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Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Golden Shoes
Posted in the Friday series “Fabulous Friday”
“We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” Marianne Williamson
Fabulous Friday or Ode to my Shiny Shoes
My shiny golden shoes
No time for the blues
Singing and dancing
In my shoes of fancy
My lovely golden shoes
Act as some kind of muse
They might be flashy
But I feel quite dashy
I may not be Howard Hughes
And I don’t need any booze
With minimal financing
I am out celebrating
Thank Goodness
For Fabulous Fridays!
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Favourite Photo of the Week, 2015-11-20
Photography and Poetry
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Posted in Fav Foto Friday
“Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really! And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with you!”
“My photography is the result of being there at the right moment” Rene Burri
Favourite Photo of the Week, 2015-11-20
For this week’s favourite photo, I have chosen the one tagged as “Tricolour”.
This photograph is related to the recent events in the most gorgeous city in the world, that of Paris, France. It was originally posted for the “SL WEEK” photo challenge, run by Sylvain Landry , titled “Bleu, Blanc, Rouge”.
Related posts:
Tricolour
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Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day
In honour of the month November
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Ordinary Days: A one week series with ordinary day photos and happenings (if any 😉 )
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Photography and Poetry
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Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day
Setting limits on your writing can be both liberating and productive, as you may have noticed in Day 1’s timed free-write and yesterday’s word count exercise. Let’s incorporate a different restriction: write a post that takes place during one single day.
It might seem hard, at first, to tell a compelling story with such a limited temporal horizon: you have no recourse to flashbacks, backstory, or foreshadowing (unless it’s in reference to something about to take place that same day). But the narrow confines of one single day will encourage you to zoom in on rich, telling details.
But remember: recreating a single day doesn’t automatically mean describing every detail. This assignment is very much about editing — and focusing on the right details.
How will you use 24 hours as your story’s canvas? Here are examples:
* Start in the middle of the action, then zig and zag through time, from the moment you woke up to the last thing that happened before you retired for the night.
* Structure your story as a play-by-play (or hour-by-hour) account, complete with precise time markers.
* Zoom in even further, limiting yourself to just one hour of your chosen day.
* Ignore these instructions and reveal one day’s significance indirectly, through focusing on its aftermath
“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary” Gerard Way
Writing 101, Day Fourteen: Recreate a single day
For this particular assingment, I decided to go with a completely different approach. I have kind of had a head start for the overall idea of “recreating a single day” since Monday.
I am running a trial of posts this under the theme of “Ordinary Days”, where I am capturing the events of the day in few simple sentences accompanied by daily photos taken during each day. The trial itself was a good idea, unfortunately my life, as it turns out is filled with more work than ever! But still, well worth the while the effort 😉
Maybe Friday will bring a change, since it is after, fabulous!
Please find related posts of the same:
Monday, 16th of November
Tuesday, 17th of November
Wednesday, 18th of November, Part One
Wednesday, 18th of November, Part Two
Thursday, 19th of November, Part One
Thursday, 19th of November, Red
… And watch out for today’s post for Fabulous Friday
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Thursday, 19th of November, Red
In honour of the month November
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Ordinary Days: A one week series with ordinary day photos and happenings (if any 😉 )
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Photography and Poetry
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Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy
“Nothing screws up your Friday like realizing it’s Thursday”
Thursday, 19th of November, Part One
Today, Thursday…
…The sun appeared
The flowers on the table
Had started to bloom
Snapped a few pics
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Thursday, 19th of November, Part One
In honour of the month November
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Ordinary Days: A one week series with ordinary day photos and happenings (if any 😉 )
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Photography and Poetry
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Posted in response to The Clinic-Photo Rehab hosted by Lucile De Godoy
“Nothing screws up your Friday like realizing it’s Thursday”
Thursday, 19th of November, Part One
Today, Thursday
Early morning
I woke up
Showered
Looked out the window
It was really dark
The rain had continued
All through the night
Went outside for a while
Snapped a few pics
Worked, worked, worked
Meetings and then some
Had a snack break
The sun appeared
The flowers on the table
Had started to bloom
Snapped a few pics
Worked some more
Afternoon
It was time for a
Splash in the pool
Left to take the dive
Had a few minutes to enjoy the nature
Snapped a few pics
Back home
More work
More meetings
Urgency
Finally,
Working day ended
It was really dark outside
Put out some Christmas decor
Snapped a few pics
Much later
Posted some blogs
Went to sleep
Dreaming of tomorrow…
It will be Fabulous Friday!
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Throwback Thursday 2015-11-19
“I wish you a tolerable Thursday. That’s all any of us can hope for” April Winchell
Throwback Thursday 2015-11-19
Today is time for a walk down memory lane again and dig into the archives of Rantings Of A Third Kind since the beginning of time. Well at least from the beginning of this blog 😛
Here are a few featured today:
The Illusion of Multitasking (Repost for TBT)
The Label Maker (Repost for TBT)
Let the Rantings continue!!!
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The Illusion of Multitasking (Repost for TBT)
“I’m great at multitasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once”
The Illusion of Multitasking
In case you were asking
My answer:
I was multitasking
Procrastinating
Deferring
Until tomorrow
Without a sorrow
Delaying the inevitable
Playing the pivotable
Unproductive
Almost destructive
The illusion
Of accomplishment
Clear as day
In my mind
Everything a play
Nothing accomplished
Nothing adhered
Time is a wasting
That much is clear
It was just the illusion
Of multitasking
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Creatures of the Back Yard
Photography and Poetry: Camera Lucida Photo Challenge
Week 14: Garden Treasure
This week’s theme: Garden Treasure
– a piece of ground adjoining a house, used for growing flowers, fruit, or vegetables
– a quantity of precious metals, gems, or other valuable objects.
“Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop” Marcello Mastroianni
Creatures of the Back Yard
They are strange and rusted
Quite possibly really busted
Those little peculiar creatures
Of my own back yard
It’s all part of nature
Despite the man made feature
Those little odd beasties
Of my own back yard
You really got to love them
They may be impure gems
Those little strange beings
Of my own back yard
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The Label Maker (Repost for TBT)
“Labels are for cans, not people” Anthony Rap
The Label Maker
Hey you with your label maker!
You like tagging people don’t ya, you faker!
You went right by me and took one look
Stuck this sticker on my forehead without a single hook
I am having a hard time getting it off
Did you think it would make a great perma-label on this spot?
But guess what, you nut
I washed my face with potent soap in a rut
With a huff and a puff
My forehead finally crystal clear and clean again
Luckily without the use of acid rain
And nothing of it sticking to my brain
No amount of glue
Will keep the sticker on my face
Your plan went sadly askew
Or were you just in the wrong place
Memorize this lesson
Into your big fat head
Go find some cans for making the impression
And label some of them instead
