Last week inSorting Your Life’s Junk I talked about how the way to being a positive and wonderful me, well a better me, was how I like to place events and thoughts into Mental Folders. I called them:
Awesome
Needs Work
So Not Worth It
By doing this, I am able to sort through things quickly and move on. It’s a habit. A reflex, if you want to look at it that way. Just like driving a car. You see something brake in front of you, you don’t have to think about it, you hit your brakes to stop something bad from happening. This is the same thing. By sorting those events or interactions into folders, those emotional/mental energy vampires/leeches/parasites don’t have a chance to latch on.
But you are probably thinking to yourself there are still things in the folders and you are likely to thumb through those files at some point. Ignoring the negative things doesn’t work. I like the adage or phrase “You got to own it.”
Accept it and Deal With it
Eventually whatever it is must be taken care of. Due to a concussion I’m not allowed to drive at the moment. I’ve driven 7 minutes in the past 18 months. And that was an emergency. Am I happy?
I guess you need to take a look at happy first. Everything that needs to get done in my life gets done. So in the grand scheme of things, not driving is not a major problem for me. I have filed it and dealt with it. I’m okay with it.
Does being okay with it mean I don’t miss the ability to get up and go whenever I want to? No, of course not. But I own the situation, I understand it, and I handle it. It does not get me down.
But what about REAL problems?
I knew you were thinking that. I’ll use my Fibromyalgia. It was discovered that the debilitating pain that I had been having for more than a decade was Fibromyalgia, which runs in my family. Walking is difficult. Sleeping is difficult. Sitting is difficult. Lying down is difficult. Maybe you see where this is headed. Combine that with migraines that are 24/7 and things are bad. By 24/7 I mean they never stop, just vary be intensity.
So what do I do about that? What do I do because I miss ball games and school events of my son? I deal with it. I have a son and one to be proud of. So I can’t do everything I would like, I am still proud of him and tell him that and show him every chance I get. And he knows it. Does it get me down at times? For a moment, then I shake it off.
It’s Not All Sunshine and Peanut Butter Cups
That’s one thing we have to remember, positive doesn’t happen 100% of the time. It’s just like anything else, it’s what you do with it. I had an old pastor friend say to me once that you can look at a woman and see she’s beautiful, just don’t turn around and watch her walk away, that is where the bad part comes in.
What’s in your folders is the same way. You see it, and you deal with it. Sure, it will hit you and you might have a moment of problem but then move on and don’t look back. It’s done. It’s over.
As time goes by and perhaps the problem comes up again, you will eventually have developed the habit. File, deal, and begone. The most positive people are the ones usually who have gone through the most junk.
The Positive Results of Being Positive
Being positive has its advantages. You begin to see the positive in many situations you never saw before. You see beauty where you only saw ugliness before. And you give words of encouragement when you at one time yelled or ignored.
I’m positive positivity will bring positive things to your life.
For the next in my Positivity Day series, it’s not really a series but just me focusing on being positive, you may want to readThe Importance of Being You. It’s kind of neat to see how someone grows and where their thoughts carry them on a subject in order. Do they grow or not?
Join me and several other blogger friends as we start #BeWoW Bloggers. BeWoW means Be Wonderful on Wednesday. Be Positive, Encouraging, Inspiration, and Uplifiting. If you like something positive you read somewhere, or you write something yourself, Tweet it with the hashtag of #BeWoW on Wednesday and we see it and ReTweet it and visit it ourselves to be encouraged. If you don’t like to Tweet, then share the link to that article you have or you found in a comment here so people can find it that might not normally do so.
Write a post and tweet it with the hashtag of #BeWoW and I’ll RT it. Okay, I’ll RT it when I wake up. 🙂 And other bloggers will be RTing as well. Is RTing a word, well I mean like a social media word?
Make sure it’s a post that is positive, encouraging, uplifting. I think you get the message here. This is not for just a post you want to share. It MUST have the BeWoW message of positivity.
So what do you do?
Create a post or choose one you have that meets the encouraging/positive/wonderful definition.
Share that link from your blog here in the Wednesday BeWoW post I put out after midnight Wednesday EST. That way others that drop by here can go check you out if they like.
When you share your post on Twitter use the hashtag #BeWoW, which I have registered and am the administrator of, on Wednesdays. We can all ReTweet what we see and like.
You can include my twitter handle of @RonovanWrites in your Tweet and I will try to RT everything I see that is positive. Please don’t use this for anything but positive things.
Probably Tweeting is the big part of this for some of you. You don’t HAVE to come to my post and comment, but if you would like to and get some people that don’t do Twitter, then go for it.
If you don’t have Twitter, the original idea for this was for sharing amongst Blog World so drop in here and share.
If you just can’t wait until Wednesday? Post and share later and just make sure to Tweet with the hashtag #BeWow and my handle if you remember and the RT will begin.
Here is my original article about it.
BeWoW stands for Be Wonderful on Wednesday. But really you don’t have to wait for Wednesdays. The idea is to post something about Wonderful on Wednesdays, though. It could be a wonderful experience you had last week, a wonderful memory that came to you, something inspirational or motivational, maybe something encouraging, or just something that brings a feeling of wonderful to you that you want to share.
Each Wednesday a post will show up here on RonovanWrites about something Wonderful for me or maybe a BeWoW Guest Blogger will show up. Post a link to your Wonderful post in the comments to share with everyone.
I’ve been wanting to do a Wonderful Blogger Award but awards are very time consuming and are difficult for me, but writing about Wonderful is a lot easier. And I could even write about Wonderful Bloggers I’ve discovered as I’ve wandered Blog World.
Write a poem, a post, or pretty much anything that is Wonderful to you and share it. Look for the Post Wednesday just after midnight EST. That’s New York City time for people like me that don’t know. And if there aren’t many that post, or no one at all, my post about Wonderful will still be here. Regardless, Tweet your post with the hashtag #BeWoW and as soon as I wake up, I will start RT everything positive I see. You do the same. Share!
This is the badge you can use if you like to put in your post and/or your sidebar. My side bar I found that 210×210 pixels is as large as it goes and shows everything. Why is there a copyright in the picture? My son “B” and I took the picture. He did blew the Bubbles while I was on the grown looking up at the sky. He loved popping it and splashing me with the water. Hey, I thought it was a good idea at the time. At least he laughed. And that’ why I chose it as the Wonderful image.
So what do you do?
Create a post or choose one you have that meets the encouraging/positive/wonderful definition.
Share that link from your blog here in the Wednesday BeWoW post I put out after midnight Wednesday EST. That way others that drop by here can go check you out if they like.
When you share your post on Twitter use the hashtag #BeWoW, which I have registered and am the administrator of, on Wednesdays. We can all ReTweet what we see and like.
You can include my twitter handle of @RonovanWrites in your Tweet and I will try to RT everything I see that is positive. Please don’t use this for anything but positive things.
Probably Tweeting is the big part of this for some of you. You don’t HAVE to come to my post and comment, but if you would like to and get some people that don’t do Twitter, then go for it.
If you don’t have Twitter, the original idea for this was for sharing amongst Blog World so drop in here and share.
If you just can’t wait until Wednesday? Post and share later and just make sure to Tweet with the hashtag #BeWow and my handle if you remember and the RT will begin.
I do hope you join in and BeWoW every day.
