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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:

JACE - House Targaryen

about 13 hours ago
In response to "On Silence Day"

I agree, speaking up would be better. But with today's society often yelling over anyone's comment, speaking up gets a bad rap. I tend toward the saying espoused by my mother: "Don't talk unless you have something good to say." But that requires the hear-ee to listen.

JACE - House Targaryen

about 14 hours ago
In response to "TV or Computing?"

TV. That could easily go by the wayside. I'm on my laptop as soon as I wake up. Well, an iced coffee first, then WDC. I would be checking in with WDC even without the daily Achievement badges. [Note to wife: any travel stops must have Wi-Fi.]

The older I get, the more I want to leave something for my kids and grand-kids. Can't do that watching TV.

JACE - House Targaryen

about 14 hours ago
In response to "On Creative Reading"

Hello again, Joy. You may wonder why I'm spending so much time in your Blog. I'm currently fully immersed in my first ever "Game of Thrones"

event. And it is kicking my butt ... though in a good way.

I've never been much of a blogger, but I've enjoyed the thought-provoking entries you've penned, especially this one. I've never thought about creative reading. Great concept. I'll think about this.

JACE - House Targaryen

about 14 hours ago
In response to "My Journals"

I'm amazed that anyone would keep a daily journal. Or, even a regular journal (four or five times a week). As a student of history, I know how important journals and diaries are to discovering that history.

I'm glad you keep yours going. My once concession is I keep a small notebook with me at all times for thoughts that occur to me. To paraphrase one of my writing library books, "Write it down, or you'll forget it." My memory is the pits ... which is why I have so many notes.

Keep journaling, Joy.

JACE - House Targaryen

about 14 hours ago
In response to "Summer 2024"

I recently retired from my dream job at the request of my wife. She wants us to enjoy ourselves now with plans of traveling--day trips, long weekend trips, and of course, a long trip (cruising or RVing). I'm all for that because I get to re-acquaint myself with my love of photography doing that. Except for the long trip, most of the others are not fully planned.

I hope you get to do the fun things you want, planned or otherwise, Miss Joy.

Princess Megan Rose GOT Fox

about 18 hours ago
In response to "Summer 2024"

I have no plans. Lake Michigan and shopping. I get what you mean. You get old, you just live each day as it comes and hope for good things. I enjoyed reading your entry.

Joy

Apr 20, 2024 at 10:25am
In response to "On Creative Reading"

Lyn's a sly fox

This shows you are a true writer.

Lyn's a sly fox

Apr 20, 2024 at 12:52am
In response to "On Creative Reading"

Every book I've read I've created the scene, the characters, and often where the story will go before I've reached the author's actual words take me. So in my thinking creative reading distorts the authors work but the door would not have opened in my mind without the guidance of the author. So hence the balance.

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iKïyå§ama-House Targaryen

Apr 19, 2024 at 5:22am
In response to "Dreaming and Planning"

Ooh, very well articulated, Joy, and does give one pause for thought.

So, when someone poses the question 'what's your dream for the future?' where does that fall on the spectrum?

'I dream of a better world' - the reflection of our desires and subconscious thoughts, yes.

So, then, let's get to work trying to make that dream of yours become a reality, right? And that's where the planning steps in.

Great blog entry! Thanks for sharing!

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Lyn's a sly fox

Apr 13, 2024 at 12:46am
In response to "On Silence Day"

I wish there was more silence, maybe people might actually think before speaking. But I know that'll never happen because ignorance and hatred are hot commodities because then they get their 15 minutes of fame. sad but so true that ou rmedia coverage prefers to sensationalize negativity versus focusing on positive things.

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June 3, 2019 at 11:56am

#960117

Envy

Prompt: Although envy is one of the deadly sins, do you believe it may somehow hide a redeeming quality inside?

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I think there are degrees of envy, but no one ever bothered to categorize them. It is true that jealousy and covetousness permeate envy, but there is also that side of it that makes a person think, if so and so is doing something so right, maybe I can do it, too. or that person is so talented; I wish I could do that, too! I think this side of envy may be its redeeming quality.

Most envy is secret. Only in that part of it that leads to crime or in the words of the envying person, envy comes out into the open.

Positive envy rejoices in human achievement; on the other hand, negative envy is the deadly one, especially the kind that attempts to stop, undo, or mar the achievements of another.

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