I've lived with an oversized cat--not long enough that she reached her full adult size, but long enough to bond with her. Because I gradually got used to her, I didn't think about her scaring other people, nor wandering outside the neighborhood where people wouldn't know her. Someone shot at her, half a mile away. Someone else found an exhausted oversized cat with a surface wound, a mile and a half away, and brought her indoors, which I should have done while she was just a kitten the size of an adult cat. The man who injured her said, the next time he met me, "I saw a BOBCAT up on the hill!"
I've known oversized dogs who were good pets, but they were expensive to keep and didn't live long. (My favorite oversized dog was a greyhound--not the biggest oversized breed. Sweet, friendly, gentle, but he never learned not to run his humans completely off their feet. They were athletic and wanted to keep fit. A greyhound can sprint forty miles an hour. They ended up sending him to a farm where he could run around a big pasture with a horse.)
An oversized eagle would be dangerous (I've read that an eagle who did become one man's friend, not house pet, still threatened to attack his family).
A neighbor used to have an oversized rabbit; I found it boring.
And I don't see the other species listed as pets at all. Wildlife is nice to have around, too, but different from pets.
This poll doesn't leave much room for explanations!
It's the same for all the "victim" demographic groups, for me, including groups to which I belong like "women." I believe in good will toward all kinds of people. I oppose discrimination. There are probably individuals in the group whom I like personally; I'm HSP and feel that other HSP in all demographic categories are "my people." But I do not agree with everything every member of a large demographic group says, especially when people claim to be representing the group.
So. A cousin I used to enjoy baby-sitting grew up, joined the Army, may have been given some endocrine-altering medications. When she came home her husband said she'd turned into a man, and left. (She had not turned into a man. She always was tall and strong.) Another woman liked her the way she was. The children liked her girlfriend. I like that they made the children a priority. So I like her and her girlfriend. But I think the campaign to call what they have a marriage was shortsighted, because when humans really do manage to mate for life, one of them dies first, and then the other one is still unmarried. What we as a nation should have addressed was discrimination against the unmarried.
I think the poll needs to be redone--if you really want to understand why people who don't hate "gays" or any other group may not agree with them, or with the ones of them who are making the most noise. It needs options like "I like the people in this category that I know personally, but I think some people in this category are wrong about some things" and "I like the people in this category that I know personally, but THEY think some people in this category are wrong about some things."
This reminds me of an old Disney cartoon about "the Cold-Blooded Penguin" who put a sail in an ice block and set sail for the Galapagos. When his ice block melted, he discovered he could swim, so he swam to the islands and lived happily ever after.
Unfortunately we do not live in Disneyland. One animal straying into
While there are grounds for skepticism about whether climate change is really global, there are things we can do about the undeniable local warming effects we can observe in and near even small cities. Some of these things will also save a lot of money. Some of them may also get us tagged as fanatics or enviro-freaks, but they're worth doing anyway.
Our present President has been criticized for reading and listening to people outside the US on social media. Nevertheless, I hope you're able to post this story as a thread on X, and I hope he sees it.
The story needs polishing (simpler sentences, paragraph breaks, less hyperbole, and "natures gift" should be "nature's gift"). It's worth polishing, and publishing.
If this is a reference to current events, I'm sure the President will be paying Elon Musk generous fees! If it's biographical or autobiographical, I'm glad to read that the person is looking forward to better rewards as he continues to work for the future. And I like the rhymes.
This seems to be the outline of an essay. The thoughts aren't fresh or unusual. You might have observed some examples of how these thoughts are true, and hold readers' attention by describing those examples. So far, this paragraph doesn't seem ready to be rated. In order to suggest that you write out what you saw and heard, I'm being prodded to rate this paragraph. I can only rate it average for a first draft. It's not ready to be published anywhere but it could grow into an excellent essay.
It makes a statement. I'd suggest one simple grammar correction: change "Pounding it must" to "The heart must pound." You might want to spend some time with these thoughts before publishing, but they do make sense in English.
I think you've used enough repetition that some people would call this a poem. I'd prefer it formatted as prose. It works either way as a description of what being fifteen years old feels like.
I have things to do online! But, I will take a few minutes, emphasis on FEW, to drop an encouraging word on two or three other writers. Oh, it's "logging in." Sigh. Drop encouraging words. Oh, now it's "validating." Well, validate on! Life is short! If you want people to use a site, you must make sure the site moves FAST! "You must select a rating for this item." What about ZERO? This site zeroed out, today!
This reads a bit like a first draft; sentences can be improved, but it's a nice piece. Reminds me of my recently departed hummers. They hadn't "dive bombed" my face before; when one did I understood him to be saying "This garden had enough jewelweed for ten of us last summer! What happened?"
I suppose it's where the character's mind is at this point in the story, but I'd prefer to read about a character who took responsibility for himself, preferably one who could say "You sleep here, I'll sleep on the couch." And then if he can't sleep, he goes out and runs a few miles.
Sounds as if this weak character is about to be set up to support the ex-virgin's little nephew...and he'd deserve it.
Satire, I hope? I feel sorry for the speaker. I'm old enough to think he's either not telling the truth, or assuming that other people share a very limited range of things they want to do in their lifetimes. Lots of people retire at 50 or 55 these days (apart from "entertainers," who typically retire at or before 30) and even at 70 I see people starting new enterprises, having 10 to 20 years to get them going. That "midlife crisis" voice within us speaks falsely. We can talk back to it!
Anyway, this short piece does a good job portraying a misguided point of view.
This reads like a draft of a good article. The proportions of the history section to the technique and benefits sections could be improved, either by tightening up the history in a short article about the <i>benefits</i> of meditation, or by expanding it into a separate article about the <i>history</i> of meditation.
It might also be helpful to squeeze in a mention that this article is about Transcendental Meditation, as distinct from the "Western" practice of meditating on a specific thought, prayer, act, etc.
For a published article, medical studies as sources for all those medical benefits would be good, too!
So far, it's shaping up to be a nice, well written short article.
If the goal was to express confusion, this poem does that, with confusing word choices (surely "mare" should have been "bare"?) and confused thought (do people anywhere still think of themselves in Marx's "classes" terms?). I think you're onto something with the general idea that people deliberately confuse others in order to exploit them, but it would be better to shine a light on specific practices such as deceptive advertising, vague or evasive language, censorship, etc. I do like the exuberant energy of these lines, the determination to stand up for what the speaker believes is right.
Charlotte Bronte might have wanted to use more dramatic words, but I think she would have liked this poem. The drama! I love Jane Eyre and this poem about her. I think the poem does a good job of reminding us that Jane's not in great physical danger, but she really feels that she's risking everything for her sacred honor, because she's young and in love.
An old plot in new guise. I love the Tennessee landscape. Where I live it's always a little sparrow-type bird that hides up in the woodlot singing "Doherty Doherty Doherty Doe," and the cardinals say "Cheer! Cheer! Cheer!" but I suppose birds copy one another's songs to some extent. I've never seen a white iris with white beards, either. Both are such perfect symbols, I'll take them as symbols whether they're real or not.
Why Mary ever got into a car with someone who'd tried to kill her dog, when she wasn't even carrying a phone, will no doubt be explained in the full-length novel. Fictional heroines have all kinds of excuses for such idiotic behavior.
As long as Sheridan sticks to one man and doesn't make a habit of finding past-life lovers...! LOL. There's certainly a market for this sort of thing. I wouldn't know how people who like it judge it, but to me it seems about as good or as bad as the rest of the genre. Add an historical adventure plot to the hormone reaction and people will probably buy it.
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