Does my enjoyment of #28 mean I am old?
What’s your favorite?
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Are you ready for it? Only @RonovanWrites 4 Days
Are you ready for it?
Only here, on RonovanWrites.
4 Days
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Encouragement as a Norm not an Exception.
Yesterday I spoke about The Importance of Being You. Thoughts were expressed and it’s a good topic, thus I thought to give it more space today.
There are many situations where people are afraid to be. Some are obvious and I will go ahead and mention them. There are homosexuals in less than accepting communities. There are ethnics in white communities that are not accepting. There are people of religions who are frightened in non accepting communities.
I think all of those are self explanatory. Even I, a white male Christian can be concerned in certain situations. Surprising to some. I know there are probably a great many people that think I should never be concerned about being me. Yet here I sit. A long story I shall not go in to at this time. I have done so on my Christian site.
What other people might be afraid in situations to be who they are?
- Intelligent people
- Intellectually challenged people
- Wealthy people
- Poor people
- Physically attractive people
- Less than physically attractive people
- Every ‘race’ of people
- Every color of people
- Males and Females
- Every age
- Political opinions
- Thin people
- Overweight people
And a whole lot more.
Seems a bit odd when you look at some of those and wonder how in the world they could be afraid to be them. But it happens.
What do I mean by afraid?
- Outcast
- Disowned by family and friends
- Loss of job
- Loss of life
- Humiliation
- Bodily harm
And more.
What people don’t understand is we cause those concerns by our actions. Even if we aren’t aware of what we do, we may still be inadvertently suppressing someone extraordinary.
I’ve mentioned before about how we should make a habit out of doing things to bring positivity to our lives. Get Positive: Sorting Your Junk talked about the sorting everything into files/folders. In Being Positive to See the Positive I talked about just that, recognizing the positive things around you by knowing what positivity is. How do you know what it is unless you are practicing it yourself?
Learning and habits are things that come in to play when we talk about fear and suppression. As anyone who has read my articles for any length of time will know, my faith guides a lot of how I do. Yes, I said how I do.
One thing I do is just go with it. You be you, and I’ll be me. As long as neither of us are doing harm to one another or to society then we’re good.
But one thing my faith leads me to do is constantly learn and be aware of others. Not every Christian takes that from the Bible but I do. You have all flavors of every faith. Makes for interesting conversations. And some whacked out ones too. Had to go ahead and say it.
I had to learn to be a Christian and am constantly learning more every time I open the Bible. You never stop learning. When you are accustomed to constant learning and the acquiring of habits like prayer every morning and Bible study every morning and evening, your mind begins to work in habit forms.
I have a habit of encouraging others. I listen. I advise. I coax people out of their shells. I turn people into writers and bloggers. Why? Because I want people to have a chance to be something great and to share their world so others can benefit from them and what they have experienced and learned.
There are people all around us with amazing gifts that are being held back because of oppressive parents, abusive spouses, and I mean both genders, teachers who aren’t encouraging, a community that isn’t accepting, a government that promotes anti whatever a person may be.
We need to stop being negative norms and become positive norms. Look at the world today and just think if each person were encouraged to use their gifts and talents in a positive way, what would the world be like?
But you know what? If you don’t want to be encouraged by me, that’s okay too. I try, you say no, then we’re good. That’s a part of positivity, not forcing on to others.
I encourage. I encourage positivity. It’s my habit. Won’t you make it yours as well?
Share this article today with someone who needs to know it’s okay to be who they are. Show them you want to encourage them.
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Guest Haiku by @SarahBrentyn
He blog Title is
Lemon Shark
Navigating the Uncharted Waters of Parenting & Life
Parenting
Raging winter beast
Brings relentless nor’easters
Another snow day
Not a Morning Person
Early in the day
I am the snarling beast who
Searchers for coffee
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The Importance of Being You.
We are all different. A bit of an obvious statement but in parts of the world being different isn’t accepted, expected, or tolerated in the slightest. If we were all meant to be the same it would be a very boring and no-point-in-free-will world. 
Each of us is meant to give something to the world as a whole. No, that doesn’t mean I am going to go and invent something that will save the universe from the attack of the space amoebas. (Do I get nerd points for spelling that right the first time?)
