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 |   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. |
| Prompt: What was the last book you read? --- The Likeness by Tana French Here’s the review I wrote for it. "The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, Book 2)"  I am on a Tana French kick. This was the fourth book I read written by this Irish writer. It is a murder-mystery, and I neither read nor like anything about murder, but this woman’s handling of her subjects is far beyond what the genre suggests. They are literary to the bone and much longer than the average murder/police procedural type of novels. In fact, some murder/mystery buffs are complaining of the length of her novels. I am in the process of reading another one, now. If Tana French writes it, I’ll read.  |
| Prompt: "Weeds are flowers, too once you get to know them." A. A. Milne What are your thoughts about this? ---- I love this quote because there are so many ways of looking at it. First, some weeds do have flowers. They may be tiny or unnoticeable but they are flowers, nevertheless. Then, some weeds are medicinal to the degree that their value is much more than the fancy-looking flowers. In addition, in the metaphorical sense, the hardships we consider weeds in our lives are there to teach us, to make us become hardened to ills of the world, and to make us become aware of our personal shortcomings. To wrap it up, “a weed is a flower in an undesirable place” is the idea, but a weed can be in an undesirable place through no wish or its own. An example could be a person like me who dislikes politics but is forced into the Congress, kicking and screaming. Just think about that! What we consider weeds, we need to look at from this point of view, too.  |
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But good job quickly redirecting back to the positive things.