And if you do like the idea, please feel free to share this post by reblogging or tweeting or facebooking (is that a thing?) Goggle+ing? um, Linkedining? Okay, I’m having too much fun with this now.
This month’s guest is Florence Thum of Meanings and Musings. Lawyer, Therapist, College Professor, Writer, Blogger, Mother, and more. And no, those are not in any particular order. A lady from Down Under with a lot to say and lot of ways to say it.
As I venture here as a guest still wondering what I could possibly offer on RonovanWrites, I am reminded ‘write what you love’. At the moment, what I love is TIME because I have so little of it. It is what I covet most.
Time cannot be bought, it is beyond my control. If I do nothing, if no one does anything, time will still pass in its own rhythm, in its own time.
Time is.
Of course my perception of how time passes, the judgment I bring to its passing and to my being in it as it passes, is my own. That is my reality, no one else’s.
It took a long time for me to understand the old adage ‘time flies when you are having fun’. It is not about forgetting time when I am having fun. It is about not measuring it, not watching it go by but instead just being in it. When I am in the flow, I am deeply engrossed within that which I am passionate, that which I love, that which I am focused upon. And I stop measuring time. It is of no significance in that moment. In that moment, I am fulfilled.
We human beings created the measurement for time – the days, the hours, the minutes and seconds that ticked by. Yes, time ticking by because we invented the clock, and other technologies like the sun dial :-). You get what I mean. We privilege accuracy, consistency, being definite. But that is not how the rhythm of life is.
My day rarely ever goes to plan – the writing that took longer than I had imagined, the unexpected injury I am needed to attend to, the conversations that I am drawn into sometimes kicking and screaming because they are not what I had planned, but alas, life is sometimes erratic but always rhythmic if we can hear it.
What happened before we were obsessed or governed by the measurement of time? We watched the ebb and flow of the tides, the wane and wax of the moon, the height of the sun in the sky, we felt the heat or chill on our skin, the smell of the rain in the air. We listened to nature tapping out its rhythm, we followed its call and we responded. We then set to our tasks of living as time passed. Sometimes winter arrived later and harsher, sometimes summer arrived sooner and brought the rain. Whatever it might have been, we adapted. In our adapting, we tapped into our creativity, we harnessed our knowledge and we set out to overcome, to accomplish. Yes times were hard by our present standards. Yet the human species has survived by our ingenuity, our creativity.
Much of our present day lived experience is dictated by our measure of time. We adhere to order and structure, much of which is measured by when, at what time, we ought to do things, how much stuff we do within a duration of time, how often we must do a certain thing and for how long for it to be counted, to be valid as our expertise. Do we not question this? I do, sometimes. Sometimes when I am reminded to adhere to a deadline, an inner voice shouts, “says who?”
It occurs to me we have let some ‘muscles’ go slack – muscles to tap into our creativity, to take things within our stride, to respond with equanimity, to trust in our own resilience. Instead we mock and undermine those who push back against competing with time – those we labelled eccentric, dreamer, disordered, purposeless…just because the dictates of time have little hold on them, as they follow the rhythm of their own life.
We are guided by time, we do not control it. Rigid control of what we do with time will not make us masters of time.
So here I was trying to fit writing this post into a time frame, as other ‘things’ queue for attention. Well, it is not to be so. This post comes to me because of the significance of time to my daily living, it comes to me because there is a lesson to be learnt, it comes to me because it wants to be written. In the middle of writing I was tempted to stop because the time I had allocated to writing had expired. It took but a few seconds for me to notice the irony. Will I learn? Yes. I will write as long as I am inspired.
Time is. I cannot possess it, I cannot demand more of it. What I can do is change my perception of it. To experience time differently. To step out from the paradigm that time (to be precise, our measure of time) controls my life.
I will bask in the warmth of my children’s company for as long as we wish. I will read for as long as the book holds my attention. I will sit in my anger for as long as it requires processing. I will listen to reasons until they become excuses. I will BE IN the rhythm of my life, tapping out the beats of my heart.
So time aside, what is the rhythm of your life? Are you living it?
Starting this week I’ve decided to do something I’ve been wanting to do. Reblog the first to enter the Haiku Challenge. This week is author T.A. Wyatt of Finale to an Entrance.
BeWoW stands for Be Wonderful on Wednesday. But really you don’t have to wait for Wednesdays. The idea is to post something about Wonderful on Wednesdays, though. It could be a wonderful experience you had last week, a wonderful memory that came to you, something inspirational or motivational, maybe something encouraging, or just something that brings a feeling of wonderful to you that you want to share.
Each Wednesday a post will show up here on RonovanWrites about something Wonderful for me or maybe a BeWoW Guest Blogger will show up. Post a link to your Wonderful post in the comments to share with everyone.
I’ve been wanting to do a Wonderful Blogger Award but awards are very time consuming and are difficult for me, but writing about Wonderful is a lot easier. And I could even write about Wonderful Bloggers I’ve discovered as I’ve wandered Blog World.
Write a poem, a post, or pretty much anything that is Wonderful to you and share it. Look for the Post Wednesday just after midnight EST. That’s New York City time for people like me that don’t know. And if there aren’t many that post, or no one at all, my post about Wonderful will still be here. Regardless, Tweet your post with the hashtag #BeWoW and as soon as I wake up, I will start RT everything positive I see. You do the same. Share!
This is the badge you can use if you like to put in your post and/or your sidebar. My side bar I found that 210×210 pixels is as large as it goes and shows everything. Why is there a copyright in the picture? My son “B” and I took the picture. He did blew the Bubbles while I was on the grown looking up at the sky. He loved popping it and splashing me with the water. Hey, I thought it was a good idea at the time. At least he laughed. And that’ why I chose it as the Wonderful image.
So what do you do?
Create a post or choose one you have that meets the encouraging/positive/wonderful definition.
Share that link from your blog here in the Wednesday BeWoW post I put out after midnight Wednesday EST. That way others that drop by here can go check you out if they like.
When you share your post on Twitter use the hashtag #BeWoW, which I have registered and am the administrator of, on Wednesdays. We can all ReTweet what we see and like.
You can include my twitter handle of @RonovanWrites in your Tweet and I will try to RT everything I see that is positive. Please don’t use this for anything but positive things.
Probably Tweeting is the big part of this for some of you. You don’t HAVE to come to my post and comment, but if you would like to and get some people that don’t do Twitter, then go for it.
If you don’t have Twitter, the original idea for this was for sharing amongst Blog World so drop in here and share.
If you just can’t wait until Wednesday? Post and share later and just make sure to Tweet with the hashtag #BeWow and my handle if you remember and the RT will begin.
I do hope you join in and BeWoW every day.
And if you do like the idea, please feel free to share this post by reblogging or tweeting or facebooking (is that a thing?) Goggle+ing? um, Linkedining? Okay, I’m having too much fun with this now.
Part of blogging is networking and part of networking is social networking.
GET BACK HERE!!!
I know, I said the word, networking. Anyone else have the full body shiver? But we’ll talk about one particular social networking platform today that really can apply to pretty much all of those dreaded diseases, well some of you call them that. Parasites. Life suckers. Time travelers. Well you call them that because somehow you sit down and suddenly you are two hours into the future.
But I have a solution for you.