However, I may be the person that influences the person that does invent that something. We look at ourselves at times and since we are different from the norm we sometimes turn ourselves into the ultimate anti-norm we can, feeling that is what we are supposed to be. It is our badge of honor somehow. It pushes us away from society and love and friends and happiness. Perhaps being alone is your happiness, perhaps it’s your norm. But I don’t think complete and total alone-ness is anyone’s norm.
Yes, society is part of the problem of our lack of acceptance of who we are. You may be a lover of punk rock with Goth influences and love watching Harry Potter while eating cotton candy. And you read Fifty Shades to discover how not to write a book for quality but for sensationalist salesmanship of secret desires you would like to explore but are ashamed to admit. If you admit all of that, people will look at you strangely and that look influences you without you even realizing at times.
But there is something you are missing. You are important as you. If you like to wear Polo shirts and khaki pants plus do all those things above then do it. Why, because that’s you. You are your norm. The only norm in the universe is what people are meant to be. Not what a society expects people to be.
The importance of being you is that you are meant to influence something in this world for something good. This isn’t to say you are to intentionally go about seeking out what that is. Just. Be. You. As a teacher I know of what I speak. There may be something I said that made an impact in a student’s life that then brought about something in them that then led to something in another and so on.
The power of positivity in life is an expanding phenomenon. It’s a building block on top of another and another and another leading to something. One harsh word, one sarcastic barb, one insensitive comment at the wrong time and you, yes you, may push a person over a line. What is that line? Perhaps it is not going to college, not getting a job, committing suicide . . . not asking for help . . . not asking for help again.
Whatever you are, that’s the line you should take without embarrassment or shame or feeling awkward. The ultimate expression of love—to me—would be to be you and not an imitator or fake. Truth is love. Therefore, you being who you are is love and that is so important in this world. Once you realize it’s okay to be you, it’s the norm to be you, then you recognize and accept it’s okay and the norm for other people to be themselves is okay as well.
The norm is in each form.
For my first post in my BeWoW series click Get Positive: Sorting Your Life’s Junk.
I thought I would add a little mention after a reader thought of the above article. Do not think that if your norm is to be a murderer or child molester is something that would be considered positive on the world. The I idea someone might consider those lines of behavior as norms of positivity that I would think of never occurred to me and thus never entered the original article above.
As a follow up to this post I wrote Encouragement as a Norm not an Exception the very next day.
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What happens in 5 Days?
What happens in
5 Days?
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Learn about her book and about being Positive. Helen Woo.
Being positive is something that’s contagious. One lady that is always positive is Annette Rochelle Aben, author and Radio Show personality. You might know Annette as being one of the Global Voices of Social Media: 25 Women Share Stories of Strength, Love and Triumph currently ranked #5 on the Best Seller list but reached #1 in less than a day on Amazon. I bought it and reviewed in on Amazon already. Positivity is all through the book. I met Annette through various ways and was interviewed on one of her radio programs. Yes, one of them. She has two different shows. Actually three.
On Tuesday, February 3 I received my email notice that in 5 minutes her show was coming on and of course I logged in.
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/perspectivepower/2015/03/03/helen-woo-on-wisdom-of-success
Her guest was Helen Woo.
http://selfaidsuccessstories.com/about-helen
Talk about something that just made it all happen. Helen discussed her book Self-Aid: Inspiration to Turn Struggles Into Success. It’s all about the positive. A lot of what she said is exactly what I have been saying here the past few weeks. Of course she has a lot more to say. Check our her site, her book, and everything else she has to offer. Go to her link above and read about her. She’s got a great story to tell.
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I Am Awesome. Empowerment. Women. #BeWoW
Everyone go and view this video. This is a must for every woman and every man as well. Every woman needs to hear it and every man needs to learn to say it. Go now! Please.
Join me and several other blogger friends for#BeWoW Bloggers. BeWoW means Be Wonderful on Wednesday and was create by Ronovan at RonovanWrites.
From his page:
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.
My entry for today:
6 Days.
6 Days
Only here on RonovanWrites.
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Get Positive: Sorting Your Junk.
In Preparation for #BeWoW tomorrow I wanted to share the first article that inspired it all.
