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Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.  I'm starting a new blog because
I'll be linking to
I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
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| 30DBC: 2030 sounds so futuristic, but it’s only ten years away! What do you think the world will be like ten years from now? What inventions do you think we will have by then? What are some changes you think will happen in the world in the next ten years? How about a List of 5? 1. Privacy will be a thing of the Past for most people. You will be tracked by loved ones, parents, children, doctors, government. Already happening in China and in American universities. It will become so commonplace as to be assumed that privacy is neither good nor necessary. The blowback? Some will resist or opt-out. 2. We are moving towards a world without super-powers. Countries will either group or go alone. Those that go alone may find themselves outside the global economy. The best example will be Little England. I suspect Scotland will join the EU and Ireland will be united. No clue what Wales will do. Politics being what they are I also suspect there will be a joining. ASEAN (as in Indonesia and South-East Asia) may provide a balance to the powers of the EU, China and India. In the US I suspect Puerto Rico will be a state along with DC. 3. Weather catastrophes come every decade. Expect one humongous famine, flood, fire or typhoon to wipe a region out and possibly lead to a collapse of a nation... definitely revolution... possibly war. Even the US is not immune. 4. The divides of secular/religious will lead to war. The divide of us/them will lead to war. The divide of urban/rural will lead to war. The probability of WAR increases if inequities are not addressed. More authoritarian governments are likely to impose "peace". I'm not optimistic in the short-run. 5. The pendulum will swing back to collectivism and a sense of unity from the precipice of nativism, nationalism and competition. How soon and whether there will be much of anything left to bring together is the big question. Other ideas? Some nations will abandon cash; others will abandon credit. Zealots will be seen as a threat by an ever increasingly secular world; the zealots may win. Civility is moribund; will it be revived? Expect more breakthroughs in green energy; expect a backlash. We will look to the stars again; China may lead the way. Plastic is already becoming passé. Women will gain more power. Our connectiveness as humans will become increasingly evident to more people and ideas will flow regardless of efforts to block them. I'm always good at generating ideas!  Notes: overwhelmed by the number of comments I received today; that seldom happens. Thank-you. Flash: "Spiders (300 words)"  Poem? "After the party (24 syllables)" 915 |
| 30DBC: Welcome to 2020! As we start a new decade, take the time in your entry today to look back on the previous decade (2010-2019). Write about some of the major milestones from the past ten years. When you look back on your life over the past decade, what events stand out as most noteworthy and significant? The Naughties were far more significant. So much turmoil. By 2010, much of that had calmed down. I really needed less drama. 1. I'm still living in the same place. 2 rooms in an old hotel in Montana.  This is significant because it has provided stability. My rent has barely gone up. I can afford to live here until they kick us all out to make fancy apartments. I'm dreading that day. There's nowhere cheap to go in this town. Not having to worry about where I am living is a tremendous relief.2. I kept on writing. My Journal, Travel notes, short Fiction, Poetry, Blogging.... Significant because it helped kept me sane and meant that when people got nosy, as they often do, and asked what I do for a living I could truthfully answer, "I write." Old, decrepit, poor, living on the dole... no one wanted to hear that. People put down those who can't make a million by stepping on others. 3. I lived in Costa Rica in 2011-2012 for most of a year and revisited 20+ times. That was important because the first time in college was traumatizing. It allowed me to work through that. Traumas from the Naughties and before have faded somewhat. I have fewer nightmares. 4. England: 2011, best vacation I've ever had in my life. Norway/Sweden 2012, finally! Around the world in 2015. I had only been to Costa Rica, Peru (and lived in Canada) and a couple days in Panama before 2009. Now? 43 countries: Denmark, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Japan, Australia, South Africa, U.A.E, Ireland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania, Nicaragua, Taiwan, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Makedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Mexico, Croatia, Bosnia. I got to Hawai''i so I've now been through 44 states. I've taken thousands of photographs. 5. Getting older. DVT (deep vein thrombosis) isn't fun. My heart and lungs aren't what they use to be. These 42 steps can be difficult. Don't ask about my teeth or my hair. I mention this because it IS noteworthy. I just try not to wear myself out. Say a prayer for me these next tow trips. I may need them. My flash fiction for the "New Year": "Hyacinths (164 words)" 896 |
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