Optimistic (The Daily Post) One

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic

This week show us something you’re optimistic about, or perhaps a talisman that helps you stay positive and hopeful, regardless of what life (and the weather!) throws your way.

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence” Helen Keller

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Living, breathing, growing
Even if it is still snowing
Bending not breaking
Sometimes shaking
But soon it will be warm
After the cold and storm

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Throwback Thursday 2016-01-28

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare at Friday the 13th.”

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Each Thursday we walk down memory lane and dig deeply into the archives of Rantings Of A Third Kind. For these posts, I have chosen some of my personal favourites. Some of them may tickle the funny bone, some even provoke thoughts and some of them will give you a view of the world in photographs taken by yours truly.

Here are a few featured today for your enjoyment today:

 
The Devil only asked for my Little Finger, but stole my Whole Hand (Repost TBT)

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Fool me Once, or a Few more Times (Repost TBT)

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I need a Different Tune to Sing to (Repost TBT)

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Let the Rantings continue!!!
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I need a Different Tune to Sing to (Repost TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Do more, complain less”

I need a Different Tune to Sing to

Repeat this mantra and you’ll soon believe it
Turning into a complete little shit
“My head is empty, my head is empty, my head is empty,
completely and abso-freaking-lutely empty”

Not one sensible thought passing through
The mind no longer sharp and clever
The neurons and positrons or what ever
Have turned into some kind of inert goo

Head spinning around like being possessed
Just like Linda Blair in the Exorcist
The thought pattern repeating those same old tunes
Feels like running on mere fumes

Stuck and totally out of luck
Like a sitting duck awaiting the slayer
Or a broken needle on a record player
Not adding any new layers

Complaining more and nothing gets done
Seems the mojo is lost and so is all the fun
It is time to change the needle or the record
Even if it takes a lot of effort

Repeating this mantra and soon you will believe
The best proven remedy to achieve
Is to do more and complain less
And in a new tune singing your way out of this mess

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The Devil only asked for my Little Finger, but stole my Whole Hand (Repost TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask her, “What time is it?”
And she says, How much time do you want?” Diamanda Galás

The Devil asked for my Little Finger but stole my Whole Hand

You finally sunk onto the level
Where you were ready to deal with the Devil
Cutting the deal might have seemed easy
But what you found out made you queasy

What you didn’t realize when offering one finger
The Devil had hers crossed while your decision was a linger
What you thought was a small and simple deal
Turned out to be much more than a steal

You see, when striking a deal with the Devil
You will be entering at your own peril
To a contract you think you can choose
Much more than you care to loose

So, now that you got what you wanted
Still, you can’t help feeling haunted
Your eyes always checking the stern
Wondering, if and when she will return…

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Fool me Once, or a Few more Times (Repost TBT)

Posted in the Throwback Thursday weekly series
Poetry, photography, tales and things that nature!

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“Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me” Amy Futurama

Fool me Once, or a Few more Times

I may look like the fool
But I am actually cool
I may act like a tool
But I got schooled
So don’t be too cruel
And abide by this rule
Fool me once
I will bounce
Fool me twice
Oh, you got spice!
Fool me a few more times
And I will show you in rhymes
How you have to show your dimes
And pay, for your crimes

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World Wide Wednesday 2016-01-27

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

A glimpse into the archives of photography from around the world from Rantings Of A Third Kind on Wednesdays.

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

World Wide Wednesday, Around the World in Black and White and Colour

This weeks posts, let’s visit Lanzarote of the Canary Islands in colour.
Enjoy!

Part One

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Part Two

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Part Three

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Part Four

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote: Four

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

PART FOUR

Seaside and seagulls
Sailboats with long hulls
Blue waters and skies
Would have stayed longer,
But oh, how time flies!

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote: Three

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

PART THREE

A land filled with rocks and lava
Taking it easy with a cup of java
Especially since it’s as hot as a sauna
But still, this is almost complete nirvana

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote: Two

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

PART TWO

A road trip to a nearby village
If we were Vikings, we’d certainly pillage
A quaint little place
A while everyone stays
But later it’s time to set sail
And back to the resort trail

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Word Wide Wednesday Presents: Lanzarote: One

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“Vamos a la playa!”

PART ONE

Into the harbour and down to the beach
Plenty of scenery if that’s what you seek
Blue skies, sunshine and warm weather
How could the holidays get any better?

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