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…
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Be A #BeWoW Blogger TOMORROW. Blogshare.
#BeWoW blogshare TOMORROW!
BeWoW stands for Be Wonderful on Wednesday. #BeWow is one word. 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.
Write a post and tweet it with the hashtag of #BeWoW and to be 100% positive it does get to me to you can add @RonovanWrites to your Tweet and I’ll RT it. Okay, I’ll RT it when I wake up. 🙂 And other bloggers will be RTing as well.
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, all one word, 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 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.
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 blow 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’s why I chose it as the Wonderful image.
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.
Much Love
Ronovan
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Haiku: Another day
The First Entry into the Haiku Challenge this week comes from Elizabeth. I think it goes well with my own haiku entry. What do you think? Please click through to her site and like the haiku there and follow her. She’s a great supporter.
Pure and Evergreen.
I wrote you letters on your doorstep in late December
Painted through thoughts pure and evergreen
Never knew they would be so briefly held to matter
Why are they memories that won’t escape me
You don’t want to know me
Do you even care
Are you even aware
Do you ever remember loving me
Does your mind dare
Does it go there
Does it ever remember knowing me
I spelled your name in the sky through my bedroom window
Never will I be able to look that way again
I try to write a letter so you will remember
Tears blur the words until I can’t see
My heart burns so
My chest tightens to know
Please, oh please come crucify me
Loving you is a matter of a contradiction
Do you know what that means
Please, oh please you crucify me
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The Beast or The Bean
I had some menacing words this week but I thought about it and decided, yes they are menacing. At what could be more menacing than this? For those who may be looking at the Dead Things Taste Good on the fridge? That means all foods. Not just meat. Someone said vegans might get offended. I actually considered that before I wrote those words. I thought it out. I don’t believe we eat anything that is alive. At least I hope I don’t. 
A Beast Among Us
Until sated by the bean
Our day is unsafe.
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RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge #34 Beast&Day
Challenge 34
Welcome everyone to the Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge. You may have found your way here through The Daily Post pages, the Reader, Twitter, or however you found us, we’re glad you came. I’m not just saying that. After you have been with us for a time you will realize we aren’t just a place to share a three line poem. We are a community of friends here. That doesn’t mean you have to talk to us. Just visit the various Haiku and click Like if you actually like something.
I created this challenge to have a place for people to share and gain a little exposure to other readers they might not have otherwise. We all have different followers.
Provide your Twitter Handle if you have one. I usually can get it from sharing your Haiku through your Twitter sharing button. If you have a Twitter and don’t have it linked to your account don’t worry you can still have the share option work with the handle. 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.
Beast & Day
Another moment of “I have no idea where these words came from but I’m sticking with them anyway”.
My Example
When comes the last day,
We All will know for certain,
The Beast lost its hold.
When comes the last day, we all will know for certain.
We all will know for certain the beast lost its hold .
So you’ve written the Haiku and you’ve created the post. Now what?
- You can put a the link of this post in your post and it should, I say should, do a ping back to this post and I and others should see it.
- I recommend as well for you to copy the link of your post once it has been published in the comments of this post. That’s a guarantee for it to be seen and I will be certain to include it in the Weekly Review.
- Visit other people’s Haiku.
- The deadline is Sunday by Noon EST. That’s New York City time.
- Shortly after Noon EST the Weekly Review with the names of each blogger, their site names, the name of their Haiku and a link to that Haiku will be published, along with my thoughts, and the Twitter Handle of each person.
- The Weekly Review is then Tweeted. The ‘Choices’ are tweeted with the first Tweet. I then continue to tweet the post until every person’s twitter handle has been mentioned.
- I also Post the Weekly Review on Google+ with the Twitter Handles and if I am your friend on Google+ I include you there as well.
What’s a Ping Back?
A ping back is when you place the URL from the address bar of this post 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 for WordPress. 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. Click here to find out how.
For a full refresher or How to write Haiku in English click here. But you can use whatever Haiku style you want to. As long as you, do a Haiku.
For Tips and Guidelines refreshers click here.
DEADLINE: Noon on Sunday New York Time.
There are TWO “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.
