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| I'm going with Giambattista (1668-1744) Vico's definition of common sense: "judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire people, an entire nation, or the entire human race". I'm not great with "common sense" as I question reality and have always felt I was an outsider. Do you have common sense? In my "Blogville "  forum entry: "Common Sense?" |
| I'm officially on semi-hiatus. I'll continue to post in my blog (but my goal is to write more in my hand-written journal). I'll continue to write poems and post them here. I plan to make more items from entries. I have plenty of space to do so. I hope to enter contests on a whim. Too stressful otherwise. I will decrease visiting forums. I will decrease my presence on the newsfeed. I will decrease my blog-reading. I will spend more time IRL with tangible people than online. Follow me on my blog:
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 I've added your Blog to my Member Blog Links, which I've recently started updating.  https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/enga |
Kåre เลียม Enga  - I'm glad to hear that you aren't disappearing completely. We must all do what is best for ourselves, but I would still miss you, as I miss all good things when they go. |
I'm trying to keep track of contests. I know I'm missing a few.
Does anyone know what the Community Challenge (the big one) will be this month? Not all contests are posted on the newsfeed and it's difficult to keep up. Also, I'm trying to reduce my time on-line and will go on semi-hiatus very soon to reset my focus on life. |
| "Journey Through Genres: Official Contest" is running this month and the genre is detective. I do my best to update "Invalid Item" every month. If I know about any contests that are going to be opening in upcoming months I list them as well. |
🐕GeminiGem🎁  - For May it's actually
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I found this chapter/flash in my blog from 2022 and finally made it an item (I would've used a picture of a shoe if I could've found one).
It reminded me of Cubby's contest. By the way... it's spring!
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| I googled The Man With One Red Shoe (Hanks movie), lots of images. I can even make one with AI. I draw. I can take a pic of any of my shoes…size 15, maybe put cat in one. I’m loopy.  Late. Did I butt dial newsfeed? |
| Seen on bookface: "I just finished writing a book on penguins. It probably would've been easier to write it on paper." Immediately thought of S 🤦 |
I've just edited an item I found in my old blog and put into my portfolio:
Also added:
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Warning: politics: this poll is a flash-fiction that includes parts of the text of a political figure's Easter Message.
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Dave Ryan  - trump is currently facing a number of law suits including by the Democratic National Conference among others |
| Dave Ryan - The original system was set up to negotiate disputes between landed gentry who considered a king abhorrent. Congress was to be the center of power with a judiciary to make sure rules were followed. The president was more of a spokesman or figurehead. It was set up as a republic and never has been a democracy. It also was exclusive. Women (property), poor (slaves/servants/serfs), non-White (African, Asian, Native) people were excluded. Since it's founding, citizens have fought dearly (sometimes in the streets) to expand human rights to all. At the moment many Americans worship the dollar $$$ and vote with that in mind. And money buys a seat in Congress, on the Court, and obviously the Golden Throne in the White House. |
My last two blog entries have no comments.  "Pastry café" "Flashbacks" Have I failed to mention that I have a new blog?
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I wrote this in 2003! Posted it in 2005, put it on private and never edited it. New to you (forgotten by me).
My new blog feels a bit lonely. Four entries, a couple comments, a few views:
Entries: "A self-written obituary?" "Identity" "2nd day of new blog" |
| Earth Everyday The Sly-ones piss on us. The Ravens just soar on the winds, never touching ground. The Gryffin-fires just burn it all down. All live on this same rocky sphere; but we humble Huffers inherited the dirt. With that guy Sly we fashion mud; we join Rave to spread the dust; we build bricks with old Gryff's flame. No blame, no shame, no glory. No one knows our faces nor our names. We are the salt of the dried up puddle, the honey, the spice and vinegar, the bitter-sweetness of live itself. We are servants of these fertile soils. We never lord over it. Our power resides with our healing charms and our respect for ALL. We will always count our blessings and heed the curse, "We have given you this Earth, if you can keep it." witches warlocks work the roots — trees flower and fruit © Kåre Enga (22.april.2025) [182.35] I always think kind thoughts for THANKFUL SONALI 18 WDC Years! In "Earth Everyday [182.35]" |
I have set up a new blog:
It's still under construction. |
Amethyst Angel 💐  - If you so desire. เลียมพูดภาษาไทยได้นิดหน่อย My name in Thai is Liam (easier in Thai and Lao). |
| President Trump's full Easter message: Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and INEFFECTIVE Judges and Law Enforcement Officials who are allowing this sinister attack on our Nation to continue, an attack so violent that it will never be forgotten! Sleepy Joe Biden purposefully allowed Millions of CRIMINALS to enter our Country, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Borders Policy that will go down in history as the single most calamitous act ever perpetrated upon America. He was, by far, our WORST and most Incompetent President, a man who had absolutely no idea what he was doing -- But to him, and to the person that ran and manipulated the Auto Pen (perhaps our REAL President!), and to all of the people who CHEATED in the 2020 Presidential Election in order to get this highly destructive Moron Elected, I wish you, with great love, sincerity, and affection, a very Happy Easter!!! From Truth Social, reported on numerous media outlets. My opinion: "Trump's Easter Message" |
Damon Nomad  - Anyone in denial should read your dystopian forewarning:
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I don't normally make word searches but the grapevine suggests that there are a few WDC members who adore them.  I guess we'll have to change them all to English now that Our Dear Leader abhors diversity, history or culture (unless it's his own). Sigh Since Montana is Spanish, therefore unacceptable, and impossible to pronounce (too many syllables) I propose Jeannette (after Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress) Fred (after his father). I now live in Missoula, FR.
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| Fun! Here's one - near where I grew up - Ashtabula - near Lake Erie in Ohio - I was told it meant 'river of many fish'. Hard to prove. |
Hurting as I reread
after receiving this: ![Merit Badge in Nordic
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For Ragnvadr’s River](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/group-Nordic-2335469_15.gif) Why hurt? Once upon a time I could write. |
A poem I never made into a readable/reviewable item:
Wild and wet the spray the spray even now i feel it falling over soaking into becoming me the rocks the rocks hidden by the spume's sprung beauty deadly in the slippery gloss glistening slimy smooth your long tress of hair a stallion's mane the tail of a mare white light a thousand diamonds' flight a-falling from the heights misting misting in your dark green lair
each strand
wild and wet
untamed
© Kåre Enga 2008 [165.41] 2008-04-21 Inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's Green and White (1957/58): "Small vertical canvas of abstracted white cascade of a waterfall pouring down between dark green cliffs, dissipating into soft green mist at the bottom." https://collections.okeeffemuseum.org/object/36/ |
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