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by Sumojo
Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #2186156
The simplicity of my day to day.
This is where I write my thoughts, feelings and my daily trials, tribulations and happy things
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February 19, 2024 at 9:12pm
February 19, 2024 at 9:12pm
#1064477
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise

Prompt: Fears of the Unknown
Do you have any fears of the unknown that sometimes make you feel uneasy? If so, for you which things, ideas or people would make you feel better or act like the safety net beneath a trapeze act?

This unknown is not what people generally like to talk about but is one we all must face sooner or later. I was reminded of this great unknown only this morning when I was listening to a radio program. The subject was dying. I know it’s not what most people like to talk about, but this lady who was talking was telling about her mother‘s death in Canada. Apparently they have a system they’re called MAIDS. This stands for medical assistance in dying. In Australia, we do have a system for voluntary Assisted death, but a person needs to have a terminal illness. In Canada, this is not so, maybe also in the United States, but probably not in all states. So yes, this is my great unknown and it does make me feel uneasy. I would like something like the Canadian system to be brought in to Australia law as a safety net under that trapeze act, we will all have to attempt. Some will do it better than others. When my time comes I’d really love to do it well.
February 18, 2024 at 9:59pm
February 18, 2024 at 9:59pm
#1064417
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise

Prompt: Talents
What does the word "talent" mean to you? Then, what if you had a hidden talent that you didn't know you had? What do you think that talent could be?

I adore to see children with a natural talent. They’re so joyous and love doing whatever it is their souls tell them to do. It may be drawing or painting, singing or dancing, but somehow, eventually their interest dissipates. Why? Usually because some well meaning adult spots their talent and tells them they could be so much better if they did it this way, or that way. And that is why most adults think they can’t draw or they can’t sing. They were made to feel not good enough.

What could my latent talent be? Well, apparently it was writing and I never knew. I didn’t start writing until I was seventy years old. That was ten years ago. Now I write every day. Not novels but stories and poems, reviews and blogs. Nothing earth shattering, but oh, it’s so much fun! The strange thing I’ve discovered if you tell people you write is they always ask if you’ve written a book and have you had it published? Why don’t they ask those of us who sing around the house why we haven’t made a recording? Or why a golfer isn’t playing in the champions league? No if you write then you must take it seriously.
What I would have loved to have been is an actor or stage singer. Maybe I could have been rich and famous? But I’ve been watching old home videos of myself, husband and our three children when we were all young and beautiful 😂
And I’ve realised what my talent was. It was raising a happy, well adjusted family.
February 16, 2024 at 4:02am
February 16, 2024 at 4:02am
#1064261
"Blog City Prompt Forum

Prompt: Have fun with these random words in your entry today:
museum, step, fuel. swipe, clay. brag. and suspicion.

I don’t like to brag but I’m very proud of my city’s new museum, Boola Bardip. The name means many stories in Whadjuk Nyoongar language, the indigenous land on which the Museum sits.

There is a wonderful section dedicated to aboriginal history which goes back at least 65,000 years. There are many artefacts displayed including clay pots which have survived through the eons.
We have a great public transport system in Perth, but sometimes people find they need to drive their cars through different circumstances. I don’t like to take a swipe at the city planners and designers but there is a major lack of parking spaces.
The public transport Perth delivers is pretty good but doesn’t reach the regional towns. This of course means the public who are forced by need to drive, must pay exorbitant parking fees and spend too much money on fuel when they want to come and visit the city and enjoy such iconic buildings such as the museum. I have a suspicion that country folk aren’t considered as important as their city cousins by the people who run our state of Western Australia. The politicians are often accused of this but of course deny it. I wonder would it be asking too much for someone to step up and admit that’s the case and attempt to rectify the problem.


February 15, 2024 at 12:32am
February 15, 2024 at 12:32am
#1064207
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise

Prompt: What would a perfect day look like to me?

