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War Chest Wednesday: "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" prompt for May 1, 2013 -What does spring mean to you? Recount one of your most fond springtime memories. What is the meaning of spring? I listen to the nightingale sing; I watch tree limbs change from brown to green; I listen for baby birds chirping; Spring is the renewals of life; Spring is the rebirth of hope; Spring is nature's New Year; And then I remember the springs of my childhood. My childhood memories are a collage of water skiing, of swimming, of family vacations, of picnicking, of barbecuing, of weekend with my grandparents, of drive-in movies, of watching the late show on television, of half remember echoes of my father's laughter, of ... How can I chose a favorite memory, when they are all precious and bring a smile to my face? Some of my favorite memories occurred on the weekends spent at Lake Blackwell, when we water skied, took boat rides, and fished with Grandpa. Those weekends when we planted or weeded the garden by the mobile home on the Lake and Grandma made lemon aid, or Cool aid, or ice tea. How do I chose a favorite memory when the collage of my memories merge into a technicolor movie of joy at the mobile home on the Lake. Thought of the Season: “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke |
The April 30, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isMake your case for the world's ultimate #1 snack food. Chocolate is the ultimate snack food because you can eat any other snack food with it and the chocolate enhances the flavor of the other snack food. Chocolate is especially delicious with salty snack foods. You can add chocolate to coffee, to milk, nuts, peanut butter, etc. Since chocolate can be added to most other snack food or enjoyed by itself, it is the ultimate snack food. Chocolate... biter, dark, white, or milk it doesn't matter which I eat because it makes my day and my life complete. Food for Thought: "I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!" - Laura Wilkinson |
The April 30, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isDescribe your dreams. Are they liquid, fluid, constantly changing POV? Are they random, or to the point? Long or short? Are you watching a movie or playing a part in it? What format? (i.e. are they cartoons, or real life, or a mix of both?) My dreams are in color and all over the map. Sometimes I wake up between dreams and sometimes one dream flow into another. I even have dreams that are so real, I do not realize I am dreaming. I have learned that there are certain things I cannot do when I am dreaming, which is a good thing because this reveals to me that I am dreaming. This comes in handy when I am having a "so real it's scary dream", in these dream if I attempt to turn out a light or do some other activity with my body I cannot perform the activity; this indicates I am dreaming and I can wake myself up. During my normal and "not so real it's scary dreams", I usually know or suspect I am dreaming. The colors of my dream are beautiful and bright reflection the rainbow of creation's light. I have had dreams in which I was sleeping and dreamed that I was dreaming. I one reoccurring dream that always foretells a change in my life. In this dream, I am at my grandparents house in Blackwell, Oklahoma. I have another reoccurring dream in which I hear the doorbell ring or someone knocking at the door at the door. I wake myself up, go to answer the door, and on one is there. Then there are the "so real it's scary dreams". All of these dreams are in color, I do not ever remember dreaming in black and white. Thought of the Day: "Sleep is the best meditation." - Dalai Lama |
The April 27, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isComment on a recent bizarre news story of your choosing. Post a link and share your thoughts/opinions. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/sirius-documentary-dna-re_n_3135628.htm... ' Sirius' Documentary Reveals DNA Test Results On Ata, The '6-Inch Alien' By Lee Speigel Is Ata, the six-inch alien really and extraterrestrial? At first the answer was yes, but now some say that Ata is human. Since I have not viewed the documentary Sirius I am not sure I can make a comment either way. Apparently it was released on April 22, 2013 and I have no idea where it is playing in Las Vegas. Click on the link, look at the pictures, and the trailer. Food for Thought: "Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles |
The April 27, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isTell us about the one experience that has changed your life. 1 Which life changing experience do I chose? I chose care giving because it is a sea change in the life of the caregiver and the one needing a caregiver. 2 As Alzheimer's steals the memory of its victim, it transforms the caregiver's life. It is a long slow death for the sufferer, as brain cell by brains cell memories depart; wave a long good-bye as neurons lose the battle for survival and the brain loses control of bodily functions. Day after day the caregiver cries, remembering the vital person who was mother, father, husband, wife, sibling, etc. 3 I am still to close to the event for me to write continually in the first person; sometimes the descriptions, the emotions must be expressed in the second or the third person because my mind, my soul, and my body shed tears simultaneously. Thought of the Day: "There are only four kinds of people in the world - those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers." -- Rosalynn Carter |
The April 26, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isToday is Hug a Friend day. Which Friend would you like to give a hug to the most and why? Which friend would I hug today? One who is far away, who I haven's seen since I was seventeen or one who is nearby who I can call when I want to cry. Friends come and go like the winter snow touched by spring's warm sunshine, while their memories bring us joy like rain in summertime. Which friend shall I hug today? All of them are far away in time if not in space; for each I will say a prayer, thus sending a spiritual hug. Food for Thought: "Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism." ~Leo Buscaglia |
