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Rated: 13+ · Book · Personal · #1311011
A terminal for all blogs coming in or going out. A view into my life.
Started July 1st 2019 for contests, etc. as other blogs are filling up and have other purposes.

Ferry boat between Solvorn and Ornes across the Lustrafjord i Sogn og Fjordane.




I'm starting a new blog because
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L'aura del Campo  (13+)
Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
#982524 by Kåre Enga in Montana
had over 1,200 entries and that was getting close to full. I don't want to trim it by deletion. I did that once, much to my dismay. Will be used more for poetry.

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Hoarfrosts from Hell  (GC)
Anything I'm not happy about or that I don't want in my main blog!
#997339 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is still hidden from the public and will remain so. It's more personal and full of angst. Was used for 30DBC for May 2020 and now used for Blogville.

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Enga mellom fjella  (13+)
Enga mellom fjella: where from across the meadow, poems sing from mountains and molehills.
#1317094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was full... until the number of entries was increased. A mixed blog, mostly stories.

I'll be linking to
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On The Write Path  (13+)
ON THE WRITE PATH: travel journal for Around-the-World in 2015, 16, 18.
#2032403 by Kåre Enga in Montana
as I need to post there about my travels.

 
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O Pinions!  (XGC)
May my opinions gather wind under their wings and fly, perchance to soar.
#1501776 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for my opinions. *Laugh*

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Nurture your Nature  (13+)
Look around. Let Nature nurture your Soul. I record images I sense and share them here.
#1439094 by Kåre Enga in Montana
was set up for nature observations and musings.

 
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Watt's Gnus  (18+)
On topics and today's gnus. Definitely opinionated. Set to 18+ for a reason.
#1439092 by Kåre Enga in Montana
come out of a need to share interesting stuff I come across. When I was young I did a small newsletter named as such. (or was it column in the newsletter? Been 30 years... I think.)

 
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Flash Fiction  (GC)
Short 300 word, more or less, "stories" .
#2190336 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is where I put my flash fictions. Maybe someday I'll figure it out and have enough good ones to publish. Ratings vary and some are hidden from view.

I've started an appendix (I no longer have one personally) to keep track of my Space Cadet journals for Space Blog. It's a work constantly under construction. Mind the mess.
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Space Cadet - the never ending journal  (18+)
Journeys of an Alien Space crew.
#2226611 by Kåre Enga in Montana


I needed to start a folder for contests as there are so many deadlines and details to remember.
 
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Conquest ... to keep track of contests  (18+)
A place to keep track of in progress works and up-coming deadlines as well as any awards.
#2233119 by Kåre Enga in Montana
(also very messy!) *Shock2*

 
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Blogville   (XGC)
Where bloggers meet and greet to read and share. No required prompt. Alias: blogville.
#2253938 by Kåre Enga in Montana
is for posting personal blog entries in hope that folks will comment and post their blog entries there as well. I will be commenting on all blog entries posted. It's my effort to rebuild a blogging community.

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Bibimbap 비빔밥   (13+)
Left-overs piled on hot rice and mixed.
#2296648 by Kåre Enga in Montana
an E blog focusing on food and culture. Easily digestible for the Queasy and Questioning.

October 30, 2023 at 9:56pm
October 30, 2023 at 9:56pm
#1058326
November Realities "Welcome To My Reality Forum

Prompts for November 2023:

1. What kind of day are you having, and why?

2. What's your favorite color, place, food, book, song, or movie, and why?

Orange, garden, kao pad, "Cry, the Beloved Country", Ombra Mai Fu, "Babette's Feast"

3. What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?

4. Where are you happiest? Describe that place.

5. What's something you're good at? What makes you good at it?

Traveling. Preparation and a Plan B.

6. What do you consider to be your culture, and how do you feel about it?

Global. It's a bigger box.

7. What would you change about yourself or your life? Is there a way for you to change it?

8. What is your relationship like with various members of your family?

Not very close. No problems... just distance.

