Daily writing promptDo you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?View all responses The "Time Troika" ... to answer this Bloganuary prompt, if I'm to be honest .. I think about those time references -- Future, Past, and as I'll add in the next breath, Present -- These all meld together …
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Time: The Most Precious Commodity
Bloganuary Prompt: “What is the greatest gift someone could give you?” Not really a fair pic on my part. After all, it’s very difficult to give another person “time“… But at this point in my life, that’s what I must desire. More time with my kids, More time to write, More time with my friends, …
Good Ol’ SCU
Bloganuary Prompt: “What colleges have you attended?” I’m a native of Santa Clara, a smaller city next to a bigger city, San Jose, in the south part of the San Francisco Bay Area. As I was gearing up for college all those years ago, I was also growing up through adolescence. It was a tough …
Splashes of Play
Bloganuary Prompt: “ Do you play in your daily life? What says “playtime” to you? “ A month or so back one of my longest and best friends introduced me to the Puzzles Section on the New York Times app. My buddy suggested it was a good way to engage your mind after sleeping the …
Balancing Bigs
Bloganuary Prompt: “What are your biggest challenges?” Funny, I’ve got at least a few things I could mention here (like most people?); but in summary, it’s about “balancing the bigs.” By “bigs” I mean, the big plates in my life I work to keep in the air every day, including, Work: Gotta earn a living, …
Lazy Sundays, The Niners, and Grandma’s Recipe Book
“What makes you feel nostalgic?”Don’t get it much these days, rarely a free Sunday to laze, always big, little things I should be doing, but final Sunday of 2023, making an exception,The SF Niners on the early game, intentional, to actually sit and watch, the Fourth Quarter anyway, similar, remembering back when there was less …
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Another Primer: “I Believe In Relationship”
Prompt: “What relationships have a positive impact on you?” Some twenty years back I wrote a piece and submitted it to NPR for the “This I Believe” series. I believe in relationship. I did then. I still do. Have been through another marriage start to sad finish since then, but my trust in and desire …
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Go For The Splash
“If you started a sports team, what would the colors and mascot be?” Never considered this idea…but fun to think about it… The colors would be Orange 🧡 and Blue 💙 , The mascot would be the feisty, wild feline, the OCELOT, Imagine the branding, the color schemes, the merch… GOOD. 🧡💙💙💙🧡🧡🧡💙💙🧡🧡💙🧡💙🧡🧡🧡💙💙🧡🧡🧡💙💙💙🧡💙💙💙🧡🧡💙💙💙🧡🧡🧡💙💙🧡🧡💙💙💙🧡🧡🧡🧡💙💙💙🧡 Imagine the green …
Ideal To Real: Politik
How have your political views changed over time? As I came into adulthood I had grand visions of what might be accomplished politically to make the world a better place, filled with “ideal politik”, Near 40 years later, after a lot of life has happened, I still strive to participate where I can to make …
Alt_Space: Perfect State of Mind
“You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?”So inviting, this idea, concept : perfect physical space to read, write. Would be so satisfying if it were, was, real.For me I think it more practical, and equally perfect, to find that state of mind, Imagination and Perspective just so, to …