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Daily Cascade

by Joy

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #2326194

A new blog to contain answers to prompts

Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.

Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Joy

Dec 14, 2024 at 10:50am
In response to "Friday the 13th--of December, 2024"

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Funny we should have in our families those two superstitions in common. I think the Saturday thing might have been influenced by the Jewish Sabbath, but to the best of my knowledge, my family wasn't Jewish. As to knocking on wood, I'm curious about it. I think I'll run a search on that.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Dec 14, 2024 at 12:33am
In response to "Friday the 13th--of December, 2024"

My grandma wouldn't do laundry on Saturday either. And they always knocked on wood.

I don't share in superstitions either.

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Aiva Raine

Dec 12, 2024 at 2:39pm
In response to "Memorable Books"

I read so many books until the last few years when my eyes don't cooperate so much and I've switched more and more to audiobooks.

However, some in my past that stick out would be, in no particular order:
A Little Princess
Jane Eyre
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Feminine Mystique
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Midnight Library

There are many more that I've read and loved, but those each had a particular message or theme that resonated strongly.

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Princess Megan Snow Rose

Dec 11, 2024 at 11:19pm
In response to "Determination and Resolve"

I always try to resolve issues. Determination. We can't let life get us down. Good entry and uplifting.

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AnotherDreamer

Dec 11, 2024 at 12:48pm
In response to "Determination and Resolve"

Self publish for Amazon? I mean you share with us but we are a small audience.

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Joy

Dec 11, 2024 at 12:43pm
In response to "Determination and Resolve"

AnotherDreamer

Thank

you so very much for your kind words and advice.
I've been published in my earlier days, some academically; however, I have, long ago, decided not to deal with any publishers. Too much unnecessary work!

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AnotherDreamer

Dec 11, 2024 at 12:35pm
In response to "Determination and Resolve"

Hello Joy

, Thank you for sharing Miss Lindsay and her message. Have you ever thought about packaging your wisdom and life lessons in a published book? I think you would be successful.

Your answers to many of the prompts are profound and interesting but most importantly, thought provoking. I think you should market them to Metaphysical book publishers. Select ten to twenty of your posts, prompts and your responses and send them as a sample.

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Joy

Dec 7, 2024 at 11:55am
In response to "No Tricks in Winning"

Yup, that game was shady in the wings, however original and attention-getting it was.
After it came the Jeopardy, which I liked to watch then. Jeopardy was said to be the clean version of the "$64,000 Question."

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Dec 6, 2024 at 5:10pm
In response to "No Tricks in Winning"

I agree with you about not playing the game. The fact that the game wasn't legitimate I found disturbing.

I love playing games with my family and friends but as to playing game shows, going to casinos.

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AnotherDreamer

Nov 28, 2024 at 7:28pm
In response to "Happy Times"

I hear you. I have given time today to ponder memories of the people now gone, but living lovingly in my mind. Now nearly all of my grandchildren have families of their own. I am no longer the nucleus of my family. Even if I was in the same house with them today, it wouldn't be my food and recipes getting attention, it would be one of theirs. My glory days are over.

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December 14, 2024 at 11:31am

#1081150

South Pole, you said?

Prompt:
On December 14, 1911, Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole, beating his British rival, Robert Falcon Scott. If you were offered a free trip to the South Pole to help with research, would you go?

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Would I go? No, not unless I was given a new life with a stronger body that is immune to cold.

This, however, isn't because I don't want to or that I don't understand the research being done there. Also, Antarctica is possibly the one, if not the only, place where we stupid earthlings do cooperate with one another. There is a treaty for that and I hope no one messes with it, ever. Through such a treaty and understanding, just maybe, we might handle the management of our resources and face climate change as one world.

I hope I recall this correctly, but I think someone in Cape Canaveral also mentioned once, that South Pole mimics the conditions in space, and so it makes the outer space exploration a bit more possible. It is also said that the oceans around Antarctica have diverse ecosystems and that they are testing those effects of melting ice on the kinds of fish and other marine life.

Then, South Pole also has fresh water in its ice sheets and a high altitude. That's why they have telescopes and other detectors there for exploring many facts, still unknown to us. Their findings may even let us know more about the future climate changes and our earth's conditions.

Still, as much as I applaud all those unselfish scientists working inside the South Pole labs and braving the ice and snow and freezing weather in snowmobiles and kayaks, I have no business being there just to make a pest of myself to them.

After all, even Santa is said to live on the North pole!

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