Mr. Fezziwig’s Ball
“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” –Anne Lamott
One Liner Wednesday-Dance
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Happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah
Happy Hanukkah to all my fellow bloggers, friends and family who are celebrating this holiday! Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season. ❤
Silver Threading Writer’s Quote Wednesday-Perfectionism
” Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor…” What do you think? Does perfectionism get in the way of getting started or stop you from finishing or publishing your post? The image is of a diamond with natural flaws. Diamonds without flaws are very rare.
Writer’s Quote Wednesday is a weekly blogging event hosted by Colleen at Silver Threading. For more information check out her blog by clicking on the link for Silver Threading above.
Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award
The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award:
I am honored and Thank you Prajakta of An Armchair Perfectionist for nominating me for this award. Prajakta has a lovely blog that includes poetry, fiction and self-expression about life and her life in India.
Rules:
- Provide the link to the person who nominated you.
- Add the reward logo.
- Answer the questions your nominator has asked.
- Nominate 5 other bloggers and let them know via comments.
- Ask your nominees 5 questions.
My questions from Prajakta:
- A superpower you wish you had. Besides being able to heal what is wrong with the world like pollution of the air, land and sea and human suffering, I would like to be able to travel the world and drop in on some of the sisterhood and see all the great sights I have dreamed about.
- Do you believe in ghosts? Any experiences? I think there could be spirits in the world. I have read stories about people leaving a sign for their loved ones to find to let them know they are all right. After our cat Angel died I thought I saw here running into the living room. I would be happy if she was at peace somewhere in our house.
- Who is your most favourite person in the world? I don’t know, pretty hard to say. There are many people I admire very much: Gloria Steinem, Anne Lemott, Elizabeth Warren and after I publish this I will probably think of someone else.
- Introduce a great plot twist in the world we live in. Suddenly all people who are making wars and killing people for religious or political differences will be struck with the realization that we are all connected and every human whether man or woman has rights to be free and pursue their own destinies without anyone dictating to them how they should live or what their role is in life.
- Link up your best/favourite post from your blog. Well I do have over 100 of them but this was a short fiction I attempted: The Chronicle of Aine Part I.
I nominate these wonderful people for the Sisterhood of World Bloggers Award: ( I wanted to pick people outside the US with whom I feel a connection or sisterhood)
LucileDeGodoy for a visit to Amsterdam and a lovely blog about current topics, beautiful photos and proverbs. Lucile is very warm , gracious and writes thoughtful comments and responses.
LINDAGHILL for a visit to Canada. Linda has two blogs that include her fiction writing and she is a wonderful host of One Liner Wednesday and Stream of Consciousness Saturday. She is very welcoming and encourages us to read each others posts and she always comments on everyone elses.
Flaming English by Anna Nolan for a trip to England and some humorous lessons in grammar. Anna is very sweet and friendly as well so don’t be intimidated by the word grammar.
Hariod Brawn at contentedness.net to Glastonbury England and an interesting blog about spiritual and philosophical topics. Hariod is very supportive and thoughtful of other bloggers as well.
Capsule Creations another blogger from England who is an independent and modern young woman who likes to share some interesting and entertaining glimpses into her life and has been warm and gracious with her comments and responses.
My Questions for You:
1. Who in the world would you like to meet?
2. Where in the world would you like to travel or do you have a favorite place you have already been?
3. What kind of trips do you like the best? By car, boat, train or plane?
4. Do you think letter writing is a lost art and do you like to receive letters?
5. What woman do you most admire past or present?
Hope you enjoy and thanks sister bloggers of the world! ❤
The Harmony and Peace Award
I want to Thank Fourth Generation Farm Girl for nominating me for the Harmony and Peace Award. She has a lovely blog about her life on a beautiful farm in Virginia that has been in her family for 100 years. I encourage you to check it out.
This award was created by the Idealistic Rebel
~IN HER OWN WORDS~
“I created this new award to celebrate all those who promote Harmony & Peace, and who add Love & Beauty to the world through their Blogs and through their lives. Their Positivity makes the world a better place for all of us.”
~The Rules~
- Give this award to seven bloggers who have added Harmony & Peace, Love & Beauty and Positivity to the world you live in.
- Let them know that you nominated them.
- Acknowledge the blogger from whom you received this award
- Display your award on your blog, because you have earned it!
- Continue to live in Harmony & Peace
My nominees are:
Kat promotes community among bloggers by hosting KatGotYourTongue every week. All are welcome to participate.