A perfect day for me would be to wake up after a really good nights sleep. You know one of those nights when you just lay your head down on the pillow, close your eyes and don’t wake up until morning. That never happens for me so that would be an amazing start to the day. This of course would be in a bed with freshly laundered sheets which would be replaced every day by magic. I would be with my husband, of course, and we would feel as we did 50 years ago, pain-free. I don’t mean to go back 50 years I don’t mind being my age I just don’t like feeling as if I’m my age.
Then I would just go downstairs where my breakfast would be ready and waiting for me. It would consist of muesli, icy cold milk, some fruit, crispy toast, with marmalade and a pot of tea which never ran out.
Afterwards, my family would pay visits during the day. None of them would have any bad news, everyone would be happy and smiling!
That sounds like a perfect day to me.
February 12, 2024 at 7:18pm
February 12, 2024 at 7:18pm
#1064085
"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise

Prompt: Firm Stance
“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.”
Abraham Lincoln
Is standing-your-ground completely possible to achieve? What do you think being assertive means and how well can you do it?

Assertiveness is not something I’m very good at. I can always see everyone’s point of view, that’s my problem. But there have been a few occasions in my life where I’ve stood firm, no matter how much I wanted to please someone, this mattered to me.
Bear in mind I’m almost eighty and the occasions have been few, so that must tell you how strongly I felt at the time.
My beautiful son, who had never been rude or in anyway disrespectful to me his mother, started taking drugs, at first smoking marijuana, which I hadn’t known about. The first time I found out he’d stuck a needle in his arm I let him know how disappointed I was and tried to help him. But it appeared he didn’t want my help, so heart broken I told him he needed to leave home. Because we’d been so close and he knew what his actions were doing to me he left.
After a while after seeing his decline, lost jobs, stealing etc. I said I could no longer bear to see him and told him he needed to leave the State, get away from everything, his druggy mates etc. He was not to return until he’d sorted himself out.
I was made to feel by many to be the worst mother in the world. Even my tough, (on the exterior) husband couldn’t believe I was being so hard. But I knew what I was doing was right, although risky.
Our son rang me every day on his journey to the other side of Australia. He was driving his old car getting some labouring work on the way; this was before cell phones, reversing the charges.
He was often hungry and wanted to come home but I said,”no,” and sent a little money.
He went fruit picking, cleaning, labouring in fact he was so busy trying to survive he stopped taking drugs. He stayed away a long time. He began working on the Australian islands off Queensland, he taught people to water ski and surf.
Today he is 50 years old. He manages a rainforest resort and a cattle station. He has a beautiful family.
Would it have been so if I hadn’t taken a firm stance? Nobody knows do they?

Frog in a Hanging Basket



February 11, 2024 at 11:18pm
February 11, 2024 at 11:18pm
#1064039
"Blog City Prompt Forum
Prompt: Reading
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
Montesquieu
How does reading affect you?

I used to be an avid reader. When I was a little girl my mother would take me into a book store and buy me a book whenever we went to the city. My greatest childhood memories are all wrapped up in my books and the joy I received from them. I would sneak away and hide to read, I’d read under the covers at night when I was supposed to be sleeping. I even walked into a lamppost once so engrossed was I in a book.
Each Saturday morning Dad would take me to the library. It was old, dark and musty smelling but I loved it. Everything about it, the hushed atmosphere and the shelves of books I could choose from. The library was under the chapel and was like an Aladdin’s cave to me.
I read all of Charles Dickens’ books. These weren’t the dumbed down versions either. When I pick up one of Dickens’ novels now, I realise how much more simple we need our writing to be. The language used in those books are certainly not used today. I wonder at the reader I was at such a young age. I read the Heidi books, and Little Women, of course. How I cried when Beth died.
February 9, 2024 at 12:28am
February 9, 2024 at 12:28am
#1063808
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#1901868 by House Florent is ready


Prompt: Use these words in your blog: perceive, anniversary, pattern, information, pier, change, and raw.

