Ripple

I think of our lives as ripples spreading out as we pass briefly through this world - interacting with other ripples, for better or worse. As the ripples spread long after we have dropped beneath the surface, we should strive to send out positive energy, love, humanity.

A Miscellany for our Mo'time

Those of us who love to write which almost axiomatically means all who post here on Mo'time, probably developed this love from an earlier love for reading. Amongst the many books in my parents' house which I discovered and explored were various Miscellanies - often 18th Century which seems to have been a high point for this literary form. I suppose they were a precursor of the magazine and although that form doesn't seem to be in any danger of dying out any time soon, for sure publishing continues to evolve and the just as the internet is now preferable to television for some people, it must also be having an effect on the magazine reader too.
I had to go on a longish journey with a colleague today and on the way back an idea came to me to draw out contributions from all the good folk here on Mo'time in a way that might prove a little different from the regular posts.  I know. I know, the variety of posts here do in themselves constiute a miscellany but whilst we have writers and poets and painters and photographers not forgetting knitters and crocheters, with notable exceptions, we don't often get purely creative pieces and you do have to hop from blog to blog.
So how about an open submission miscellany perhaps with editorship passing to someone new each issue. The output could be in blog form or it could be a blog post linking to a pdf which would allow greater design values.
If you like the idea, send me your comments, text pieces or photo links and let's give it a whirl...

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writers poets picture makers, miscellany

Catching up...

I hate it when the post/comment counter reads 0/0 but just recently life has consisted of work/the house and passing the odd comment first thing in the morning or at lunchtime has been the extent of my contribution to this corner of the WWW. It's only the fact that I awoke with a blister the size of a marrow fat pea between two toes on my right foot which has necessitated a trip to casualty and the advice to put my feet up and take two Erithromycin every four hours against the slight infection which is evidenced there! So I'm going to play catch up.
But first a new blog discovery, a gentleman who appears to be de-commissioning old mine facilities in the far north of Canada. Now here's the thing, what makes a good blog is not just the content or perhaps not even the content, but how the content is delivered. Mr Harrison (aka donkeycat) writes well about the details and hazards of his job on the edge of world (the blog is called On the Land) which range from running out of supplies (the threat of toilet paper being rationed to two sheets per person per day), suiting up like spacemen to deal with tanks full of cyanide waste on old gold mines to the need for a special employee to deal with wildlife at the camp and on site. In addition to the writing, we have plenty of photographs, of wildlife, workmates and sunsets and, being a man of some culture, a quotation from Oscar Wilde on not commenting on sunsets! As well as all this, Mr Harrisson's father in law has just died and we are treated to a worthy tribute to the man. These personal details shared are the stuff of life and the mother lode of blogging.
One of my colleagues at work left on friday and once again on his last day we talked about blogging which he says he doesn't get!" I showed him the quintessential British blog Random Acts of Reality by an ambulance driver who talks about so much more than the job and who is consistently in the top 10 UK blogs and though Mr Harrison is not quite so philosophical, he is a worthy addition to the digest.
Can't resist a "little bit of politics". I followed Leigh's link to Candide's Notebook which opines on Bush's blather about benchmarks being the pursuit of even a single days "good headlines". My own take on his continued pronouncements is that he keeps talking about the need to hold on in there "to avoid failure" but clearly he is in complete denial - the failure is already there...
It makes you wonder whether even the great and good are driven even late in life by the need to outperform their father's expectations...
Here in Britain, we have had a change of Prime Minister and the outgone PM can hardly fail to be at least a little unsettled by the fact that at least three TV or Radio plays have explored the possibility of his being indicted for war crimes... No wonder there are rumours of his converting to Catholicism with its line in forgiveness...
The house creeps on, the parts of our next batch of windows and doors are allegedly stuck in a vacuum treatment tank that has been malfunctioning and cant be opened (for two weeks???). When we do finally get them, we will be able to finish plaster boarding ready for the plasterer which will take about 10 days, floor-board laying 5days, second fixing plumbing and electrics 3 days and then we could be in..........
Meanwhile Emma is in the Andes, Jackal is back at home I think, Alohalani and Ladyinthemoon are in love (not with each other), Inmylife is having new experiences, Ginnygk keeps her end up, Hawkeye is starting over, Brutallycurious is born again without computer, others struggle, some triumph, the wheel turns...

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