If you read this delightful book you may think twice about octopuses. To prove my point, look at this! NPR article below!
A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [science].
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Do you think it helps or hinders a writer from having a big ego? Maybe both?
How often do you read your blog content from an outsider’s perspective? If I receive an interesting comment I do look back to understand how they interpreted what I wrote.
I view my blog as an allotment garden. How do you view yours? A place to have fun and learn new things.
What’s the first book you ever remember reading way back when? Black Beauty
Were you ever read to as a child, and by whom? I don’t remember but probably my sister.
Where do you like to read? At home on the couch? Whilst travelling? In bed? Where? I read blogs and emails, the news etc but I listen to audio books anywhere anytime. I’m addicted.😁
What are the most significant barriers to your creativity? Probably knowledge but I do love researching words etc. I scribble and it’s hard for me to think of it as writing with a capital W.
Do you think blogging is essential, and if you do, why? It’s been an essential since 2015. It started out as a way to take my mind off my health and kept me busy during recuperation.
There are many benefits to blogging; however, what are the three top downsides of blogging, in your opinion? Very difficult poetry challenges, sifting through all the reblogs when I’ve already read the original, the whimsy and prolific disgusting ads on WP that interrupt poems and stories, etc.
Thanks again, Rory☺️
S for Scylla. In Greek mythology, Scylla was the daughter of Forky and Kitos, once a beautiful Nymph whom Poseidon longed for. The jealous Amphitrite, Poseidon’s partner, turned her into a monster. She haunted the rocks of a narrow strait opposite the whirlpool of another terrible monster, Charybdis. In Odyssey, Ulysses’ ship passes through the strait, after losing six of his men who were eaten alive by the monster.
One tradition relates that Scylla originally was a beautiful maiden, who often played with the nymphs of the sea, and was beloved by the marine god Glaucus. He applied to Circe for means to make Scylla return his love; but Circe, jealous of the fair maiden, threw magic herbs into the well in which Scylla was wont to bathe, and by these herbs the maiden was metamorphosed in such a manner, that the upper part of her body remained that of a woman, while the lower part was changed into the tail of a fish or serpent, surrounded by dogs
https://lindaghill.com/2023/04/21/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-april-22-2023/
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A bomb threat last month. A car accident killing one boy and hospitalizing three others yesterday. This was the day after the SWAT team, Guard and police entered our high school because someone called in an active shooter alert. Teachers and kids were hiding in closets behind locked classroom doors while heavily armed law enforcement ran through the school. Luckily my granddaughter is homeschooled for most core classes, so not in the school at the time. This is becoming so often a happening that the public is apathetic and seems to just throw up their hands in defeat. It’s been a tearful couple of days.
R for Rarog. In Slavic mythology (in particular Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak), the Raróg (Russian: Papor) or Raroh is a fire demon, often depicted as a fiery falcon. In Czech folklore, a raroh can hatch from an egg that was incubated on a stove for nine days and nights, and can appear either as a fiery falcon or a dragon. In Polish folklore, the rarog is a tiny bird that can be held in a pocket, and can bring people happiness.
Woohoo! Good afternoon people, and do I have good news from the home front! My grandson came to spend the day with me and helped me clean a couple of things:
1. My laptop
2. My floors
That may not seem a big deal to anyone else, but it makes my heat sing! Only the heart, you wouldn’t want to hear the real thing, believe me. Opening the blinds this morning I noticed my sparkling clean floors, gorgeous….after snow, mud and slush tracked over them by the wheels lately, those gray trails have disappeared. Cool!
http://fivedotoh.com/2023/04/21/fandangos-flashback-friday-april-21st/
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