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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: Groundhog "The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow." Jack Hanna Why do you think the groundhog inherited the duty of deciding the arrival of spring? Do you know of any people who make far-out predictions and then disappear from the view? ----- Who can blame the groundhog! He must only be joking! Plus, there is something poetic in his act. Kind of annoyingly poetic! This is what I could dig up on the subject, "The first recorded Groundhog Day observance was in 1886, but the first official Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania was in 1887." So, in addition to The groundhog's so-called poetic nature, there is some history buried in his antics. Each year the groundhog, a.k.a Phil, makes a daring prediction, which means stepping into the unknown, pulling out a guess, and offering it to the world, but then burrowing himself under the ground. I would, too, if some people took my words like prophecies and others like jokes. I think the magic of the groundhog is in his disappearing act and that he doesn't stay to defend his forecast, argue with skeptics, or insist in being correct...well, mostly that I know of. He says what he sees, then escapes. He doesn't get caught up in what others think. This reminds me of some online posts when someone puts down, writes about, predicts something far-out, stirs everyone's imagination or dread, then disappears. Such people do get some attention, don't they! The same as we the people giving those unreal online predictions the time of the day, without realizing that the real power isn't in being right all the time. It's in the mystery of knowing when to speak about issues that will get attention. As long as such people, like the Groundhog Phil, can stir everything up, write far-out predictions on social media, let the world keep guessing... and also, waste our time! |
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