Share Your World 1-18-2021

Melanie is our host for the Share Your World questions.
You can find out more and join in by clicking on the link below:
https://sparksfromacombustiblemind.com/2021/01/18/share-your-world-1-18-2021/

QUESTIONS:

Why do we dream? I think we dream because we have so many ideas in our heads and so many things that we think about. Our days are chock full of stimulation, there is no way that the conscious mind can tend to it all in a day. The thing I don’t understand is how they are supposedly so short even though it may feel like a dream lasts all night!

Do you think a person’s name influences the person they become? I’m not sure if it influences who they become but I think it can influence how they interact with others. I suppose that does affect how they grow and develop. My mom used to say that kids with strange names had it harder in life because people would always wonder where their names came from, what they meant, if they were an indicator of who the person was. I don’t believe it to that extent but I do think that looking to make your child the most original with a weird name can be confusing to them when they start school and feel like they are so different because all the other kids have “normal” names.

Does hardship make a person stronger? (example: What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger) I don’t think it is the hardship that makes you stronger, it is how you deal with it and choose to learn from it. My life is very different than it was three years ago and although it has been difficult I don’t think it has made me stronger. In actuality it has almost weakened my strenght.

Why do we judge ourselves by our intentions, but judge others by their actions? Because you can’ read others’ minds to know their intentions, you only see what they do…how they act.

I am so grateful for my daughter, for David, for Laurette, and my dad. They make it all worth it!

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Blogging insights #31

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QUESTIONS

1. How frequently do you post about the pandemic? Please share links to a couple of your “pandemic posts” that you particularly like. If you have not written anything about Coronavirus/COVID-19 (seems unbelievable) what are your reasons for this?
I didn’t think I wrote much about COVID-19. Apparently I did!
https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/christinebialczak.com/5902 https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/christinebialczak.com/4553 https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/christinebialczak.com/4043 https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/christinebialczak.com/4832

2. What kind of “posts about the pandemic” do you like to read? (If you don’t, then please tell us why?)
I like to read the posts talking about the things that people are doing to pass the time while stuck at home. I actually got into book binding that way!

3. How have you and your blog adapted to “the new normal” ?
When I resigned from teaching in September this became my new normal so it easily

4. Have you seen any change in your blog stats during the pandemic? Also, are you posting more or less than you used to?
I think I see more blogs now than I did before. I am probably writing a little more too.

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Haibun Monday

Piet Mondrian. Broadway Boogie Woogie. 1942-43 | MoMA

Hosted by Kim at d’Verse Poets Pub: https://dversepoets.com/2020/05/25/haibun-monday-meet-piet/

Public school

Back in the seventies when plaid was the thing
bright colors were typical, as were tans and browns
The pants of children, both boys and girls
Toys made by Playskool, Play-doh, and Fisher Price.

Summer picnics, family and friends gather
to celebrate the season of the summer and the holidays
Birthday parties with moon-bounce houses
Clowns come in plaid pants recovered from the seventies.

Math classes, art classes, all grades
Grids and maps, primary colors, color wheels
Data entry, following patterns, coding
Shapes, colors, directions, codes all in grade school until graduation.

Enter public schools
Children become teens then
Graduate high school.

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Haibun Monday 30/03/2020: Snapshots of Our Lives

Write a prose background to your chosen poem, giving us more details of when and where it happened, who else was involved, the how and the why, including a link to the original poem if you wish, and then sum up the poem in a haiku. Aim to write no more than three tight paragraphs, followed by a traditional haiku that includes reference to the season. https://dversepoets.com/

I had to look back and find a poem that I wrote last year, that is when I really started writing. I didn’t put it on a blog, as I wasn’t blogging at that point either! I found this poem that I titled “Color my memories” when I was writing poetry for children. I wasn’t really aware then, that poetry is not really desired for publication from traditional publishers. Shel Silverstein was always one of my most favorite authors, so when I began writing I had him in mind. Later, as I looked for a traditional publisher, I read on one bio after another that no one wants poetry for young readers. It is too bad.

This poem I wrote based on real things I remember.

Color my memories

Memories spin in my mind.

Red raspberries out in grandma’s backyard with silver beetles under the leaves.

Blue water swirling with sunshine against an aqua blue liner in the above ground pool.

Green grass to be mowed twice a week with a red walk-behind mower.

Purple irises in the flower garden smelling so sweet but not to pick.

Black tar on the driveway for popping tar bubbles and for sunning all day.

Yellow sunlight as bright as grandma’s huge Chevrolet with no seat belts.

Orange slices cut to quench your thirst and make a fake smile.

Brown shades of skin darkening with each summer day.

Sometimes we believe
Children live colorful lives
One to remember

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Poetry, Positivity, and Connecting!

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