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Sincerity & Integrity in Blogging & Life
This is a rather unusual Thought this week. It rambled in my mind over so many areas that I decided to see how it rambled out in words. This will be about Blogging and about Life. For me the two are mostly the same. What dictates what appears on my blog is also what dictates my life.
The Reason
I don’t know about you, but I receive emails asking for tips on how to build a successful blog. They then go on to define successful by how to increase Followers, Likes, people to Comment on their blogs. Well they normally do it through the comment form on my About page but it shows up in my email.
Success is a term that is defined differently by each person. For some reason people think I have successful blog. I am not exactly sure why. I don’t know really what measures you would look at for that. And in all honesty, I don’t concern myself with it unless I am doing tips. It’s not something I think about every day. People don’t know my numbers so I suppose they have an impression of what they must be. If you have been following me long enough you will have noticed I don’t do Follower milestones any longer. It’s just not a thing. Perhaps I should do Comment milestones but I don’t think WordPress has those.
The Secret
Anyway, here is something people might find surprising that I have done. I don’t look at my stats any longer. Well, I did once this past Thursday because of a recent hashtag movement I started and wanted to see what happened, but that was more out of curiosity than hope or gauging success because the hashtag part is secondary to what I am doing on Wednesday.
How do I know if I am doing okay with my blog in regards to reader visits? I look at ‘Likes‘ and ‘Comments‘ IF I have a desire to know. And I notice in the notifications if I have people ‘Following‘.
What does this have to do with a Sunday Thought?
“In everything set them an example by doing what is good. In your teaching show integrity, seriousness and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.”~Titus2:7-8
How I write and what I write about I do with honesty, sincerity. I don’t do that intentionally most of the time. I write what I think and see what happens. If I have an opinion I write I will go and check some facts before I move on with it.
Sincerity
I can read a post by someone and tell if it’s sincere or not. Or I suppose I should say I can get a feel of sincerity or not.
How? Well there is something you have to consider, does the post match the personality that’s been displayed? There are some great posts out there but when I read them I can’t quite fall in to the grasp of them because it doesn’t fit with the regular content or the actions, or the comments of the person. There is just something missing.
Integrity
Another part mentioned above is integrity. There are just so many ways you can say something about blogging. It’s difficult to be original, however I don’t steal ideas. I experience the things I put out there and then write about them. In fact I intentionally don’t read the experts blog tips because I want to discover things on my own.
And if you really want to know the truth, those experts aren’t so expert at times. I like to give tips the real bloggers can do, not those with nothing but blogging to do in their lives.
I write novels, so I can’t blog all the time. It seems like I am around a lot but I’m not here as much as people think. Also with my health issues I am actually unconscious for more hours than I care to comment on.
Many people can read tips from me and know who wrote them when they are on another person’s blog. Imitation is not the highest form of flattery when it comes to things like that. At least not so much to me.
The Work
Sure, people notice I can write an article in 10 minutes and put out 20 of them in a day with no problem so they don’t think I work at it, the thoughts behind it.
I think all the time. It has taken time to develop my style and voice in my writing and although I don’t say anything to people that copy me, I still am not a big fan of the blatant copying. You know, if you do something, if you copy an idea, if you even copy phrasing, why not put a footnote in the post giving credit? I’ve done that. (Yeah, remember I was a History teacher that graded reports and gave a zero to a kid for taking a book and writing word for word. And yes, it was 40% of his grade.)
I wrote a poem once that was inspired by two other posts I had read. I gave the two bloggers credit and linked back to their blogs right at the beginning.
The Why
Why do people click Like or Comment on my things and perhaps not the copycat’s? Everyone that visits my blog knows that I put every ounce of heart into every sentence. Even if it might make me look bad or it means the reader doesn’t agree with me, they are fine with it because they KNOW I am for real. That’s the only reason I can think of.
Sincerity and Integrity goes a long way in your life. If you follow those two things it’s difficult to be spoken against. We all mess up, but we all should try to get back to the S&I in our lives.
I’ve messed up over time but I’m good now. I stick to what I am and don’t stray from it, even when people are angry at me for being the who I am now.
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RonovanWrites Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt Challenge 33 Review
My 1000th Post and what better post could it be than the Haiku Review!!!
