OK, I will write about Joy next Sunday, because I know it will ultimately be a Joyful week. In the meantime, I have to add to the balance. For every spoonful of Joy there is a tablespoon of misery. Today: 1. My website developed an error – Well, some Malware idiot tampered with the code […]
My Joy this week has to be in finding this tiny Snowdrop, at the edge of the driveway, in bloom. OK, I have lots of Snowdrops scattered throughout the garden. Not one of them is even close to emerging. However, this one Snowdrop, precariously placed just inches from the cars that park in the driveway,
Our writing word for our writing challenge this time is “thinking.” Well, I have just spent several hours online trying to find a collection of books by Edward de Bono. He is the authority on thinking, especially creative thinking. I once had a good selection of his 70 odd books, but only two have survived
…This was a week of complications. I had to find Joy in the uncomplicated or in the unravelling of the complicated. Here’s how it went…. 1. I tried to set up an account with a money transferring service only to find that I couldn’t connect my phone to my wifi at work – lost password.
In one of my posts, I did an exercise from a book, Lateral Thinking, by Edward de Bono. It’s a process by which you pick a random word and use it to solve a problem. My problem was the Winter “blahs” and my word was caruncle – an extraneous growth. The exercise is usually done
I’ve made it through January. This in itself is a distillation of pure Joy! Someone posted a poem on FB about the days of the month. It was a parody on the old “Thirty days hath September.” They managed to incorporate all the months and their respective days except for January, which the poet noted
My writing partner has given the word “hook,” as our writing challenge, with personal memory. This will, indeed, be a challenge for me, because it’s a word that doesn’t spark any enthusiasm. I didn’t immediately say, “Great, I have a few ideas.” In fact, for me the word is off-putting. I dislike the sound of
…..let me count the ways – my apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Well, 1. We had several days of brilliant sun this week – always a joy even in snow and bitter cold. 2. I resolved an issue with the person who is taking over the knitting retreat that eight of us have organized for
