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September 14, 2016
Writers Quote Wednesday – UNITY
Welcome! It’s Writers Quote Wednesday sponsored by Colleen Chesebro of ‘Silver Threading‘ and Ronovan Hester of ‘Ronovan Writes‘. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer then you may add artwork, photography, a short piece of flash fiction or poetry to share with us all. You can add anything you like to highlight your quote. Have fun with it!
We have a great theme this week: UNITY chosen by Ronovan.
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This has been and continues to be a tough election year here in the USA. I don’t remember ever seeing such animosity between americans due to politics. This country is called the ‘United States of America’ and right now there seems to be no unity amongst the people of this country. America is a country made up of a diverse group of people that form a complex whole. We can be united without necessarily agreeing on everything. We can be united without being cookie cutter copies of each other. We can be individuals with different opinions, beliefs and appearances. As long as we respect one another and show empathy, understanding and consideration toward each other we can be united. A country united is a strong country. I feel that the world is laughing at us right now because of our petty squabbles with one another. They’ve figured it out and are probably wondering why we’re stuck on stupid.
If I offended anyone by speaking my mind, it wasn’t my intention.
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“What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.”
~Stevie Wonder
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“I think family is key, and if you have love for family, then you have love for others – and you have unity as a people.”
~Marlon Wayans
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“I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it’s in our unity that we’ll have the greatest strength.”
~Woody Harrelson
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“We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there’s an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves. “
~Junot Diaz
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Tagged: America, elections, quotes, RonovanWrites, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, unity, USA, Writers Quote Wednesday 
September 9, 2016
Haiku Friday – Beach & Time
Happy Haiku Friday and a warm welcome to my blog!
Beach and Time are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Ron hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your haiku poem. He is an author and poet and also does author interviews and much more on his blog. Be sure to check it out. Read Ron’s Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.
Lots of people seem to be in a hurry to say goodbye to summer. There are things I enjoy about all the seasons but I’m not in any rush to go from one to the other. It seems that summer isn’t ready to leave south Florida yet, anyway. There are 13 days of summer left, so I’m planning a few more trips to the beach.
September 7, 2016
Writers Quote Wednesday – Autumn
Welcome! It’s Writers Quote Wednesday sponsored by Colleen Chesebro of ‘Silver Threading‘ and Ronovan Hester of ‘Ronovan Writes‘. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer then you may add artwork, photography, a short piece of flash fiction or poetry to share with us all. You can add anything you like to highlight your quote. Have fun with it!
We have a great theme this week: AUTUMN chosen by Colleen.
My writing buddy ‘Scribbles’ at a pumpkin patch.
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Autumn is a beautiful time of year. Here in south Florida we don’t have much shedding of leaves from deciduous trees but we do share the earlier arrival of night and the cooling of the temperature, although only slightly down here. Nevertheless, the feeling of autumn is very present and it’s one of my favorite times of year. That being said, we still have 15 days of summer left and I plan to make the most of it.
September 2, 2016
Haiku Friday – River & Stone
River and Stone are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Ron hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your haiku poem. He is an author and poet and also does author interviews and much more on his blog. Be sure to check it out. Read Ron’s Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.
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I ran across this wonderful poem and I was touched by it, so I wanted to share it here today. I was astonished when I discovered that it was written by a 17 year old girl. This poet is deep and insightful beyond her years.
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River Stones
by Danii Spinelli Phantomm
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On each persons path, there are stones-
Do you cast yours at others because you are looking behind you?,
Do you stumble over them and fall because you are looking so far into the distance?
Or- Do you use them as the stepping stones they are in that moment to better safely guide yourself because you are walking in the here and the now?
Those that throw may be lead to their own glass house.
Those that stumble may fall into a hole…
But those that see, that trust, that walk- they are on their way…
By one step, one stone, one moment at a time,
They are going somewhere
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A lonely leaf jumped
To a creek of a river
Lured by gleaming stones
Where the water floats by
Now a touch of crimson drifts
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Have a happy Friday!
Tagged: Friday, haiku, haiku friday, poetry, river, RonovanWrites, stones, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q
August 31, 2016
Writers Quote Wednesday – COMEDY
Welcome! It’s Writers Quote Wednesday sponsored by Colleen Chesebro of ‘Silver Threading‘ and Ronovan Hester of ‘Ronovan Writes‘. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer then you may add artwork, photography, a short piece of flash fiction or poetry to share with us all. You can add anything you like to highlight your quote. Have fun with it!
We have a great theme this week: COMEDY chosen by Ronovan.
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“Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.”
~Emma Stone
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“Being funny wasn’t a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.”
~Tracy Morgan
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“To all the girls out there who think being funny is not sexy, you are wrong!”
~Chad Michael Murray
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“I immediately bond with people that make me laugh. These are generous people that give the gift of life. Laughing is healthy it reanimates you.”
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This is completely unrelated to today’s post, but has anyone begun to use Snapchat? I’ve just begun to figure it out. Well, actually I figured out how to use the filters, camera and video but that’s about it. Snapchat has been around about three years and I believe it’s going to become a huge social media tool. What do you think? Is it worth getting into?
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Enjoy your day!
Tagged: poetry, quotes, RonovanWrites, Silver Threading, Snapchat, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q, Writers Quote Wednesday
August 26, 2016
Haiku Friday – Rhyme & Reason
Rhyme and Reason are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Ron hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your haiku poem. He is an author and poet and also does author interviews and much more on his blog. Be sure to check it out. Read Ron’s Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.