The April 26, 2013 for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isIf you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? After 66 years of learning to live in my own skin. After 66 years of attempting to understand my own idiosyncrasies. I have come to the conclusion I would not want to be anyone else. It is true, that in the past 66 years, I have sometimes wished I was not me. However, that does not mean I wanted to be someone else; at least, no one else on this planet. Sometimes I might have wanted to be an elf queen or just an ordinary elf on another planet or in another age, but even if I was born into a family of elves I would still be me. I would not be the me I am on earth in the twenty-first century, but I would still be the person my past experience created. Therefore, not matter what age I was born in or what planet I was born on, I would still be me. I believe I was destined to be born on Earth in the twentieth century and survive into the twenty-first century for a reason. Sometime I am not sure what the reason was and at other time I am positive I know that reason. After 66 years of swinging back and forth on the subject of why I was born; I have decided that the purpose of my birth is to know and love God. (Actually, I came to this conclusion several years before I turned 66.) Every event in my life, whether positive or negative, has eventually drawn me closer to God. After 66 years, I would not want to be someone else for even a day. The events of my past have made me the person I am today and the person I will become tomorrow. The things that happen to me today will help me become the person I am tomorrow. Each day my spirit evolves through the tests and difficulties I encounter that day. These tests a difficulties are intended to assist me in developing spiritual attributes that will clothe my soul in the next world and give me wings to ascend through all the worlds of God. Other people encounter different tests and difficulties because they have specific spiritual attributes they need to develop. After 66 years, I have come to realize that, no matter how much I may want to be someone else, it is impossible because not matter who I am at any given moment, I am always me. Thought of the Day: "Look 'em in the eye, tell 'em, I'm just being me." - Author Unknown |
The April 25, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isToday is the 23rd anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Telescope. In this time, NASA has turned over travel to the space station to other countries, discontinued the shuttle program, allowed for commercial space travel and started working on a mission to Mars. They are, in fact, now taking applications for potential colonists. How do you feel about the changes that have been made and would you consider applying to be a colonist? The dream has always been to fly beyond the bonds of Earth. Space exploration and colonization of other planets is too expensive for one nation. This type of scientific endeavor require multinational cooperation and sharing of expenses. Commercial space travel means that going to the space station or Mars will create jobs and produce profits. A business that produces profits for its employees and investors grows, which helps the economy of the country and the planet. I would love to apply as a colonist to Mars, but I am 66 years old with health problems. In 2023, I will be 77, so I have to accept the fact that I probably will never go to Mars or the Moon, unless of course someone construct a senior retirement community on one of them and then I will be the first to apply. I do not see why anyone would want to come back to Earth once on Mars. However, back to the subject of applying for the Mars colony; I may not be able to apply myself, but will encourage anyone who want to go to apply. We reach for the stars without fear because humanity's destiny is beyond its cradle. Thought of the Day: "The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky |
The April 25, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isWhat does "having it all" mean to you? Is it attainable? At first glance, having it all implies that someone is wealthy, beautiful or handsome, and famous. There was a time in my life when I would have accepted that definition of having it all, but the older I get the more I realize the wealthy, beautiful, and famous people are probably not any happier then ordinary middle class or poor folk. In fact they may not be as happy because beside the regular worries that all human beings share, they have the added worry of material wealth. They have to worry about who is out to steal their hard earned or maybe not so hard earned money. In addition, they have to worry about people invading their privacy and, therefore, must hire body guards. For me having it all suggest a well rounded life. You have enough money to pay your bills and put food on the table without worrying where you are going to find your next meal. A person who has has it all live a life that is challenging enough to keep mind and body active without causing too much stress. A person who has it all has discovered his or her spiritual path in life, as well as, companionship. A person has it all takes the takes the changes and chances of outrageous fortune as a part of the ever expanding joy of life. A person who has it all has a positive attitude and does not fear death. A person who who has it all develops his or her talents while accepting failure and success as stepping stones to the creativity. A person who has it all accepts sorrow and joy as a part of life, but know that happiness is a spiritual attribute and not always dependent on present events. Nightingales have it all, that' why they sing in the summer, fall, winter, and spring. Joke of the Day: "I used to have it all, but then I forgot where I put it." - Author Unknown |