My Top Five Ways to NOT Gain Twitter Followers
Yes—Twitter. What can Twitter do for you in regards to your blog? By connecting with other bloggers who then ReTweet or RT your Tweets other people then find you. Also if you Hashtag things properly you will get your blog noticed. But I’m not here to talk about those things. Those things just bring even more attention to your blog and cause you to have more people to read Comments from and watch click Like.
No, I want to tell you how NOT to get people to follow you on Twitter. I want to save you from those pains of progress.
It was difficult to decide the order because all are pretty close.
Number Five
Force account verification before letting someone Follow you.
So I see you, maybe you even Followed me and I am like, okay, I’ll bite. No, I’m not an Animal Animal Animal. Whoa, anyone else hear Maroon 5 for a moment there? Um, the verification thing, right. That’s when I get the message pop up that you require me to verify I am a human before I can Follow you, even if you have Followed me in the first place. That is an excellent way NOT to get a Follower. Tell me you think I am not Human. I love it. It makes my day. Please, sir, may I have another?
The great part of this is, a little thing is on your account, an image that lets us know you require verification. Even though it’s easy to do the verification process, it’s still a process and I ain’t doing a process. So if you don’t want me to Follow you, set that up and I’ll move along.
Number Four
Don’t put information in your Bio section.
Mystery. Ah yes. We all love them—in books, in movies. You should keep yourself a mystery by not telling anyone about who you are or what you are interested in or what you might be Tweeting about. That’s a way to make people keep moving on. If you Follow me and I go check you out, as I do everyone who Follows me, and I don’t see something that lets me know something about you, that you are a for real person, then enjoy my Tweets but I won’t be enjoying your advertising of whatever you are tweeting for someone about. Oh no. I just mentioned wanting to confirm you are human! Oops.
Really, I want to know you’re not a dummy account of something I will tell you about later. OOOOO cliff hanger.
Number Three
Keep the nice Egg photo as your image.
Twitter is the second coming of Easter at times. All those new eggs out there that have been around for a few years kind of smell after a time. I see egg I think, “What? Not even a cat photo?” I’ll go check them out but it’s rare I find a reason to Follow Back. So if you don’t want Followers keep the Egg and don’t use an approachable photo. Dom photos seem to scare me and others away as well. Doms and Eggs. Both have four letters. Interesting. Maybe four letter words keep me from Following. Hmm.
Number Two
Use a bunch of random letters as your handle.
I love not being able to pronounce a name or Twitter Handle. HZZxccSxCzzh might be a great person but I’ll never knooowwww. Bunches of messed up letters just screams to me, “No, do not look at me. I am not here. You can’t see me. I’m a ninja.” That’s right. I can’t see you. I am like, “What? Not even CatLover013?”
Number One
Put up Buy Twitter Followers as your header photo and/or Bio information.
I love how many people are part of the SPEED UP YOUR TWITTER MARKETING CAMPAIGN club. You can tell who they are because of that pretty blue header photo that tells you how much it costs to buy Followers. The blue brings out the color in my eyes. I’m not a club joiner and not into buying Followers. That doesn’t serve a purpose to me. But go ahead and join it and you won’t have to worry about me Following you. It just says to me, “I was told that this is a great way to get people to follow me and I fell for it and I have like no one really following me and I don’t really have anything to say but if I put up blue people will come and look at it and if they do it long enough they will learn the secret lottery winning numbers.” (Yes, this is how my mind just sort of flows sometimes. Scary, huh? Don’t you wish you were me?)
And a Bonus of How to Get me to UnFollow you fast.
I mentioned earlier how I want to know people aren’t dummy accounts so I look to see if they have bios or tweet things. Well, there is a reason I look for that. One reason is because often times as soon as I do follow someone that is like a total mystery they send me a Direct Message telling me how much I can pay them to Follow me with their 18,000 Twitter accounts. Do that and you have lost my Follow.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the advice and that you lose a lot of potential Followers. I love to help, as you all know. Live long, prosper, and Hermit like Kermit in the swamp.
Sunday inspired the words this week, again. I was attempting to write my Sunday Thought late Saturday evening into early Sunday morning and nothing was coming. Rather than force it, I shut everything down and waited. When I woke up the next morning, well actually the same morning, the thought was there. Patience. I had waited rather than force it.
One quick thing. I have noticed in my social network travels that we aren’t following each other on Twitter. I follow everyone I have a Twitter Handle for. Every one, follow our Haiku friends. You have a Twitter but I don’t have it? Just type it in the comments when you paste your link. One way I find Twitter Handles is when I click on your Haiku, I click the Twitter share button and get the handle from there. Your handle doesn’t show there? Click here to find out how to have it show up there. You know. I have a how-to article for just about everything. If not? Ask and I’ll write one.
Fame & War
I foolishly pick words at times and then I promise myself not to back out of them. Let’s see what I come up with this time, and I hope everyone has an easier time this week. This week I am going to attempt to stay to a truer sense of the opposites of the two sentences formed.
My Example
War does win glory,
For heroes of history,
Fame can be fleeting.
What has been done here is the following.
War does win glory, for heroes of history.
For heroes of history, fame can be fleeting.
You have two opposite meanings for the sentences with the middle line of the Haiku “for heroes of history” as the common phrase used.
Have you never ventured into our haiventure? “Hiaku, adventure? Haiventure? Yeah, I make up words. Just not for the purpose of the Haiku. Hmm, although that gives me an idea for next weeks Haiku Challenge. One thing I want to explain is about pingbacks.
A ping back is when you place the URL from the address bar of this page into the post you write your Haiku on. You also have to make certain the link is actually in there by clicking on the add link button which is next to the right alignment button. To me the add link button kind of looks like a paper clip. It’s the fifth from the right in the WordPress post editor. Read below for a couple or few more things that will help.
Then simply put a link to your Haiku in the comments of this Post and I’ll go look, as will others. The link is the URL. You can also do a PingBack. That’s when you put the URL of this post in your post. Don’t know how to do a Pingback. Clickhereto find out how.
The Deadline is Sunday by Noon, EST, or New York Time to people like me that just have no clue about time zones.
Haiku is simple and simply addictive. So be warned now. Once you start it’s difficult to stop. Here are two things to know:
Haiku can be broken into two sentences with the middle line of the three lines being the commonly used part, meaning 1&2 and 2&3 making sentences. That’s Haiku.
Opposite meanings in the first and last sentences. That’s Haiku.
For a full refresher or Howto write Haiku in English clickhere. But you can use whatever Haiku style you want to. As long as you, do a Haiku.
If you have a Twitter and your handle has not appeared in a ReCap of a previous challenge, please let me know what it is so when I Tweet the ReCap on Sundays I may include it.
DEADLINE: Noon on Sunday New York Time.
(I hate doing deadlines, but it takes quite a while to complete the ReCap.)
There are TWO“A RONOVAN’S CHOICE!”recipients each week. One for Humor and one for something more Serious. The Haiku are quite good each week and I am having to turn to the structure guidelines of a Haiku at times to help determine my selection.
Really each Haiku is a choice of mine, and I’m not just saying that, so I feel a bit odd even having something called A RONOVAN’S CHOICE, but hey, it’s a thing, right? And it does make it kind of fun.
