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A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.

Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.



My new new new blog is
 
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ในสวนของเลียม Open in new Window. (13+)
In Liam's Garden, a personal journal
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.

I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo Open in new Window. (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
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had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell Open in new Window. (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
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is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella Open in new Window. (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
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was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path Open in new Window. (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
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as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions! Open in new Window. (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
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is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature Open in new Window. (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
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was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus Open in new Window. (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
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come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction Open in new Window. (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
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is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal Open in new Window. (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
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I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests Open in new Window. (ASR)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
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(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville  Open in new Window. (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
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is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥  Open in new Window. (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
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an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

November 15, 2020 at 2:18pm
November 15, 2020 at 2:18pm
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"I dreamed about being a caretaker in the Red House ... y'know the Western White House ... that sits on a bluff in Omaha. It's red because? Well... Nebraska... and I grew up in a red house and I was sick and Jill and Joe were coming back this week.

The real me? Okay... I think. Covid is killing us here in Montana and I'm at risk.

I had a nice house once with lovely gardens. I bought a dream house. I lost both. I sit here in my two room place and am grateful I'm not homeless, even though I resent not being able to travel.

Life has it's up and downs.

As for debt... I had to walk away from all my losses. Haven't had credit in 15 years. I do use a debit card and have saved enough to travel when I want. I was thinking of moving into a one bedroom place with only 5 stairs instead of 42. But... $$.

Getting rid of your bad-debt is a wise move. But be wary of money-pits."

And so I commented to Mighty Author Icon today. She's dreaming of a new house while pragmatically paying down debt.

Maybe the Red House would be known as the Cardinal House? It's not as whacky an idea as it might seem. Omaha is very central and the Mid-West and Plains are many times ignored by the elites and uber-wealthy on both coasts who dismiss rural areas as they sit there on the 26th with turkey and stuffing oblivious of where their food comes from. They don't grow steaks on Wall Street.

In the Season of Covid we are facing problems with Main-Street-economics and Kitchen-Table-economics. Congress can't get its head out of its collective Ass; the president is missing-in-action (nicely quiet though); and Dakotans are refusing to wear masks and dying for their 'freedoms'.

In the meantime... Hurricane Iota is aimed at Nicaragua/Honduras (the same area devastated by Eta) and is a huge powerful rain-maker. Costa Rica had severe floods in Nicoya/Nandayure, Coto Brus and Perez Zeledon with Eta. This could be as bad or worse.

But not to worry as few in 'Murika give a flying **** about brown-skinned Central Americans, and covid only kills Old Timers and Boomers so how dare you make me wear a mask. It's the Devil's doing and so anti-Church-of-America [post-christian-gospel-of-prosperity] where we all hug and spit on each other on Sundays (just spit on Mondays) and afterwards lament 'I need to go to WalMart for the third time today'. Facts hurt my brain and I only have time for conspiracy theories and controlling vaginas that aren't mine. So why worry? Pizza Parlor has 2-for-1 and aren't you glad we invested in pharmaceuticals! You didn't? Too bad, Loser.

Bottom line... I wish I were elsewhere.

Not much has changed since I wrote this poem in 2017: "Not one iotaOpen in new Window.

Not one iota

He won't pull off the mask he's worn since childhood,
the mist and mirrors mere camouflage,
for his childish fits, his golfing outfits.

He won't reveal the layers behind his lies.
They fit like corsets, dark, constraining;
he speaks in monosyllabic voice,
a juvie choice that never grew
like the belt around his belly.

Button his lips, cross his tees, un-gag his Xes!
Let loose the asses from his tottering cart!

Not one dot, one jot, not one iota...
dare to masquerade as his tiny heart.

© Kåre Enga [174.18] (6.avril.2017)
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