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You have 11 minutes free time, how do you spend it best with regards entertainment? Wordle, Word Huddle and Quordle, in that order.
Are you a fan of feet either yours or others or are you averse feet?
Why and why? I love taking photos of feet!!! I need to do a blog soon on my accumulation. I guess it is because in Mexico it is so important to look down when you walk due to cobblestones, uneven stair heights and other earthbound dangers.
When you are wrong and you know you are wrong do you admit to being wrong or try and find a right for your wrong? I think I admit it. Sometimes grudgingly, though.
Are you more of a night owl or a morning lark? Night Owl, but recently a Morning Lark as well. Not getting much sleep.
Do you listen to audiobooks and if so what is the appeal? How many do you get through every month? I have constantly had an audiobook to listen to for the past ten years or more. By evening my eyes give out and I’m not capable of reading print, plus I like to listen to books when I’m swimming, doing art, driving or swinging in the hammock. I love doing two things at once. It feels like I’m being granted twice as much life. I listen to a minimum of 2 books a month. Usually more.
Do you bore quickly and if so why and how do you combat it and if not, how do you avoid that boredom? I do if the topic is mundane, the speaker quoting the obvious or when talking to someone unwilling to surrender  the conversation to any other speaker. I just tune out and start writing a poem in my head.
What is one thing that you wish your readers knew about you and your blog? It is an addiction. I think a good one but another part of me thinks it is keeping me from finishing other projects begun long ago that I really would like to bring to fruition.
What items do you have on the top shelf of your fridge right now, today? Oat milk with linseeds, salsa verde, prunes, yogurt, Electrolit, Mashed potatoes at least 2 weeks old, cottage cheese, two kinds of salad dressing, peanut butter, a box of baking soda and a bowl with what looks like 3 tablespoons of two-week-old beef stew. Don’t ask me why. Perhaps I thought I’d have it for a midnight snack? Unlikely now.
Are you able to stand on one leg for 25 seconds? Not without touching something solid.
What are your favourite book titles from the following six categories?
[One item only per genre please – use alternative genre if first choice is not your style]
Comedy or Children’s literature  Sock Talk (self-aggrandizing. I wrote it.)
Horror or Historical Fiction Wuthering Heights
Mystery or Memoir Michele Obama’s autobiography, Becoming
Thriller or Adventure Peter Pan
Romance or Poetry Jane Eyre
Fantasy or Sci-Fi Batman
What twelve items would you take to a deserted island if you were going to be stranded there for twelve months and why those items – how are they functional to your survival? Sunscreen, deck of cards, thick journal or tablet, felt pen, glue, umbrella, sun hat, long-sleeved blouse, long pants, comfortable shoes, phone or ipad loaded with lots of books, spare batteries.  I am completely allergic to the sun, thus the umbrella, sun hat, sunscreen and coverup clothing. The deck of cards and audible books are for entertainment, the journal and pens for writing. I guess with an i pad I wouldn’t need the journal, pen and pencil so I could have three more items. The glue is to make collages out of found objects. If there was nothing to eat on the island, I guess it would be a large container of cans of tinned food and a can opener.

[You can not take people, or any means of escape and there is no Internet access or electricity]
Does the society of today need social media platforms? Are they dying – as is suggested – off or are people simply after something else that is socially oriented but more personable? From being around three kids of the new millenium for a couple of weeks lately, I would say they are not dying. I really do fear the capacity of twenty-somethings and younger to engage in their present reality…It was almost impossible for them to stay off their phones.

Rory at Earthly Comforts asked us these questions:

Mother-to-Daughter

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Mother-to-Daughter

My mother had a tranquil life the years before my birth,
when I increased her headaches in addition to her girth.

I was a question-asker—a most  impertinent child,
and my ever-present inquiries drove my mother wild.

The preponderance of these queries got greater year-by-year.
Why was my reflection backwards when looking in the mirror?

Where did babies come from and where were they before?
When she and daddy went to bed, why did they lock their door?

It wasn’t until later that we seemed to trade places
and then it was my mother who put me through my paces.

Why was I coming home so late? Why was my lipstick smudged?
By the time that I was seventeen, I was the party judged.

Thus did life do a turn-about concerning endless questions,
with the one who was interrogator now doling out confessions.

 


Prompt word today are preponderance, impertinent, tranquil and birth.

