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What is Circle Time? & Why did I decide to name this blog after it?... [C]ircle Time is an activity that is often done in the early grades (usually, from preschool/nursery school through first grade) where the students assemble in a semi-circle facing their teacher who will read a story to them; teach a lesson; listen to them read (either individually or as a group); or any other activity that is more effectively-done in an intimate setting than being spread out at their desks throughout the classroom. [S]tudents are often divided into two or three groups (in the case of working on reading, math, etc.) so that part of the class is being taught while the other students are doing busy work at their desks. [I]n some schools, students are grouped according to their progress -- I'm sure you've heard of those kinds of groupings that call each group by the name of a bird species -- but we were called in alphabetical order instead. [A]nyway...back to how this blog got its name... [F]or one thing (the most OBVIOUS thing), it's a blog that has been designed with using it to write something using prompts furnished by Blogging Circle of Friends  .[H]owever, a couple more reasons have to do with Kindergarten -- and, specifically, my Kindergarten days at 29th Street School in Anderson where I could be a handful at times. One shining example of this was how I met my friend, Patty. This story has found a place in my memoirs and has been given the following title: [T]his was an example of how getting in a little mischief sometimes pays off, because I not only satisfied my curiosity but, also, got a really wonderful friend out of the deal. You know something? I just used a word that reminds me of Patty, and I didn't even mean to do it. Anyway, that just tells me that I need to write a story and call it "Invalid Entry" .[A]nyway, I remember when Patty and I were out sitting on her porch, and she came up with this really neat game where she said that she would make a scribble for me to turn into a picture. After that, I would make a scribble for her to turn into a picture. And so on and so forth... [I]n a sense, those scribbles were prompts of sorts given by one person to inspire another one -- which is what's contained in this blog: getting inspiration from things such as quotes; clusters of words; videos; etc. that have been shared with us by another person to get our creative juices going. [I]nspired by each other's scribbles, Patty and I came up with some pretty unique pictures (at least in our early-grade-school minds). [A]fter learning this game from Patty, I shared it with some of my other friends and we played it. Quite likely, some of those friends shared the game with others. I have no idea whether this had been a game that Patty had come up with herself or if somebody had taught it to her. [I]t was, obviously, an activity that was worth sharing with others so that they could join the fun. I hope that reading what I write in this blog will inspire you to want to find out more about B.C.O.F. and join in the fun. [E]ven if you aren't interested in blogging with us, I hope you'll find this a great place to do some reading!!! [W]armly -- AJ wants U 2 meet The CanMan!   [P.S. -- ] [B]e sure to check out the blog and the invitation below:
 And so ends the Introduction to the blog... Therefore, the next thing you might want to do is to start reading it... Does that make sense to you?... Hope so...  |
Forgive But Verify June 16, 2018 at 11:56pm
PROMPT:
Many people have trouble with forgiveness because they have been taught it is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers, many seasons. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Let this quote inspire your blog entry.
Let's put it this way:
You can be forgiving (that is, not wanting the people who did you wrong to burn in hell forever or even get cancer), but you would still be wise to watch your back with the wrongdoers wit... [Read more] Am I A Bookworm Or A Slug? June 7, 2018 at 11:58pm
PROMPT:
Use six sentences to sell me on hiring you for the job opening on the New York Times book review staff.
I'm afraid that I wouldn't get hired at this time, because I didn't make it in time to fill out the application...
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... [Read more] Oh My!!! June 6, 2018 at 11:57pm
PROMPT:
oh no...."Checking Hard Drive... File Corrupt." With a deadline looming, your heart stopped. Now what???
This resembles my life right at this moment when I'm trying to get something turned in before the deadline after unexpected delays.
Anyway, I'm getting my act a bit more together...
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... [Read more] Our Influence As Writers / Artists June 4, 2018 at 11:58pm
PROMPT:
"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all." {x-link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lennon}John Lennon{/x-link}
As a writer do you agree or disagree with Mr. Lennon? What do you think your role as a creative person in society is?
Do I agree?
Yes & No...
We definitely write in a way t... [Read more] My Thoughts Exactly!!! May 28, 2018 at 11:56pm
PROMPT:
“We are stardust, we are golden, and we got to get ourselves back to the garden.” Joni Mitchell Let this quote inspire your blog entry.
