Daily prompt: Simply the best

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postaday2014, thinking, thoughts, writing

When and where do you do your best thinking? In the bathroom? While running? Just before bed, or first thing in the morning? On the bus? Why do you think that is?

Now I have Tina Turner’s gorgeous voice stuck in my head, she is belting out “You’re Simply The Best, better than all the rest”. She will be singing in my head for probably hours to come, I am not complaining, it could be far worse. I love Tina Turner, she has gumption plus the best legs and what a terrific dancer.

Anyway, my best time for thinking is definitely in the morning hours when my brain is both fresh and refreshed. I just typed the word fresh twice and it suddenly has lost all recognizability for me, has that ever happened to you? You write down a word that you have seen and used a million times and all of a sudden, it loses all familiarity. It has happened to me before, very rarely, but it throws me for a loop. LOL I am writing this past the morning hour span of fresh thinking, maybe that explains it.

Getting back to when I think the best, apart from the morning hours during breakfast time, I also love to think while walking Jack. I run all kinds of scenarios in my head while we walk very quickly around the mile loop and by the time that we get back home, everything that I had thought about has disappeared in the many footsteps of our walk. Sometimes, something good sticks and I write about it later on, but that is not too often.

I think myself to sleep very easily. Sleep for me is a no brainer, I close my eyes and think of something, anything and I’m asleep. What is nice is that sometimes, my thoughts become dreams or what has bothered me gets woven into my dreams and somehow gets resolved some way or the other and I feel better even if I don’t know exactly why.

But really when does a person ever stop thinking? Part of what scares me about no longer being here, is the idea that my brain won’t be on anymore and my thoughts will be gone, like a lightbulb shut off forever. I can’t even imagine it, because my mind or brain doesn’t know how to shut off while I am conscious. That is what scared me when I was five years old and realizing that one day I was not going to wake up and I was not going to be anymore, that it was going to be something more than darkness, it was going to be nothingness.

Okay I went dark there, I am turning back to cheerier thoughts, one of my favorite things to think about is food and specifically planning desserts, which one to make, how much to make of it and who will like it. Things like that make me quite happy and I can spend tons of time thinking about cooking and baking, gardening and writing as well.

Constantly what is on my mind with the thinking thing is what will I write about and what do I need to learn about New York that will help me with my book. These are thoughts that occupy me and keep my creative juices percolating. All in all I think that this was a relatively interesting prompt to write about, thanks Daily Prompt people for a nice idea.

Daily prompt : An open letter

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blogging, communication, postaday2013, thoughts, writing

WRITE YOUR OWN OPEN LETTER
You can use these examples as inspiration for your own open letter, but also consider different approaches:

A humor or satirical piece addressed to a celebrity or person in the news.
A piece of constructive criticism (or praise) to a politician, either international or local.
A letter to a thing — one of your fears, a habit you’d like to break, etc.
A note to yourself at a specific age/year in the future.
What other ideas for open letters do you have?

Dear Me,

I almost never say this, I say it to others but never to us, I am proud of us and the things that we have done together. Since 2007 when we almost died in the hospital, we have certainly come a long way with our health and taking care of ourself. I know that we still have a few health issues that we need to respect and take care of on a daily basis, but we no longer make the very poor choices that we used to in the past. I am particularly impressed with our continued commitment to not smoking, if ever there was a monumental challenge, quitting the cigarette was the most intense battle ever. We did it however and come November first 2013, it will be six years since a cigarette graced our lips, that is indeed something to be proud of and celebrated. I am also proud of our daily recognition that food is a vital part of our life and not the enemy, that step was also huge and it was one of the main reasons we ended up in the hospital, but every day and in every way we are getting better and better with our relationship towards food, a little borrowing from Captain Dreyfuss in “The Revenge of the Pink Panther” I love that movie.

I have said it before, but I will say it again, I am proud of the way that we have embraced writing and the discipline to post something everyday. Something else to be acknowledged is the way that we keep up or at least try to keep up with the friends that we have made through blogging. Reaching out is somewhat difficult for us, I know, but the fact that we do it, is something to continue and have fun with and enjoy.

Keep up the great work and remember this is for the both of us, you and me.

your truly, me. 🙂

Daily prompt : A fly on the wall

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history, postaday2013, thoughts, writing

If you could be a “fly on the wall” anywhere and at any time in history, where and when would you choose?

There are so many junctions in the historical record that I would love to be privy to or at least an eye witness. I think that one of the most important events that I would really want to be witness to is the burning of the great library of Alexandria, perhaps I could have done something to stop it because that was one of the greatest crimes against our historical record ever. Any time books and manuscripts are destroyed marks a great crime against humanity. When I think of all the knowledge lost, it makes me so very sad.

