Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January – Corner

Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January 

The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2021 Daily Prompt – Jan. 2nd

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “in the corner.” Write about whatever the image or thought of “in the corner” brings to mind. Have fun!

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Today’s SOCS is also for the Just Jot it January challenge. Thanks, Linda! To join in and also see other entries, just click the above link.

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The prompt for yesterday was something about a speech? I didn’t do that one because I didn’t know what to say about that except I don’t or have ever made a speech, and I don’t like listening to them either. Mostly they are boring. That would have been a boring post to just say that, too.

Today’s prompt is ‘in the corner’. Not much to say about that, either. I can’t remember ever being sent to stand or sit in a corner when I was a kid. I don’t remember ever sending my kids to the corner when they were kids, either.

So, what’s to say?

Sometimes I think I see things from the corner of my eyes. Sounds weird … like your eyes have corners? My eyes aren’t as good as they once were, so my side vision is not real good any more. That’s probably why I bump into things or knock things over … because I don’t see them.

I’ve heard about people going to their ‘corner’ store. I remember we used to have a store on a corner in our neighborhood. It’s where us kids used to go to get penny candy. I suppose a corner store doesn’t really have to be on the exact corner does it? Whatever or wherever it is, it is usually a small business, not like a big supermarket.

Anyway, that’s it for today. Happy New Year! 🙂

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© 2020 BS

Final Just Jot It January # 31 – Chaos

Final Just Jot It January # 31 – Chaos

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 31st, 2020

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Your prompt for JusJoJan January 31st, 2020, is “chaos.” Use the word “chaos” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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This is the final day for Just Jot It January. I’d like to thank Linda G. Hill for hosting this fun challenge each year. I’ve very much enjoyed it. 🙂

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cha·os

/ˈkāˌäs/

 

noun

Complete disorder and confusion

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“I accept chaos. I’m not sure whether it accepts me. ~ Bob Dylan

Chaos is our prompt word. Here are a couple of things I wrote a long time ago.

Chaos is a dog we met –

• Meeting Chaos was fun. He was a beautiful Great Dane dog. It was at a yard sale block long sale, and Chaos and his owner were out in their front yard. We stopped by to say hi, and meet the friendly dog.

This poem was written in 2014:

MOONLIGHT MADNESS

Beautiful orb up in the sky

Shining bright, as night goes by.

New, quarter, half, and full,

Tides below, feel your pull.

Only one side do I see…

Reveal your dark side, please, to me.

Maybe some night, turn around…

To the world, you would astound.

Is it possible…could you try?

Would chaos rule…would mad-men cry?

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And this chaotic post was the final one for Just Jot It January.

Thank you everyone who stopped by to ‘look – like – comment’. I much appreciate. ❤

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

 

Just Jot It January # 30 – (Un) Finished

Just Jot It January # 30 – (Un) Finished

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 30th, 2020

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Today’s prompt comes to us compliments of Lauren. Thank you, Lauren!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 30th, 2020, is “finished.” Use the word “finished” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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This is a poem I wrote back in 2015.

I was using the rhymed couplets to show peace, and the capitalized middle words to show anger that that after all this time, there is still war. – unceasing and never finished. Also by using words of nature showing how it can be peaceful and lovely days at times, and violent stormy days, too.

blue sky with pink clouds shaped like a wishbone

UNFINISHED

Quietly, quietly drift the clouds

Far above Earth’s rowdy crowds

THUNDER

Parading stately across the sky

Painting paradise in our eye

CRASHES

Take a moment to gaze above

Fill your senses with peace and love

LIGHTNING

Imagine floating without a care

Our mortal souls are free up there

FLASHES

Beauty does our eyes behold

Orange, pink, and nature’s gold

WIND

Sunrise, sunset, and in between

Starry nights, a moonlit gleam

GNASHES

Dream along, embracing peace

Praying for all war to cease

ANGER

Pure air inhale, life’s true incense

Live and love your truth…intense…

LASHES

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© 2020 BS

Just Jot It January # 29 & One Liner Wednesday

Just Jot It January # 29 & One Liner Wednesday

 

One-Liner Wednesday/JusJoJan the 29th, 2020 – Doggy Boo-Boo

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A closed mouth gathers no foot ~ Unknown

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Pretty good advice! I’m sure I’ve said something at one time or another that I shouldn’t have. I should keep my mouth closed and think before I speak, but I do have a bad habit of blurting out things which later I wish I could take back.

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© 2020 BS

Just Jot It January # 28 – Television

Just Jot It January # 28 – Television

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 28th, 2020

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The prompt word for today is ‘television’, and it’s the one I suggested!

Thanks so much, Linda, for the mention, and for hosting this fun challenge each year.

Visit Linda G. Hill’s blog to see other entries, at the above link.

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 28th, 2020, is “television.” Use the word “television” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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Okay, here’s a funny thing – On Just Jot It January last year, the prompt for January 19, 2019 was ‘television’. 🙂

Here’s my post from then, where I mostly talked about our cat watching a cat video on the TV! Sadly, we don’t have our indoor cats this year.

https://wp.me/p3RE1e-6Kv

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I would say I don’t really watch much TV. It’s on all the time, and my computer desk is right beside it, so I look over once in awhile. The mister is the one who watches shows.

I am too restless to just sit and stare at the TV. I have to be doing something else at the same time, such as typing my blogs, and reading others. Or I have a book I’m reading at the same time.

What I can’t stand is the commercials. They are so annoying.

We don’t really watch movies, and I think we have Netflix, but don’t understand how to use it, so don’t ever see anything with that either.