This song has come to mind to me often when I think about how wise we were in the Sixties (Sure! We had our blemishes, but we still had a wonderful vision!) and how it seems as if several people ended up losing sight of this beautiful state-of-mind.
I'm glad that several of us are getting ourselves back to the garden a... [Read more] JELLO (Or Reasonable Facsimile) May 25, 2018 at 4:52pm
PROMPT:
Write about the life of a box of Jello.
I'm going to have to make this quick, as I'm hurrying to get ready to leave for a mini-vacation of sorts.
You'll be able to read about that when I return and write about it in this special summer-long blog entry that you can find by going here:
I'll also be writing some J E L L O memories here:
For now, I'm going to leave you with a couple of things to look forward to with ... [Read more] Turning The Corner... May 23, 2018 at 11:39pm
PROMPT:
Use these Credence Clearwater Revival song titles in your entry today.
Proud Mary, Lodi, Someday Never Comes, Up Around the Bend, and Bad Moon Rising.
Have fun!
Please remember this:
Even if it seems as if you're dealing with yet another Bad Moon Rising in your life, and you're feeling as if you're stuck in your own personal Lodi and are just spinning your wheels, not moving forward, and getting more and more stuck in the mud, DON... [Read more] In Tune May 22, 2018 at 11:55pm
PROMPT:
May 22 is Buy a Musical Instrument Day. Do you play a musical instrument? If not, would you like to learn a musical instrument? What is your favorite musical instrument?
I actually play several musical instruments, and each one has traits that would make it a favorite for one thing or another.
A keyboard might be a favorite in the sense that it allows me to play even musical instruments that I DON'T know how to play and to do it well and as easily as... [Read more] An Entirely Different Day May 19, 2018 at 10:36pm
PROMPT:
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust
Let this quote inspire your blog entry.
Today was an entirely different day than I'd had planned for a lot of different reasons.
For one thing, I'd planned on getting a a whole lot more things done online than I did, but I was barely on the computer today because I kept finding new things to do without even going beyond the front porch of my apar... [Read more] Debbie The Cat: Daughter Of Mrs. Zion & My Partner-In-Crime May 15, 2018 at 11:49pm
PROMPT:
Write about a pet that you have, have had, or want to have.
I'm in the process of working on a story about three generations of a cat family that will, among other things, answer why/how my cats got such unusual names and how Debbie and I were partners-in-crime...
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... [Read more] Paths Of Beauty May 12, 2018 at 11:56pm
PROMPT:
The Path of Beauty
It's Saturday, May 12, 2018, and I wanted
to share a poem with you that I've posted online
in one or more places but can't seem to remember where
right at the moment.
Anyway, I went ahead and created a place for it to go
when I find it again. I've already included a beautiful video
there, so it will be worth your time to go over there and check
things out...
Anyway, there are so many beautiful paths, and I&... [Read more] If I Had It To Do All Over Again... May 10, 2018 at 11:52pm
PROMPT:
You are thrown back into your past, but you find it totally different than what you recall. Are you happy or do you try to solve it and put your past back as it was?
When I looked at today's prompt, I was
reminded of the following song:
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If I went back in time and found out that I was
growing up in an entirely different life, I would
make the choice to look for and return to the life
that I lived the first time a... [Read more] Time Flies... May 9, 2018 at 11:54pm
PROMPT:
Let's have some fun with these words. swallow, formal, march, danger, coma, and essay
It's a very hard pill to swallow ...
If you were to ask me what this pill is, I would tell you that its the way that time seems to march to a different drummer — a drummer whose beat seems to make the day fly by as if it had sped up so much that the formal time of 24 hours allotted for a given day has become informal to where some days such as this one m... [Read more] My Serendipity Life (or) Spot-On, Mr. Ray Bradbury!!! May 7, 2018 at 11:53pm
PROMPT:
"Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way." —Ray Bradbury
What are you're thoughts on Mr. Bradbury's advice?
I definitely believe this, as my life takes many twists and turns to where I actually surprise myself re: how the day I plan actually ends up being — and this includes what I write, how I write it, and when I write it.
Here's a bitem and an entry that will give you a look at my life:
It's all g... [Read more] Getting My Act Together... May 5, 2018 at 11:55pm
PROMPT:
Use these words in your blog entry: robotic, lottery, jigsaw, blueberry, back, gray, confidence, colt, garage.
At this time, I'm putting various parts of my life together like a giant jigsaw puzzle, and I have confidence that the pieces will fall into place at the right time.