T.A. Wyatt of Finale to an Entrance: Prisoner. This one says a lot. I think everyone should read it and take a moment to sit and reflect. T.A. really delivered a message here that I envy. We were also given another poem titledWrapped in Chainsthat is Haiku in a different sense. Another great message, with this one being about conformity in creativity. Remember to go purchase a book on Amazon by clicking here. Linger is only .99 and The Mill of Maisonneuve is 1.99. @FinaletoEntranc
Mira of They, You And Me: I call her Haiku Rare Love. I told her to keep this a secret but I guess I can’t blame her for letting the cat out of the lettuce crisper in the fridge. @BediMona
Sue Vincent from Daily Echo:Rare. This is one of those you can sit and think about a while. Sue is one of our resident Authors. Click here for her Amazon Author Page and all those books she’s written.@SCVincent
Kimberly of K.S. Fause: I had been worrying about Kimberly and am glad she has returned to us. Winter’s Spite. Love the inspiration aspect, as always. How appropriate a Haiku in so many ways. @KSFause
Patty of Strawberries Forever: Is that a great name for a blog or what?You all know Patty from I Am Not Sick Boy blog. Wow, this one is full of color and I just love it. It’s Me! is the name of her Haiku this week. Love the photo and you will too! It’s Here and Then It’s Gone is her second entry this week. Very cool image and concept for the Haiku. @pattythepa
Serins of Serins Sphere: Thirst. At first reading you don’t see two sentences but then take your time and read line two and three together again, and just think about it. @SerinsSphere
SW ysobel of Spunky Wayfarer. Two Haiku in this post today. The first I call The Vamp Life Sucks and the second I named Bugged Out. Why? Oh, I don’t know. Go find out.@SpunkyWayfarer
Nato of Chasing Life and Finding Dreams – Growing Cold. Such a well put together Haiku that just works. I don’t know what else to say. You need to read it. I’m serious about that. It’s a lesson for some. And don’t forget that Michelle also has something else other than great writing talent going for her. VisitMichelle Lunato Photography. @MichelleLunato
Elizabeth of Tea & Paper: Awake. This one describes my brain. @TeandPaper
Raquel of Battered Wife Seeking Better Life: Hidden Truth. I wonder sometimes how birds of a feather truly do flock together. There are so many people you meet in this world who experience the same things. @BWseekingBL
Steven Walsky of Simplicity Lane – Valency. Okay this so well thought out. I’m not certain how much time was put in to this one but even though the words chosen are different than what they represent you get it instantly. A very well done message. As always, Steven brings something different to the challenge. I greatly enjoy reading what he has to offer each week. I know it will be something that makes you go ‘whoa’. Simplicity Lane is free, go here for where you can get it. Through a Stranger’s Eyeshere and Résumé for Love for free here.
Meredith and Martha of Meredith’s Musings Hee hee hee, Meredith said Phooey. Gotta love it. Pressure, Broken Trust,Cardinal, andForbidden. Meredith is truly a bright, shining, and rare thing. You guys so need to see the image in the Cardinal. I had NO idea. Awesome!@Meredithlbl
Geoff Le Pard of TanGental:The Aspiring Novelist. A six line piece that, I believe, shows some of Geoff’s writing chops here. And the word selection and rhythm are very nice, just as if you were reading the passage of a book. Also I find this one humorous i the honesty of it.And we have another author to add to our family. Go to Amazon to get Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle. I don’t know who Sherry is but I mean what’s she doing with the dead flies? But yeah, click here for AmazonUKand here for theUS. @geofflepard
Marigold of Versus Blurb – Remember Those Without. I very eye-opening message. I think the explanation is even more powerful than the Haiku itself. Or perhaps they are equally powerful. Go and purchaseMarigold Deidre Dicer’sbookThe Black Swan Inheritancefrom Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes and Nobleor theiBooksstore or purchase it from Amazon on Kindleby clickinghere.@MarigoldDicer
Melissa of The Aran Artisan: Bad Girl okay so she called it Blue. But I had to have a little fun, right? Well, I had to say it. I mean she knows and still does it so bad, bad. How often does she get called that? probably NEVER in her life. @thearanartisan (Wonder why I didn’t color the title of her Haiku blue? Hmm.)
Florence of Rambling On Blog: Patience. Although the word does not appear in the Haiku, after thinking about it and reading it several times this is the word that came to mind. Yes, I read the Haiku each person submits several times until I get a meaning for me out of it. @FTThum I Highly recommend you read this review and commentary on the movie and society storm of 50 Shades of Grey. It’s not like what you’ve been reading and not a bore. 50 Shades – Storm in a Teacup a Woman’s Thoughts by @FTThum This is on my LitWorldInterviews Site.
Melissa M of This, Right Now: Blue Skies.Someone’s tired of winter.
Canaf of Faithful Devotionals – Such Love. Sad message, but true. I so love the image with this and how it was put together. It adds a different element to the Haiku.
Grace of {Bloom} Pictures+Words:Discord. Very peaceful photo with this and sets the tone for the piece quite well.@grace_note58
Colleen of Silver Threading: Sugar. No, not what you are thinking. You wouldn’t want to eat this sugar. I hope. Such a cute thing! @ColleenChesebro
A mind-breakingly difficult decision this week. Yes, I know breakingly is not a word but I ain’t gonna change it now. ‘Nuff said bout dat. I hate to do it and I said I would never do it again but it’s a tie this week.
Nato of Chasing Life and Finding Dreams:Growing Cold. A heart Haiku that mirrors several this week, one of mine included. But with a personal touch. you can hear it.@MichelleLunato
Marigold of Versus Blurb: Remember Those Without. A message delivered. The message here and the idea Marigold thought this to put it into words is what got me as well as the Haiku itself.@MarigoldDicer
Geoff Le Pard of TanGental: The Aspiring Novelist. I enjoy this piece for the honesty of it and in honesty is when you most often find humor. It’s a must read for any writer/author/hack/wordsmith. @geofflepard
I had Two Haiku this week, although I planned only one. Your Rewards and Harsh Pleasure. I think I have lost my Haiku Mojo for the time being as the enjoyment factor from the masses doesn’t seem to be there. I will have to do something about that.
Loving America. That seems to be a question or hashtag trend or reason to go on a hater-fest of someone.
A former very prominent political figure came out this past week and spoke against President Obama. You may google and discover what was said and then do research before jumping to conclusions.
Conclusion jumping has led to follow-up interviews and hashtag trends that divide people even further. Maybe if we all got along or agreed there were more than one possible thought on a subject things would just be too boring and we would have to read books or something instead of Tweet about some dumb carp stuff like who had the best dunk of the night in the NBA. I know my night is not peaceful until that is trending somewhere.
At first I was going to delve into the whole Racist Bigot situation, actually I wrote a whole article on it and after getting that out of my system I came up with the real article for the day.
Ever wonder why one person is a Racist Bigot and another person is an Activist? Hmm. I get confused.
Oh, I got it. If you like the person they are an Activist and if you don’t then they are a Racist Bigot.
Wonder what happens when you run in to someone who simply says it’s cool to be you so be you and let me be me and then we good?
Ever met someone like that?
I mean met someone truly like that?
Hello, my names Ronovan. Nice to meet you. Just be you, I’ll be me, and we’ll get along naturally.
