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Saying Hello to 2017

Sunday, January 1, 2017

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The prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 
What is the most fun you've had breaking a New Years resolution? And if you don't make resolutions, imagine making one, and then tell us how you'd most enjoy not keeping it.

Chocolate breaks my diet resolutions
transforms my good intentions
into historic fiction.

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 1027
Emily Dickinson wrote in one of her popular poems "I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -nobody- too? What are your thoughts on Ms. Dickinson's phrase? Have you ever engaged with nobody? What insights are possible?

I would like to know how Emily Dickinson intended the "I'm Nobody!" statement. Did she make the statement because she had self-esteem issues? Did she intend the statement to mean she was just an ordinary member of the human race and didn't want any special treatment? That statement could mean either possibility or both simultaneously. I've read the poem several times and haven't come to any conclusion on which way Ms. Dickinson intended the statement. There is a possibility that she intended to suggest that the statement meant "I'm somebody!" "Are you -somebody- too?" Normally I don't attempt to psychoanalyze another poet or writer because I have enough problems psychoanalyzing myself.

When dealing with nobodies and somebodies
I attempt to treat them equally
because everybody
at one time or another is
a somebody and a nobody,
so I have to treat everybody
as if they are somebody.