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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
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Congratulations on your virtual blogging adventure!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-BCoF_2-1901868_14.gif) Hi! Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration, moving you from negative energy to positive." – Unknown. from goodgoodgood.comI have a lot to be grateful for everyday. Today, I'm able to get to WDC more often, because I was able to set up a positive place to write again. There are lots of changes being done here before winter. And, I started using a little saying that is keeping me focused on the changes that need to happen in order for winter to be more comfortable this coming season, than last season was. My saying is "Make every day count." When I wake up and can not decide what to do for that day I say this to myself and it actually moves my mind into get it done realm. Winter January to spring 2026 was cold here. Next year should be better with the changes I am working on. One day at time is also part of Make every day count. Basically I spend a lot of time alone so I need to keep myself focused.  one more finished household change. See Ya! P.S. Grateful to hear 30-Day- Challenge may resume. |
| "Better to trip with the feet than the tongue," Zeno Prompt: use words time, cat, day and night HI! "A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit." ProverbsI'm thinking tripping with your tongue can bring all kinds of problems. You will take on all kind of different thoughts in other peoples minds. Some comments may seem too, cat like. You may wish you could wake up again and start the day all over. You cannot take back words. Tripping with your feet may mean just walking on a little more careful, but you won't necessarily have to recall it over and over. Unless, of course, you trip and fall off a cliff. Then even the word Help yelled really loud won't put you back on the path. We must be familiar with Aristotle today. Or is it game play day?This time I looked up Zeno. Good night! There were more than one of them so I'm not sure which one made the quote,  See Ya! |
| "Everything we hear or see is a perspective, not the truth" Marcus Aurelius Does this quote make you feel uncertain about what we see or hear? Or else? What do you think about the quote? HI! "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha by way of: BrainyQuoteI'm bumbling around on the internet today like I've not been here before. Perspective is a way of presenting something. It can have various opinions within and about any thought or subject. Real truth is absolute. You can change the meaning of something by adding content to the subject. The sky is blue. Is this true or just a scientists perspective of the way we see the sky? NASA + 2 :by way of Copilot The sky appears blue because molecules in Earth's atmosphere scatter shorter-wavelength blue light more than longer-wavelength red light, a process known as Rayleigh scattering. How Sunlight Interacts with the Atmosphere: Sunlight, which appears white, is actually a mixture of all visible colors. When it enters Earth's atmosphere, it encounters tiny gas molecules and particles. These molecules scatter light in all directions, but shorter wavelengths like blue and violet are scattered much more efficiently than longer wavelengths like red (NASA Space Place, Science Notes, Royal Observatory) This scattering redirects blue light across the sky, making it the dominant color we perceive during the day. Some of the thoughts we have are true and some just a perspective (parts), of the subject we are thinking about. It is why we learn and study to find truth. Perspective can have more than one opinion. I really think Marcus Aurellius was just not living in the year 2026. He was speaking from the knowledge he had about subjects known to him. There is some possibilities listed that he was interested and friends with a known Rabbi of Jewish descent. He attempted to understand the environment in which he lived. He was educated in Greek and Latin. Which would show, that he was a thinking person interested in what makes why, why? There is a book written about his meditations. Interesting prompt. I learned about a Roman Emperor today.  |
| Worry? Hi! Think wrongly, if you please,but in all cases think for yourself.by Doris Lessing Day 4194//June 3,2026. Whenever I think of this word, worry, I wonder about the meaning attached to it. Depending on it's use in a sentence it can be a verb, noun, or and adjective. It seems to me you really can not worry to much if you are busy. It takes a lot of effort to worry. If you have a problem, sit around and bite your fingernails, you might be worrying. If you have a problem, sit around and mentally try out possible solutions. It probably is not worry. If you have a problem with a person and sit around and think of ways to eliminate the problem, maybe you are reading too many murder novels. I looked up the definition of worry because I wanted to know exactly what worry is or is not. Some dictionaries online say it is when you can't get a problem off your mind. Thinking about the problem interferes with daily life. Some music can get stuck in your head like the above description. Then I worry, how too get rid of the notes of the song or words. Someone painted black over the number 6 on my mailbox post. What do you suppose that means? I read on Facebook recently that 666 is the number assigned to humans. Why worry? You probably will never understand half the news about all these oddities daily. A lot of the news about wars and negotiations about wars sound alot like, when my children were squabbling about chores or toys. If you really are worrying about something today, try mentally throwing it in the trashcan and closing the lid. Then go have a good day, cause the sun is shining. You probably need a day off anyway.  apondia#1781748 |
