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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #1311011
A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.
Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.




I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo  (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
#982524 by Kåre Enga in Montana
had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell  (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
#997339 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella  (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
#1317094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path  (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
#2032403 by Kåre Enga in Montana
as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions!  (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
#1501776 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature  (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
#1439094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus  (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
#1439092 by Kåre Enga in Montana
come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction  (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
#2190336 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

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.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal  (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
#2226611 by Kåre Enga in Montana


I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests  (18+)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
#2233119 by Kåre Enga in Montana
(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville   (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
#2253938 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥   (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
#2296648 by Kåre Enga in Montana
an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

December 3, 2020 at 12:02am
December 3, 2020 at 12:02am
#999560
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Blogging Circle of Friends   (E)
A group for WDC bloggers.
#1901868 by Lyn's a sly fox
This is the final month of the year, Did you accomplish all the goals you hoped for this year? What adjustments will you be making for next year's goals? Will you be setting goals for next year?

2020 goals? *Laugh* Surely you joke.

I had travel goals, including adding a country: Morocco. Canceled, lost money.
I have no access to printers ... so much for booklets of poetry.
I have had writing goals. October was brutal.
With no life I stopped writing in my journal after 16 years... just started again.
DJT made me so jumpy for 4 years my anxiety soared. Over? I hope so.

2021... see above. I'll write. I'll travel. I'll probably be better emotionally, physically and mentally. I'm looking forward to January 20th at noon. Yes, I'd like to be in Taiwan come February, but... covid. Fortunately my year doesn't begin until the Spring Equinox. By Naw-Ruz I should be in a much better place to make goals.


For
 
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Space Blog  (ASR)
Cruising WDC cyberspace and raiding ports for blog prompts!
#2223838 by Sharmelle's Expressions


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Mini-review: This is a well-loved old poem (2007). There are enough concrete images that places/names don't detract. Satterfield, Shawgunks (Shawangunk Ridge) Simic (Charles Simic) add texture perhaps and alliteration. Personally, I don't like the long lines and necessary enjambments as it disturbs the rhythm and makes it feels too prosaic. I like it better as a short line free verse or no line-break prose poem as the rhythm becomes apparent when the line breaks are ignored. I can almost hear the voice. Languid and sweet. "Wielding my camera whose poetry is addictive." is my favorite line. I give it a 4.5 in this incarnation.


Prompt: Write about searching for poetry of your heart.

My heart was opened in 1999. Keith found the key. Since then I write. My early need to express myself lead to poems, journaling, blogging, flash fiction. I've gone through many stages of each. My Muse... lead me to write all the Zmitri poems. I haven't written one in awhile, but I will. My heart isn't totally frozen like a rogue asteroid wandering the void with nowhere to go and no hope for warmth. And that's how my writing starts... stray thoughts... a few words strung together... a flash of emotion... usually longing... for something I will never have or someone I will never know.


A trinket I made:



I commented in the "The Snail Mail Forum:

An article from WaPo (so it may be firewalled for some of us). The gist is that Timbuktu no longer has tourism so guides no longer have income, so these folks set up a postcard business to employ the guides.

Our addresses here are mostly straight forward, but Ali Nialy's is even shorter:

Ali Nialy, Timbuktu, Mali (Africa).

I guess they know him!

I'm probably going to send him a postcard just for support. I've learned that support matters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/not-getting-any-travel-postcards-a-project-...

Prompts for
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30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS  (13+)
WDC's Longest Running Blog Competition - Hiatus
#1786069 by Fivesixer

Week 1: Dec 1-6

1. Today is Eat A Red Apple Day.
         Nope. Like Spies. Don't like red whatevers that aren't delicious and taste like sawdust.
2. Today is National Fritters Day! Write about your fave and if you haven't had fritters, would you like to try one?
         Like corn fritters. Can't get them here and although I cook I don't make them.
3. National Roof Over Your Head Day! Tell us about the favorite room in your home.
         MINE. I remember being homeless. Every place I lived I did have a favorite room. Growing up it was the closet.
4. Waiting for the Barbarians Day! Ok, tell us what you're up to and how you are preparing.
         Bavarians? Like in creamy donut filling? My mouth salivates.
5a Bonfire Night! Tell us about an evening around a bonfire.
         High school before the football game with our rivals. Almost always = cold.
5b Prohibition Ends in the US, 1933
         Didn't work. Like Reagan's War on Drugs (a.k.a. War on the Poor) didn't.
6a Marooned Without a Compass Day! So where are you and what are you going to do?
         Either happy or anxious, I'm fairly good in the woods and usually know where I am or at least directions; basically... find a road.
6b Bartender Appreciate Day! (Europe) Write about an encounter with a bartender, make one up if you have to.
         I've known bartenders but I don't drink. Full stop.



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