New This Week
Khor Hui Min of Project Prose: “Thank you for dropping by. This blog was created as a project for exploring the environment and the world through writing and sharing prose, photos and art. I hope you enjoyed your visit, and please do come again. “ The Haiku. Canvas of Tyrants. That’s my name for it. go check and see why. @MinKhor
Lady Lee Manila of Lady Lee Manila A Girl in Fringe, Pretty in Red : “Ladyleemanila, a girl in fringe, pretty in red Her brains swirl like that crazy cappucino smile”!From the About Page. Now the Haiku. Revolution This is my look it up Haiku this week. Learned some history and so loved it. @ladyleemanila
Alka Girdhar of Magnanimous Word: I chose this from her About page-“If words have so much power to change the world, then writers should make sure it is a positive change. Let’s keep our words generous and abundant in giving, forgiving, inspiring and sharing. And that’s what I will try to do through my blog – by using words that convey truth, humour, sadness, romance, inspiration and much more.” I thought those words said so much. Now for the Haiku. There are actually 5 of them. So I will simply keep to War and Fame. Go read for the details along with explanations. @girally She’s just starting her Twitter up again, so please go and follow her.
First to Enter Thunder Dome this Week:
T.A. Wyatt of Finale to an Entrance: War: An Internal Struggle. A good story in a few words. If we all don’t experience this I would be surprised. 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: Two this week in one. The first I will call Love is Fame. The second, Never Healing . @BediMona
Faith Unlocked: War: What Is It Good For?. Okay, did anyone else start singing like Jackie Chan from Rush Hour when they saw that title? Okay, okay, okay, I’ll be good. This could be identifying a country I have heard of, or any country actually. @FaithUnlocked
Meredith and Martha of Meredith’s Musings Hee hee hee, Meredith said Phooey last week. I’m still laughing so I had to include it again.. Gotta love it. War of Wits, Combat, Fame, and War. The ladies are really getting in to Haiku. ! @Meredithlbl
Sue Vincent from Daily Echo: Midnight. Someone is definitely an author. Sue is one of our resident Authors. Click here for her Amazon Author Page and all those books she’s written. @SCVincent
Serins of Serins Sphere: War and Fame. Something of history. @SerinsSphere
Nato of Chasing Life and Finding Dreams – Going to War. Two Haiku this week and they both have very good messages. And don’t forget that Michelle also has something else other than great writing talent going for her. Visit Michelle Lunato Photography. @MichelleLunato
SW ysobel of Spunky Wayfarer. Far Out Fame seriously. It’s out of this world. Need. At first I couldn’t think of a title. Then I sat and thought a while and read it through slowly. Finally it came to me. @SpunkyWayfarer
Geoff Le Pard of TanGental: Haiku to you, too. So really there are two here. Dude is too smart. Seriously. 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 Amazon UK and here for the US. @geofflepard
Buffy of Battered Wife Seeking Better Life: Lines of Infamy. Two Haiku with one title I came up with. It’s nice to know the words I am choosing lately are making people think. I don’t always like to throw out easy ones to do. We do have to stretch our minds and creativity at times. @BWseekingBL
Kimberly of K.S. Fause: Enemies. I always enjoy visiting Kimberly’s Haiku. She always has a great painting to helps inspire her work and this week is perfect. You MUST go see it. @KSFause
Melissa of The Aran Artisan: Food Wars. Well, I have to say that I am very pleased this worked out. Love the story of how this came together. Who knew a family life would lead to overcoming writer’s block? Loved it. @thearanartisan
Elizabeth of Tea & Paper: Wild Fame. Okay, this one had me scratching my head. Then I read the comments. Whew. I mean it could mean a few things but wow. @TeandPaper
Canaf of Faithful Devotionals – Fame. Makes you think. Always a good thing. Still thinking. Makes sense too.
Marigold of Versus Blurb – Deep Malignancy. I can’t even talk about it. Just go and look and read everything with it. Go and purchase Marigold Deidre Dicer’s book The Black Swan Inheritance from Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes and Noble or the iBooks store or purchase it from Amazon on Kindleby clicking here. @MarigoldDicer
Florence of Rambling On Blog: Weary. Sometimes it all just gets to be too much. @FTThum
Ruth of Mad Meandering Me: The Wars of the Roses. She doth return! Awesome, she comes with History in her quill. Doth the feather tickle? Hath I gone mad?