| When's the last time, you stood outside and wished upon a star? What kind of wishes are worthy of the stars? Hi! {ehttps://youtu.be/HKh6XxYbbIc?si=l-Mmjb90sr-eu8k9mbed:} I have not wished on any stars or even seen a shooting star for years, I did make an effort this winter to go outside on a clear night and see stars for the first time in a few years. I've been leaving one of my drapes open in the evening so I can see the moon. One night this week I was reading and heard a noise outside. My window was raised slightly so the noise was clear. Blip, Blip,Blip........ I thought it was unusual for a night noise so went to look. A night drone was passing over our garage with flashing lights, making a Blip, Blip noise from the rotors, Made a note to myself to close the drapes if I was dressing at night. Fifty two acres and even though we have neighbors, not very close to us, we are still being invaded.  Life goes on. Everyday something new.  |
| Goals for June. Hi! Light tomorrow with today. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning I have two rooms in the basement to clean. I've been thinking about them all winter, That is my next hope for anytime from now, until I get it done. I also need to finish cleaning and reorganizing front porch. Part of the porch work was done this afternoon. I don't think for Months only for one day at a time. It is difficult to plan to far ahead. Weather or other people can change what I plan in a day. The two rooms I am going to work on are a major accomplishment if I can achieve them I will probably be a success for the whole summer. Setting up a desk in my room seems to be helping me get back on line more often. One success at a time.  Interesting thing to think about, June. It is almost here. apondia#1781748 |
| One Summer? Hi! To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. by Helen Keller {1880-1968} I have had a lot of summers. A lot of them memorable. I fear the one I should write about is just ahead of me. I started it, this summer, by using birthday and mothers day gift money to set up a place in my room to keep my laptop. I have hopes that having it here will give me short times to sit down and write. Plus, I hung my guitar on the wall. Instead of packing it and unpacking it I can just pick it up and play. It will help unless I get too lazy to just use the laptop and guitar. I have a lot of gardening to do and outside work to do. And two rooms yet to make manageable in the basement. I'm trying to keep motivated by telling myself daily to, MAKE EVERY DAY COUNT. Summers here can actually mean alot. Living rural means winters snowed in or cold enough so I am home and inside all day daily. When I had horses I spent part of each day with them in the barn. This particular winter sometimes the ice in our yard was so thick I was in danger just to walk between the back door and the bird feeders. I did feed birds daily anyway. I used ski poles with sharp ends to pick my way across ice. So, summers are full of outside activity. Dog walking which needs done and container gardening, reading on the porch or balcony. For some reason I expect changes this summer. What kind or when I don't know. I guess literally it is still spring by the calendar? So far weather is messy. Two days of sun and dry 3 or 4 of rain and soggy ground. It will interest me to see if I can keep myself motivated. Here we go toward summer and into the unknown, unscheduled ideas.  Write ON! apondia#1781748 |
| Book Title: Hi! The mind grows by what it feeds on. by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND {1819-1881} Book titles are a mystery. Sometimes they click and sometimes they fade away. Maybe the one for my life story would be, Which Mystery Should We Solve First. I honestly believe my life story would be one the reader would want to finish. I even know how it starts. I was going through some books this morning as a part of spring cleaning and reorganizing. I came across some pictures of me as a child, that I had never seen before. Not a surprise. People usually take things from the house not leave them. My brother told me a few years ago he was in touch with a writer who was going to write my brother's life story. He died some time after telling me about it. I never heard whether he actually moved on the idea. His story and mine would be different even though parts would occasionally meet in time. I think the title of his book should be, The wind in a high tree, When he was a teen ager he built a platform in a big maple tree in our front yard for me to use. I spent the summer reading there that year. He spent that summer climbing into the very top of the same tree and sitting for hours. He was up so high I could not see him from my own perch. He was probably 50 or 60 feet in the air. Titles are a mystery to me. Sometimes they don't seem to fit the story . Then I wonder who made up the title of the book.  write on! |
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| How do you make friends with the dark? Tell us about love and loss and learning how to continue when it feels like you're surrounded by darkness. HI. Cherish forever what makes you unique, Cuz your really a yawn if it goes! by Bette Midler I'm not sure you can make friends with the dark? The best you can do in my case is learn to live with it. I know. It is not possible in many cases. In all cases you should let your light shine. Allegorically speaking, the more light you can shine the more the dark will move away. Walk into a dark room, with a bright flashlight. Where the light shines the dark disappears, If you need to find a possible solution for a problem that is making dark in your life. You may need helpers to hold up more light, than you can shine alone by yourself. My life has been off kilter since I was 6 years old. I have people in my life who refused to teach me anything. Some who liked to say they were experimenting on me. I never gave anyone permission to do experimentation on me. My grandfather gave me a New Testament when I was about 12. It had all of Psalms from the Old Testament and everything that Yeshua said in red. I read it often as I was growing up. As a result of this one act for me as a child I have had light to pour on loss and attack throughout my life. It is true I had to experience loss and love and maturity before I could apply light effectively. Nevertheless, there is light waiting to help, sometimes when we least expect it. Just apply the word live daily, I live, he lives, they live, we live, Today I'm going to live through whatever comes my way. life on the earth is not ever going to be perfect for anyone. So, try to apply positivity to what ever thinks it can get you. And if the dark overwhelms me maybe I will have to come back and read what I just wrote. Remind myself of the "Little Train that Could." A childhood story.  |
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