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When the Rhyme touched me
Something started in my soul
Defying logic
I wrote the first dulcet line
And the heavens opened up
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Have a great day!
Tagged: haiku, haiku friday, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q
August 24, 2016
Writers Quote Wednesday – STRENGTH
Welcome! It’s Writers Quote Wednesday sponsored by Colleen Chesebro of ‘Silver Threading‘ and Ronovan Hester of ‘Ronovan Writes‘. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer then you may add artwork, photography, a short piece of flash fiction or poetry to share with us all. You can add anything you like to highlight your quote. Have fun with it!
We have a great theme this week: STRENGTH chosen by Colleen.
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Colleen asks, what does strength mean to you?
To me love means strength. It isn’t easy to love. Of course, nowadays the word love is used so indiscriminately, ‘I love ice cream!’, ‘I love to dance.’, ‘I love the beach’ . . . that one might say it has lost some of its value and strength, but I’m talking about real love and not just a word.
To truly love someone means that you have to accept the person with all his or her faults. You have to be able to forgive your loved ones when they’ve wronged you. You have to be patient and understanding. You have to be willing to sacrifice and put yourself last sometimes for their benefit. You have to be willing to go hungry, so that they won’t.
To truly love someone takes an immeasurable amount of strength.
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Love Is Strength
by George MacDonald
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Love alone is great in might,
Makes the heavy burden light,
Smooths rough ways to weary feet,
Makes the bitter morsel sweet:
Love alone is strength!
Might that is not born of Love
Is not Might born from above,
Has its birthplace down below
Where they neither reap nor sow:
Love alone is strength!
Love is stronger than all force,
Is its own eternal source;
Might is always in decay,
Love grows fresher every day:
Love alone is strength!
Little ones, no ill can chance;
Fear ye not, but sing and dance;
Though the high-heaved heaven should fall
God is plenty for us all:
God is Love and Strength!
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“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.”
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.”
~Ann Landers
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“She is strong, but not in the ways most people think. She loves more than she’ll ever get back and she knows it. And yet, she loves anyway.”
~JM Storm
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“I never knew how strong I was until I had to forgive someone who wasn’t sorry, and accept an apology I never received.”
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Have a wonderful day everyone!
Tagged: Love, poetry, quotes, RonovanWrites, Silver Threading, strength, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q, Writers Quote Wednesday 
August 19, 2016
Haiku Friday – Change & Mind
Change and Mind are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Ron hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your haiku poem. He is an author and poet and also does author interviews and much more on his blog. Be sure to check it out. Read Ron’s Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.
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Maya Angelou is a poet that I greatly admire. She wasn’t perfect. Her life wasn’t perfect, but she was a strong woman and she rose from impossible circumstances to become an epic role model to all women. Her words are empowering, beautiful, and touching.
“I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.”
~Maya Angelou.
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In All Ways A Woman – A Poem by Maya Angelou (Poem Hunter)
In my young years I took pride in the fact that luck was called a lady. In fact, there were so few public acknowledgments of the female presence that I felt personally honored whenever nature and large ships were referred to as feminine. But as I matured, I began to resent being considered a sister to a changeling as fickle as luck, as aloof as an ocean, and as frivolous as nature. The phrase ‘A woman always has the right to change her mind’ played so aptly into the negative image of the female that I made myself a victim to an unwavering decision. Even if I made an inane and stupid choice, I stuck by it rather than ‘be like a woman and change my mind.’
Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius. Read on . . .
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My poem today was inspired by her . . .
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Amazing women
Live with many thoughts
Like the play of moons and suns
Will certainly change the tides
A woman will change her mind
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Have a great day!
Tagged: haiku, haiku friday, Maya Angelou, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q, woman
August 17, 2016
Writers Quote Wednesday – MIRACLE
Welcome to another edition of Writers Quote Wednesday sponsored by Colleen Chesebro of ‘Silver Threading‘ and Ronovan Hester of ‘Ronovan Writes‘. Anyone can participate by choosing a quote by a favorite writer then you may add artwork, photography, a short piece of flash fiction or poetry to share with us all. You can add anything you like to highlight your quote. Have fun with it!
We have a great theme this week: MIRACLE chosen by Ronovan.
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What is a miracle?
A miracle is a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws.
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“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.”
~Albert Einstein
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“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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Miracle
by Ivy C. Drape
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We live
On a blue planet
That circles around
A flaming ball of gases
Next to a moon
That controls the oceans….
…If you tell me that you don’t believe in miracles
I’ll point out the fact
That we are made out of stardust
If you still don’t believe then…
…I’ll point to the God that made it all.
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Thank you for visiting!
Tagged: miracles, poetry, quotes, RonovanWrites, Silver Threading, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q, Writers Quote Wednesday
August 12, 2016
Haiku Friday – HOPE & UP
Hope and Up are this week’s prompt words chosen by Ronovan Hester of Ronovan Writes.
Ron hosts a challenge that anyone could participate in called Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge every Monday, and you have until Sunday to create a post featuring your haiku poem. He is an author and poet and also does author interviews and much more on his blog. Be sure to check it out. Read Ron’s Haiku Prompt Challenge Guidelines for more information.
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Hope the world changes
Hope for a healthy planet
Hope mankind will rise
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If we don’t act now
Alone Earth will keep spinning
She does not need us
It is man that shall perish
Our dry bones lost in the dark
~Vashti Q
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Have a great weekend everyone!
Tagged: haiku, haiku friday, planet Earth, poetry, RonovanWrites, The Writer Next Door, Vashti Q, youtube
