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Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.  My new new new blog is
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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.
I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
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| Tom's extended family of roaches gathered around one meagre crumb. for week 5 "The Prompt Me Contest"  Today is Saint Stephen's Day. Would May you get stoned today? be appropriate? Perhaps not. Perhaps "Merry/Happy _____" is only a greeting, like nodding the head and carries no further significance; although, on the actual day it makes since to mention the day. However... turning it into an entire season and then insisting that others use a particular greeting is aggressive. And... the religious warfare overtones is quite palpable to those who aren't of the majority religion. I remember drunks at the bar insisting that I drink. They weren't happy if I wasn't happy and joined them. It's like that. I don't like being coerced, especially by toxic-positivity... even if you're sober. I don't go around greeting people with "Happy Naw-Ruz" on the vernal equinox. I could. It just means Happy New Year and it's not like I'm cramming it down your throat. It's just one day, not a season, and is celebrated by more than one religion and more than one culture. However, intentions aside, it may be taken the wrong way. From Wiki: St. Stephen's Day (Lá Fhéile Stiofáin), or the Day of the Wren (Lá an Dreoilín), is an occasion to commemorate the life of St Stephen, a Christian martyr. Many people spend the day quietly with close friends or family. Saint Stephen's Day is the second day of Christmastide and is celebrated in honour of one of the first Christian martyrs, Saint Stephen, who was stoned to death in 36 AD. Wren Day, also known as Wren's Day, Day of the Wren, or Hunt the Wren Day (Irish: Lá an Dreoilín), is an Irish celebration held on 26 December, St. Stephen's Day in a number of countries across Europe. The tradition consists of "hunting" a wren (now a fake wren but previously a real one) and putting it on top of a decorated pole. Then the crowds of mummers, or strawboys, celebrate the wren (also pronounced wran) by dressing up in masks, straw suits, and colourful motley clothing. They form music bands and parade through towns and villages. These crowds are sometimes called the wrenboys. Just the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ExaWsbuM34 And then there was King Wenceslas Today's trinket gathered from Wickedfugitive   5462 |
| To Wendy Ann Williams There are stories in photographs. I've traveled around the world and have a collection of personal photos and hundreds of postcards. I did take notes! But... just sitting with those photos encourages me to write. I keep a blog here, a poem-log, a prose-log, but I also journal with pen on paper. I'm on page 5198 today. That said... all journals start on page 1. I made lasagna today. I know the concept: layers! I had lasagna pasta so I cooked that while I sauteed onions. I opened up cans of clams and smoked ham and mixed it. I opened up a can of diced tomatoes and mixed in the onions. I layered everything with ricotta and parmesan. I baked at 350 degrees. It turned out fine. Don't ask me for the recipe. There isn't one. It snowed early in the morning and will snow again tonight. In between sun and clouds. Soon the days will add a second or two of weak daylight and the temperature will tease the number 0. I will take out the trash or stay inside or go to the post office or... My life is still small. I'm watching 'Baker Boys' episode 10. I can watch 'Not Me' or 'Boys over Flowers' as Episode 7 of '55:15' will not come out till Monday. It's something to do. I also love this tune. I dream of writing new words for it in Isaan, changing the love theme to love of the land. Chinese and Isaan have the same basic structure. I cut up an apple and sprinkled it with brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. It beckons. 5455 |
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