The April 24, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isTell us about 3 (minimum) items on your bucket list. The first thing I need to do, before continuing this entry, is find my bucket list so that I can review the things I put down. I haven't thought about my bucket list in a while and... well, consider everything I have dealt with and am dealing with... I am not quite sure I remember what I put down. This is a frightening thought and I hope it is just a sign of stress and not anything else. All though, I guess I should discuss this memory issue with my doctor the next time I see her. All right, perhaps my memory is not as bad as I thought because I found poem containing my bucket list. I remember, "Poems: Various Themes and Subjects" , the folded containing "Bucket Lists: Two Related Poems" . Since I remember the name of the folder perhaps my memory problems are related to stress, which means I need to do something completely or moderately out of character; all though, I would much rather go out to eat them anything else. Getting back to my bucket list, right now it contains five things. A hot air balloon ride Pilgrimage to Mount Carmel in Israel Sleep in a Bed and Breakfast Visit my father's grave Visit the Baha'i temple in IndiaThat is my bucket list for now, sometimes I think I might want to add something. However, I am 66 years old so I am not sure if it is a good idea to add items until I have accomplish something on the list. Perhaps after I accomplish an item I might add something else to the list. I will have to wait and see. In the mean time, I need to plan ways to accomplish the items on my bucket list. I will also start thinking of things to add to the list. Inspirational quote of the Day: "Never tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon." - Author Unknown |
The April 24, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isIf you were given a chance to know what happens in your future, would you take it? No! Absolutely not! I have enough problems dealing with life one day at a time. I do not want to know the immediate future because knowing what is going to happen would probably cause me to do something to change it and inevitably make the situation worse instead of better. All though, I suspect is something bound to happen it cannot be changed; however, the situation could be make worse of better by actions taken in the present. I still would not want to know the future; I prefer traveling into the future one day at time without knowing exactly what to expect because it makes life less mundane. The question reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode I saw once. In the episode, the main character (a young woman) returned from a morning horse ride frightened. An older woman on a horse had chased her yelling, "Don't do it!" She did not know what the woman was talking about. Anyway, the young woman was about to get married to one man, but she love another and he ask her to runaway with him; which she did. Scene change to several years later with her as a mature woman returning from a morning ride. Her husband (the man she had run away with) ask "Where have you been?" Her reply "Out chasing myself!" She had attempted to warn her younger self not to runaway and get married, but got through with the planned wedding. Baby birds chirping don't worry about the future while they wait for their parents to return with today's breakfast. Thought of the Day: "Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed." - TRACY LETTS, August: Osage Country |
The April 23, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isPretend that you're a salesman or saleswoman and try to sale me what you consider to be the best book, movie, and television show of all time. All entertainment is relative to its consumer! That being written, I have some suggests based on recent encounters with books and television shows. I have two books to suggest First, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion: in this book Ms Didion's words paint a candid portrait of grief. Second, The Dragon Book a collection of tales written by modern fantasy authors transports the reader through a myriad of dragon adventures. The television show I recommend is Swamp People because there is nothing more entertaining and cathartic as watching adults in the swamp hunting and killing alligators. Please check "Reality TV - Very Little to do with Reality" , which contains information about Swamp People.Food for Thought: "I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun." - Cary Elwes |
The April 22, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isIf you could have any pet in the world real or mythological, what would it be and why. A cat with wings is what I want, a calico that flies, that wears an emerald studded collar to match her beautiful green eyes. A cat that's very comforting, that sleeps upon my lap and rides on my shoulder like an exquisite fur wrap. I want a calico with wings that can fly down from a tree without me calling for assistance; a cat to set upon my knee. Food for Thought: "As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind." - Cleveland Amory |
The April 22, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isReality TV: Trash or Treasure? I don't think reality TV has much to do with reality, at least, not the reality I'm confronted with on a daily basis. Most of the reality shows on network television has mediocre entertainment value. Some of the reality shows on cable television may have some educational value, especially if they show a life style different from mine or reveal intriguing facts about unusual items; however, I'm still not sure about their entertainment value. Some of the shows may have entertainment value for people interested in specific items or life styles. There are some reality shows I enjoy watching if I have nothing else to do when they come on. I enjoy Swamp People on the History Channel. Sometimes I watch River Monsters on Animal Planet. Other shows I enjoy periodically are Counting Cars, American Restoration, American Pickers, and Pawn Stars, but I don't watch any of them on a regular basis because I usually have other obligations or more important things to do with my time. As to whether reality television is trash or treasure; some of the shows are trash with a small percentage being treasure and most of them fall somewhere in between. Thought of the Day: "In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down." - James Wolcott |
The April 21, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isBlog about "Childhood Bedtime Stories".  Cinderella Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Tom Thumb Rumpelstiltskin Hansel and GretelThought for the Day: "I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up." - Caroline Kennedy |