Yesterday at my writing group we were discussing a members’ story. The question raised was if she was meaning to call the place a ship was moored, a pier or a jetty. I don’t think after a robust chat she was convinced to change it.
It was my fifth year anniversary of joining the writing group. It’s an all women’s group, there are usually about ten of us. After previously being part of a mixed group, I perceived the women to be more respectful, willing to listen. I’d noticed a pattern of behaviour amongst the men. It was as if they considered themselves to be superior and were unwilling to help and mentor a raw talent.
The writing centre is for many different writing groups. There are groups for children, teens, romance writers, a mixed gender group, which is held in the evening, the women’s group and I think there may even be one for the historians amongst us.
If anyone is interested, for your information, the centre is named after an author called Katherine Suzanna Pritchard. We call it the KSP Writers Centre.
People come from all over Australia and even overseas to reside there in the cottages in the garden.



Frog in a Hanging Basket



February 8, 2024 at 3:51am
February 8, 2024 at 3:51am
#1063752
The Hollywood Walk of Fame’s history goes back to 1953, when E.M. Stuart, volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, proposed building the Walk as a means to “maintain the glory of a community whose name means glamour and excitement in the four corners of the world.” The construction began on February 8th. Have you ever visited the Walk of Fame? Is there a specific star you would like to see if the opportunity arose?
Do you think being famous is a good thing or not?

Living where I do so far away from the USA, I’ve never visited the walk of fame. Of course, like everyone who’s breathing, I am completely aware of it.
I must confess I’m not a fan of fame. I appreciate the art, and the craft of acting and singing, in fact all of the arts; painting, writing, and poetry. Yet it seems to me, the only people who get invited to place their hands into wet cement are the people who make the most noise.
I prefer actors who will play in a regional theatres, on stage, purely for the love of their craft. I can’t stand the artificiality of Hollywood. Let’s face it, unless you can wear a dress/gown which leaves nothing to the imagination, then a female will find it more than difficult to crack the Hollywood scene.
I’m unsure of the equivalent for males. There are some actors/film stars who are average in height and stature but for the most part, the artificially whitened teeth, high cheekbones and six pack, are the minimum of requirements.
I’ve always said that fame would be my worst nightmare. Can you imagine how awful it would be when each time one steps outside, a barrage of flashing lights and cameras are there to greet? As I said: it would be an absolute nightmare.
February 6, 2024 at 11:50pm
February 6, 2024 at 11:50pm
#1063676
Day 2006: February 7, 2024

Prompt: What is your favorite color? Why?

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This is the forum where blog prompts will be posted for the Blogging Circle of Friends.
#1901904 by House Florent is ready


I’ve always loved blue, ever since I first learned my colours. It’s such a calming colour, soothing. Unlike the firey colours, the colours of heat, such as red and orange.
I even love the sound of the word; blue. It sounds as if someone is cooing to me, like a pigeon sounds.
My grandad used to keep and race pigeons and I would sit with him and wait for a bird return to the coop. And I would listen to the birds in the coop cooing softly as if the were saying ‘be still.’
I had a favourite blue dress when I was sixteen, I still remember that particular blue, like a field full of cornflowers or bluebells.
My mother collected Wedgwood pottery and that colour blue is beautiful against the white.
Blue is for a boy, or so it is said. My girls I dressed in blue, no pink in my vicinity.😂
So there are my reasons. Memories.
February 6, 2024 at 3:41am
February 6, 2024 at 3:41am
#1063613
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Blog City - Every Blogger's Paradise.
#1972895 by House Florent is ready


Prompt: Feeling valued
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
William James
What makes you feel appreciated? Can you describe a time when someone made you feel valued?

I’m sure everyone wants to be appreciated and yet sadly that’s not the case. Often people don’t discover, until it’s too late, how much that person did for them or for others.
I’m blessed to have family who appreciate me. I’m sure when my kids were young, even as teenagers and young adults, things I did for them went unnoticed and were certainly unappreciated. Yet now they always tell me they appreciate me because they know I’m always here if they need anything. I’m unable to give much these days, but they know I’m always available to listen to their problems.
The most I’ve felt appreciated lately was when my grandson said he wanted me to go to his university graduation. He didn’t even ask his girlfriend because there were only two tickets allocated to each student. I asked him why he wanted me and his mother to be there. His reply was “because you’re the only two people who have ever given a s***!”
Sorry about the language but that’s what he said. I was so taken aback but I knew he really meant it and it made me feel appreciated.

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