Hey, and all those things we see in the news and the back and forths? Just use them as a way to learn about the truths of things by doing research. They lead you to learn a lot more than about the stupid thing you first start reading about. Sometimes there are some really great things to discover.
Of course this wouldn’t be a Sunday if I didn’t mention where I get my direction from. You know, Jesus was a good guy, even if a lot of people that have used his name for their own purposes have not been. His example is a good one for anyone to follow. Jesus let you do think what you wanted to think. Okay, he got a bit angry when he went in to the temple and found all the bad stuff going on, but you know, I’d do the same if I went in to my house and found bad stuff like that going on as well. And yes, the temple was his house. He got ticked. One thing about Jesus that you had to just like was that he said basically you know, this is how it is and you believe what you want to. I’m not going to force anything on you and if I’m right then oops you gonna be in a world of hurt. He didn’t force anything on people. “Oh, but scaring people with Hell is the same thing as forcing them.” Um, well if they believe in Hell then most likely they believe in Heaven then most like they believe in God then most likely they believe in Jesus soooo, I’m not seeing the scaring part going on, just the part of the Bible says this.”
I think I rambled. I sort of lost my way there in the middle. It’s been one of those weekends already. Well, that’s it this week. Have a good one this week. What one you have good of is up to you.
This was basically something about how things had sort of being flying all over me lately. For those not speaking that way of speaking that means things that bothered me. I’m the sensitive type. I can’t help it. It’s the way I am wired. Heart on the sleeve and all of that stuff.
Each week I link to all the Haiku of those who enter the Haiku Challenge. This includes Two people chosen as Choices of the Week. Each person with a Twitter account is included in a tweet of the post as well as mentioned on a Google+ Post of the post. And if you’re my friend on Google+ then I also include your name on the Google+ post so you know I put you there. Then you can share if you like.
A song, video, and the story behind it. I sometimes run across a song that I need to share and I like to share the story that led to the song. Usually the songs are old classics but this one is much newer and a surprise. Click and just listen. If you have earbuds, put them in and wait for the bass to drop and you will swear you are at a concert. A very clean beautiful song in every sense of those words.
A new weekly feature here on RonovanWrites that I would like everyone to join in and share a link to their own stories of how to Be WoW. A great way to share positive and uplifting moments you experienced during the week or a story that you just felt like people would get something wonderful out of. Looking forward to maybe a few people joining in. I hope you all join part of the Be Wow family of Bloggers. I may even make a badge for it to display on the sites of those would like to do so.
The previous week, on Valentine’s Day I wrote a little something called Lasting (A Confession of Want) that you might want to read first. You can read it here. Then read the Revealed. I thought it amusing.
My guest post on Hugh’s Views & News. I took advantage of Hugh being away on vacation and broached a subject that he would not have. I hope you click and head over to his blog to read and leave a smiley for him.
Sad to say I do a weekly movie review. These have to be movies I’ve seen but require a lot of research in order for me to actually do the review. A lot of research. Especially if they are old like this one. A classic but a surprise. Read the review and I think you’ll want to see it. Oh, and what’s a Mick Flick? Click and find out.
My contribution to the blogger campaign for compassion that occurred this past Friday. You don’t have to read it. But I wrote it so I include it in the review.
I hope you find something you like. And please make sure to follow me wherever I am. I really do enjoy all those follow numbers and seeing faces and names show up. Yeah, that’s an honest way of saying it. And I’m also in the process of writing a book that will be out this year. Keep your fingers crossed, so the more followers I have in places the better.
Oh, where all am I? (This post may be removed at some point due to the very personal nature of it.)
As I write this it’s the 19th and something nagged at me the 20th was a date I should know. I logged on to facebook and saw a 1000 Voices for Compassion update. It’s a group for bloggers that I think the name of speaks for itself. Now here I am writing. Good thing I joined the group at some point. Not sure when, but I did.
People forget all the time. People instantly think of Alzheimer’s patients when you start talking about memory problems. We’ve learned to have compassion for them.
But there are other reasons people forget. You have accidents that result in concussions, brain damage, and that can be a problem.
Have you ever wondered about people with amnesia? Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be an adult and not know 40 years worth of memories, people, history? Have you ever wondered how to deal with people like that? Probably not.
Let’s play pretend.
You look completely healthy. Actually you look healthier than before your accident. People look at you and have no clue anything is wrong. You might have to ask one of the simplest things you should know and people will think you are joking.
The responses range from a laugh and answer, to a curse and walking off. All you want to know is where the cooking oil is or which aisle the peanut butter is on.
Imagine if you will, walking in to a store and each time it is a brand new store, no matter how many times you walk in to the store. As far as you know have never been in that store.
Okay, let’s change that. Let’s say you wake up and you don’t know where you are. You look beside you and see a notebook that is opened to a page that says ‘Read Me’. Reading you now know your name, where you are, what is wrong with you, and how to find the restroom in the house because there is a hand drawn map on one of the pages you are told to read.
Imagine that is you every morning because not only do you have amnesia but you have short term memory problems as well.
Then you have to deal with people being mean to you. You are nice to everyone. You even cover your being afraid by joking with the cashier while the 70 year-old woman who drives you places is paying for the groceries.
Now imagine people you know, who talk to you each day, wanting you to be the exact person you were before. But you can’t. You don’t know how you became the person you were before. You want to be that person for those people and you search and search and you try to remember but the keys can’t be found.
Imagine the lack of understanding you have to deal with, even when told by the people they understand. Yes, you understand how the other people are frustrated because you can’t be the same. But what can you do about it? Can you make yourself remember and be the same? I guess that’s where the compassion comes in. Imagine the guilt you would have for not remembering. Imagine how you would see these people sad and looking at you to make things better and can’t. Imagine how the insides of you, the amnesiac are ripped apart each time that look is given, that word is said. Imagine how difficult it is for you to even face those situations that will rip them apart. Imagine the depression you would go through. Imagine how you would want it all to end.
All the things of your life that made you who you were and be the way you were and love the way you did have been forgotten—no, they have been taken away. What have they been replaced with? Opportunities for being made to feel like you are stupid and opportunities for guilt because you aren’t ABLE to act as you once did even if you do feel the same way.
Amnesiacs are a rare thing. They look healthy. They look normal. They are great actors. But they can’t do some of the simplest things due to no fault of their own. How many do you know?
Hello, my name is Ronovan. It says so on my notebook on my bed. Nice to meet you . . . again.
I suppose you might want to know what a Mick Flick is. Well every man fears, actually dreads two words; Chick Flick. That’s right, we know what it means. Romance, tears and we are deemed as failures either because we are men or because we aren’t the men in that, dare I say it, RomCom.
Instead of Chick Flicks, men need an alternative. And this is something we men need to embrace and women, you should as well and you may find date nights become a whole new experience.
The alternative? Rooster Flicks? No. I don’t even like saying Chick Flicks so giving it some form of relevance by actually calling the alternative as Rooster doesn’t work for me. And with the various possible definitions one could give to Rooster based ones mindset and locale, I am just not going there. No, Male Chick Flick. That’s right, the Mick Flick.
What constitutes a Mick Flick?
It needs a touch of humor if it doesn’t have action.
It needs to tug the heartstrings in some way, with a message or something.
