“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it” -Frank A. Clark
One Liner Wednesday and JustJotItJanuary is hosted by Linda G Hill. Featured image of Barn Owl by anton 32 via Pixabay.com
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No Complaint
“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” -Maya Angelou
I need to remember this when I start to get up on my soapbox. Just the thought of the word complaint raises my tension level. The image of ‘Calm Lake’ by Moyan Brenn is an antidote.
JustJotItJanuary is a blogging challenge guest hosted by Shan Jeniah. Today’s prompt “complaint” suggested by Willow at Willowdot21
Mercy
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” -J R R Tolkien
JustJotItJanuary, prompt “mercy” suggested by BarbCT of Gallimaufry. JustJotItJan is a January blog challenge guest hosted today by Shan Jeniah of Shanjeniah’s Lovely Chaos. Featured Image is Rosa ‘Compassion’ by Ana Reg on wikimedia. Tolkien quote from his ‘Lord of the Rings.’
Internal Light
“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” -Maya Angelou
One Liner Wednesday featured image Santa Cruz [California] Sunset by Anita Ritenour on Flickr.
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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featured image from US Bureau of Land Management’s Top 15 Places on National Conservation Lands for Night Sky Viewing via Flickr.
This post is for One Liner Wednesday hosted by Linda G Hill.
The Best Holiday Gifts
“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!”
Hannukah and Christmas are coinciding this year. No matter which one we celebrate, or maybe we have a secular approach, this time of year is a time of family and friends gathering. There can be all kinds of anxiety about gifts and holiday menus. But the most important thing is sharing time with people we love. That is the best holiday gift.
I am hoping for a special gift this year. That my baby grandson will keep growing bigger and stronger and will get to go home with his parents in the New Year.
One Liner Wednesday is hosted by Linda G Hill. Featured image via Pixabay.
Let Us Not Be Afraid Of Bullies
This week I am posting a lot about the recent election and my reaction to what has happened. I decided to check out Huffington Post Women because I suspected the women who post there would be talking about this. That is where I saw the reference to Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letters. She posted a quote from Sojourner Truth, and if you don’t know who Sojourner Truth is look it up.
“I am not going to die, I’m going home like a shooting star.” —Sojourner Truth
Here is an excerpt of her letter to Hillary Clinton:
A lot of people have been talking about how we need to try to understand how this happened and what’s going on in the minds of the people who voted for Donald Trump. Maybe. Maybe. But maybe let’s leave that to the strategists, to the men in offices who need to run the numbers. It should not be the job of women, of people of color, of queer and trans Americans, to understand who does not consider them human and why, just as it’s not the job of the abused to understand their abuser. It’s quite enough work to know about and bear the hatred of so many. It’s quite enough work to go on living…..
Thank you, Hillary, for bravely taking every shot and standing tall, for weathering assaults from every direction, for telling us that no, this wasn’t politics as we know it, and no, you were not going to let a chronic interrupter with a limited vocabulary of catchphrases stop you from speaking coherently about your dreams for this country. Thank you for 30 years of public service. Thank you for showing our daughters something beautiful to aspire to. Thank you for reminding us what we are capable of when we are focused and ferocious. Thank you for 30 years of that. Thank you for not abandoning us now.
So no, the work isn’t done. It is only beginning. We will stun ourselves with what we are capable of. We will laugh with surprise like kids who finally threw a punch back at the schoolyard bully. We will watch our friends in awe as they step forward and demand more, as they recognize and wield their politicized identities. We will not be governed by fear. We will show our children a different way. We will go home like shooting stars.
I’m proud of you,
Lena
I remember when I was a little girl there was a bully on our street and he took pleasure in terrorizing the little kids. One day he and his buddies had surrounded my best girlfriend’s little sister and they were taunting her. She called out to me to help her. I was very scared too but I am proud to say that the little girl who was me went into that circle of bullies and put my arms around my friend’s sister and escorted her out. The bully became very upset that I did that. He hit me as I walked past him. His mother later explained to a group of us that he had problems and asked for our understanding.
It is important to stand up to bullies. I am afraid now too, kind of like when I was little, and hope that I will again have the courage to walk into that circle with the bully and stand up for the things I believe in. To put my arms around his victims and walk them to safety.
This post is for Stream of Consciousness Saturday hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt for today is “mem.” Featured image of Hillary Clinton speaking at Brown University by Gage Skidmore on Wikipedia.
Smoke Has Been Seen Rising Over Mordor
“The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency is nothing less than a tragedy for the American republic, a tragedy for the Constitution, and a triumph for the forces, at home and abroad, of nativism, authoritarianism, misogyny, and racism. Trump’s shocking victory, his ascension to the Presidency, is a sickening event in the history of the United States and liberal democracy… It is impossible to react to this moment with anything less than revulsion and profound anxiety.” (David Remnick, The New Yorker).
I stayed up too late last night, watching in sickening disbelief, the election results. I am very worried about my country. This is the worst I have witnessed in my life besides assassinations. This was like the assassination of our country.
More than One Liner Wednesday.
One Liner Wednesday-Tic Tac Toe
“And on November 8th, we nasty women are gonna march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever.” (Elizabeth Warren)
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Nasty Woman
Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse
“Such a nasty woman.” ( Donald Trump)
Inspired by the third Presidential debate 2016 and Huff Post article All Hail These 21 Nasty Ladies from Art History by Priscilla Frank .
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Notes Tied On The Sagebrush 