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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.  |
| Prompt: "Like a familiar melody recalls a beloved song, the sweetest perfume of blossoms sprouting from the earth reminds our hearts that spring has arrived." Write about this in your Blog entry today. -------- I gather this quote is all about sensory experiences. Sometimes, with me, a few notes or bars of music can trigger a recall of an entire song or a memory attached to it. Just maybe, there's something deeply human about comparing nature to music, but also other senses can come into play. Now that I have allergies, my nose isn't as effective as it used to be, but a whiff of spring flowers awakens more than a sneeze in me. It awakens something that belonged to my much younger years. So, possibly, my sense of smell might have been messed with, but my heart remembers. What I and others usually experience through our senses is like taking snapshots or suddenly coming across old snapshots of earlier times. This makes me wonder with awe at the depth of the memories of our sensory perceptions. Just where does a mind store all that? How does it bypass our logical brain? Why does it stir deep emotions, to boot? Does this mean one spring was the mother of all the others that came later? It is as if my senses are writing my autobiography and digging up stuff I would never have recalled consciously. Maybe what my mind cannot remember exactly, my heart always will. And yes, spring also has arrived to just about everywhere. |
| Prompt: April Fools Day? "Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than erver." Charles Lamb What are your thoughts on April Fools' Day? And do people need to wait for April to act foolishly? ======== I'm not much into pranks, hoaxes, and deceptions, playful or otherwise. Then, this quote suggests, even if humorously, that each passing April brings on more fools. Being a fool myself, however born in March, I am not too keen on other fools. Each April 1, I'm on edge and don't know who'll throw what on my lawn or on the top of the roof. I have read somewhere that when the beginning of the new year was changed from April 1 to January1, some people kept on celebrating the new year on April 1. Thus, they were called the April Fools. Or otherwise, this may also have something to do with the Romans of the old days, but I was never too keen on Romans either, except for Seneca. I am now fearing all the fake stories online and elsewhere and companies announcing absurd product launches, as if their products weren't absurd already. So today, I'm not getting out of the house. And my son from NY who is visiting me at this time, is out to enjoy the sunshine for a few hours. I hope he is safe from any pranks, also, since he isn't too keen on them like his mother. But then, what can we poor fools who cannot take weird jokes and pranks do? I guess, we either sharpen our skepticism or embrace the humor in being the butt of others' so-called jokes. On the plus or rather the minus side, the heat has descended on Florida, today, and the AC came on full blast. No wonder, today is April Fools' Day, and the weather is pulling a prank on us, but I fear this prank will last until the end of November. |
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