Daily prompt: Singular Sensation

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blog, legacy, postaday2014, posts

If you could have a guarantee that one, specific person was reading your blog, who would you want that person to be? Why? What do you want to say to them?

I did not start my blog with a specific purpose way back when, this was not a question that had ever crossed my mind. To be honest, I get very excited each time that someone clicks the like button and/or follows my blog; not to mention the wonderful fact that I have made such wonderful friends through posting at WordPress. I feel so lucky that by the simple act of writing everyday, I touch people and have been touched by wonderful people in return. Having said all this, I now know who I would want to read my blog over time, I would have to amend the number from one to two and the two people that I would want guaranteed readership would be my two babies.

I was thinking the other day that my blog has become my public diary, I haven’t shared every dark secret, but I have been honest and discussed things about myself that do not come into my normal everyday conversation. As my mind was meandering around with this thought, it morphed into thinking about my parenting style and how that relates and affects my babies. That took me to thinking that perhaps having my two babies read my blog over time would give them better insight as to why and what had made me the type of Maman I am, for the good and the not so good. I am sure that every parent would agree, there are days where you haven’t been your best and the reasons are sometimes buried in your psyche or subconscious and I thought that maybe after reading my blog, my babies will come to the point and say “oh that’s why Maman was a little crazy about this or that’s why that was important to her, I get it now”

I was also thinking along the lines of getting to know me in terms of the grand babies. It would be fantastic to have my babies show their babies my posts and have them get to know me as a person beyond being just Mamie or grandma. I wish that either of my grandparents had been journal or diary keeper to have known them as people beyond being old and loving grandparents. I would have given so much to have known how my grandparents felt during the World Wars, their fears, concerns and hopes. Those were a sample of my questions. Perhaps my blog would answer some of my children and their children’s questions. These are my thoughts on the subject.

Where did my day go?

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blog, day, postaday2013, time, writing

Have you ever spent the day and at the end of it, you’re tired and you have no idea why? Where does time go? I mean I did stuff, not big stuff, but still stuff, but the stuff shouldn’t have been enough to make me so tired. I read, I wrote, I wrote a comment in response to an article in the Huffington Post as usual and this one solicited a lot of traffic from fellow commentators which was exciting. It’s always exciting when someone has a thought or a reaction to your words. I do prefer the positive ones over the negative ones. trust me I have had a few negative reactions and they are most unpleasant. I wrote about why I thought Larry Summers wouldn’t be a good choice as the new Federal Reserve Chairman. A different change of pace from my previous posts of the past several days all related to what is going on in Syria.

Perhaps that is why I am feeling more tired than usual, all this talk of bombings and war, chemical weapons, children being killed, millions of refugees, all this makes me soul sick. To think that we had a serious period of Enlightenment during the eighteenth century where political philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and and John Locke spoke of the responsibility of the state vis a vis to the people and the question of the rights of men. I know that these philosophies didn’t stop war but at least it got us as humans thinking about making things better. You would think that perhaps one of these years, we will figure out that war, violence, greed and power mad behavior needn’t be part of the human condition.

I know that the human condition is also generous, kind, forgiving, altruistic and capable of amazing things, I just wish that all the good could one day banish the worst. I would be content with the venal sins, I remember being in Catholic school during my elementary school years and learning the difference between mortal sins and venal sins, venal sins are the ones that aren’t dangerous to your soul, so theoretically not dangerous to your fellow man. But we still should not be in the habit of committing them even if they aren’t heinous.

I am not asking for a utopia, I am asking for mankind to treat each other with respect, compassion and patience, apparently it is too much to ask for, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t strive towards that goal, elusive as it might be.

Daily prompt : Party animal?

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blog, party, postaday2013, writing

After spending time with a group of people, do you feel energized and ready for anything or do you want to hide in the corner with a good book?

Nowadays I find myself very fatigued after spending time with a crowd. When I was younger, it was the opposite, I would be primed and raring to go, fueled on by the energy provided by the crowd’s dynamic. These days a few hours speaking with a group of friends will send me to bed rest to recuperate. I have come to appreciate quiet and get togethers with smaller groups over large crowds. I love peace, calm and tranquility.

My need for external stimulation has vastly decreased in the past few years. I find myself keeping my immediate surroundings quiet for longer than I used to, the t.v doesn’t go on until mid-afternoon, the car ride is done in silence. Contrary to my youth when I started my day listening to music and the television was always on while I was reading and writing. Now my reading and writing are done in silence, my brain seems to thrive in silence as opposed to the constant stream of external noise that used to fuel it.

Cute antics of our beloved little Jack

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antics, blog, fetch, jack russell, postaday2013, video

Our little Jack has several cute ways of both walking and running, in addition to his leaps and jumps. He does this odd combination of a prance and jump, we call it the Odie from the Garfield cartoon or if you have ever seen the cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas, the Grinch’s dog Max does the same prance/jump as Jack.

I like to share Jack’s adorable personality because he brightens my day everyday and I’d like to share the love with my readers. Spending a minute watching a nice, friendly, adorable pet like Jack playing fetch can distract you from whatever worries that may be plaguing you, at least for a minute or so.

Now that our back yard has finally shed much of its snow, our little Jack has been spending more time searching for his prey, the chipmunks, who have finally emerged from hibernation so he has been a hunter with a mission these past few days. He hasn’t caught any in part due to, I think, his long winter session of being a couch potato (hee, hee). He needs to get back to his prior speed and quick reflexes if he is going to be serious about even catching a chipmunk. I don’t push him to be a hunter but I do like the exercise that it gives him. My chipmunk population, if it is anything like it was last year, is so large that they won’t be shy coming out.

I hope that Jack’s video puts a smile on your face. He does so to me on a daily basis. In all the seriousness of life, sometimes silliness is required.

Write like a music critic

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blog, food, mushrooms, music, postaday2012, writing, zucchini

• Write about the subject you usually blog about as if you were a music critic.

• Music Critic
• Zucchini Saute

  I decided to shake things up a bit in my zucchini saute with onions, garlic and parmesan cheese.The base is a classic, the slow caramelization of the onions provide a rich backdrop to the mild flavors of the zucchini and the sharp notes of the barely sauteed garlic gives the taste buds something to relish as the smooth tomato sauce and tangy parmesan cheese arrive to coat the different flavors and meld them together into a balanced dish. To this symphony of flavor, my introduction of a new player was the mellow flavor of the button mushroom, its earthy, low notes added even more depth to the foundational elements of flavors in the dish. I have to say that this sophomore effort deserves an encore.