I always enjoy Prajakta’s posts. I met her first on LindaGHill’s Stream of Conciousness Saturday.
I admire Teresa’s ability to take any daily prompt and make something creative out of it that relates to her life in Singapore.
Colleen has a lovely blog and has won several awards. I appreciate that she also hosts a weekly blog event Writer’s Quote Wednesday. She is welcoming to everyone and encourages us to read each others contributions.
JoAnne’s tag line is Ongoing Lessons From a Recovering People Pleaser. I can relate. She writes some peaceful blogs about being good to ourselves and finding balance.
This blogger has many interesting and witty takes on things. I think you will enjoy her posts. Humor helps to promote peace and harmony don’t you think?
I met Mark when he was the leader of our group of bloggers during NaBloPoMo with our Nano Poblano group. He is always very kind and supportive of other bloggers. Definitely promoting Peace and Harmony.
Well these are my nominees and I hope you will check them out. Now I think I must be on my best behavior because of this award. I hope I will continue to promote the values that got me nominated for it to begin with. 🙂
Swift Water Rescue Has Your Back
For my Stream of Consciousness Saturday post I decided to write about a local stream, the LA River. Our prompt today is to use the word “back” in our post.
The Army Corp of Engineers created a cement channel for much of the LA River. The process is called channelizing. This was meant to control flooding. What happens when we have a big rain is the river turns into a bullet train of water as it races through the channels like a gigantic water slide. Invariably some foolish, careless or uninformed people decide to go down to the river and are swept away. The LA Fire Department has a Swift Water Rescue Unit that will come to the rescue. People have died in past years despite desperate rescue attempts. Here is a story from the LA Times about the rescues from the recent storm which includes some video.
The Ventura County and LA Fire Departments, Police and Sheriffs Departments and the officials of other Southern California communities have been busy with a swift water rescue of 2 people, evacuating people from their homes and rescuing people trapped in their cars in mud slides along the Pacific Coast Highway.
In all these life threatening situations our Fire Departments, Police and Sheriff Departments really have our backs. We need to be aware of nature and potential threats in our environment and stay away from natural water channels, creeks and rivers during or after storms.
Video via news10d You Tube of Firefighters getting ready for rescue:
Some Rambling Thoughts about Focus
“One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.” –Daniel Goleman
I get frustrated trying to take a photo because it is hard for me to be sure the image is in focus. I wear glasses for reading now and it seems that this does not help when I am trying to focus a camera or my phone to take pictures.
I have trouble staying focused in other ways at times. I can get distracted by interesting things on the internet and spend way too much time browsing. I am not a regimented person. Left to my own devices I enjoy following my own schedule. Which can mean no schedule. I can meander through the hours.
I do like having choices of what to do with my time. If I have an appointment or need to do some work at a certain time I am good with that. But otherwise I really like to call my own shots.
It is easier to focus on things we enjoy doing. Like reading an article that catches my eye, watching a favorite film or reading a favorite author.
Social media like blogging can be very alluring and distracting. I am drawn into perusing the “likes” on my posts and comments. I enjoy the back and forth chats I get into sometimes in the comment sections. But then it is harder to focus and organize my thoughts about what I may want to write. There is a need for a schedule or regular routine to better order my day when I have this time I do have. To structure it for myself. To bring things into focus.
One Liner Wednesday-Heaven
“One day if I do go to heaven…. I’ll look around and say, It ain’t bad but it ain’t San Francisco.” —Herb Caen
Silver Threading Writer’s Quote Wednesday
Should we be looking at stats and trying to figure out which posts are the most popular and do more of those. It has to do with what your goals are as a writer. Are you writing to create a popular product or to express you own unique voice and creativity? What do you think?
A Milestone Today
I started my blog in July and a lot has happened blogging wise since then. I have learned a lot about how to navigate the system of Word Press. I have had advice of the staff and other bloggers. I have made some blogger friends! I made it through daily posting in November. So today I was notified I have created 100 posts.
So there is a lot to read here. Some of it is pretty good if I say so. Some of it probably not so good. But it has been quite an odyssey. At times I have gotten tired of hearing myself.
We are heading toward a new year and the direction I am going with my blog is still not certain. Still need to mull over topics. I am grateful for those of you who have been following me along. Grateful for new followers and old. And grateful for those of you who take the time to write thoughtful comments. Thank You!
Notes Tied On The Sagebrush 