The April 21, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isFREE DAY - Today's a free day with no prompt, so blog on whatever your heart desires and have an awesome day! It's after 10:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time on Saturday, April 20, I returned home about 9:45 or 9:50 PM and I'm too excited to sleep. I'm excited because it's the First Day of Ridvan, one of the holiest times of year for Baha'is. The Festival of Ridvan last twelve days from sunset on April 20 to sunset on May 2; the Baha'i day is a solar day, so it begins at sunset on one day and ends at sunset on the next. This evening (April 20) I went to the Baha'i Center to participate in my sacred duty to help elect the Local Spiritual Assembly of Las Vegas. Since I left about 9:10 or 9:15 PM, I'm not sure who was elected; I'll find that out tomorrow (April 21) when I attend the Holy Day celebration at 2:00 PM. I left before I heard the results because I was tired and it was past my bedtime. When I arrived home, I realized that I was too excited to sleep. I suppose I should have know this would happen, it's been a while since I was able to attend Ridvan celebration. I think this is the first Ridvan celebration I've attended since 2009 or 2010; perhaps I'm excited because I get to attend two Holy Day celebrations on the First Day of Ridvan. At the King of Festivals we inhaled the perfume of roses and celebrated the Declaration of Bahá’u’lláh, the Blessed Beauty. It's almost midnight here in Las Vegas and I'm still not sleepy. I'm still too excited to sleep; therefore, I will post this entry and sit down on the couch to say some prayers. Perhaps I will be able to sleep after saying and reading a few prayers. I haven't been this excited about anything in a long time, I know I'm going to enjoy the Ridvan celebration at the Baha'i Center tomorrow (April 21) afternoon. |
The April 20, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isToday is National Record Store Day...what's the first vinyl album, cassette or cd you ever remember getting? We always had records in our house. My grandparents had a RCA Victor Victrola AM Radio and Record Player Cabinet model. I am not sure what year it was because it was a large piece of furniture setting in living room across from the television set. Grandpa was one of those people who, if he could afford it, always had the latest technology. I remember sitting in the living room and listening to the radio or a record played on that record player. I know the record player would play 78 and 45 records, but I don't know when Grandpa bought it so I can't say what year it was made. As for the first record I bought. It had to be either Elvis Presley or the Everly Brothers, but I'm not sure which one I bought first. I had a whole collection of Elvis Presley, Everly Brothers, and other popular singers. I listened to them all the time and some I sang along with when I was a teenagers. Despite the stress of my teen years, I was probably a typical teenager or at least I thought I was at the time. |
The April 20, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isThe Tooth Fairy (or Easter Bunny, or Santa Claus . . .) : a fun and harmless fiction, or a pointless justification for lying to children? From my point of view, the stories that my Grandparents and Parents told m about the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus were harmless fiction that just encouraged my creativity. I do have trust issues, but those issues stem from other events that happened to me rather then the fantasy stories that my Parents and Grandparents told or read to me. At Christmas, my Grandmother or Mother would read the story of the Birth of Jesus and then we would go to the Southern Baptist Mission or the First Southern Baptist Church and hear the story again, while watching the Christmas Pageant. At home we would listen to records playing Christmas Carols or "Here Comes Santa Claus" and then watch Christmas specials on television. The same thing at Easter, when Mom or Grandma begin reading the story of the Resurrection of Christ then I knew that the Easter Pageant would be held at whichever church were were attending that Sunday. I realized that Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, like the Tooth Fairy, were just stories meant to entertain. I don't see anything wrong with telling children fantasy stories or letting them read those stories for themselves. The important thing is to give children a religious foundation while teaching them to think for themselves. The important thing is for a person to learn to think for him or herself and to ask questions because once the individual finds the answers to those questions then the persons faith is strengthened. Ask questions without fearing the answers because our souls expand with the question we ask. Thought for the Day: "Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much." - Francis Bacon |
The April 19, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" isOn this day in 1775 the Revolutionary war started. What do you think like would be like today if America had lost the war or if it had never started to begin with? What would life be like if American had lost the Revolutionary wary in 1775...  the Star Spangle Banner would never have been written we would pay our bills with the British Pound instead of the American dollar we would build a shrine to Dr. Who we would have a copy of Big Ben in Time Square the nation's capital would not be Washington DC we would have a different set of politicians to bitch about we would still be complaining about taxation without representationFood for Thought about Complaining: "Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?" ~W.S. Gilbert |
The April 19, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum" isHow are you more likely to make an important decision — by reasoning through it, or by going with your gut? I have attempted to reason through decisions by looking at the pros, cons, and possible outcomes. The only thing this process does is get me bogged down in the what ifs without assisting me in the decision making process. I have found that the best way for me to make decisions is to go with my gut, grab the tiger by the whiskers, and make the decision. Going with the gut cuts down on the what if static that comes with the logical decisions making process; if I used the logical process I would never make a decision. I have a process that proceeds the decision by the gut, I pray. Sometimes, especially if I know ahead of time about the decision, I sit down with my prayer book and say several prayer. However, if it is a decision that arises during the course of the day I silently repeat a short prayer I have memorized before making the decision and then I follow my intuition and go with my gut. You gut never lies, sometime is growls at you and causes you to make rude noises, but it never lies. Thought of the Day: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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