Truthful Tuesday 09-07-2021


This week on Truthful Tuesday, hosted by Thoughts and Theories, asks:

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Colorful Laneway Murals #SundayStills


#SundayStills

Is Becoming Self-Sufficient a Fool’s Errand?


Is it?

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #164: Looking Up/Down


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #164, Sofia from Photographias challenges everyone to Look up or Down.

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CMMC: September Close Up or Macro


Brand new Strawberry plant in containers
Marigolds and smoky sunset
Echinacea (coneflower)

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

5 Things Tuesday – 5 Ways to Enjoy Apples


Haven’t do one of these in a while, this week, it is 5 ways to enjoy apples. Here are my top 5:

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Share Your World – Week of August 30, 2021 Diving into the Deep End


Are human beings required to better themselves and will doing that make them happier?

I don’t think humans are required to do anything that they don’t want to do. I think if it’s required, doing it won’t necessary make them happier, if anything, it might have the opposite effect. With that said, based on my personal experience, self improvement or “bettering” ourselves often comes voluntarily, not forced. I think, as we age and become wiser, we will unconsciously self-improve.

Is it easier to love or to be loved?

In my opinion, to love is easier than to be loved. It’s a control mechanism, I think. We can control what to love or who to love or who we want to love back but to be love is out of our control. It’s the other individual who chooses whether or not we should be loved.

Outside traumatic brain injury, can memories be completely erased?

Um, yeah, by drugs, by very powerful high-tech machines. I recently saw an episode in a TV show where this guy’s memory was wiped due to an over-dosage of a drug.

Is there such a thing as a good death?

Having been through a near-death experience as a pre-teen, I have grown very fascinated with the concept of death over the years. If you read my flash fictions and short stories, you’d know I write about death quite a bit. Perhaps it’s got something with losing a few family members when I was young or maybe that near-death experience just stuck with me. If you ask me, I’d say, “yes, a good death exists when there is no pain such as when a person slips away in his or her sleep.”

and one ‘silly’ one because the former questions were fairly serious:   What do you imagine is inside a baseball?

I’d imagine there’d be a hard core like the Earth.

Share Your World Challenge

Truthful Tuesday 08-31-2021


I’m on time this week, for once. This week on Truthful Tuesday, hosted by Thoughts and Theories, asks:

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Monday Thoughts


Mondays are always hard (well, no duh!) especially when one forgets that she set a vibrating alarm on her watch and it goes off right on the dot. This alarm got me jumping out of bed this morning despite being sore all over. It put me in panic mode and I hate it.

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Afloat #SundayStills


#SundayStills

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #163: Keep Walking


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #163, Amy challenges everyone with the topic of “Keep Walking.”

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CFFC: Tomorrow


When I’m stuck a with day that’s gray and lonely
The sun’ll come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow
There’ll be sun
So you gotta hang on ’til tomorrow
Come what may
Tomorrow, tomorrow
I love ya tomorrow

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge

Blogging Insights – New Format #6


On this week’s Blogging Insights – New Format #6, the following quote is given:

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Truthful Tuesday on a Wednesday


I’m a day late for Truthful Tuesday this week but better late than never, right? This week on Truthful Tuesday, hosted by Thoughts and Theories, asks:

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Share Your World – Week of August 23, 2021 Mixbag Edition


Can you parallel park (if you drive)?   If you don’t drive, can you still skip?

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Monday Thoughts


I was glad to see the sun be back to its yellow shining self this morning despite still seeing a little bit of haze linger in the air.

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #162: It’s All About the Light


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #162, Tina assigns the excellent topic of “It’s All about the Light“.

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CMMC: August Pick a Topic


Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

CFFC: Here Comes the Sun


First time trying to match a photo to song lyrics, the song given is Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. I fear I might had botched the meaning but this is how I interpreted this section of the song:

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Share Your World – Week of August 16, 2021 Squirrely Edition


7-15-2021  When you just need to forget the world for a few hours, what helps you get away from it all?  (Fuzzywig the Stoner Raccoon)    

Oh that’s easy, I usually sit still for a moment and let my mind wander. Before anyone can say another word, I’m in my head wandering, imagining, and coming up with ways to finish unfinished stories I started long ago.

7-22-2021  If you woke up tomorrow with a unicorn horn extending from the top of your head, what would be the biggest advantage and disadvantage of your new appendage?  (Mitzi the Horny  FRIENDLY Unicorn)

Well, I guess I can always jab people with it but then people might stare and look at me like a freak. Unless…that horn comes with super magical powers? Otherwise, it will just be this thing on top of my head and honestly, I’m seeing more disadvantages here than advantages.

7-29-2021  What is the creepiest thing you’ve ever seen someone do, that you’d be willing to talk about, of course?  (Snuggle The “I Like It Kinky” Friendly Bear)

Nothing comes to mind

8-5-2021 What’s the silliest or pettiest thing that tends to really upset you?  (Rainy, The Wickedly Obsessive Rain Loving Skunk)

I wrote about this in yesterday’s post – people borrowing my stuff for an extending length of time, return it before borrowing it again. Some say that’s silly or petty but to me, it’s seriously upsetting because if you borrow my stuff, then what am I supposed to use when I need it?

GRATITUDE SECTION (Always Optional)

How comfortable are you with meeting others who are very different from yourself? (no judgment implied.  Different in any way you’d like to think about – different cultures, different races, different mind set (opinions)? 

To be honest, I’m uncomfortable meeting new people PERIOD. I’m an introvert with the world’s rarest personality type (INFJ) according to a personality I took. It doesn’t matter whether we are alike or the different. It take me a while before I’m comfortable with an individual.

When I meet someone new, my brain will do a scan to get a sense of the other person’s personality, behavior, and the like. When my brain deems it’s safe, then I’ll proceed. Like I’ve mentioned before, I have a knack for this thing.

Share Your World Challenge

Blogging Insights – New Format #5


On this week’s Blogging Insights – New Format #5, the following quote is given:

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More Monday Thoughts


Can somebody say Deja Vu?

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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #161: Feet and Shoes


This week, on Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #161, Ann-Christine assigned, in my opinion, a rather strange topic – Feet and Shoes.

Immediately, this picture sprang to mind. I shot this during my last visit to China in 2018 when I visited the museum in my hometown. It was quite an interesting tour as I got to see the transition from eastern culture to western culture. Though they look real, these are actually plastic figures to illustrate the point of opening the first shopping mall in China.

Is it weird I still have these boots? Even after 5 years? I should’ve thrown them away long ago – they are so incredibly heavy that each step I take feels like I’m dragging bricks. It’s so hard to find winter shoes that fit these days.