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Toe in the Water

by Beholden

Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

Ten years ago I was writing several blogs on various subjects - F1 motor racing, Music, Classic Cars, Great Romances and, most crushingly, a personal journal that included my thoughts on America, memories of England and Africa, opinion, humour, writing and anything else that occurred. It all became too much (I was attempting to update the journal every day) and I collapsed, exhausted and thoroughly disillusioned in the end.

So this blog is indeed a Toe in the Water, a place to document my thoughts in and on WdC but with a determination not to get sucked into the blog whirlpool ever again. Here's hoping.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Cubby

Sep 8, 2024 at 12:54pm
In response to "Just a Thought"

And I've already been thinking about coming up with an activity! 😃

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AmyJo- Have a lovely day!

Sep 8, 2024 at 12:23pm
In response to "Just a Thought"

Funny how time flies when you are having fun!

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Sep 4, 2024 at 5:33pm
In response to "In My Opinion..."

In the USA political scene there is a tendency to focus on what doesn't matter. I really don't care about hair-don'ts and what a family member three times removed did or didn't do in 1992.

But basic human rights? *crickets*

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Jayne

Aug 30, 2024 at 9:55pm
In response to "A Passing Ponder on Poetry"

I sometimes think this, too. Yet how many times have we read one and realized we were not alone in our struggles or our joy?

That "you" person affects an awful lot of lives

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Amethyst Angel🍂🧡

Aug 30, 2024 at 3:50pm
In response to "A Passing Ponder on Poetry"

Same as pop music, sir… usually written in the first person to an imaginary “you…” in my childhood and my early years of learning to appreciate music, I applied all the “yous” to myself

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Brazos54

Aug 20, 2024 at 10:07am
In response to "In My Opinion..."

My father, a history professor used to say a board of regents could spend $10 million on a building in a matter of minutes with no real discussion. If you wanted to tie them up all day just ask if they wanted bar or liquid soap in the bathrooms. So yes, I think you may be on to something!

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Beholden

Aug 19, 2024 at 3:55pm
In response to "A Sticky Problem"

I think that's about as comprehensive an answer as the question deserves!

tracker

Aug 19, 2024 at 2:57pm
In response to "A Sticky Problem"

Beholden: going to the core of life's musings. Not a question I ever contemplated and I ask, why? Or Why not get stuck in the second web, unless that is physically impossible unless the first spider is washed there by rain being already stuck on its own web. Call me in the morning and I may have a more contemplative answer.

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Beholden

Aug 19, 2024 at 12:09pm
In response to "A Sticky Problem"

Anni Pon

Aug 19, 2024 at 10:05am
In response to "A Sticky Problem"

Thank you for asking the important questions that everyone else seems to be too afraid to ask.

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August 11, 2024 at 9:02am

#1075048

That History Thing Again

That History Thing Again

I have said before that, if it’s happened within my memory, it’s not history. So, for instance, the second world war is history, but the death of Buddy Holly isn’t. And it’s a working definition for me, at least.

But today I have realised that there’s more to it than that. There is a sense in which I become the history in my lifetime. My memory is the storehouse of all that I experience and, as such, it’s an historical document (note the use of “an” before a word beginning with H - even that’s a matter of history). It is so because it is a source for written history. If I write about my experiences, including stuff I just hear or read about in news reports, I am writing history. Once I’ve done that, historians can include it with memoirs from other people living in the same period and so construct what becomes the official history.

But it remains true that historians should beware creating histories while survivors remain to refute the attempt at rationalisation. It’s hard to deny the fellow who stands up and says, “That just ain’t so - I know because I was there!”

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