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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.
#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.

July 15, 2020 at 1:03am
July 15, 2020 at 1:03am
#988206
Describe your sense of humor. Is it dark, sarcastic, slapstick, silly, or something else? Do you have any favorite comedians? What always makes you laugh?

I'll answer this seriously, as myself.

N.o.t.h.i.n.g always makes me laugh.

Chuckle? Guffaw?

For sure, but I've been to MFA readings where everyone just giggles at every inside joke. And I'm left wondering ... why?

I also detest most 'funny' Hollywood movies. I prefer deep to shallow, real bittersweet to ha-ha-ha lies. I'm not fond of anything that portrays an America that only existed in someone's warped Pollyanna imagination; less so when it demeans people for laughs. No, I do not have the humor of a 12 year old boy. Even at that age I was serious. Maybe that's why I don't understand those who insist on saying, "America, Love it or Leave it." Maybe they believed those lies ... that everything was a joke that could be fixed by coming home to dinner on time to join mommy and daddy and sis. And all those cliche endings that were wrapped up neat and happy was how it was supposed to happen in "Real America." As if ... reality didn't exist. As if ... anything that couldn't be laughed at shouldn't exist.

I didn't like American Horror (let's be afraid of our own shadows) either or Let's Kill Everyone (let's be afraid of everyone else). Foreigners wonder about our paranoia and racist xenophobia? Look no further.

And all of this was served with a side dish of laughter.

So yes, I laugh, but not evey day over every little thing. I do watch some comedies ... like "Young Sheldon" if it's available when I fly. But a 1970's laughtrack? *Rolleyes*

Mostly, I'm naturally silly, but that's just the way I am on a good day.

The only thing humourous I wrote recently:

From Missoula with Love

When once an old man from Missoula
bought tickets for Hilo to hula
along came an illness
that threatened to kill us
and now he's stuck home with his moolah.

He shuffles alone in his slippers,
drinks cold coffee black for his jitters;
he dreams of a Kona
and cries out, Ramona!
if only to hula and kiss her.

Ramona grinds wheat by the kilo
then stretches and butters the phyllo
with stiletto at hand
twirls her gold wedding band
and longs for her lover in Hilo.

© Kåre Enga [177.94] (15.Iune.2020)

"From Missoula with Love (15 lines)" . It received an Honorable Mention in June's Humorous Poetry Contest. It's as funny as I get.

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



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