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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 18, 2024 at 2:52pm

#1081282

My Reading at the Moment

Prompt: Reading
What books are you reading right now? Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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I read a few chapters from The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov who died in 1940. It was translated from Russian by Mirra Ginsburg. From so far that I've read, the story seems to be about the existence of God.

The novel begins in a night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with a weird guy, Professor Woland, who is the devil. The thing is, here, the devil tries to tell the Russian unbelieving people that God exists.

Then, there is also another time of space of 2000 yrs. ago with Pontius Pilate and Yesha Ha-Nozri conversing. Pilate, although he tries not to, condemns Yeshua to death. Their discussion is similar to that of the devil and the non-believer Russians. There are themes, ideas, and imagery from Christianity and the supernatural. I guess this book could be called a dark comedy that criticized the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. For that reason, this novel was published two decades after its writer's death.

I'm really trying to get the meaning in this novel more thoroughly, and I'm sticking with it because it won many awards and was made into a film, if I'm not mistaken. My problem in reading The Master and Margarita especially happened between the first and the second chapters. I saw no explanation why the story jumped to 2000 years ago, and there was no ease of passage between its chapters. Maybe, I'll like this book and maybe not, but I'm sticking with it till its end.

Tomorrow, Ta Nehisi Coates' book The Message in hardcover is scheduled to arrive. At this point, I'm probably more interested in reading that one. Also, I just got in Kindle, Money GPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy by James Rickards, and Letters by Oliver Sacks. I'm actually dying to read these two Kindle books plus the hardcover one that'll arrive tomorrow. Still, I'll finish Mikhail Bulgakov's book, as well. I promised myself that.

By the way, Mikhail Bulgakov was an Ukrainian, born in Kyiv at the time. and yet, he was and still is much hailed as a very famous Russian author. Go figure! How things change!

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