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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.  |
| Prompt: How has January been for you? What are your hopes for February? Write about this in your Blog entry today. --------- January has been a bit cold, too cold for where I live. I think February will be much better, weatherwise. Otherwise, it is a wait-and-see thing. Since we have a new president, the things are changing greatly, and I'm watching and hoping that everything will fall into place and nothing will be negatively affected. Just maybe, the wait-and-see attitude is what is needed. In other words, it is like writing a skit instead of a whole play or a full-length novel. From where I look at it, January and February have gotten together and have also become a single skit and a funny one, too, because most people make new year's resolutions in the beginning of January. As for me, finding out how hopeless this was, I stopped that practice for myself decades ago. Talking about resolutions, maybe it is the wild new-year-parties that go to people's heads and they end up with a hopeless hope, only to find out later, that it was the partying that talked them into making resolutions. So here enters February, sending its first inkling that maybe the resolution-making wasn't such a good idea, since it cuts into who we are and our inimitable ways of handling life. And this is very much okay! Then, there is SOUP! Since the weather in February can be too cold for doing anything, most of us stay indoors. Not in my area, though; however, I do like staying indoors anyway and my latest go-to comfort is soup in the evenings. Especially, a chicken-soup base, to which I add whatever strikes my fancy. So for supper, making my bowl of soup is like writing a short story. Who cares that my short story of soup will be no more after supper! Kind of like the new-year's resolutions. Poof! and they're gone! "Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite," said Auguste Escoffier. See, I knew I was into something important there! Although, unlike the fancy Escoffier soups that are created with know-how and labor of love, mine are a mishmash of whatever there is in the fridge. Still, my soups have the same or similar soul-soothing effects. So in February, it is soup to the rescue every supper. And I'm quite happy with that idea! |
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