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 |  Day to day stuff....a memoir without order. |
 Imagination is described by Webster as...The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses in reality. Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere."  I never realized it until I read it somewhere but there are ways to boost one's imagination: Create a visual journal Draw whatever you see for 15 minutes a day. You don't need to be an artist. Think like an artist Cut out pictures from magazines & piece them together to create an original image. Listen to Bach Close your eyes while playing your favorite music. Or listen to the sounds of nature on a CD or in the great outdoors. Play word games Try thinking of as many words as you can that begin with MAR...or you pick. Daydream Let your mind wander, or focus on a single object & study its characteristics.     Everyone has a story....here's mine.....c   |
| I was reading the Blogging Bliss newsletter, scrolling down, and noticed the first blog started out with Peeps for Champagne, and that reminded me...you know how that goes. My husband once had a job as a champagne taster. Yes, he did. It was an upscale restaurant in Dover, Delaware, called the Dinner Bell Inn on State Street. It may still be there, I'm not sure, this was back in the 1960s. He was an Airman third class and I'm sure you know how poor that is so he took many part time jobs to pick up extra money. When a table ordered champagne, his job was to pop the cork and taste a tiny little bit to make sure it was good, not flat, I don't know what else. And the funny thing was that he was almost a teetotaler, hardly liking any kind of alcoholic beverage. I think he worked there about two weeks. until next time...c |
| My friend had surgery a week ago today and remains in the hospital, hopefully to be released sometime this week. She remains in good spirits and says she will need no more treatments. It has been so cold here I have had to push myself to go to my normal outings. Book Club was on the 2nd and surprisingly over 20 of us showed up to discuss No One is Coming to Save Us, a book I very much liked. For February we are reading The Underground Railroad, which I have read before and enjoyed. Yesterday, Sunday, I went to my Writers Alliance of Gainesville meeting to hear a local CPA speak on taxes for writers, very interesting and informative...if you're actually making any money from writing. There's always hope, though. We had several new members pay dues and several old ones renew (I'm the treasurer, in my 4th and final year now). We usually have our board meeting before our regular meeting, but yesterday we decided to meet afterwards at a local fast food restaurant and it turned out to be a good decision (even though they didn't have coffee, can you imagine that?). We pushed tables together in one of the outer corners and had our own little realm with fast food for those who cared to indulge, not a whole lot of other customers on a Sunday evening. I ordered and received a new Kindle Fire last week and I'm having a hard time getting used to it. My old one did nothing but let me read books, no internet, no Alexa. I just need time I guess and must keep at it. I've promised my old one to a friend who has none. until next time...c |
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