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Everyday Canvas

by Joy

Rated: 18+ · Book · Experience · #2003843

Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

David Whyte

This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

29 minutes ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Lovely!

Lyn's a sly fox

a day ago
In response to "May 3, 2024"

That's a phenomenal poem, Joy! Impressive job with the challenging words.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 2, 2024 at 7:47pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

Can you still take short walks? I hope so. Even a little bit of nature is refreshing.

Simply Me

May 2, 2024 at 5:41pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

You can take a hike virtually. Or just watch on UTube. like... 4K Nature Treasures of Hawaii Botanical Garden - Jungle Forest Cinematic Virtual Walk. Your memories will do the rest.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 1, 2024 at 7:56pm
In response to "Being Kind"

That's beautiful, Joy and Megan.

Joy, I love that you gave that avocado seed a new life! It might just need more fertilizer? Good luck!

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Princess Megan Rose 22 Years

May 1, 2024 at 12:31pm
In response to "Being Kind"

Being kind to others is so important. There would be no wars if everyone was nicer to each other. A good entry.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

Apr 29, 2024 at 3:30pm
In response to "To Smile About"

Your beautiful heart shines through this list of things that make you smile.

I love that acts of kindness to others makes you smile. I forgot to include nature and acts of kindness but they are definitely things that make me smile too.

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Joy

Apr 29, 2024 at 11:06am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

intuey GoT Survivor!

Thanks for responding. Yes, I agree. Happy memories do not have the same intensity, but if they were really happy, they could help. I said "really" in the above sentence only because our minds have a way of cutting out and doing away with the bad parts of our memories. As they say, "Good old days"! Were they really that good?
Then, if we can do better by "getting our sorrows out" so be it. Whatever works!
Happy writing!

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intuey GoT Survivor!

Apr 29, 2024 at 8:04am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

Very thought-provoking entry, Joy. I think sorrows and negative emotions carry deeper, more intense feelings that enable us to dig down deep and pour them out on paper.

At least that's what I find from my writings that mirror such emotions. After pouring out a writing, or a poem about the pain I'm experiencing from loss or betrayal, or wherever the negative emotion may stem from, I feel a bit lighter. It's like I poured it out on paper and in doing so I was able to lighten my heart and soul a bit.

I know in the past if I had something haunting me, I'd write it down on a piece of paper and burn the paper. In doing so, I felt like I was releasing that negative emotion from carrying it around. I felt that it really did help.

Happier feelings don't carry the intensity of negative ones. (At least in my experience). Also, the need to get them out isn't as strong, because you want to treasure them and hold them close to your heart. You don't ever want them to diminish, so you harbor them to keep them safe from disappearing. Writings of happy memories and times are nice but they don't have the same intensity.

And for me, that's okay. Because I need to get the sorrows out as much as possible. To me, it's therapeutic.

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Lyn's a sly fox

Apr 26, 2024 at 11:38pm
In response to "Spam"

Nicely done.. Thanks for the inspiration.

January 11, 2020 at 9:10pm

#973191

Secrets

Prompt: “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”
Paul Tournier
What do you think about this quote, and what kinds of situations force us to keep secrets? Then, are all our secrets necessary?

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Most secrets are based on fear and guilt, and they have to do with not only what the person has done but what has been done to him or her. Even some crime victims may feel guilty of being the victim and not being able to prevent what has been done to them. They fear they’ll be ostracized and they’ll be looked down upon. This guilt is what makes a person act out in irregular and anti-social ways. That is why some groups and religions encourage confessions.

Also, when a person hides things from others, surely, they won’t be able to relate to them fully and as the result, they’ll feel lonely. Simply put, secrets cause alienation.

Everyone may have a secret, personal or belonging to others. some families have secrets, from the innocent to the deeply sinister. Sometimes, there are good reasons to keep them under wraps. Sometimes there is no reason to make them public or to hide them. But once a secret is out, the secret bearer is off the hook.

On the other hand, other people’s secrets, government secrets, and military secrets have to be respected.

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