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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: "A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates to more to our opinions of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us." Jane Austen
What are your views on this?
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I think, here, the word pride is used instead of self-respect. A person can be proud of who he or she is inside himself or herself without showing off and bragging to other people. Vanity shows its venomous head when bragging enters the arena. I think this is what Jane Austen meant to say.
People may say pride goes before the fall, but the word pride carries and implies several different meanings. A group of lions is a pride for example. At first, the word pride brings to mind a negative meaning, which is a high, overpowering opinion of one’s own qualities, successes, and riches, which implies superiority and even contempt for other people.
In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen shows the different types of pride and the importance of having the correct pride as she presents those two different kinds in the manners and morals of the characters of Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bennet in a satirical social comedy that is also full of sensitivity and feeling.
Pride is prevalent in all orders of society since there is no other passion more universal than pride. Every individual or group at some point may show haughtiness and imaginary superiority over the less advantageous. Only in more civilized societies, this negative kind of pride is somewhat tamed. Even countries and certain groups may value themselves over other countries and groups as a matter of honor.
Imaginary or real, the positives we believe we possess should never make us act conceited and self-important to offend other human beings. That would be arrogance and vanity and not self-esteem or pride in its positive meaning.
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Prompt: "Oh, I can't describe my home. It's home and I can't put its charm into words." Elizabeth Gaskell Use this quote for your Blog entry today.
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I have in PDF the book, North and South, the origin of the quote, which I might read probably next month for "CLOSED!The Monthly Reading Challenge"  . Since I haven’t read the book yet, I can’t tell in what context the quote was said. It could be sardonic, like something I would say when my house is not orderly. It could be said in earnest, alluding to the physical aspects of her home, or it could be said in an emotional way while talking about the sense of belonging the house evokes in the author.
In my case, as to the physical aspects of charm, I am in love with the old southern houses with wrap-around porches, cupolas, and secret places in them. The home I live in now is a one-story ranch on a golf course, and although it has its charms, I sometimes miss my earlier home on Long Island, which was also a ranch on two plus acres. I sometimes think the grounds of it was more my home than the indoors.
As to the emotional aspects of the home, I subscribe to the saying ~ the home is where the heart is.~ This is because a strong attachment to where we live has to do with the present happiness and the hope for the future stability in that place.
We are people, not trees; yet, we still like to establish our roots with affection, meaning, and some feeling of order in our lives. In that context, our sense of the place we call home is tied to our sense of who we are. Our home is not only a predictable and secure place but also the main connection between us and the world. From this point of view, home is where we make it because a home is much more than a place.
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