Daily Cascade (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/profile.php/blog/joycag Prompt: âAll things are symbols: the external shows of nature have their image in the mind, as flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves.â Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Harvest Moon Write about this quote and/or some things that make you feel excited about the fall season. ---------- I don't know if I'm all that excited about the fall season here in Florida. The only thing that may be a bit new here this season could...[Read Full Post] Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:03:21 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127403 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127403 Prompt: "I walked through the door with you, the air was cold But something 'bout it felt like home somehow" Taylor Swift, All Too Well Write about this song or any other that mentions the fall season. Why do you like it and do you have any memories attached to it? ------------ The oldest autumn song in my lifetime is the Autumn Leaves, as I remember it when it was sung by Nat King Cole and man...[Read Full Post] Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:44:22 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127289 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127289 Prompt: âEvery leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.â Emily Brontà Write about a single falling leaf and how it mirrors a characterâs personal change. -------- Isn't a single falling leaf a beauty to watch? This is especially true when the branches around it are still dressed in gold and crimson.... That leaf is so like me and I suspect like so many others. It doesn't know where the wind wil...[Read Full Post] Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:55:26 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127188 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127188 Prompt: Have fun with these ten words: brand, stall, thrust, challenge, seasonal, privilege, pursuit, prosper, metal and suspicion. ------------ Since [Link To User Raegana] mentioned the weather this morning... [Link to Note #1235069] Oh, That Florida Weather! Silly me, a famed *brand of sunscreen I bought one day, but the sudden rain poured down and washed it away. Then, a gust of wind gave my umbrella a *thrust, It turned inside out and scattered its rust, while the sun *stalled behind clouds of gray, yet, ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:05:12 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127086 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1127086 Prompt: Robert Frost has a delightful sense of humor -- Let this quote inspire your entry "Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and canât, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it" Ever wonder why people talk to hear themselves talk, I have. How do you disengage without hurting their feelings? ------------ Funny and so true! And to answer the questions first...[Read Full Post] Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:10:45 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126979 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126979 Prompt: "The purpose of life is life with a purpose." Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. ----------- Well, tell that quote to any newborn, who doesn't even begin to understand what's happening to her or him. Newborn or not, this means our purpose always changes according to the situation we're in. In addition, that purpose is always altered according to the extenuating other side situations. ...[Read Full Post] Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:22:41 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126895 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126895 Prompt: "Hope is an unborn prayer." Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. -------- This quote points to the relationship between hope and faith. Hope is that tiny persistent feeling inside us that says perhaps things will fall into place and tomorrow will be different. We hope before we find the words to ask for what we need. In my personal life, I may hope for healing, peace, forgiveness of myself and ot...[Read Full Post] Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:02:47 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126799 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126799 Prompt: Nostalgia "Nostalgia is a seductive liar." George Ball The fall season often brings a feeling of nostalgia. Write about a moment from a past autumn that still holds meaning for you today. --------- Nostalgia is an iffy kind of a feeling. It is strange and beautiful in its own way, but then, sometimes such feelings can trick us. This is because nostalgia is not completely an accurate record of the ...[Read Full Post] Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:02:18 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126715 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126715 Prompt: Pumpkins âThere are three things that Iâve learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.â Linus, Itâs the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Pumpkins are showing up around us here in October. If you were to carve a pumpkin or write a poem or a story to represent something in your life (unlike Linus), what would your pumpkin symbolize? ------ Pumpkins are gloriously awkward. That'...[Read Full Post] Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:25:01 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126596 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126596 Prompt: Trees and People âIn a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.â Paulo Coelho In how many ways do you think we people are like the trees? Do we let go of our leaves (ideas or sorrows) just like the trees do in fall? What personal belief or mindset are you ready to shed as you move through this October? ------------- Although we look mu...[Read Full Post] Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:59:35 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126475 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126475 Prompt: Have fun with these words-- structure, ballot, knowledge, enjoy, dark, campaign, requirement, construct, marketing, and possession. -------- My Ballot Blues I really never *enjoy any election day, and all those things the candidates say The political *structure, who can understand, when so many opinions compete for command? Any *campaign promises a bright tomorrow, But I...[Read Full Post] Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:37:33 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126382 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126382 Prompt: Scholars have always discussed the notion that history repeats itself. Eugene OâNeill once said, âThere is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again - now.â Karl Marx said, âHistory repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.â And of course, the most well-known quote about history repeating itself was said by George Santayana: âThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.â Discuss the...[Read Full Post] Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:16:14 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126294 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126294 Prompt: What are your favorite candle scents and baking scents? Write about these in your Blog entry today. ------ I'm not good with candles and candle scents or anything that smokes due to the threat of asthma making a return, but the baking scents is another matter. Although nowadays, I don't bake much, either. However, I do bake bread in my trusty old bread machine, the likes of which are only available now on E-Bay. Yup, that aroma of fresh ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:25:06 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126184 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126184 Prompt: What are your favorite books and movies for a rainy day? Write this in your Blog Entry today. -------- On a rainy day, if I have nothing else to do which is almost never, I like to watch the rain and listen to it, more than anything. Yet, rainy day or not, movies for me is past history. I can't sit still for a long time to watch something far-out someone else cooked up. Books are another matter,...[Read Full Post] Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:06:58 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126053 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1126053 Prompt: "October is the month for painted leaves.... As its and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight." Henry David Thoreau Are you ready for October? What about November? Are your plans for this late fall season include more reading and writing? ------- I am never ready for the passage o...[Read Full Post] Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:08:24 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125978 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125978 Prompt: Sarah Addison Allen wrote about the first frost, "It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon,â What does first frost of fall remind you of? ------------ Where I live this so-called first frost reminds me of nothing because I don't ever recall seeing one around here, at all. It is said, though, when people first wake up on five or six in the morning, they'...[Read Full Post] Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:08:57 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125774 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125774 Prompt: Farmers' Markets "Everyone says, Come to your senses, and I do, of you. Every touch electric, every taste you, every smell, even burning sugar, every cry and laugh. Toothpicked samples at the farmersâ market, every melon, plum, I come undone, undone.â Dean Young What do you think of farmers' markets? Are they still relevant? --------- We used to have several farmers' markets around, seasonal or otherw...[Read Full Post] Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:41:34 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125659 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125659 Prompt: "I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I write and I understand." Chinese proverb "You know youâve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." Paul Sweeney Discuss these quotes in your entry. ------------ Both quotes show the importance of words, writing, and reading in our lives. The first quote refers to a deeper understanding a...[Read Full Post] Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:58:09 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125566 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125566 Prompt: "Effective time management is about choices, not watches." Stephen Covey Do you agree with Mr. Covey that time management is about choices? Do you use your time wisely? ----------- I wonder if the quote referred to the watches we wear or the act of watching. If it meant the watch I wear, that watch can tell me what time it is, but it cannot decide what deserves my time. That decision belongs to me. As to ch...[Read Full Post] Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:04:03 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125470 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125470 Prompt: You can be completely alone in a crowded room. Write about this quote in your Blog entry today. ----------------- During my more sociable days, if I saw someone standing or sitting alone, mostly a stranger, I went near that person and started a conversation. To see someone alone in a group and pretending that it is okay always bothered me. So, yes, it can happen. The person may be new in town or new ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:31:08 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125370 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1125370