Each day can be like scratching off a lottery ticket and seeing what I've won — and, unlike with scratch-off tickets and/or numbered balls selected in a robotic way, I w... [Read more] !?! PHIL !?! April 25, 2018 at 11:59pm
PROMPT:
Everyone has a favorite song. Except ...
Everyone has a favorite song. Except ...
!?! PHIL !?!
I actually met a guy one time who said that he hated noise and that music was noise to him so, therefore, he hated music.
He was really into guns, however, and said that he DID like the noise of a gun being fired.
He also said that he liked one song about The Civil War -- so even he had a favorite song.
If you're a music-lover like me, chec... [Read more] The Passing Of Time or Growing Older And (Hopefully) Wiser April 24, 2018 at 11:58pm
PROMPT:
Write about an experience that changed your way of thinking.
The ongoing experience of growing older and, hopefully, wiser has changed my life in some ways.
In other ways, it has left me the same...or, perhaps, not.
Even in the ways that I've remained the same, it's a more mature and weathered version of "the same."
I've just designed a sheet to talk more about this...
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PROMPT:
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Use these words to inspire your blog entry.
Here — for your listening pleasure — are some songs about Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow.
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... [Read more] Patiently Plodding Ahead... April 21, 2018 at 11:47pm
PROMPT:
Creation Saturday: Use the following words in your blog entry: cheerful, ceramic, arrow, optimum, computation, project, rodent, witness, hibernation.
For quite some time now, I've been working on something I keep referring to as "TheBig PROJECT ", and I think that people are starting to wonder not only when I'll be getting it done (meaning to the stage where I grand-open it with its final name) but, also, if I ever will get it done.... [Read more] I Used To Be A Tree That Lived Many Years & Grew Very Big... April 20, 2018 at 11:49pm
PROMPT:
A tree narrates a story about its life.
Once upon a time, I used to be a tree that lived many years and grew very big.
When I was born, Jesus hadn't been born, and the land on which I stood wasn't called California at the time.
I spent many years just growing and growing while weathering the storms of life.
I wasn't the only tree that got to be very big, but I was one of the ones that got so big that, after cars had been invented, part of me... [Read more] One Of My Calming Rituals Is Strolling Down Memory Lane April 17, 2018 at 11:53pm
PROMPT:
What are your calming rituals?
I have lots of things I do that are calming to me.
Any kind of communicating with God is calming, and there are many ways to do this from the more traditional to the more outside-the-box ways.
Then, there are adult coloring books and puzzles.
Listening to music on YouTube or watching Game Shows on TV are a couple more things that are calming.
When my minivan was working, Just getting out and driving with no particular p... [Read more] Appearing To Be Lacking In Words... April 10, 2018 at 11:40pm
PROMPT:
Let this Writer's Block Quote inspire you: “Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?”
― Kurt Vonnegut
If I were bound and gagged by policemen, my brain would still be working, and I would be planning what I was going to say just as soon as I got free — not to mention that my brain would be very active in trying to figure out the best moves to make, when to make th... [Read more] The American Dream April 9, 2018 at 11:54pm
PROMPT:
Let the following quote inspire you.
"May the saddest days of your future,
Be the happiest days of your past."
Chicago Hope
This sounds like another way of describing what has become known as "The American Dream" in spite of the fact that this desire is something that happens in more places than the USA.
It's about how parents often move heaven and earth to try to make sure that their kids have it better than they did while, at the same t... [Read more] Autumn April 8, 2018 at 12:01am
PROMPT:
Describe your favorite season using all five of your senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.
This poem I wrote:
does a great job of engaging all of the senses in the description of my favorite month.
I will give you an example of each of those senses here as well...
sight
The beautiful and various colors of the changing leaves
sound
Songs being sung by people taking a hayride
touch
A caress by a gentle breeze
taste
... [Read more] In Loving Memory Of Richard G. Kolczynski April 5, 2018 at 11:59pm
PROMPT:
In a blink of an eye ??? I don't know, you tell me what happened.
I was going to write more but have been busy with other things today, but I have a tribute to a friend which proves how suddenly life can change.
This is what I wrote in Richard's guestbook...
I'm late at entering this, as I had to go back and edit it to make it look better.
Here's what I wrote for my other prompt blog -- which I actually DID get turned in on time...
On Mon... [Read more] |
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