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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
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Prompt: Be kind to everything that lives. Native American Proverbs Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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Being kind to everything that lives goes far beyond altruism or moral duty. It's also knowing about and recognizing the interconnectedness of all life.
For example, some time ago, I ate an avocado but although its flesh was perfect, the large seed inside it had burst and was producing several roots. I thought, if this seed was something that wanted to live that much, it should be given a chance. So I planted it in a pot. In a few months, it outgrew its pot and became as tall as I am. My son, then, planted it outside, and now, I'm crossing my fingers for it to live. It seems not to like where it is and although we water and feed it, it looks sickly. I'll see how it goes.
I think being kind to everything alive has to do with our relationship with this planet. It means being good to animals, wild or domesticated, and conserving out natural resources.
Also, being kind to everything that lives has to do with our relationships with other humans. It means showing empathy, kindness, and respect for all people regardless of differences in culture, background, or beliefs.
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Prompt: What do you think a strange skill is? Have you ever met people with strange skills and what is the strangest skill you have, if you have any?
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I think a strange skill is one not many people have and didn't even think about developing something like myself.
The strangest skill I have seen in many people has to be talking about some topics and events with zero knowledge about them. Plus, they can also speak with conviction and confidence. I guess I may have to call it "winging it."
Then, there are people who can take apart a machine of any kind and then can put them together without a flaw. Piano tuners and those to fix them are one. My mother, also, used to say my father could take apart anything and put it back together again as he once did a very old radio, but he was an engineer and this probably had to do with that.
Michael Jackson's moonwalking is another one I can think of although I haven't seen it in real life, but I always wondered how he came up with that good sense of rhythm and balance.
I am sure there are many other strange skills such as moving one's eyes separately or twisting one's neck to the back of the body, but I haven't seen any one of them or neither did I meet someone who had one. My bad! Is it?
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