Mostly we have on the old sit-coms re-runs.

We watch some of the local news in the morning, and the Jeopardy game show in the afternoon – while doing other things.

Anyway, that’s my take on watching TV.

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© 2020 BS

 

January Squares # 27 & Just Jot It January – Dazzling Sunlight

January Squares # 27 & Just Jot It January – Dazzling Sunlight

Immersed in Liquid-Light

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This month long challenge is hosted by Becky of “The Life of B”. Thanks, Becky!

This month’s theme is “_____ light”.

We try to find & photograph anything with a word ending in light.

The most important rule of this challenge is that your photo Must be Square!

To join in, find out the details, and see other entries, just click the above link. It’s fun! 🙂

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I’ll also be adding a song to go along with the photo in one way or another.

Enjoy!

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I took this photo today at about 11:35 a. m. with my camera pointed straight up at the sun. It was so bright and dazzling, I didn’t know if the picture even turned out, but this is what I got. The white hot sunlight throwing rays of light through the bare branches of our tree, all against the clear blue sky.

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“Get Together”, by the Youngbloods

“…We are but a moment’s sunlight … ”

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This is also for the Just Jot It January challenge.

Just Jot It January # 27 – Dazzle

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 27th, 2020

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Today’s prompt comes to us compliments of Debbie. Thank you so much, Debbie!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 27th, 2020, is “dazzle.” Use the word “dazzle” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

Just Jot It January # 26 – Busy

Just Jot It January # 26 – Busy

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 26th, 2020

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Today’s prompt comes to us compliments of Saumya. Thank you so much, Saumya!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 26th, 2020, is “busy.” Use the word “busy” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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Today our prompt word is ‘busy’,

I guess we were a little busy today, as we went out to eat at lunch time, then to the grocery store. But, that’s a normal kind of day, so maybe not that busy.

Busy sounds like Buzzy a little bit. Reminds me of bees buzzing around – bzzzzzzy bee!

Here’s a couple of purple flowers with  bees that I took quite awhile ago. The bees are very busy gathering pollen from the pretty flowers.

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© 2020 BS

Just No – Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January # 25

Just No – Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January # 25

 

The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2020 Daily Prompt – Jan. 25th

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “last call.” Talk about the enterprise (sales or service) conducted by the last phone call you received from a business you’re not associated with (i.e. your workplace), or talk about that phone conversation itself. Have fun!

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Well, what we have here is a failure to communicate. That’s right – I don’t communicate with outside businesses that call on my phones. They have no business to call me umpteen times a day for no reason that interests me.

We have caller I. D. and if I don’t recognize the number I zap it off as fast as I can. It’s so annoying.

It’s just as bad when I get random text messages on my phone from weird places – like this one –

The messages say they’d like to sell our property, and sometimes they have our address, and sometimes it’s an address we’ve never heard of or lived at before. Then I have to take the time – a whole second maybe to delete the messages, because there’s always more than one.

On the phone ones, I have no idea what they’re selling, and even if I did know, I wouldn’t buy it from some random caller.

Just no – I will not communicate with any of them.

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© 2020 BS

Just Jot It January # 24 – Change

Just Jot It January # 24 – Change

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 24th, 2020

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Today’s prompt comes to us compliments of Wendy. Thanks, Wendy!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 24th, 2020, is “change.” Use the word “change” any way you’d like. Enjoy!

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The first thing I think of for the prompt word ‘change’ is money – as in coins.

Seems like we always have some loose change around here. I can usually find a few coins in the bottom of my purse. Sometimes I find one or two nickles or dimes in the washing machine – because somebody didn’t empty their pockets before their clothes got washed.

I have a thing about finding loose change, either pennies, or dimes, or quarters out in a parking lot. I always pick them up, too.

I also have several little change purses. I keep a lot of coins in them, because when I go to yard sales it is good to have some change to pay for small items I might want. Sometimes though I put a change purse somewhere , then forget I put it there until some other day, then I find it again — yay! lots more change!

Sometimes we’ve saved up lots of change coins to later cash in for dollars, or to save up for a fun meal at a restaurant. It’s gotten up to around $200 before.

I like change – how about you? 🙂

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© 2020 BS

 

 

Just Jot It January # 23 – Drive

Just Jot It January # 23 – Drive

Daily Prompt – JusJoJan the 23rd, 2020

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Janet gave us our prompt word for today. Thanks so much, Janet!

Your prompt for JusJoJan January 23rd, 2020, is “drive.” Use the word “drive” any way you’d like. Have fun!

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Trying to think of something to say about ‘drive’ or ‘driving’.

I never liked to drive very much, though I did it for years. Makes me too nervous. I don’t even remember the last time I actually did any driving at all … maybe for a year or two.

There isn’t anywhere I want to drive to anyway, and the mister drives us to the grocery store, or to a restaurant. I’d much rather be the passenger so I can look out the windows, and take photos of things I see. I do a lot of ‘drive-by photos’.

Do you remember those old TV shows, where the family would get in their car and go for a drive – just to drive around – maybe on a Sunday? I can’t remember us ever doing that. Maybe people stopped doing that when gas prices went up so much.

I do remember one time my sister and I took a  26 mile drive around the newly constructed loop around the city. That was just for fun. Back in the day parts of it was way out in the boonies, but now the city has built up all around and past the loop. Now I cringe whenever we drive on the loop, as people drive so awful and so many wrecks happen on it.

Well, that’s about all I have for today. Have a good one! 🙂

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© 2020 BS