And yeah, an attractive female lead might work out, but it’s not completely necessary. Oh, you don’t believe me on this one? I shall prove you wrong, although attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder. For me it is the eye of the personality. Pretty lady, ugly personality equals scary run the other way. Yeah, NOT attractive.
John Wayne being, well somewhat un-John Wayne. And Maureen O’Hara being very much Maureen O’Hara. I imagine it’s possible the ladies saw John Wayne’s name and instantly turned away. Well they are missing out. This is not your typical John Wayne fare.
Sean Thornton, from America, has decided to return home to the place of his birth in Ireland and retire to a quiet, peaceful life. Do you hear the birds singing and the Irish music now? No? That’s because if it were that perfect it wouldn’t make much of a movie.
Enter Mary Kate Danaher, the sister of Squire “Red” Will Danaher. The two are more alike than either care to admit. Strong minded, opinionated, and independent. When Mary Kate and Sean meet we set off on a tale of clashes in personalities, emotions, and traditions.
You get to see Ireland in all it’s beauty. I tell you the movie is worth watching just for those scenes.
There is one scene where some might have a problem with Sean dragging Mary Kate over the land but it’s at times humorous and done for a good reason. So no one get mad at the movie. Keep going.
You have it all here from Cromedy to Action, but modestly so. It’s a build up and worth every moment of the wait.
Now time for the BroJo to get going.
Men, why you need to watch this movie.
Guys, you’ve got fights, comedy, and those stare down moments we all like. You know John Wayne can kick anyone’s um, behind, and you just wait for it. Of course then the pitch fork gets involved and things change a little.
Now to the ranking of the movie:
Good acting: I’ll tell you the honest truth here and no exaggerating. John Ford really brought out the best in Wayne and not the over the top “Duke” we all know. The title The Quiet Man means something for real. He brings out the chemistry that unites Wayne and O’Hara in a number of movies. Fitzgerald’s comedy, McLaglen being McLaglen, Ward Bond showing up as a fishing loving Father Loneran bring all of this movie together for about as perfect of a movie as you will find. I say that without having only just started the rating. Click herefor some Google photos of John Wayne in The Quiet Man, not a website. Yes.
Attractive Female Lead: Maureen O’Hara has always been one of those classic beauties that you just can’t help but say wow when the camera catches those certain moments. I don’t think the movie does her as much justice in this aspect but then she is playing a woman in a small place in Ireland. If you can’t quite place her, she played John Candy’s mother in the movie Only the Lonely. Click here to see some photos of her on Google, not a website. Yes.
Insane Characters: Michaleen is a crazy match making Irishman whose horse knows to stop at the pub even when not prompted to. Will Danaher is entertaining in his over the top insanity of being an overbearing big brother whose jealous of Thornton. Then you have the gambling leader of the local ministry. Yes.
Humor: See the Insane Characters. There is humor everwhere, even during the final moment everyone is waiting for. Yes.
Bodily Harm: It’s John Wayne and McLaglen. There has to be some damage. And I won’t mention the poor bed during the honeymoon. Yes.
Food Humor: There are uses of some liquids at times that are humorous and exasperating in their predictability but that makes them even funnier because you see it on the face of the actors. No.
Action: It’s John Wayne. You have to give the audience at least a taste of what they expect. But in this case it’s not just what you expect. There is a pivotal horse racing scene as well that makes things happen to set off the course of events. Yes.
Good Message: I’ve talked about Wayne so far. Love is the overall message here. But there is a lot that leads up to the realization that love is the important thing. A woman’s rights and wants are show and her not backing down in regards to them. O’Hara was the perfect woman for this part. This may not have been the first women’s rights movie but it did deliver a message. Yes.
Tear Moment: Hmm. I think Sean’s and Mary Kate’s troubles when they finally come to a head do make one well up a touch. There is also that moment when Thornton has finally had enough. You’ve been waiting for it for so long you get those tears of joy. Yes.
Male Lead is Not Made Out to Be Stupid: Wayne is not stupid in this movie. He is obviously intelligent. He invested in his past and was able to retire to Ireland at a youngish age. Plus he does not play the games that are against his beliefs. Not religious beliefs but his beliefs in life. Yes.
Cuddle Taco Bonus (CTB): You know I wish I could give this a Bonus Taco but in truth, I don’t see it happening. I mean there might be a chance, but I don’t see it.
So on the Taco Scale of 10 Tacos being awesome and 1 being like tacos without the meat, cheese or sauce,today’s Mick Flick receives:
10 out of 10 Tacos.
All You Can Eat.
That’s my Cromedy Recommendation for this weekend. What movie can you think of that meets the Mick Flick requirements? I already have future movies in a list so don’t be surprised if you end up seeing your idea in a future post. Leave a comment and let me know your pick.
Much Respect and Much Cuddling for you This Weekend,
On Valentine’s Day I wrote something titledLasting. (A Confession of Want.) There were a couple of comments left and the reaction was fairly nice for a Saturday post. I thought those who enjoyed reading that confession of tongue exhausting pleasure would like to know the inspiration for said Confession. Admittedly chocolate might not have come to mind when reading my post and I will further admit that I now understand why chocolate is a substitute for some regarding other delightful pleasures. There is a feeling that spreads through every part of your body as the chocolate melts slowly in your mouth, coats your tongue and then travels down. If one lets their mind and imagination run away and closes their eyes other thoughts do come to mind. I greatly enjoy chocolate, the real kind or the kind it replaces. Both are delightful tastes and satisfying.
I do hope you share if you like.
And I enjoy people following me here and wherever else you may find me. May your thoughts be filled with pleasure of every kind as mine are of you.
People comment often wondering how I stay positive, how I keep doing all I do in the face of what I live with. How can I stay positive through the life I have been given?
Practice. I know that sounds a little odd but as with anything in your life practice needs to happen. I didn’t just wake up and say, I’m good. Okay, perhaps I did, but then I had to do something about it. And by ‘I’m good’ I mean I was not letting my health issues control every aspect of my life.
Deciding to change does have an instant affect. Your view of things does change. You actually begin to see MORE of the negative things of the world. But you have to learn what to do about that view. And that’s where the practice comes in.
You will change but those around you may still be those negative and less than wonderful thinking people. Therefore you need to strengthen your positive muscle.
To begin with you as you go through your day you file things into mental folders.
Awesome
Needs Work
So Not Worth It
You can add as many folders as you need to, but those are three that are useful. Awesome and Needs Work are fairly simple to be positive through. But how about the So Not Worth It moments? This SNWI mental folder is where you put those things that happen that are basically useless uses of oxygen. Unfortunately. most of what you experience each day will fall in to that folder. At least it will until you realize you can do something about those moments.
You will instantly recognize them and not dwell on them. They might be insults at you or your favorite celebrity. But insults are words that people use who have nothing else going for them. Insecurities are a bear to live with. And bears lash out at times.
Just let it flow. Let it flow past you, let it flow in to that mental So Not Worth It folder. You have better things to do with your mental energy.
And let me tell you, mental energy exists. Don’t believe me? Think of the first crush you had and the devastation after your heart was broken. How exhausted were you? Were you so tired you thought you had the flu? That’s mental/emotional energy that is drained from you by these positivity vampires. That drain can get you down and keep you down. Avoid it at all cost.
Once you recognize things for what they really are you can then keep them from affecting you.
