Team Ahimsa Blog Relay, Various Contests

May 8, 2025 at 10:50pm
In response to "We Choose How We Roll"

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace - thank you!

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

May 8, 2025 at 7:52pm
In response to "We Choose How We Roll"

Well done, Sonali!

We do choose how we roll! Good point and take on the prompt.

May 1, 2025 at 9:57am
In response to "Cricket"

An apple a day....
My house is a complete mess and I am shy to invite people over, so I don't mix with the neighbours. You can't not-invite someone who lives next door if you're friends with them. I know that's silly but that's the eccentricity I have.

My neighbours are SO good to me, helping out when I need them even though that's probably the only time they hear from me. These next door neighbours brought me a Harry Potter planner and a packet of Bertie Botts Beans when they visited Potter World!

An apple a day....

May 1, 2025 at 9:35am
In response to "Cricket"

I have great neighbors and parents. They are always doing something with their children (a girl 12 and a boy 15), having birthday parties, going to their school games, or just hanging out together...and they both work, one at home, one not. They have pets (cat, turtle, dog) and their children are so polite and considerate. I'm really lucky. And yes, I am somewhat introverted but I try...like you. Hope you have a good day, today and always....Connie

Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 28, 2025 at 11:13am
In response to "Nice Outing!"

I love meeting other people's pets. Getting to play with them or pet them is even better.

Apr 23, 2025 at 2:21am
In response to "Eighteen Years!"

Kåre เลียม Enga Thank you!! That's great!!
Shall read it properly soon and send a comment.
Thanks again!

Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 23, 2025 at 1:03am
In response to "Eighteen Years!"

I wrote a poem "Earth Everyday [182.35]"

thinking about you before I realized it was your anniversary. Good timing?

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY

Apr 18, 2025 at 3:37am
In response to "Tramping"

iKïyå§ama - thanks so much for running this activity, for this comment and for the lovely MB!
I'm glad I saw your reminder (I'd missed the first newsfeed post somehow!) and participated.

Potter for Non-Potterheads

iKïyå§ama

Apr 18, 2025 at 3:18am
In response to "Tramping"

A wonderful summary of what made Chaplin, and his famous 'Tramp', such an icon.

Thanks for joining in the celebration of Chaplin's 136th birthday!

StephBee

Apr 6, 2025 at 6:47pm
In response to ""MADNESS OF MARCH""

My review is based on professional editing points. It is meant to be honest, encouraging, and respectful in accordance with WDC guidelines.

THE POEM

This is an acrostic poem with a festivals theme.

WHAT I LIKED

I liked the accompanying video. It helped to frame the poem for me so I had more context and understanding.

STRUCTURE

This is an acrostic poem that used "MADNESS OF MARCH." From Websters: a composition usually in verse in which sets of letters (such as the initial or final letters of the lines) taken in order form a word or phrase or a regular sequence of letters of the alphabet

The poem caught the excitement and fun of the video.

MECHANICS

I did not spot any spelling/punctuation mistakes. Good use of WDC ML to highlight the beginning letters.

DESCRIPTIONS

I liked: "Magical, Mundane, Mysterious, Magnificent," All descriptions in and of themselves, but what visual descriptions and they evoke a lot of emotion from interesting, daring, exhilarating and even a yawn.

PARTING THOUGHTS/SUGGESTIONS

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May 7, 2025 at 10:58pm

#1088903

We Choose How We Roll

"Note: 48-HOUR CHALLENGE : Media Prompt Deadl..."

Yes, a stone only rolls downhill
But we're not stones
We're human beings
We choose with our minds
our hearts souls and bodies
and we roll sideways
or uphill if we want to.

We can defy gravity
if we think we can
We can swim against the current
if we believe in ourselves
We can stop the fire burning
If we bring in enough water
We have the power in ourselves
if we only know it.

Yes, a stone only rolls downhill
because that's all it can do
Let's not choose to be stones
Let's not harden ourselves
Let's not forget what we're blessed with
The power to think, to feel, to decide
to choose how we roll.

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May 6, 2025 at 12:59am

#1088797

I'm having fun planning my
HARRY POTTER FOR NON-POTTERHEADS
session, coming up on Saturday!

May 4, 2025 at 9:15am

#1088685

Long and satisfying day

Had a lovely Harry Potter meeting (topic 'siblings'), followed by a grill veg sandwich for lunch, followed by a playback theatre class. Fulfilling day!

May 3, 2025 at 1:14am

#1088602

Potter themed art work

Received some Potter-themed art work as a gift from a friend's niece! The Knight Bus and the drawing of the trio are Potter themed, then there's a Christmas Tree and a corner-bookmark.

May 2, 2025 at 12:17am

#1088492

My Cousin's Poetry Book

My cousin, who is a Doctor, is launching his second poetry book this month and I'm so happy about this!

Food In Indian Literature

May 1, 2025 at 4:10am

#1088453

Cricket

Great to hear the neighbours play cricket. Parents and two teenage kids - a boy and a girl. Even though they've put a net, the ball sometimes comes into my side-gate. Then I give them the key and joke that if it comes into my house, it counts as 7 runs instead of 6!

I have very little interaction with my neighbours (I'm a self-appointed recluse here) so this is important for me.

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April 26, 2025 at 5:02am

#1088051

The Food In Indian Literature topic today was BHAANG JOURNEYS - about addictive substances. Pretty interesting!

They gave us a tote bag with the book cover, I wonder how it'll look to go to school with BHAANG written on my bag!

April 25, 2025 at 12:29am

#1087956

Enid Blyton Meeting

Had a good Enid Blyton meeting.

None of the attendees have read Enid Blyton, so I had to start from scratch, but it got quite deep. We were supposed to be there an hour but went on for two hours.