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Daily Cascade

by Joy

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2326194

A new blog to contain answers to prompts

Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.

Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

about 19 hours ago
In response to "Fun with Words "

Wow! You did an awesome job with the words, Vic picked them, he always comes up with weird combinations.

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🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

about 22 hours ago
In response to "Fun with Words "

Super, Joy!

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Princess Megan Rose

Jan 15, 2025 at 7:02pm
In response to "Joy in Life"

Appreciating beauty is important. We need to find joy to keep functioning. Good call. I appreciate your views.

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🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Jan 15, 2025 at 3:09pm
In response to "Joy in Life"

Yes, "real joy isn’t about perfection—it’s about appreciating the beauty in imperfection and living well and fully."

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Joy

Jan 11, 2025 at 1:20pm
In response to "How Much to Share"

Beacon's Anchor

A trust lawyer is who I used for my living trust and will. It was expensive but so worth it.

Still, that's not enough. The lawyer's office has to know that the trustee has passed on, and for that, they'd need the death certificate, and in my case, I bought the plot near my late husband's and also bought my shroud since my sons wouldn't know what to do and what and where to purchase such stuff. If a cremation is an option, then other arrangements could be needed.

Also, not everything can be put in a living trust, such as IRA accounts and other items. After us, every single thing can be a problem. I only hope we can make it easy for our children.

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Beacon's Anchor

Jan 11, 2025 at 12:19pm
In response to "How Much to Share"

I have to agree with you and the one thing is hard to talk about is the Living Will or Living Trust because family aren't comfortable talking about it, My fiancé is having a hard time dealing with that situation with his mom and she doesn't want to talk about the Living Trust and getting it fixed before she passes. It is a hard subject to talk about.

For me, I need life insurance and a Living Trust because I don't want to burden my kids with it. I know eventually I would have to talk to my daughter about it and I understand it won't be an easy one to talk about but she has to know how to handle all this. I'm going to have a someone I trust help her get through it too.

Thanks for sharing,
Beacon

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Princess Megan Rose

Jan 9, 2025 at 11:58am
In response to "Interesting?"

The salamanders sound cute. Being cold is never fun. Good call. Interesting Blog.

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Joy

Jan 9, 2025 at 10:29am
In response to "If Only...in 2025"

🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Thank you! So many things in the first week of the new year! I hope the rest of the year will go much more smoothly for all of us.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Glad you're traveling. I used to like Delta, too. Surely things do change, from year to year.

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🌻 pwheeler ~ love joy peace

Jan 8, 2025 at 9:17pm
In response to "If Only...in 2025"

Glad you have your health and writing, Joy!

Kåre เลียม Enga

Jan 8, 2025 at 9:05pm
In response to "If Only...in 2025"

The issues were always there... we just didn't know about them.

Now that we can know about them, do we care?

Algorithms mean we hear about news that others want to hear. Does a tree make a sound when it falls where no one is listening?

Competency matters as does a heart. I used to fly Delta over other airlines because when something went wrong their staff was trained to serve and make it all better. That matters to the customer.

Nowadays, I prefer to fly most any Asian airline... for that same reason (plus comfort).

I only pay rent and p.o. box in Montana. Water, electric, heat is included. I don't have a car. By keeping it simple I avoid many of the everyday mishaps others face.

Traveling however...

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January 18, 2025 at 12:26pm

#1082513

On TikTok

Prompt:

What are your thoughts about Tik Tok ban? Is this the beginning of a new trend where apps are being banned because of politics? We already have books being banned. What's next?

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I don't know what to think of this situation because, as usual, we are not privy to the entire facts. So much for our freedoms! On the other hand, I don't have TikTok and neither have I done any business with them, so far.

I think, however, this doesn't really stop China from butting into our USA business, since there are many other Chinese companies I and others might be doing business with without knowing their true intentions.

Another twist in the latest affairs is noted as: "TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, who is expected to attend Trump's inauguration with other high-profile guests, said he wanted to thank the incoming president for his commitment to work with the app and keep it available in the US."

You'd think it'd be Trump to ban Tik Tok, but no, it is the US Supreme Court.

"The US Supreme Court has upheld a law that bans TikTok in the US unless its China-based parent company ByteDance sells the platform by this Sunday.
TikTok had challenged the law, arguing it would violate free speech protections for the more than 170 million users it says it has in the US."

I don't know what's churning under covers and I resent that we are not made fully aware of what's going on, unless this has something to do with national security, in some way.

According to BBC, this is what happened with the TikTok App:

"How did we get here?

24 April 2024: Biden signs bipartisan TikTok bill, which gave Chinese parent company, ByteDance, six months to sell its controlling stake or be blocked in the US.

7 May 2024: TikTok files a lawsuit aiming to block the law, calling it an "extraordinary intrusion on free speech rights".

2 August 2024: The US government files a lawsuit against TikTok, accusing the social media company of unlawfully collecting children's data and failing to respond when parents tried to delete their children's accounts.

6 December 2024: TikTok's bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 is rejected by a federal appeals court.

27 December 2024: President-elect Donald Trump asks the US Supreme Court to delay the upcoming ban while he works on a "political resolution".

10 January 2025: The Supreme Court's nine justices hear from lawyers representing TikTok and content creators that the ban would be a violation of free speech protections for the platform's more than 170 million users in the US.

17 January 2025: The US Supreme Court upholds the law that could lead to TikTok being banned within days over national security concerns.

19 January 2025: The deadline for TikTok to sell its US stake or face a ban. TikTok has indicated it will "go dark" on this day."

This whole thing sounds like a badly written police-fiction, doesn't it!

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