Start today by being positive with yourself and not LET others affect you. Is it easy? No. Will you achieve it in one day? No. Is that being positive? Yes. I’m positive you won’t be 100% positive in your first day of trying. Humor? No.
I can tell you what helps me, but you need to find what helps you. You need that go to that place in your mind that will make things okay for you. Is it a vacation spot, a favorite book, a TV show? Are you writing a book? Work on that in your mind each time something comes up. When that negative hits, think of that positive place. Eventually you will be able to process the negativity and turn it around. But that’s for a future discussion. For today, find that positive place for yourself and practice going there. Don’t ALLOW other people to CONTROL YOU.
I normally have an image with my Haiku. Today I couldn’t come up with one that matched the words that I was able to truly capture what was in my mind. Perhaps later it will come to me but for now here are the words. I believe words some of us can too often identify with. This is my one Challenge Haiku of the week. I do hope you enjoy, or rather not enjoy.
Sunday inspired the words this week, again. I was attempting to write my Sunday Thought late Saturday evening into early Sunday morning and nothing was coming. Rather than force it, I shut everything down and waited. When I woke up the next morning, well actually the same morning, the thought was there. Patience. I had waited rather than force it.
One quick thing. I have noticed in my social network travels that we aren’t following each other on Twitter. I follow everyone I have a Twitter Handle for. Every one, follow our Haiku friends. You have a Twitter but I don’t have it? Just type it in the comments when you paste your link. One way I find Twitter Handles is when I click on your Haiku, I click the Twitter share button and get the handle from there. Your handle doesn’t show there? Click here to find out how to have it show up there. You know. I have a how-to article for just about everything. If not? Ask and I’ll write one.
Have you never ventured into our haiventure? “Hiaku, adventure? Haiventure? Yeah, I make up words. Just not for the purpose of the Haiku. Hmm, although that gives me an idea for next weeks Haiku Challenge. One thing I want to explain is about pingbacks.
A ping back is when you place the URL from the address bar of this page into the post you write your Haiku on. You also have to make certain the link is actually in there by clicking on the add link button which is next to the right alignment button. To me the add link button kind of looks like a paper clip. It’s the fifth from the right in the WordPress post editor. Read below for a couple or few more things that will help.
Then simply put a link to your Haiku in the comments of this Post and I’ll go look, as will others. The link is the URL. You can also do a PingBack. That’s when you put the URL of this post in your post. Don’t know how to do a Pingback. Clickhereto find out how.
The Deadline is Sunday by Noon, EST, or New York Time to people like me that just have no clue about time zones.
Haiku is simple and simply addictive. So be warned now. Once you start it’s difficult to stop. Here are two things to know:
Haiku can be broken into two sentences with the middle line of the three lines being the commonly used part, meaning 1&2 and 2&3 making sentences. That’s Haiku.
Opposite meanings in the first and last sentences. That’s Haiku.
For a full refresher or Howto write Haiku in English clickhere. But you can use whatever Haiku style you want to. As long as you, do a Haiku.
If you have a Twitter and your handle has not appeared in a ReCap of a previous challenge, please let me know what it is so when I Tweet the ReCap on Sundays I may include it.
DEADLINE: Noon on Sunday New York Time.
(I hate doing deadlines, but it takes quite a while to complete the ReCap.)
There are TWO“A RONOVAN’S CHOICE!”recipients each week. One for Humor and one for something more Serious. The Haiku are quite good each week and I am having to turn to the structure guidelines of a Haiku at times to help determine my selection.
Really each Haiku is a choice of mine, and I’m not just saying that, so I feel a bit odd even having something called A RONOVAN’S CHOICE, but hey, it’s a thing, right? And it does make it kind of fun.
People often think they know a person. With celebrities we think we know every nuance of their lives from the fodder we’re fed through tabloid TV and media. No, this is not a hating on the media moment here.
I have gone through moments of vaguely liking or disliking Katy Perry and Taylor Swift. It seems you can only be in the camp of one and not the other. Two artists so linked by talent and artistry could be a force to reckoned with if they were to ever join together in a project. Perhaps.
But there is too much there at the moment to divide them. Today my focus is on Katy Perry. She went through this odd marriage to a man named Russell Brand. It seemed quite good for a time and then divorce. A great many people put the blame on Perry. Even those in this house are of that opinion. Or were until I stumbled upon this song a couple of weeks ago.
Some don’t know that Perry comes from a Minister’s home. That’s right, she’s a PK. A Preachers Kid. When you listen to this song she wrote you will hear the purity, the truth of her feelings. These aren’t just words. This is coming from a person truly understanding what she is singing about.
For one thing the song is about her marriage falling apart. She received a text message from Brand that they were divorcing. She thought of suicide. This is the one song about that relationship. She says any other lyrics you hear anywhere on other songs are coincidence. This is the one song that she wrote to get it out of her.
It’s a powerful song and has quickly become a favorite of mine. I am not a mainstream pop music listener normally. I dabble. After listening to this I listened to some of her other songs and she is truly a talent.
Was 27, surviving my return of Saturn
A long vacation didn’t sound so bad
Was full of secrets, locked up tight like Iron Mountain
Running on empty, so out of gas
Thought I wasn’t enough
Found I wasn’t so tough
Laying on the bathroom floor
We were living on a fault line
And I felt the fault was all mine
Couldn’t take it anymore
(Chorus)
By the grace of God
There was no other way
I picked myself back up
I knew I had to stay
I put one foot in front of the other
And I looked in the mirror
And decided to stay
Wasn’t gonna let love take me out that way
I thank my sister for keeping my head above the water
When the truth was like swallowing sand
Now every morning, there is no more mourning
Oh I can finally see myself again
I know I am enough
Possible to be loved
It was not about me
Now I have to rise above
Let the Universe call the bluff
Yeah, the truth will set you free
(Chorus)
That way, no
That way, no
Not in the name of love
That way, no
That way, no
I am not giving up
By the grace of God
I picked myself back up
I put one foot in front of the other
And I looked in the mirror
Alice de Sturler of Defrosting Cold Cases: Okay don’t you just love her name? I mean really? Her blog is perhaps the most unique I have come across. “DCC is a resource blog for those interested in old unsolved homicides and wrongful convictions. Many cases have no web presence or a very limited one.” I call her Haiku this week ‘Sprint’. I was so thrilled to see Alice throw her glasses in the ring I had to share here there and well that’s kind of it, you know. You know, she looks athletic from her photo. I think I might would become a cold case of fear if she got mad at me, thus the big write up here today. @Vidocq_CC
SW ysobel of Spunky Wayfarer. Isn’t that a great name for a blog?“Spunky Wayfarer is my nom de plume. Also known as SW_Ysobel. I love words and do not hesitate to use the Thesaurus to investigate its definition and synonyms. Or to see if I have written them correctly. Haiku, short novel, micro fiction, children’s rhymes or flash trilogies have been written, but not all of them became blog post. I love challenges and will use Prompts from many other blogs to get my creativity going.” So I know I named this in a Tweet, but you know me, I Tweet a lot. So here goes another try. ‘What the?’ Okay, you have to read it to get where I am coming from. I do hope we have regular to our family here because the mind that came up with this is just going to be entertaining beyond belief. @SpunkyWayfarer
Alka Girdhar of Magnanimous Word:Okay, first thing. I had to keep looking back to spell magammonimonsous. I so have to find out how she named her blog. I know what. I’ll read her About page and see if it says why.“The name of my blog ‘Magnanimous Word’ just came by, like some revelation. Probably because words fascinate me.”See, I knew it would be there. And there is a lot more there as well. You have to check it out. From her Gravatar page~“Have been called ‘closet party girl’ as well as a simple girl-woman at the same time. But hang on, that was years ago… Years down the track, I am still discovering myself though I too realise I am a mixed soul – refined and literate vagabond, tactlessly blunt yet guileless, extrovert yet never bored when alone. With an ultimate goal of renunciation, I often find myself preaching as I have so much spiritual to say. Well…see the real me in my writings…”She called her series of Haiku for usLOVE: Facts and Facets. Yeah, sometimes I am like, “These guys make me look sooo bad as a poet in my own challenge.”
