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| Prompt: “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” ― Maya Angelou What do you think? Can you use up creativity? I agree. The more you create, the more ideas you have. I can't write music, but people who do always have one more song. That creativity applies to cooking, crafts, music, and all art forms, not just writing. Famous examples would include Clint Eastwood. Despite advanced arthritis, and a ton of work in acting, producing, and directing, he's still going strong. He can't stop finding new actors to coach, new projects to undertake, and he's almost 90. He is driven by creativity. The same is true of inventors and scientists. It's like you inspire yourself to do one better than the last one. You never rest on your laurels. Creativity breeds creativity. |
| Pick a dessert quote and share a story that connects with the one you chose. "People who love to eat are always the best people." by Julia Child This is so true. Eating employs several senses: tasting, seeing, smelling. Touch is used with foods eaten with the fingers, and hearing with foods that sizzle or snap. Now she's not saying overindulging or making yourself a glutton. But simply preparing food, sharing it and consuming it. Maybe even growing your own would be included. It always seems to me a tomato you grew yourself tastes better. I've noticed that people who like to eat tend to be more generous, more amiable, and more adventurous. Picky eaters are more uptight (in my limited observations) or have personality quirks. I learned in my single life that if a man only likes Velveeta cheese or white bread, he's going to be a pain with too many hang-ups. He got dumped. The person who likes to try new recipes is more likely to be appreciative, of anything, and have a more positive outlook. It would interesting to know if some social scientist somewhere had actually done a study of this. I broke out laughing when I read Julia's words that "The only time one eats diet food is while waiting for the steak to cook." (of something close to that) I like it, but I think the title quote is more insightful than Julia meant for it to be. |
| Write a limerick or a short story about the word pumpkin We bought a pumpkin so big around. We could not lift it from the ground. We used a hand truck, Crossed our fingers for luck. Now it is decorated in town. |
| I just filled the dining room mantle with metal spiders, real mini pumpkins, scarecrows, and one ceramic jack-o-lantern. There's a bat and a ghost hanging under the mantle. I don't have that many kids visiting, so I guess it's just for me. I have short scarecrows in the windows and a haunted house in the kitchen over the big window. The living room has a dancing Mickey Mouse wizard on the coffee table. He's the one decoration that's meant to played with. I have a burlap pumpkin on the end table, and a carved wooden pumpkin down in the foyer with seasonal color flowers. Outside I have a large ceramic jack-o-lantern (Kroger sold a ton of them last year). We have scarecrows in front and back, left from trying to keep the woodchucks and the deer from eating all the plants. They didn't do their job, so now they get Halloween duty. And I have my potted mums from last year showing their white, yellow and brownish blooms. The cars in the driveway block the outdoor view because of the weird layout of our yard. My 92 year old dad likes to clown around by posing with the scarecrows or the elephant ears (plants) for photos. Sometimes he enlists one of his great-grands, and we have two clowns. We don't usually get many trick or treaters because of the wooded feel and the distance between driveways. The pandemic will probably prevent all tricks or treats, so we will have the candy all to ourselves.   |
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