Search where?

This Portfolio (beholden)

All of Writing.Com

◄ July ► 2024
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31
Archive				RSS

Create New Item

Read & Review

Community

Browse By Type

Browse By Genre

Writing Resources

Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2025

7:03am EDT

Members: 635

Guests: 2,048

Total Online: 2,683

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.

Signature for those who are nominated for a Quill Award in 2021

Show Recent Comments

10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

SandraLynn

about 20 hours ago
In response to "A Painting Post"

Thanks for the Zane Grey referral and recommendation.

1 Like

Beholden

about 21 hours ago
In response to "A Painting Post"

Unfortunately, I was not in the habit of carrying a camera with me at the time. Come to think of it, I'm still not!

1 Like

Amethyst Angel 💐

about 21 hours ago
In response to "A Painting Post"

Any chance we could have a photo of it? Thanks for sharing this contemplation with us

1 Like

Jayne

a day ago
In response to "In Praise of Apathy"

I use selective apathy. Despite people wishing otherwise, not all opinions are worth listening to, not all situations are emergencies, and not all decisions outside your control are worth worrying about.

I also fully support entire days of "I don't care about any of it today," and turning on a really stupid movie.

1 Like

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

a day ago
In response to "In Praise of Apathy"

I agree, there are times when apathy is desired. I would call upon this superpower often when grandchildren are asking for something. There is no other force strong enough to deny those big, sad, eyes.

2 Like

Amethyst Angel 💐

a day ago
In response to "In Praise of Apathy"

OneRepublic lead Ryan Tedder had a thing about apathy in his youth... Three songs off their debut album Dreaming Out Loud mention it. He's the last person to ever be accused of apathy, for sure: I think he's the busiest, hardest working person I know - for being in the music industry, anyway.

2 Like

tj wanderlust-words-in-motion

Apr 5, 2025 at 3:55pm
In response to "Something Old"

This reminds me of the thoughts I had two days back while shoveling wet, heavy snow: As I worked with the heavy wet stuff, I found myself grumbling and complaining, but then the laughter and squeals of the children across the road reached my ears. While I complained and struggled with our new snowfall, they reveled and played. I was very tempted to lie down and make a now angle, but I feared I wouldn't be able to get back up.

1 Like

Beholden

Apr 5, 2025 at 12:53pm
In response to "Something Old"

It was for a while during my early days in WdC but was removed during one of the clean-ups I did to keep within my port limits of the time. Nothing is thrown away, however, and I do sometimes bring things back from the archives.

1 Like

Nixie 🦊

Apr 5, 2025 at 12:36pm
In response to "Something Old"

I want to know why this entry is not in your portfolio, written as a short story. I see a Quill quivering nearby.

2 Like

Ned

Apr 5, 2025 at 10:54am
In response to "Something Old"

The last, stubborn adherents to a now-banished and vilified addiction. Pity these pariahs, exiles from society, rejected by all. Huddled together, in their own peculiar society, finding comfort in shared hardship and finding the understanding denied them by those whose addictions are acceptable and featured in memes on Facebook. There's a certain bravery in standing outside the unyielding structure of permissible behavior in a cancel culture.

2 Like

July 17, 2024 at 11:03am

#1074059

Contemplating Infinity

Contemplating Infinity

It’s not the limitless expanse of the universe that makes us aware of our insignificance. It’s the vast, incomprehensible number of all the people who have ever lived and those who now inhabit the planet Earth. Each of us is a single grain of sand on a beach that goes on forever. And our only hope for being noticed amongst the myriads of our fellow creatures is that some day we might be driven by the wind from the beach to the sea and so to the depths where we might fall into the mouth of some oyster that then gets irritated enough to begin covering us with a coating of some smooth substance that hardens and eventually makes us into a pearl.

Even then we have to depend on the chance of being found and included in a cosmic string of pearls to grace some infinite neck. Kinda puts us into perspective, doesn’t it?

Word count: 155

Comment • View 4 comments

Printed from https://www.writing.com/main/profile/blog/beholden/day/7-17-2024