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These are my thoughts and ramblings as I forge my way through this thing they call Life. I blog with these groups:     "Blogging Circle of Friends "  [E] 
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30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT July 8th What historical events, besides your own birth, occurred on your birthday in the year you were born? First off - The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup! And hockey only had 12 teams (expanded from 6 to 12 this hockey season). Canada had it's Centennial - 100 years! The Order of Canada was established. The problem with looking at timeline history lists is that they are predominantly negative and heavily American. I'm curious if a google search in Europe would get the same information. What I see is Vietnam and race riots. Draft dodgers and the 'summer of love'. I also see Egypt and Israel having turmoil as well. When I look at only Canadian events, I laugh at just how Canadian they are. This is from Wikipedia: "The nation began to feel far more nationalistic than before, with a generation raised in a country fully detached from Britain. The new Canadian flag served as a symbol and a catalyst for this. In Quebec, the Quiet Revolution was overthrowing the oligarchy of francophone clergy and anglophone businessmen, and French Canadian pride and nationalism were becoming a national political force. The Canadian economy was at its post-war peak, and levels of prosperity and quality of life were at all-time highs. Many of the most important elements of Canada's welfare state were coming on line, such as Medicare and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP). These events were coupled with the coming of age of the baby boom and the regeneration of music, literature, and art that the 1960s brought around the world. The baby boomers, who have since dominated Canada's culture, tend to view the period as Canada's halcyon days. 1967 was an exciting year for Canadians. Communities across the country planned celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of confederation. The Federal Government sponsored events from coast to coast and provided funding and organization for such things as the Centennial Train and the Centennial Voyageur Canoe Pageant. Even Canada's military got the spirit by producing the Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo 1967 that toured the country from coast to coast with over 150 shows from St. John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, BC with a two week long production at EXPO 67 in Montreal. Tattoo 1967 was so successful, there were calls to have the show tour the world as a representative of Canadian culture. The show set a world's record for the longest running military tattoo, a record that has never been equaled. While to Montreal it was the year of Expo, to Toronto it was the culmination of the Toronto Maple Leafs dynasty of the 1960s, with the team winning its fourth Stanley Cup in six years by defeating its arch-rival, the Montreal Canadiens, in the last all-Canadian Stanley Cup Final until 1986." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_in_Canada So proud to be Canadian. My grandmother used to refer to me and a 'Centennial baby' that was cool until I got into my 20's, then not so much. |
30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT July 7th What do you do when you are out of inspiration or ideas? I answered this as soon as I read it, but I forgot to fill in the blog and post it. So I have to do it now and get caught back up. I go for a walk and fill the well with images - sights, smells, tastes, sounds and experiences - a full sensory banquet of delights. Physically moving through these experiences allow you to drop them into the well, where they can compost and develop into something rich for future artistic expression. I also turn to books or movies in the hopes of mining ideas and gaining inspiration, but sometimes it is nice to just let go and not worry about finding just the right idea. Doing mundane, day to day things, like showering or doing the dishes, might let you mind play in the quagmire of your thoughts, loosening ideas and letting them surface without actually taking a pickax to them. Just switching gears and not obsessing on the problem, just might make something shift or come into view. This kind of thing might even work itself out in your dreams. The more you stress about it, the more the ideas hide - kind of like little blue fairies, or your muse, refusing to come out and play when they sense the danger in your worry. Relax and do something completely different and they will come back and flit around just begging to be included again. |
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