Thursday, February 3, 2022

Taking Dictation From Characters (Six Sentence Story), Good Fences, Sammy's Poetry Day, and Brian's Thankful Thursday

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Sitting here staring at the white screen, i wonder where they all went.


You know, them, the characters that routinely parade through my mind.


When i'm at work, i have a saying i use when clients tell me they want something done a certain way, and they're afraid i won't approve or will think it's odd or wrong. As a way of letting the client know s/he is in charge of how things are done there, i tell them, i'm just a hired monkey, i don't run the circus.


When i'm writing stories or posts, a lot of the time, i'm just the scribe monkey, i don't come up with the script.


C'mon, y'all, you're so active when i'm working and can't always stop to jot it down, get out here and let me know what to write for today!



Linking up with Denise at Girlie On The Edge Blog, where she hosts Six Sentence Stories, and the cue is Scribe.      




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While Good Fences Around the World seems to have gone the way of the dodo bird, i still enjoy looking for and posting interesting fences, so i will!





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 It's Angel Sammy's Poetry Day!  This week's image and my poem:    





If you can see this door

it was fated for you to see.

This is the very place

you were meant to be.


There's no secret lock,

the key is right there.

Just come on in,

pull up a chair.


There's lots of adventure

waiting for you.

You'll never be bored

I can promise that's true.



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Brian of Brian's Home hosts the Thankful Thursday Blog Hop.   It's time to share something for which i am thankful.  


We're thankful Dansig seems to be feeling better now that he's on insulin.  We will continue to take him once a week to have his glucose tested and adjust the dose until we get it where it needs to be but it's already doing him a world of good.






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Today is:


Day of Remembrance for Oleg the Prophet -- Asatru/Slavic Pagan


Four Chaplains Day -- US (by act of Congress, honoring the four chaplains of the Dorchester who gave their life jackets to others and went down with the ship on Feb. 3, 1943)


Fukuju no mai (Jimai) -- Sensouji Temple, Japan (dance of the seven gods of fortune)


Halfway Point of Winter/Summer -- which it is depends, of course, on your hemisphere; enjoy that cold weather will warm soon, or that cooler temps will relieve your hot spells


Heroes' Day -- Mozambique


Magnolia and Fish Jubilee -- Fairy Calendar


Martyr's Day -- Sao Tome and Principe


National Carrot Cake Day


Nuestra Señora de Suyapa -- Honduras (Festival of the Virgin of Suyapa, Patroness of Honduras)


Setsubun-sai (Bean-Throwing Festival) -- Japan/Shinto (many fests throughout Japan) 


St. Anskar's Day (patron of Denmark, Scandinavia, Sweden; Bremen, Germany; Hamburg, Germany)


St. Blaise's Day/Blessing of Throats Day (Patron of animals, builders, carvers, healthy throats, stonecutters, veterinarians, wool-combers, wool weavers; Dalmatia; Anguillara Sabazia, Italy; Bovolone, Italy; Camastra, Sicily, Italy; Cassano allo Ionio, Italy; Castellania, Italy; Doues, Italy; Dubrovnik, Croatia; Militello, Sicily, Italy; Montecatini Val di Cecina, Italy; Palombara Sabina, Italy; Pietrasanta, Italy; Revello, Italy; Sacrofano, Italy; against coughs, goiters, throat diseases, whooping cough, wild beasts)


Takisanji Oni Matsuri -- Takisan-ji Temple, Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan


The Day the Music Died -- anniversary of the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson)


Veterans' Day -- Thailand



Anniversaries Today:


Jean-Claude van Damme weds Darcy Lapier, 1994

Wake Forest University is established, 1834



Birthdays Today:


Isla Fisher, 1976

Maura Tierney, 1965

Keith Gordon, 1961

Thmas Calabro, 1959

Nathan Lane, 1956

Morgan Fairchild, 1950

Dave Davies, 1947

Blythe Danner, 1943

Fran Tarkenton, 1940

Shelley Berman, 1926

Joey Bishop, 1918

Simone Weil, 1909

James Michener, 1907

Norman Rockwell, 1894

Gertrude Stein, 1874

Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821

Horace Greeley, 1811



Debuting/Premiering Today:


