical - I do agree, as English (olde English) had to develop from olde European or even Prussia, the eastern countries. Where the "unlaten" dots over some letters, I have no clue. Except for leaders who wished to emphasize their strength and use of power in words. Hitler, especially screamed his phonicular sometimes off syllbles diatribes. Normal modern German yourth are quite subdued and soft-spoken in their language; and indeed incorporate American slang within their sentences. Any idea from Nietzche even now turns my stomach. I am glad America dropped the umlaten from these radical hate field terms. Those punctuations are used now merely for German words like "gummy bears" Where the unlaten is prounounced above the letter "u".

But I totally agree with you Asymmetrical.

65 Days 6 Hours ago, in response to "Life Force"

Asymmetrical

said:

I agree; these things are quite wonderful. A simple bag of lentils will produce a month's worth of tasty sprouts.

65 Days 6 Hours ago, in response to "Uber local?"

Asymmetrical

said:

Hmm, the usage in English would seem to be related to both "hyper-" and "super-". Urban-wiki-something-or-other says its usage in English originated with Nietzche's Übermensch. I'm sure we use the prefix in ways Germans wouldn't dream of. But as the saying goes, "Anything that works!"

71 Days 7 Hours ago, in response to "Writers Need Editors or Good Editing (IMHO)"

njames51

said:

I cannot tell you how many times I have found errors, not only in spelling, punctuation, but in just awkward, wacky sentence structure, in best selling books edited and published by major houses. I doubt it's the type-setter...it's the EDITOR. Either they speed read, or they assume Grisham, King, or even Erma Bombeck know how to do a great job. WRONG!

1. Paradox	ID #675077
Posted: 11-6-2009 @ 5:13 pm EST

Nano: 11,893 words at this time.

Is this what happens when you cross the ten thousand line? I now want to write other things; things other than NaNo, an article, a poem, a book review, which I read several books in the last few months and meant to write reviews for them but did not. Anything but NaNo. What a paradox!

"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." Niels Bohr
Hahahaha! Look who's talking! In his case, the progress was the atomic bomb. No more bombs, please. I have bombed enough.

We had lunch by the ocean today. The water was choppy and gorgeous. If there is such a thing, it was a hint of a storm but under the sun. The weatherman says it is like this today and tomorrow on the east coast from Jacksonville all the way to the FL tip. Now, I really want to write about the ocean.

Maybe I need to put an ocean scene, or a cruise, or something to do with the ocean in the NaNo story. I think that's what I'll do next. I don't know how I'll do it without messing up the storyline, but it'll come. Worse comes to worst, I'll write it now and take it out during the revision, if there'll be a revision.

The good thing is my characters are starting to get to me.