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July 22, 2015 I'm going to start today to record on a daily basis whatever happens to strike my fancy. So, it is a very cool breezy day. I just posted 5 short book reviews to The Monthly Reading Challenge. I'm suppose to put away some winter wood today from the woodpile outside but I'm playing hookey from work to write so starting this blog will get done. I'm having a daily fight with a flock of English Sparrows that are trying to take over my barn. They are making a terrible mess so they have to go. I have destroyed several nests so far they don't leave but they get out of the barn when I am around. I'm just starting the fight so I guess I don't know how far I have to go to discourage them. I'm trying not to spread myself to thin on WDC because I find so many things that are interesting here and I am trying to work on a new story. I really enjoy sitting at my desk with a cup of tea and reading blogs on WDC. |
Give us the best definition of "lazy" you'll allow yourself to get away with...before it's "too much", but to where you're not right with being shamed for it. This is part of a google definition of the word lazy: " unwilling to work or use energy". There are a lot of more indepth definitions from other dictionaries online. The prompt is written to imply someone else would would judge if I had worked enough or not? Guess that won't happen. “In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” ― Leo Tolstoy (reference from Good Reads) "College education is one of the few purchases a person can make that cannot be repossessed or auctioned off." (Reference is from Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas) "We are an accumulation of experiences that we have fashioned into our own grand, sweeping narrative." (reference is from Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas) I'm rarely unwilling to work or unwilling to use energy. ![Merit Badge in The Monthly Reading Challenge
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Whispers, or screams?  Quotes: “One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent” ― Julie Garwood “Listen to your inner self, it knows you best.” ― C. Elizabeth “He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.” ― Donald G. Firesmith, Demons on the Dalton “Submit in silence and scream from within. Or... Stand up and shout and silence the pain.” ― Anthony T. Hincks “When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise.” ― Akshay Vasu I would rather whisper or speak quietly but if you push me too far I will scream. Sometimes the only way you can be heard is to speak strongly or just out and out scream. I Say A whisper can cause obedience. A scream can cause a riot. Ethics of circumstance rate expedience. That's All Folks!  |
| Talk Tuesday! What would you prefer...talking pets, or humans with heightened animal sensibilities? If it comes to preference I guess I have to choose humans with heightened animal sensibilities. My dogs and horses can see spirit walkers before I do and warn. Serious vicious storms are acknowledged by pets and wild creatures before they are apparent on the horizon. Some scientists think humans used to have better senses and lost them in an evolution. Or just forgot how to train them and keep them as we age from childhood. On days when someone uses a percussion bomb anywhere in our area animals often are extremely frigidity even before the explosion. When I see news broadcasts about Syria or Afghanistan I worry about the way it is affecting the pet and wildlife populations. Most animals have peaceful natures unless put upon by violence. There are books out now written by people who talk to animals? One women will teach her readers how to talk to animals. The jist is animals think and can invade the thoughts of humans. I think I reviewed one of these books, but I could not remember the author and when I tried to find it in my reviews I couldn't find it so I guess I should not reference it.  It was a library book. Some animals seem more susceptible to communication with humans than others. Animals that are abused withdraw into their own natures. Quantum physics is a lark when you take in some of the theories about life on our planet. The more science, biology, and physics you learn the more you find out life is not as it seems and war is a more serious disruption to life on the earth than anyone realizes. Happy Trails. |
Motivational Monday! Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator was born on this day in 1512. What's been your reasoning behind going anywhere you once thought before you'd never get to? I never thought I would write poetry. Then, I started writing on  . I learned some things about Haiku. Then, I learned some more in a New Horizons Course about reviewing. Then, I took a course just about writing poetry and learned a lot there, so I'll never be a great poet but it surely is a great way to express yourself.I wish I had taken Map-making in college. They had a course there but, I couldn't fit it in to my schedule. I followed my Airforce husband (he is now deceased) to the Panama Canal Zone where he was stationed in 1960's. It was a beautiful place. The social aspect was so different than the USA. It was not nearly so regulated a life style as it is here. I wonder how a map maker would fair in the jungles of South America. I guess as a Pennsylvania farm girl riding ponies on rural roads I never thought I would get to study dressage and show horses on the A show circuit in Texas, when I was in my twenties, or study to be a professional dog groomer, or become a journalist. The clue in this prompt is the word reasoning. I can't profess to actually reasoning about learning the many things I've accomplished. Or, visiting the many places I visited. I just found myself in a position to choose to do some things so I grabbed opportunities. I never actually went on a real fox hunt. I would like to. I would like to learn map making. I would like to train another companion dog. I probably will not get to do all the things that pop into my head but, I will forge onward toward just following adventure where I find it. It's never to late to learn something new or visit a place you have never been. Life is a journey don't be afraid to travel on. Happy Trails. |
| The Sunday News! In February, teachers throughout the entire state of West Virginia went on strike , citing poor working conditions including low salaries and rising costs of benefits. Strikes by public employees aren't legal in WV, yet the teachers have been willing to take the risk because the situation can't get much worse, and there aren't enough certified teachers in the state in part because starting salaries are startlingly low. What do you think? What's a fair salary for teacher, based on the expectations faculty administrations and parents place on them? Any other thoughts on the topic? Teachers of children are as important as health care workers. During the last Bush administration I was researching for an article on "No Child Left Behind." At that time I read an article that said starting salary for teachers in Pennsylvania was $26,000. Just now I saw the salary for West Virginia teachers in presently approximately $33,000. The situation about salary always bounces back to who pays it in the long run. Maintaining public school systems has been on the rise for a lot of years. For a while, everyone wanted new buildings to up grade older buildings, that were not meeting the needs of the teaching burden. The older buildings needed a lot of upkeep and new green ways of heating in the northern states was needed. This year in Erie, Pa. they consolidated two high schools to try to slow down the monetary needs. I'm not up to date on the situation West Virginia is dealing with but, I am making an assumption when I think it may mean a tax hike to the property owners across the state. Presently, that is what would happen in Pa. The property owners are tired of hearing how much more it will cost them to remain in homes they thought they could own into their old age. We're not thinking bad thoughts about the teachers who need more or the societal situation that keeps raising taxes we're just hanging on for dear life to what we worked for every day of our lives. When Republicans decided to shine a light on "Making America Great Again" they did not seem to realize the honest state of the Union. Yesterday at home we started a new TV series from Netflix called, "The Newsroom." At the beginning of the series the protagonist character of the story gets put on the spot in an interview and has to tell the audience what he thinks of the USA. The spiel he puts out is authentic and needs to be stated before every news program for about a year until the people realize that money needs to be poured into infrastructure, healthcare, and the learning industry by amounts so extreme it is unthinkable. And it won't be coming from the pockets of people who have only been allowed to earn 15 to 26 thousand dollars a year for the last 50 years. As for the Republican West Virginia legislature who voted for a 5% raise then took it back and lowered it to 4% as soon that is just a look at part of our infrastructure situation. Why did they pull a stunt like that over such a basic problem that has been growing over many years. Stop fooling with peoples hearts and minds and properly fix the problems. Did anyone notice children are opening fire inside our schools with guns. If adults can't treat adults better than this how are children going to treat their peers. This week in the news was the stated intent of every country I know of about how they all are going to start showing off their nuclear power. The problems are fixable but certain people have to get some reality based ideas into the mix and use them. If it were children doing this I would know how to straighten them out but, since it's adults I think a lesson in historical happening are the only way to go. Look it up. It is in some history book of what happened in the government of some country just before it broke up and fell apart. Only, if it happens that the government falls apart in the USA it will put things back into the hands of the ordinary people who know how to plant and sow in the proper season to reap an etable crop. THE END OF AN OPINION ![Merit Badge in From My Heart To Yours
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