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 |   Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts |
 "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself." CHARLIE CHAPLIN  Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. David Whyte        This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts. |
For "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  Prompt: "The magic of the hill top is seeing her little books bought to life in the place where they were created." Peter Tasker --- This quote is about restoring Beatrix Potter’s home, on a hilltop where she grew different kinds of plants and put her drawings of them in her books. When one looks carefully one can see about where each of her stories were created. Here’s a link: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/restoring-beatrix-potters-garden Wouldn’t it be nice if each author’s creations could be traced to the actual time and space where they were created?  For: "Space Blog" Prompt: From Alexi  
--- This poem takes its flight into the air from a scared emotion, the fear of flying, but then, it branches into other feelings and thoughts some of which are the author’s privileged, internal musings. I don’t know. I never had such fears. In fact, I enjoy flying. Yet, I don’t read too much into it either. To me flying is just a convenient way of travel. Maybe I am not too much of an emotional person. Yet, there is this one time I can’t forget. The plane I was in was going to Tri-Cities Airport (TRI) in Blountville, TN. I was traveling alone and reading a book. When the pilot announced that we were there and about to land, I lifted my head from the book and saw the chains of blue mountains in layers, almost like blue mists. I gasped. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever set eyes upon. This was probably two and a half decades ago, and that view still lingers in my mind. I bet if people come up with taking photos of what’s in one’s mind, this would become a very vivid photograph. |
| For "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Prompt: They say we all have a book in us. Do you agree with this statement? --- I guess since everyone has a life, everyone can have a story to tell. How to approach it and revealing how much of one’s life could be among the challenges faced. Most of us, however, have several books in us. Except, they are hesitant to come out. For: "Space Blog" Prompt: From Lilli 🧿 ☕  ’s "Becoming a Writer in the Digital Age" --- I enjoyed college education greatly. And not for its parties, either. I enjoyed it for the subjects I studied. They showed me new avenues. Yes, college education teaches some things, but not everything, and this is where the author and I part ways. Learning to write and to read is a very personal thing. That’s how we have so many ways of writing and so many different approaches to writing. The writing bit and even the choices we make in our reading is totally up to our very own and unique emotional and intellectual make-up. I understand this piece was contributed by someone else other than Lilli 🧿 ☕ . So chances are my disagreement is with that someone else. Granted, I have no bones to pick with the way he approaches the business view of writing; however, that has never been my problem. My problem with most writers is that they adopt the business view, way before they hone in their skills and find a personal style of writing, and this brings down the art of writing and cheapens the appreciation of readers in general. Granted also when he says, “Nobody is waiting for you. And you will never be ready.” True. However, better to wait and get a few years of practice rather than dive head first into a muck. This is how I feel. |
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