Category: Travel
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A Pleasant Chat With Myself …with no regrets
Writing 201, poetry: Pleasure, Sonnet, Apostrophe (not that kind of apostrophe…) Say What, SELF? Talking to Myself is something I do Listing accomplishments, dreams, and regrets. Bragging to Self is always permitted as long as the truth is told. But sometimes I resent what SELF has to say in questioning and doubting and high-handed…
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Say What? Overcoming Language Differences…
You know what I’m saying? Sometimes understanding is difficult to achieve. I have been in situations where I have had to or wanted to make myself clear. Conversations that come to mind are often hilarious, although at the time miscommunication was not one bit funny…but frustrating, or even frightening. I can read Spanish, but speaking…
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Flying Fools
[ok, some posts have a will of their own. This particular work of art was one that I thought I deleted yesterday. After finishing the draft, I hit the trash button, and thought that would be the end of it. But no, when I looked at my email from the Commons, there was my post..in…
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My first glimpse of Paradise zooms back
[The prompt for Day Two — Writing 101. “If you could zoom through space in the speed of light, what place would you go to right now?”] Now that is an easy assignment that took absolutely NO thought. The question did indeed have the “zoom” effect. My place that my inner image brings up is as…
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A Place I would NEVER want to visit? Nah…
Is there such a place? I don’t think so. Oh sure, there are places where I would not want to be at a given time…say in the midst of a fire-fight in a war zone. But that could be anywhere at any time…even a small town stand-off between police and a gunman. I wouldn’t want…
A State of Mind 