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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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Fictiøn Ðiva the Wørd Weava

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Mysteries"

Beholden

and Ned

- I love this! Simple, but deep.

Thank you both for Beholden's blog and Ned for your comment.

Beholden, I can't get your Heart button, so I put a Cool button.

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Ned

about 12 hours ago
In response to "Mysteries"

Sometimes someone will find the answer to a mystery and everyone learns that answer but then later, someone else finds a different answer. Then there will be two factions fighting over the answers because some will be financially and emotionally invested in the old answer and others will be similarly invested in the new answer. Mysteries are tricky things but it's the answers that cause all the trouble.

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Ned

a day ago
In response to "Penguins"

Beholden

Mork was from Ork.

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Beholden

a day ago
In response to "Penguins"

Ned

And means something completely different if spelt "Great Orc."

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Ned

Jul 24, 2025 at 8:46pm
In response to "Penguins"

"Great Auk!" Sounds like some colorful expression of disgust from a turn-of-the-century teenager complaining about not being allowed to listen to the current and scandalous songs of the gay nineties.

"He's the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo"

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Fictiøn Ðiva the Wørd Weava

Jul 24, 2025 at 4:35pm
In response to "Penguins"

I know about penguins, but I learned something new.

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Beholden

Jul 24, 2025 at 11:29am
In response to "Penguins"

Also true, Steven.

Beholden

Jul 24, 2025 at 11:28am
In response to "Penguins"

Yes, Amethyst, I know.

Amethyst Angel 🌼

Jul 24, 2025 at 11:20am
In response to "Penguins"

S 🤦

Thank you, I've now gathered my wits and clarified it

https://www.google.com/search?q=was+the+dodo+an+auk&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&c... =safari

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S 🤦

Jul 24, 2025 at 11:17am
In response to "Penguins"

Amethyst Angel 🌼 The dodo was a pigeon. Seriously.

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July 26, 2025 at 12:05pm

#1094128

Mysteries

Mysteries

Things are always in the last place you look for them. Because you stop looking then, of course. And mysteries are merely questions to which you do not have the answer.

Yet.

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