First to Enter the Fray this Week:
Sue Vincent from Daily Echo:Dancers. Talk about reader reaction. Wow. Then she was also the second to enter withCaterpillar.I love this one! Sue is one of our authors with her works on Amazon here. I would mention all of her works but there are just so many of them. @SCVincent
Mira of They, You And Me: I call her Haiku Smoldering Passion. ooooooooooo. I think Hugh needs his bucket of ice water. So I make my way down the list and Mira says, “Hi Ron, this week, I’m back with a love haiku… 🙂” I do suppose that first one didn’t HAVE to involve love. o,O (That’s my um, wondering/confuzzled/I can’t believe you said that look.) But it’s called Love. @BediMona
T.A. Wyatt of Finale to an Entrance: Empathy Lost. I enjoyed this Haiku a great deal. I felt a bit of a challenge with the depth of reveal given by it and wrote one in response, although not quite dealing with the same feelings but it is what came to mind. I enjoy finding a Haiku that I can ‘fight’ back with, so to speak. Remember to go purchase a book on Amazon by clickinghere. Linger is only .99 and The Mill of Maisonneuve is 1.99.@FinaletoEntranc
Elizabeth of Tea & Paper: red dress. I think she put in an order. I hope the hubby was reading this.. @TeandPaper
Meredith and Martha of Meredith’s Musings came in early this week. Four this week as usual; Never-Magic-Spring-Love. Love was most definitely a cold shower moment!@Meredithlbl
Gidget of Battered Wife Seeking Better Life: Sitting Still. Hmm, I think of the opposite. The one never leaves but yes, there is that anticipation of the next to happen. @BWseekingBL
Nato of Chasing Life and Finding Dreams – Waiting For Your Move. Gotta love the title. Now let’s look at the Haiku. A great one about relationships. Actually all facets of a relationship depending on where you let your mind wander. @MichelleLunato
Geoff Le Pard of TanGental:two of them. Dilemma and Pieces. Um, er, a personal problem apparently being revealed in that first one and a more globally aware one with the second. I may never be able to think of Geoff again without thinking of the first one. Now THAT’S a dilemma.And we have another author to add to our family. Go to Amazon to get Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle. I don’t know who Sherry is but I mean what’s she doing with the dead flies? But yeah, click here for AmazonUKand here for theUS. @geofflepard
Grace of {bloom} Pictures+Words: Whispered Prayer.oooooo Pretty. The words and image. Awesome. Yeah, I know, expecting something a little more intelligent from me. I try, I fail. I try again, it hurts. I stop. You can also find this Haiku on the WordPress blog {bloom}. @grace_note58
Carolyn from Reviews & Recommendations: Wow! Four this week and all for me!!!!Move Over-Don’t think she’s talking about someone hogging the bed. Baby Steps-Been there done that one. Move again-I say stay. Shaken World-I thought this was as James Bond Haiku at first. Google+ Carolyn Injoy
Kate by Dazzling Whimsy: Two thoughts today for Ronovan’s Challenge. Hmm, romance in her mind? Maybe even more than that. Mhmm. Hugh, take a fire extinguisher. Ice water may not help. Actually Hugh already liked it and was struck speechless.@17katelee
Canaf of Faithful Devotionals – Move. Actually, I say good message on a lot of Haiku, but this one is really a good one. Some sit and wait. Some wait and pray. But really, you gots ta move.
Marigold of Versus Blurb – A Contented Hermit. I think this would describe me most days. Hermit? Yes. Contented? Well,ou know sometimes you need to be content or be driven insane. Those first three lines are excellent for the challenge. Honestly, I thought of a crab when I saw the name at first. Go and purchaseMarigold Deidre Dicer’sbookThe Black Swan Inheritancefrom Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes and Nobleor theiBooksstore or purchase it from Amazon on Kindleby clickinghere.@MarigoldDicer
Serins of Serins Sphere: 1000 Voices. So here it is. And I think it’s time for all of us to get involved. I am officially in it although I think I have sort of been in it from the very beginning, just never clicked anything. . @SerinsSphere
Steven Walsky of Simplicity Lane – Party trays await haiku. Um, seriously? Whoever thought party trays would show up in a poem? But then that’s Steven for you. One thing to expect from him is the unexpected. But then does that make it the expected? Whoa, way to deep here. HA! Okay, I just read it. My kind of message! Simplicity Lane is free, go here for where you can get it. Through a Stranger’s Eyeshere and Résumé for Love for free here.
Florence of Rambling On Blog: She blinded me!. Technically that’s what the image did to me. I think she’s saying don’t stand still. and with that in my eyes I wouldn’t. I would fall down. @FTThum
Colleen of Silver Threading –Heart Stone.A good introductory to something Colleen has been working on for quite some time. Go check it out. @ColleenChesebro
Vashti Quiroz-Vega:Longing. Um, whoa. I am like so not going to Vashti’s for a Valentine’s party. If this is remotely about life there is some seriously dumb person out there. You can purchase Vashti’s debut novelThe Basement on Amazon by clickinghere.@VashtiQV
Claudette of to search and to find happiness in every day: Complete is what I call this one. Okay, she got me. I read the comments and was so in the wrong direction on this one, but at least Hugh was as well.
Melissa of This, Right Now: Waiting.Two of them this week! One as I read I immediately thought not in the literal sense but in more of an emotional patriotic sense of the way things are today. The second, okay she got all lovey dovey mushy smushy. Yeah, she went for the awwww factor. NAILED IT!
Cindy of dreamsinalaska:Wistfully She Waits. Hmm. Like the Haiku. But there is an image within the image that is just freaking me out. Right below the heart I see an image and seriously, freakage is happening.@dreamsinalaska
Faith Unlocked:Pausing with Purpose. You know, just when you get a little frustrated in the world something comes along to remind you of something. This one reminds me of my favorite verse, Psalm 46:10. @FaithUnlocked
The Serious Haiku goes to Serins of Serins Sphere: 1000 Voices. The reason being the purpose of the message and it has been a burden on her for the past few weeks. @SerinsSphere
I had Three Haiku this week. I know, but it happens. Dweebzus, a poke at the self importance of a rap performer. 35 Do not wait, a Haiku related to the need of Kate of Dazzling Whimsy’s parents who lost their entire home and everything in a fire. Toward Heartbreak, a truer haiku about the inevitability of love. This coming week, although I do not know the words as of the writing of this, I plan to focus and bring to you ONE Haiku.
This month’s guest is Florence Thum of 
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