Another point in time that I would have loved to be a fly on the wall was the 18th century in Paris, France, especially the time of the grand salons where all the great philosophers, playwrights and artistes gathered discussing the grand thoughts and ideas of the era. Actually, I amend that, I would really want to be there where the founding fathers were, when they were discussing and planning the constitution, I want to know exactly their thoughts and their aims, so much has been bandied about in terms of their intentions some 200 hundred odd years later, that I want to be an eyewitness for myself. Would it make a difference in the grand scheme of things, no except for myself. I would know, plain and simple.

Slim pickings in the prompt department

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blogs, inspiration, postaday2013, posts, prompts, thoughts, writing

As I said, today there are some slim pickings in the prompt department on either of the websites; Plinky or the Daily Post at WordPress. I am still having issues with Plink, I e-mailed them about my dilemma, but I was still planning to respond to their prompt over at WordPress. I was disappointed to see that today’s prompt was a repeat, “What would you un-invent?”, I have already answered this question several times in its different forms; the cell phone. Over at WordPress, I think that the DailyPost had either “describe your most special meal in exquisite detail” and I know that I have done this one more than once, or write about your VIP person and I have already done that as well. So I got nothing, well not really nothing. I suppose that I could come up with something else besides the weather today.

Spring forward! Today we woke up to one more hour of sunshine since last night we turned the clocks ahead. What a difference an hour makes in your outlook. It is 6:30 in the evening and it is still light out,

See what a difference an hour makes. It already feels that much closer to spring. I am not talking about the weather, I am talking about seasonal moods and how daylight can lift a mood like nothing else can. Hooray for longer days and shorter nights!

The State of the Union

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cynicism, hopeful, politics, postaday2013, reactions, thoughts

Last night our President gave his State of the Union as mandated by our constitution. It was hopeful and uplifting in terms of the progress that we have made since the 2007 Great Recession. He laid out a progressive plan for the congress; the pundits have taken to calling it a “laundry list” of measures that the congress should work on making a reality. There was a call for gun control, environmental action and a commitment to educational reform. There was much more but my brain has since fogged over.

What struck me the most was the loyal applause from all the democrats and the stony silences of the republicans. It was sort of depressing because by their stony silence, the republicans let it be known that they will not do anything to help our country to govern itself. It makes me sad and weary; there are so many potentially great things that can be done, but when you have a House that is stubborn in its desire to obstruct everything that the President and his party are striving to do, everyone loses. We, the nation, lose in the fact that nothing gets done and we simply drift forward on the waves of slow economic progression, but essentially rudderless and without purpose.

I don’t know how this will ever change, it seems action is determinate on blind ideology instead of fact based thinking with an ideological blush in the background. When the facts don’t support your ideological bent than it is time to rethink your ideology, not bend the facts to suit your ideology, which is precisely what the republicans are doing these days.

Today I am not even cautiously optimistic, which is not the usual mood for me, perhaps I am a little tired but all this politicking makes me apprehensive for our future. I need to watch some escapist t.v. That will brighten my outlook. 🙂

Playing with data

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IPad, learning, pictures, postaday2012, technology, thoughts, writing

I am still playing with and discovering the bells and whistles of my new toy. Yesterday I figured out how to upload a video that my baby girl had shot of Jack and our dinner, the lobster. Today I found out that my IPad automatically uploads the pictures that my hubby takes into my photo stream. I just need to figure out and play with the settings to make my posts more attractive. I think that what I am aiming to do is fiddle around with the ratio of space between text and photo, almost like what I used to see the art directors do to the catalog and the print advertising at Conran’s-Habitat all those years ago.

These photos that I am going to upload are all the photos from yesterday,Christmas Day and the day before, Christmas Eve; in between the food and Jack, the camera’s were busy these past two days.

Mix Tape

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life, music, postaday2012, thoughts, writing

Put together a a musical playlist of songs that describe your life, including what you hope your future entails.

A mix tape that describes my life. I would imagine that whatever songs that I would include on a mix tape would be significant to my feelings and life experiences. There is a reason why Supertramp’s Breakfast in America is one of my all time favorite albums, the melodies and harmony evoke wonderful memories of my summers in France with my cousins, if you noticed I didn’t include lyrics because I often didn’t capture exactly what was being said, it was the feeling and the mood that captured me.

Pink Floyd and everything by them would be on that tape as well as The Who; the feelings of rebelliousness and angst against authority while also craving it, defines both the bands and their music and myself during my turbulent teenage years.

Moving on to early adulthood and Sade, Simply Red and Tracy Chapman appear. They embodied mellow for me, lyrical beauty and rich jazzy backdrops.  These influences have lasted and now Adele and Duffy have joined the club.

The future I can’t predict but I know that it will be informed by the past.