Every month a question will be posed that may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Remember, the question is optional. You can write about anything that relates to your writing journey.
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This month's question is: The IWSG’s focus is on our writers. Each month, from all over the globe, we are a united group sharing our insecurities, our troubles, and our pain. So, in this time when our world is in crisis with the covid-19 pandemic, our optional question this month is: how are things in your world?
It is the worst of times and the best of times. It is a supremely strange, surreal, and scary time. (Note my cleaver use of alliteration, humor must be maintained.)
I had a long dreary post detailing my angst but I figured we are all pretty much feeling the same thing so why belabor the point? It's also very easy to get bogged down in the quagmire, get sucked into the quick sand, get swirled around in the whirl pool and become depressed.
Therefore, I am choosing to share up-lifting quotes and pictures.
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
Lois Lowry
I've only written four songs in my whole life, but I've written those four songs a million times.
Bob Dylan
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.
Maya Angalou
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?
Nietzsche
What is the purpose of anger and hate? Does it bring you joy? Does it bring you happiness and contentment? Does it bring you love? If the answer is no, then why give anger and hate safe harbor in your heart when, like a category 5 hurricane, it will destroy the harbor and your heart as well?
Bish Denham
Here's a little humor. I wrote new words to the song
Loco-Motion. It's a brand new dance called...
The Hunker Down.
Everybody’s doing a brand new dance, yea
(Come on baby and do the
Hunker-down, now)
I know you’ll get to like it if you
give it a chance, yea
(Come
on baby and do the Hunker-down, now)
My little baby sister can do it with
me
It’s easier than catching this new
disease
So come on, come on, do the
hunker-down with me.
You gotta buy TP, now
Come
on, baby
Snatch a pack, jump back
Well
I think you’ve got the knack
Now that you can do it share it on
your phone, yea
(Come
on baby and do the Hunker-down, now)
A snatch and grab motion and a dash
for home, yea
(Come
on baby and do the Hunker-down, now)
Do it nice and easy, now and don’t
lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a whole
lot of soul
So come on, come on, do the
Hunker-down with me
Move around the floor in the
Hunker-down
(Come
on baby and do the Hunker-down, yea)
Do it bumping elbows (stay six feet
away) now
(Come
on baby and do the Hunker-down)
There’s never been a dance that’s so
easy to do,
It’ll make you happy when you’re
feeling blue
So, come on, come on do the
Hunker-down with me
Being Thankful
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Despite everything going on, I have plenty for which to be thankful.
My family and friends in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico are well. We have enough food.
We have shelter, water, electricity.
We have shelter, water, electricity.
And, it is spring.
I will leave you with these pictures which remind me that no matter what, life will continue.
Blue iris
Claret cactus
First spring bouquet,
bluebonnets and columbines
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What are you thankful for? Have a favorite inspirational, uplifting quote?