9. If you have brothers or sisters, how are you similar to them or different from them? What about with your friends?

I'm more like my older than my younger sister. My friends are eclectic.

10. What are your views on religion?

More inclusive, peaceful, equitable. Like DEI.

11. What keeps you up at night worrying? Are your worries realistic? Is there anything you can do about them?

12. Do you have a philosophy of life? If so, what is it? If not, what is your method for making important decisions?

13. In what areas are you optimistic, and in what areas are you pessimistic?

14. What are your most prized possessions?

15. Who is someone you miss?

Gary. Kevin. All the lost loves of my life.

16. What is something someone else has that you envy? Describe it and your feelings about it.

17. What is a book, movie, song, or television program that has influenced you, and how?

18. What is a mistake people often make about you?

My name. My gender.

19. What's something you disagree with about the way you were raised?

I was smothered and not taught the family secrets and how to handle common situations.

20. What's your favorite: season, color, place, or food? Describe it.

Spring and Autumn. Kansas.

Journal prompts - daydreams

21. Describe your dream: job, man/woman, house. Whatever your dream is that you wanna share.

22. How would you like your life to be when you're older?

I am older. I didn't foresee any of this.

23. What would be the guest list at your dream party? What would the various guests talk about?

24. What magic power would you like to have? How would you use it? What would it feel like?

As a child my power was invisibility.

25. If you won the lottery, what would you do?

No idea other than to set most aside for a year. At this age? No longer.

26. What's a country you'd like to visit? How do you imagine your time there?

Been to 45. Rwanda, Malawi, Senegal, Burkina Faso. Colombia, Cuba. Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan. Timor Leste, Kiribati, Vanuatu. Kentucky...

27. A dream in a tear

28. Under a star near the sea

29. Warped and wrinkled

30. Curly fries and plastic bow ties

31. Attention! Attention! Read all about it…

32. The truth often hurts

33. Blowing kisses in the storm

34. She grew and then he knew

35. Pages of perfection

36. Damp dangling tresses

37. Was it a laugh or a cry?

38. Dull knives and feisty fellas

39. Molten kisses

40. To the moon and back

Honeymooners!

41. A tale of turbulence

While flying or daily drama?

42. Disappointing disasters

43. Lipstick secrets

44. Grandma’s medicine

45. Something lost, something given

46. Evening hush

When the night blooms and the moths gather.

47. Slices of life

48. Voyage views

49. Peculiar happenings

50. Crumpled sheets and tousled hair

Morning.

51. Shoved into a closet

My childhood dreams.

53. The best part

54. Food stamps fortunes

55. Finding rainbows between the clouds

On a soft day. The sun burns in Isan.

56. What does your character do all day? Does he or she have a job or go to school?

57. What type of job does your character have—or what school subject does he or she enjoy most?

58. What is your character’s favorite holiday? Why?

59. What is your character’s favorite type of music? Why?

60. How does your character sound when he or she laughs?

61. Write a story using all the fall colors.

62. Write about doing Halloween when you were a kid.

63. Do you love it when the time falls back?

No. I think the clock-time should never change. It's needlessly disruptive.

64. Do you love it when the time springs forward?

65. Are you glad that they are talking about doing away with daylight savings?

Yes.

66. What does "one day at a time" mean to you?

67. Share something about you, that no one knows.

I keep my secrets close. My family taught me to trust no one.

68. November Rain

In the north... yes. Here... I wish.

69. What are the rules you live by?

70. What do you love most about Thanksgiving?

71. When do you start your Thanksgiving gatherings?

72. Do you watch Christmas Movies in November?

No. I watch them whenever if at all.

73. Write about what is bothering you sometimes writing it out helps if there is more than one thing you can write all of it out. Don't worry this is a safe space.

My journal is over 5 thousand pages.

74. Do you celebrate any holidays where you work? If you are in School do you all celebrate holidays?

I tried. Forced to mostly celebrate the holidays of others.

75. Write 20 things that you have completed so far this year.

76. Tell me about your anger.

Better to not share.

"Welcome To My Reality Forum


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