"Victor Borge Show"(TV), 1951

"The Three Caballeros"(Cartoon Film; US debut), 1945 

"Face the Music"(Musical), 1932

"Le carnaval romain"(Berlioz, Op. 9), 1844

"Semiramide"(Opera, Rossini), 1823



Today in History


Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south, 1488

The first paper money in America is issued by the colony of Massachusetts, 1690

Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants, 1743

The Dutch States-General forbid the export of windmills, 1752

Spain recognizes US independence, 1783

The world's first commercial cheese factory is established in Switzerland, 1815

The sovereignty of Greece is confirmed in a London Protocol, 1830

The Wisconsin Supreme Court declares the US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional,1855

Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan, 1867

The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution, guaranteeing Black suffrage, is passed, 1870

Albert Spalding, with only $800, starts a sporting goods company, which eventually manufactured the first official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football (American style football), 1876

Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys Jumbo the elephant, 1882

The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution, the income tax, is ratified, 1913

Canada's original Parliament building, in Ottowa, burns down, 1916

Percival Prattis becomes the first African-American news correspondent allowed in the United States House of Representatives and Senate press galleries, 1947

A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died, 1959

British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation, 1960

The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon, 1966

In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress, 1969

New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption, 1971

John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth, 1984

Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 1995

The New York Giants defeated the heavily favored and previously undefeated 18-0 New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII, 17-14, in what is known to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history, 2008

Eric Holder becomes 82nd and 1st African American US Attoney General, 2009

Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record, killing one and bringing down 2,000 trees, 2018

Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on the first ever papal visit to the Arabian peninsula, 2019

The US and Russia extend their last remaining nuclear arms treaty, New START, for five years, 2021

Engineers at MIT announce they have engineered spinach to send emails when detecting explosive materials in groundwater as part of plant nanobionic research, 2021

22 comments:

  1. LOVE that door. Oh the adventures that await...

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  2. I'm pleased that Dansig is doing much better now. Love the image and your poem. The six sentence is good too. I have people in my head who write my stories sometimes, other times the words write themselves.

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  3. Glad for Dansig's improvement. I like the 6 sentence story and poem. Curiosity says to open that close door and see what is behind the door.

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  4. Wonderful poem and good news. Thank you. And those stories you always Have in your mind while bathing, claening etc. I think we all know them ;) I'd like to find that door.

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  5. And, here I sit...popcorn in hand, waiting for the adventure to begin! Hurry up, or I will have devoured all the popcorn!! :) (I do like your poem!)

    I hope you're keeping warm up your way, messymimi...take care. :)

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  6. Mom is going to borrow that I'm a hired monkey, I don't run the circus saying for her business. She always tells her clients she does things their way and not hers, but they keep asking. Thanks for a fun and funny way to get a point across.

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  7. I love your adventures and look forward to them.

    Cute poem.

    I'm glad your kitty is better. I'm sure he's most thankful for your care.

    Have a fabulous Thankful Thursday. Big hug. ♥

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  8. You know Mimi, I love the poems you give us each time I click into your blog. I can believe what's behind that door. Beauty, wonderful music, color etc.


    Cruisin Paul

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  9. My characters spend a lot of time whispering in my ear. Hence a couple of recent interventions in my Sixes! What an interesting day though, and fancy me missing Carrot Cake day. I must put that in my diary for next year LOL.

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  10. That was a good story and a fun poem. I'm sure glad to hear that Dansig is doing better with the insulin. Thanks for joining our Thankful Thursday Blog Hop!

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  11. What a beautiful poem! If you are looking for a subject to write about, I'll always answer - KITTIES! :)

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  12. Wow- cool poem for a very cool door! And Happy Carrot Cake Day to you too!

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  13. Nice poem and I am glad Dansig is responding well to treatment. XO

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  14. Love this Six. Yes, there are certain characters in charge, and I am just their scribe. (and yet they didn't show up this week)

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  15. totally identify... sometimes we can't shut them up, other times, it's "Hey! It's not like you're imaginary, speak up!"

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  16. Mimi I love your magical poem - I think that door is only seen by those who "need" to see it....and I love the whole symbolism thing about doors. Always have. Thanks for participating in Poetry Thursday!

    Hugs, Pam

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  17. A great six and a lovely poem. I'd love to see beyond the door.

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  18. Glad Dansig is thriving ~ fun poem and great fence and door photos ~ Xo

    Wishing you joy in your days,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  19. Fabulous Six, Mimi. Made me laugh. Just like them. Where are they when you need them, lol.
    As always, delightful poetry and excellent news about Dansig!

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  20. Well, they took you at your word, Mimi, and let you see what to write! I think we're all just the scribe monkeys!

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