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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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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

~SilverMoon~

about 20 hours ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Nicely done.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

a day ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Lovely!

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Lyn's a sly fox

May 3, 2024 at 1:08pm
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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April 27, 2019 at 1:44pm

#957674

Playing with Song Titles

Prompt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_year-end_top_50_singles_of_1956
Grab some of the titles listed and use them in your blog entry to tell a story. Have fun!

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The more the fool I am, the more the happy whistler you are, You Long Tall Sally, and I am in love again, standing on the corner on the street where you live, on Blueberry Hill, as I am the great pretender in my blue suede shoes.

Now, due to the wayward wind, I’m just walking in the rain, carrying sixteen tons of shame while you are wearing his band of gold, and I can imagine you telling him on the phone, “Tonight You Belong to Me” all because you're in your ivory tower with the green door on Blueberry Hill and you wonder about me, thinking, Hot Diggity Dog Ziggity Boom! Why do fools fall in love?

It only hurts for a little while and maybe no, not much for the hound dog that I am, I’ll be home soon at the heartbreak hotel with a sweet old-fashioned girl, and I’ll tell her to love me tender. Then, que sera, sera.

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