CANDLELIT CHRONICLES: HISTORIC HAUNTS (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/fantasywrider May 28 2019 Prompt: Inaction Is inaction a form of action? What do you think of inaction or rather giving up? Can it sometimes work? Can anyone be blamed for inaction in real life or in history. Yes, Neville Chamberlain: pre-WWII. Edmund Burke: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." And "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.&#3...[Read Full Post] Wed, 29 May 2019 09:08:09 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959822 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959822 Prompt: Einstein said, âTwo things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.â Can you think of a few things about people that show stupidity? What about the universeâs stupidity? What doesn't constitute human stupidity? Other than a few geniuses (currently, the late Stephen Hawking; authors/thinkers such as Tim Powers, John Connolly, Dean Koontz, Neal Stephenson) whose work expands my intellec...[Read Full Post] Tue, 21 May 2019 11:29:07 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959389 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959389 Stone AngelsBeckon Angels beckon In the graveyard Twilight. Stone guidance For the Dead. Weeping or solemn, Stone, they beckon. 4-4-2-3-3-4-4 Tue, 21 May 2019 10:30:47 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959381 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959381 Prompt âEgo never accepts the truth.â Buddha How useful are our egos if they canât accept the truth? What do you think? Truth nowadays exists like the Shadows in Plato's Cave: barely glimpsed, only vaguely, and many wouldn't recognise it if actually experienced. Almost everything is "fake," or as the current saying goes, "Photoshopped." My grandsons see in terms of real or "fake,&#3...[Read Full Post] Mon, 20 May 2019 09:34:46 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959326 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/959326 Blog City May 11 2019: Everyone is addicted to something in some shape or form.What are the things you can't go without? I don't call mine "addiction." I think addictions often grow from habits, rightly or wrongly adopted, and can sometimes, like habits, be overcome. Even when they're not overcome, sometimes they can be mitigated or reduced. What I couldn't live without is Reading ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 11 May 2019 04:54:20 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958739 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958739 Blog City May 9 2019: Prompt: "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream another dream." C. S. Lewis Do you agree with this quote? Yes! Had I not believed that, I wouldn't be a writer. I wouldn't have been an online reviewer for the past 12 years. I wouldn't be approaching my 12th Account Anniversary at WDC. I could not hope for positive change in my living circumstances or to ever achieve all that I had not. If I did not be...[Read Full Post] Thu, 09 May 2019 11:18:22 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958612 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958612 âThe meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.â Carl Gustav Jung What are your thoughts on the quote?--Blog City May 7 2019 I don't see how any two personalities coming into contact cannot be changed in some way, similarly any reader not be changed by any book (positive or negative), or viewer not be changed by watch...[Read Full Post] Tue, 07 May 2019 10:38:56 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958455 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958455 Blog City May 2 2019: Prompt: What things in life make you feel at peace? This has been the same all my life. Books & reading; pets & animals; Nature & Environment; Outer Space; Horror & Weird Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction. Fri, 03 May 2019 11:28:04 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958170 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/958170 April 24: Prompt: "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong." Charlotte Bronte What are your thoughts about this? I am not certain whether nursing grudges, bitterness, and resentment physically shortens a life; certainly it exacerbates or possibly even creates health problems and disorders. Certainly it makes for an embittered life. I've known people who've carried grudges aga...[Read Full Post] Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:33:22 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957654 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957654 For Blog City Prompts: April 19, 20, 22 april 19: Write about a family heirloom or simply an object that's been passed through the generations in your family. Anything tangible is long gone, but I carry my lifelong love of reading from parents. I grew up in a household in which both parents read, daily, and provided books (hardbound and paperbacks). I learned my love of mystery and science fiction at home. I was taken to the Li...[Read Full Post] Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:34:38 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957239 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/957239