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 |  Day to day stuff....a memoir without order. |
 Imagination is described by Webster as...The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses in reality. Albert Einstein said "Logic will get you from A to B, but imagination will take you everywhere."  I never realized it until I read it somewhere but there are ways to boost one's imagination: Create a visual journal Draw whatever you see for 15 minutes a day. You don't need to be an artist. Think like an artist Cut out pictures from magazines & piece them together to create an original image. Listen to Bach Close your eyes while playing your favorite music. Or listen to the sounds of nature on a CD or in the great outdoors. Play word games Try thinking of as many words as you can that begin with MAR...or you pick. Daydream Let your mind wander, or focus on a single object & study its characteristics.     Everyone has a story....here's mine.....c   |
| Talent Pond's Blog Harbor Prompt: This time let's discuss that one show, with the character that just doesn't seem to fit. You wish you could just pluck them out of the show and replace them with someone else. What show is it and why don't you think they fit? My book club read Orange is the New Black and so it was natural that I would watch the series although it strayed substantially from the written word. It was okay and I stuck with it for a while but I finally gave it up because of Healy. He had to be the absolutely worst counselor ever, and I couldn't put up with the bad name he gave to the profession. If anyone needed a counselor, it was Healy himself which eventually happens. Actually he needed more than a counselor. He had so many character faults, it's like the writer made a dumping list. I quit watching because I couldn't take him anymore. He became unbelievable. until next time...c |
| Talent Pond's Blog Harbor Prompt: Let's start out simple. What is your favorite series to watch lately? It can be new or just something you found but it was canceled years ago. You tell us why you like it and what it's about. Although I gave up cable tv several years ago, I watch different shows on a couple streaming sites. I am addicted to Homeland and have seen every episode since its beginning. Claire Danes as Carrie Matheson has me hypnotized and although it's on tonight, I will watch it tomorrow on http://findtv.net/index.htm. Carrie is a CIA agent, now an ex-CIA agent, who also happens to be bi-polar. If you can imagine it, she does it, gets into all kinds of trouble, but usually comes through in the end. I can't help rooting for her no matter what. I'm also a fan of Call the Midwife on PBS and will watch that tomorrow or Tuesday on the PBS site. I've never regretted cutting the cable and enjoy tv my way without commercials and when and where I want it. until next time...c |
| What would you do if a family member thought you were slighted by another family member and they had to take up for you? And you really didn't feel slighted at all. Would you get into the mix and probably make everyone tiffed at you or just say nothing to anyone? until next time...c |
| I saw my first snake of the season today, or I should say Mopsy saw it first. She was on the windowsill with her nose to the screen looking down intently. I went to see and this skinny black snake with the longest flickering black tongue imaginable was slithering up through the vines of the shrub under the window, coming directly at Mopsy! I yanked Mopsy back and slammed down the window. Whew, that was close. until next time...c |
| We have been under a tornado watch since 10 this morning, to end at 7. It continues to look ominous with thunder sounding in the distance and a gentle rain falling. I keep checking the radar and storms are all around me with winds around 20 mph. It makes for a scary afternoon with all the pines in my backyard. Mopsy has calmed a bit today, getting used to it I guess. Many in Gainesville have lost power so that is a possiblity for me...may be a good time to write some of those letters I mentioned in a prior post. Abe read by firelight. I guess I could write by candle light. It would certainly make a good topic of conversation to the addressee. Jeez, now the sun is out but I hear sirens in the distance and more thunder. The temp is around 75. It would be a nice day if I didn't have access to the weather forecast. until next time...c |
| We have had wind, lightning and thunderstorms last night and today, a few pine branches down in my yard which I managed to get out to the curb for the debris man to pick up tomorrow. The forecast is for the same until tomorrow evening. Enough. Mopsy is an altogether different cat when it is storming, quiet, slinking around, hiding under the bed with little appetite for even her fav foods. And even stranger, the temp now is 61 degrees fahrenheit and the forecast says it will be 69 by 10 o'clock, not a good sign for calm weather. The good news is that I don't need to go out for anything. until next time...c |
I got hooked and subscribed to The New Yorker with this story. Wish I could write like this. No More Maybe  until next time...c |
| I attended an author talk at the library today, a local author who is also a member of my writers' group. Her new book is about the way music affects us, our brain, our mood, our life. I hadn't known she was such a good singer. She began her talk with a poem that included lyrics from several songs which she sang acapella, to my ears in perfect pitch. Isn't it amazing how you think you know someone pretty well and then, suddenly, a new facet appears. Her latest book is titled Sounding the Depths and her name is Wendy Thornton, a lovely lady in every way. I had wishy-washed all morning on whether to go or not. This is the first really warm day we've had in awhile and I wanted to be outside, but in the end I went and was glad of it. until next time...c |
| Oh I am so glad it's warming up again. I actually get depressed when it's cold, probably from staying inside. Do you keep cards and letters? The reason I ask, next month has been proclaimed by somebody, probably a card company, as national letter-writing month. I have always kept cards and letters either Jim or I received and enjoy every once in awhile going back through them, reading and remembering. There are some funny audio birthday cards, one of a man on a mower with actual sounds of the mower and another of a man snoring...you can guess the sound. Sadly, some of them have lost their audio. I like the letters best, though, especially ones from my aunts when they would write with particular news. Seems like it's been a long time since I got a snail-mail card or letter. Maybe national letter-writing month is a good idea...just not everyday. until next time...c |
| I finished J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy today, and it has left me with a lot more questions than answers. If you haven't read it, it's about the problems faced and facing poor people in Appalachia and areas to which they may have migrated for work. The book goes to the heart of the matter, hopelessness. How do you restore hope? My Jim was from West Virginia, from a poor family, but there were no drugs or alcohol involved as in Vance's family, but like Vance, he "joined up" right out of high school because there was no hope if he stayed. No hope of finding a good job, no hope of advancing one's station in life, no hope of fulfilling the American dream. Inadvertently, according to an interview Vance gave, his book spoke to the reason for Trump's presidency. When you're desperate, you do desperate things. You clutch at hope. until next time...c |
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