Goin’ Fishin’: Answers to The Friday Four

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For Rory’s Friday Four Questions

Do you think society could survive without governmental authority or structure?
No, but it might survive better with a better structure. I think the past four years have proven what happens when the wrong person is given authority and certainly pointed out the weaknesses in our governmental system in the U.S. It has been a shock to see just how bigoted and short-sighted approximately half of the American population is. I’d hate to see those people given free rein. We’ve already seen it, to a degree.
Do we really need all the technology we have?
Clearly, we don’t, but we’ve become dependent upon it and it has become a game of sorts to see just how far we can go. Game urinals in Japan where you control the game action with your urine stream are a perfect example.
Everyone has a passion that can absorb them for hours and that includes talking about it with others for hours if left unchecked – do you have such a passion and if so – what is it?
Art and writing. I get so engrossed that six hours can pass and seem like a half hour. I can’t imagine life without these compulsions.
What have you found yourself thinking a lot of late and that seemingly will not leave your brain alone?
Death and how/who will deal with all my stuff. You can have no idea. Books that I’ve written and done nothing with.. sitting in files. The utter horror that so many people supported Trump. and still do. 

The Friday Four

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Here are my answers to Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

Here are Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

The Friday Four
Ah questions, questions, questions – what is it about you and questions Rory?
Simple, l just like asking questions.
Some relatively simple ones today for this Friday however…
1 What three senses could you NOT live without? Discuss why…sight–because every year I live, being able to see the beauties of art and nature become more important to me, sense of hearing, to be able to converse with friends and listen to books and films, and a bit of a quandry since I know without smell there is no sense of taste, but nonetheless, I pick taste, hoping that won’t be taken into account.  The reason for taste? Chocolate, of course.
2 What is your favourite of these two and why? Pen or Pencil. Pen–a rolling writer or felt-tip pen, because I can scrawl faster with them and change my mind less.
3 What are your top 3 colours and why are they your favourites? Golden yellow, cobalt or sky blue and orange. And, the greens in nature, although I never choose green as a color to decorate with. Strange, as I love to be surrounded by the natural greens of nature. 
4 Are you able to list 10 basic smells and if so what are they?  Not sure what you mean by basic smells, but I will list my favorite ones: green olives, toasting bread, chocolate, brewing coffee, baking cookies, spaghetti sauce, petrichor, butterscotch, babies, popcorn.

Here are Rory’s Friday Four Questions for this week:

Nosy Questions

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A friend asked these questions on Facebook. Thought I’d share them with you. Here are my answers. To play along, copy them and change the answers to your own. Please publish a link to your answers in comments below:

 1.  Do you like mustard? Yes
2. Choice of carbonated drink? SanPellegrino Clementina
3. Do you own a gun? No
4. Whiskey, Tequilla, Rum or Vodka? Gin
5. Hot dogs or Cheeseburgers? Both
6. Favorite Type Of Food? Mexican, Chinese, Thai
7. Do you believe in ghosts? Yes
8. What do you drink in the mornings? Papaya Smoothie
9. Can you do a 100 Pushups? Can’t do one.
10. Summer, Winter, spring or fall?? Summer, Spring, Fall
11. Favorite hobby? Making art, writing
12. Tattoos? No
13. Do you wear glasses? Yes. For everything
14. Phobia? Not being able to breathe
15. Nickname? Remi
16. Three drinks you drink? Water, Decaf Coffee, Gin and Tonic
17. Biggest Downfall? Unable to travel as I would like
18. Rain or Snow? Rain
19. Piercings? Just ears
21. Kids? 8 stepkids
22. Favorite color? Burnt Orange, Gold, Cobalt Blue
23. Favorite age? 39
24. Can you whistle? Enough to call the dog
25. Where were you born? Pierre, South Dakota
26. Brothers or Sisters? 2 Sisters
28. Surgeries? 4
29. Shower or Bath? Shower
30. Like gambling? Yes—a bit
32. Broken bones? No
33. How many tv’s in your house? 1
34. Worst pain in your life? My husband’s death
35. Do you like to dance? Yes
36. Are your parents still alive? No
37. Do you like to go camping? No. I used to.
Please play along! These are fun to do and fun to read.
Copy, paste, change the answer!!

 

dVerse Poets Pub: Answering Neruda

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“Who sings in the deepest water in the abandoned lagoon?”
—Pablo Neruda

Answering Neruda

Who is the one who
sings my dreams here
in the velvet shade of
the river’s guardians ?

Deepest secrets are told here.

Water, the mother of us all,
in league with
the
abandoned voice of this
lagoon’s ministry.

 

 

For dVerse Poets Pub. See the challenge HERE.
Read more responses to the challenge HERE.