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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.
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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.
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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.
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(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville   (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
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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.

July 14, 2020 at 8:10pm
July 14, 2020 at 8:10pm
#988177
Stardate 4146 223

We approach another suspicious rock.

Wing Sheima has received a report that there's nothing living on it but the Landers want to take a look. She hands the ship over to Commander Tom. Another joke I'm told but as a Kla he just barks orders. Apparently one of the orders was to wake me up.

Quip: Wake me if there's anything exciting! I'm taking a nap.

90210 smiles: Me too.

Me: I need something to wake me up!

Cook comes by (when does he sleep?) and hands some sleepy-time tea to Quip and 90210. Whatever he gave me tastes vile and seems to wink at me. Cook just laughs. As do the others. *sigh*

o________________o ----------0O0O0---------- o________________o



Me: How shall I help, Commander?

Commander Tom: The Landers want you to join them. There's an interesting anomaly they want you to see before they disect it.

There's no oxygen so here I go again wrapped up like a ten day old slab of tuna.

Lander Gomo the Kla: I want you to look before anyone says anything to you. What do you see?

Me: More like what I don't sense at all. Wrapped up like this I can't smell, can't touch, can't hear. Do you hear anything?

Gomo: No.

Me: it looks like someone intended to settle here. But there's no oxygen! And these artifacts look far too Gqarian, and that one over there vaguely reminds me of Klingon designs. And this one [pointing to my left] is Vulcan. I swear. All of those species breathe oxygen. Any signs of sulfur? I don't see any.

Gomo: No.

Me: And what is that over there ...

We went towards it. Looked like a pod or coffin. It wasn't empty.

Me: Vulcan or Romulan?

Gomo: Yes. There's no signs of life, very little that anyone who came here lived here for long.

Me: That looks like an escape pod.

Gomo: There are 41 more.

Me: Not enough for a colony ... unless it wasn't meant to survive. This place is older than that box?

Gomo: Millennia older.

Me: An escape to a myth someone had heard about or a penal colony left without means to survive?

Gomo: We found this. [he hands me a tablet] Translated it say "Freedom or Die".

Me: They chose both. The sought freedom and died.

Gomo: You may be right. There are two bodies of your race, one of a time-traveler like Guinan, another a Vulch ... and a dozen Gqarians. We found remnants of Grass.

Me: So they didn't come here to die, but they did.

Gomo: And that's not all, but I'll have Commander Tom tell you the rest. You'll think more clearly when your body isn't stressed.

Me: Stressed?

Gomo: I'm a Xeno like you. I know the signs. Now go back to ponder on the ship.

o________________o ----------0O0O0---------- o________________o


Commander Tom: See these?

Me: More pods?

Commander Tom: Some look like they tried to leave; others look like they couldn't land. There are a couple hundred of them. What do you think?

Me: They chose freedom, from whatever I don't know. But they also chose death.


From:

 'You Talk Of Freedom'  (13+)
3rd draft. Beginning of chapter 1.
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"How would you describe freedom?"

For:

 
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Space Blog  (ASR)
Cruising WDC cyberspace and raiding ports for blog prompts!
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