What’s your favorite thing about yourself?
Curiosity, Yeah, I’m naturally curious….about everything.
Edit; I’m considering changing this to Observant.
Curiosity is a wonderful thing, to be interested, stay interested in the world around us. To keep learning. The ‘ Every day’s a school day’ vibe is a good one…but I think Observant pips it to the post ….or maybe a vivid imagination? Nooo, I’ll stop right here. Observant it is.
What is your favorite season of year? Why?
I love Spring, but I also like those days in January when things begin to kick off. No human needed for the New Year to get up and running.
How my heart lifts at the sighting of the first snowdrop. I can barely contain my excitement.
A sprinkling of crocus here, a spread of aconites there…and then there are ……Yikes! What are they called? Their name escapes me… Catkin, yes, catkins. Phew!
Then cut to Spring itself. The natural world is energised with new life. The sun has some warmth in it. The evenings are becoming lighter. The birds are louder and more vocal as they seek a mate. The grass begins growing and the trees, as ever late to the game, radiate what’s to come. The bursts of colour on display are a joy to behold.
It’s the energy I find exciting. So much to observe and appreciate.
Do you remember life before the internet?
I remember…..
Newpaper sellers
Family evenings around the TV
Satchels full of books
Children playing outside
Mail on the door mat
Busy high streets
No empty shops
Multiple shoe shops
Less commercial vehicles
Stereo players and albums
Commuters
Busy city nightlife
Telephone boxes
Photograph albums and negatives
Paper road maps
Dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books
Diaries( With a lock)
Calendar in every home
Address books
Cheques
Pay packets
Money boxes
Travel agents
Hard copy CV’s
Telephone text
Monthly glossy magazines
Hairstyle magazines
VHS Videos
Camcorders
Walkman
Typewriters
and all those things which have slipped my mind.
Do you have any collections? I embrace minimalism
William Morris (1834-1896) designer, poet, craftsman, radical socialist, environmental activist. The first eco warrior of design, without a doubt!
He once said ‘ Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful ‘.
Another interesting take, said by Isabel Allende-1942- ‘ You spend the first part of your life collecting things and the second half getting rid of them’………A bit of a generalisation, but you get the drift.
Personally I’m not that comfortable being possessed by possessions.
How do you feel about cold weather?
Good morning WordPress… A simple question you are asking us today. So why am I struggling to gather my thoughts, put them into some sort of order and onto the page?
I’m British, we are masters at chatting about the weather. Being islanders we can have four seasons in one day, so there’s always something to say. And yet here I am….with nada!
Is it because there are so many angles to come from that it makes it not so simple, not so straightforward?
I do have a memory about the cold I could share though….Many moons ago I was in an indoor market. An elderly stopped me and asked if I knew where she could ‘ get one of those scrapers, to take the ice off the inside of my bedroom window?’…. That made quite an impression on several levels and has stayed with me ever since….
There is a quote by an American visual artist Andrew Wyeth ( 1917-2009)
‘ I prefer winter and fall, when you can feel the bone structure in the landscape – the loneliness of it- the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it- the whole story doesn’t show. ‘
Daily Prompt….Have you ever broken a bone?
Let’s be wildflowers, let our souls be scattered by the wind.
Let us grow wild and free, tall and brave, in the places that we dream, in the places where our longings are filled.
Let us grow through the cracks of brokenness, and we will make everything beautiful.
J.R.R. Tolkien
I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been;
Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair.
I sit beside the fire and think of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring that I shall ever see.
For still there are so many things that I have never seen:
in every wood and every spring there is a different green.
I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago
and people who will see a world that I will never know.
But all all the while I sit and think of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet and voices at the door.
What’s a job you would like to do for just one day?
I would like to join Dian Fossey, in the late sixties, as she began her intensive research into the lives and well being of gorillas, in Rwanda..
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?
Oh WordPress, really? Didn’t we do a ‘risk’ thing, yesterday?
What makes you nervous?
Nervousness is triggered by our body’s response to stress. The threats can be real or imagined and shows just how powerful the nervous system is. We want and need it to work, but just sometimes we become overwhelmed and that’s when fight or flight kick-in.
What makes me nervous is being out in the car when it’s really very windy. I vividly imagine a tree falling on my car, at any moment, which doesn’t usually end well. In the UK 5-6 people per year die this way. However, the HSE, Health and Safety Executive categorise this risk as ‘ broadly acceptable’. 😳 I kid you not.
Personally all adverse weather conditions tend to freak me out, somewhat. It rapidly reminds me how insignificant we are, up against the elements. They are the forces to be reckoned with as the Earth fights back and shows us exactly who is boss.
In England we are relatively sheltered from the worst of it. Snow falling for a few days and the whole country comes to a standstill. Laughable to those from more eastern zones.
But there is no humour to be found in Tsunami’s, volcanic eruptions, wildfires, landslides, avalanches, whirlwinds, tornadoes, flooding and droughts, causing destruction and famine.
Extreme weather conditions make me very nervous indeed!
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