If you could go back and witness any historical event, which one would you pick?
Hey WP, I really did give today’s DP some serious thought and came up nada, nothing, zilch.
Of course now that I have written that a few little threads begin tugging in my brain. May 8th 1945. That must have been quite something when Germany surrendered and the war was over.
How did you meet your significant other?
I saw his photo online. He looked handsome, healthy, and in good shape.
Things moved quickly from that moment, and he had moved in within a few weeks.
We’ve been together over five years now.
There have been ups and downs. We are both spirited souls.
But the fact is you never really know what you’re getting with a mixed breed Rescue, who has had three homes before coming to share your life. 🐾🐾
What’s the last movie that made you cry?
Aww, the Happiness Engineers had done such a good job of updating our Daily Prompt feed, and now this?
Seems the old thread is back?
If you could erase one event from history, what would it be?
It is impossible for me to rank one natural ( horrific) event over a man-made decision to abuse or slaughter.
I scroll the Sky News app first thing every morning and always wish I hadn’t.
Which is the best restaurant in your city?
In England, we have something called coloquially as a ‘ Greasy Spoon’ ( sounds nice, doesn’t it? Lol)
Basically, a truck stop. Cheap and cheerful, you might say. Or possibly ‘a heart attack on a plate’ if you go for a ‘ Full English’. Or a Full English plus.
They rarely offer veggie sausages, let alone bacon, but they know how to cook eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, hash browns, gorgeous doorstep toast and the best builders-tea, ever.
Breakfast has really become my most favourite meal of the day. You are almost invinsible afterwards. This probably began in India all those years ago, a place that understands feeding you.
Which author would you love to have dinner with?
Having given this some thought WordPress, I really can’t narrow it down. Got myself a bit of a list…
Isabella Tree..Wilding
W.H. Davies..Diary of a Supertramp
Christina Rossetti.. Poet
Emily Dickinson..Poet
Charles Bukowski..Semi autobiographical novels
Stephen King.. Horror genre
William Morris.. Author amongst other things.
Erin Morgansten..The Night Circus
WordPress, I’ll stop here. This is a Daily Prompt with very long legs.
If your future self could send you one sentence, what do you hope it would say?
Yikes, by definition, my future self is going to be quite aged. Maybe ‘ wiser’ sounds nicer, less severe, easier to imagine.
Perhaps the sentence could be a long the lines of ‘ you did your best, you gave a damn!’
What’s the best local dish you’ve ever eaten while traveling?
If you are au fait with my blog, you will know I have a place deep in my heart for Chennai, in Southern India.
The food, the side-dishes, and the chutneys are to die for.
A glass of chai and a vada in the afternoon. Sublime.
Hand on heart, if I could swap my daily intake for south Indian fayre, I would be a very happy bunny.
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?
It would be wonderful if the little ones were introduced to the world around them. If they got to know their way around a globe.
The little sponges that they are would learn about the natural world, the name of rivers, mountains, and trees.
This information could be combined with colours and numbers.
They could learn to sing, whistle, and hum.
Planting seeds, watch them grow. Learn about the food they eat and where it comes from.
Small people would be taught to swim. How to take care of themselves, their teeth and hygiene.
Little souls would be encouraged to speak up or seek help if they felt uncomfortable or powerless in any situation.
We would want them to understand animal welfare and the way animals share our planet
I’d like our kids to learn about pollution and its effects.
There is so much they could take in. Given the chance.
Last but not least they could be taught about tolerance and how being different is okay.
There is room in their ever expanding minds for this and more.
What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life?
If a Pagan meets a Buddhist, you may begin to get where I’m coming from.
However, the quote I have for you today is straight from the Bible.
‘ Do to others as you would have them do unto you’.
The most beautiful thing about this is that you will find a version of this quote in every holy book and wise words from ancient philosophers.
Buddhism: “Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” — Udanavarga 5:18
Hinduism: “This is the sum of duty: do naught onto others which would cause you pain if done to you.” — Mahabharata 5:1517
Confucianism: “Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.” — Analects 15:23
Taoism: “Regard your neighbour’s gain as your own gain, and your neighbour’s loss as your own loss.” — T’ai Shang Kan Ying P’ien
Islam: “None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.” — Number 13 of Imam Al-Nawawi’s Forty Hadiths
Judaism: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour. This is the whole Torah; the rest is the commentary; go and learn it.” — Talmud, Shabbat 31a
Ancient Greece: “Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.” — Isocrates
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