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 |   Theses are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call life. |
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These are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call Life. I blog with these groups:     "Blogging Circle of Friends "  [E] 
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30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 26th Complete the following sentence: When I’m in the mood to celebrate, nothing can stop me from ___________. When I'm in the mood to celebrate, nothing can stop me from smiling and wanting to share my joy with others. I know this blog should be longer and should develop this idea, but completing the sentence prompts are not always my most favourite. I look forward to reading what others have said. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 25th What is the most useless skill you have? The most valuable? I have the ability to hold on to random trivia. That is pretty useless. I don't know enough to win at Jeopardy or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, but I know enough to be able randomly drop in a weird fact every so often. As for valuable.... I would say being able to write and figure things out by putting my thoughts on paper. Some people can verbally spar, I cannot, but if I have time to write things down I think I can manage to put my jumbled thoughts in an order that makes a bit more sense than if I just let my tongue loose. Verbal diarrhea is never pretty. But a poem is art. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 24th Write about something awkward or embarrassing that happened in public - it can be something that happened to you, or something you witnessed happen to somebody else. How did they react? A while back I was on a trip to Niagara Falls and while walking up the big hill I could see a person dressed up as a Martian across the street. The friend I was with and I watched as this Martian / person would stand very still and then move suddenly scaring the crap out of unsuspecting people who were walking by. Well, it was rather funny to see the reactions of people, but what I found even funnier is when I walked past the Martian. I knew he would move and yet when he did I flipped out too! It was more funny than embarrassing, but the fact that I knew the Martian would move and then still managed to freak out was the funny / embarrassing part. My friend thought it was hilarious. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 23rd What is something you like to do that other people might think is “weird?” As I watch weird ass shows like Married At First Sight - Couple's Cam -- the married couple's living in quarantine I find it odd that people aren't enjoying being stuck in with time to work on hobbies. Being someone who loves to write, I am loving this time in some ways. I can take chunks of time out of my usual working day to write instead of going off or doing the commute thing to work. Sure it means I might be creating something for my students at 10 pm instead of during the school day... but it is my time and I can use it how I want. This does not mean I write all day, but I find I can write in the mornings when I'm my most creative before the 'work day' starts at 9 am. Take, for instance now. It is currently 4:30 in the morning and I am writing with a writing group that usually meets in Paris, France. They are meeting at 10 am, but it is 6 hours earlier here. Their meetings have to be virtual, so for this period of time, I can 'meetup' with them. Once life goes into the new normal and they can return to their usual cafe, I won't be able to join them anymore, but I am loving that I can right now. It does mean getting up at 3:45 am on Saturday and 4:45 am on Sunday, but because I don't have to get up and travel to work Monday to Friday I am okay with getting up this early. I also find that at 7 am, when the group is done, I can either join another group writing in London, England for an hour or go back to bed until noon. The time is open and I don't live with anyone who needs me up and functional at that time. I am lucky that way. This is not something I could sustain for long periods of time, but for now I am loving it. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 22nd Music often has the ability to remind us of old memories. In your entry today, be inspired by a specific piece of music or a musical instrument. What feelings/emotions does the music or instrument stir in you? Share a specific memory your chosen song or instrument reminds you of. This version of the Highland Cathedral always brings tears to my eyes. I listen to it loud and proud. (The cats are not thrilled with the sound - wind instruments and all). I think I loved this piece before going to Scotland a few years ago, but this particular version really gets me. When I went to Scotland I went with my Mother and my favourite aunt. We represented the Henderson and the Douglas clans. Ancestral roots run deep in our family. Learning about the history and seeing the landscape was spectacular. I thought it funny that they would say something was quite young and then tell us it was 150 years old - Canada had just turned 150 the summer before. The age of our Country was just young to them. It put things into perspective. I forgot to save this last night before I went to bed!! |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 21st Not including your phone, computer, or other Googling device, write about the top five most useful items you own. Coffee mug, indoor toilet, notebook and pen and Library card. One needs a good sized mug to hold a hot beverage of choice. An indoor toilet is great when you can't use public toilet's these days and I always hated my grandparent's outhouse - too many flies and bugs as well as a noxious smell. Notebook and pen go hand in hand. One needs a place to write down ideas and dream. A library card because you can't possibly house all the books you want to read. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 20th If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you choose? That would be a difficult decision. I keep waffling back and forth. If I had been active at thirty, then staying that way would be easier and the need to keep my body fresher and younger would not be a necessity. But keeping the mind sharp... there are some pretty spry 90 year olds - look at Betty White. Besides if the choosing meant ending your life at 90 and not going beyond I would probably go with not taking the choice and living to the natural end of my life - be that 90 or 100. Being a writer, I would think keeping the mind sharp and active would be more my thing, but this getting old thing is beginning to settle in.... I think ultimately, if a choice were required I would say MIND. Blog City - Day 2135 Prompt: Write about a lesson you learned the hard way. Lessons learned the hard way are lessons that stick. Not that I would wish anyone the hard lessons, but I think they go along way toward building a person's character. And as a writer and a person who loves to study human behaviour (a sociology and psychology major) character is paramount. I am still learning from my divorce. I'm sure I have learned to put up walls in some ways, but I am aware of that and try to remain open and positive. I have learned things about myself that I don't like and need to work on. I have come closer to what I want and don't want in my life. I am still continuing to learn. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 19th If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are living now? If so, what would you change and why? I think I would work at getting some of my bucket list items done - like going to Paris and to the writing retreat at the Gladstone Library in Wales. I'd take chances I normally shy away from and with any luck I would get my novel finished and published along with a book of poetry. I may even write a blog / book of daily writings that would be filled with gratitude and inspiration. So what is stopping me? Sudden death or not, each day is precious. Why am I wasting them? |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 18th What chore do you most dislike doing? Tell us a creative story about how you might get out of doing it. I don't like chores. Any chores. But getting them done keeps life relatively sane. Trying to get things done while making the job easier or less arduous is something I am up for. For example, mix up some cupcakes and while they bake run the vacuum around for the twenty minutes that they are baking and cooling. The reward for doing the vacuuming... a cupcake or two ... or three or six... ho, hell eat the whole pan. Then take myself out for a walk to burn off the calories or better yet tackle the weeding in the garden. I am open to any other tricks. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT May 17th Write about a fictional road trip where you meet up with your fellow competitors from the 30DBC! Who do you visit first? Do you bring any gifts? Tell us about the crazy blogger shenanigans you all get up to! I love virtual traveling. It is almost as good at the real thing.... only cheaper. Well, I would have to choose Alexi as she is in England and I would love to go there. Meeting her would be a blast. Maybe I could entice her to join me at the Gladstone Library in Wales and take part in Jessica Lourey's Writing Retreat there. Who wouldn't want to stay in a library and spend a week writing with an author like that. I have just ordered a couple of her books this morning - two fiction ones - The Cantalian Book of Secrets and May Day and one writing book - Rewrite Your Life: Discover Your Truth Through the Healing Power of Fiction. I am excited to get reading. I have heard her Ted Talk as well. Interesting lady who is not afraid to share her story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5vSLh3oPXI During this pandemic, I have been taking advantage of writing with various groups in London, England and in Paris, France. Groups I cannot get to because I live in Canada, but because they are virtual right now I have met some really great people. Paris is a bucket list item for me and in my google attempts to explore writing retreats in the area, I ran across Jessica Lourey. She does a retreat in France, an hour outside of Paris, but I noticed she also does retreats in Wales. To write, sleep and eat in a library that is over 125 years old would be fabulous - definitely a bucket list item. https://www.creativewritingretreat.com/ My friend's daughter is getting married next year. She lives in England now. I may just see about going to something like this... if I save my pennies. Maybe I can go and wouldn't it just be fabulous to have a WDC partner in crime!? Anyone else interested? |
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