Wendy Anne Darling of Silver Lightning: Bound. Poor authors. So fearful of things and that holds them back. Did you know you can get Wendy’s book Silver Lightning at Amazon? You did? Then BUY IT! @AuthorWDarling
Melissa M of This, Right Now: Ruin Porn. At first, with Melissa’s wit, I was expecting something else. Then I got a lesson. This week really brought out a lot of History from people. It’s just amazing.
Colleen of Silver Threading: Anne. More history this week. I suppose war does bring that out. This time there is something very poignant about it. Fame and war do go hand in hand. We would rather that fame never occur. Some fames we truly could have done without but we learned so much. Still wished it never had happened. @ColleenChesebro Mira of They, You And Me: Two this week in one. The first I will call Love is Fame. The second, Never Healing . @BediMona Really everyone did great serious this week. But I had to pick one. But if everyone wants to take the serious image, go for it. I so loved this week. It was a great week of Haiku. Meredith got it this week hands-paws-something down.. War of Wits, Combatr. I really appreciate Meredith every week more than I could ever say. Oh for me to be a few years older, or maybe just a few miles closer. @Meredithlbl No Haiku from me this week.
And the closing Haiku:
When the war over,
The tragedy is revealed,
That fame is fleeting.
See y’all later, @RonovanWrites
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Celebrating Ronovan Writes (No, I didn’t write this.)
I wasn’t going to reblog this because it felt to be self serving. But Wyatt has now been chased off the net by another blogging community. This is who Wyatt is and I am very upset he is leaving. If he reads this I hope he knows he can contact me by email so we may stay in touch, that is if he does leave what he has built.
The reblog shows one the sides of Wyatt that I think we helped him feel comfortable enough to share with us.
You can visit the link below to read why Wyatt is leaving us. I wish there was a way to talk him out of it. I had become fond of our exchanges and enjoyed seeing what that mind came up with for my challenges.
Each week Wyatt’s Amazon link to his books will appear on the Haiku Review moving forward. Along with the images of the covers.
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Ronovan Writes Weekend Mick Flick. You Down With Love?
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.
Today’s Mick Flick is:
Down With Love
Ewan McGregor (Catcher Block)
Renee Zellweger (Barbara Novak)
David Hyde Pierce (Peter McMannus)
Tony Randall (Theodore Banner)
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Cromedy this week.
A homage to the Rock Hudson, Doris Day, and Tony Randall movies. Catcher Block is the”ladies’ man, man’s man, man about town’ magazine writer who always gets the scoop but then he is called out in front of all of America by Barbara Novak on national television while discussing her book Down With Love, about how women don’t need men. She names him as the perfect example of ‘The Worst Kind of Man’.
Of course the humor begins when Catcher Block pretends to be an astronaut, Zip Martin to expose her as a fraud when it comes to love and men.
Now time for the BroJo to get going.
Men, why you need to watch this movie.
Comedy. This week it’s comedy and some good old throw back dumb sexist overtones that are so over the top they are funny. By this I mean even women laugh at how dumb the jokes are. Okay, dumb in a good way.
Now to the ranking of the movie:
Good acting: To pull of that old feel of the 1960s and get away with it is great. McGregor and Hyde Pierce nail it. Zellwegger? Well she does okay but she’s no Doris Day. She just doesn’t quite pull it off in my opinion. But I give it an overall Yes.
Attractive Female Lead: Well, As you know personality is a big part of attractiveness to me and Zellwegger doesn’t have it. No.
Insane Characters: I think the basic premise of the movie lends itself to insanity with some antics of McGregor and supporting cast members. Yes.
Humor: I’ll just say Yes.
Bodily Harm: I guess you would say there is that mild bodily harm you might expect from a bit of slapstick comedy send off of those old 1960s movies. Yes.
Food Humor: I don’t think so. No.
Action: There is a little throwing of some things. Yes.
Good Message: I think so. Again, this is about love. So there is a love message here. Yes.
Tear Moment: Nah, dude, not gonna do that to you this week. No.
Male Lead is Not Made Out to Be Stupid: I think McGregor looks pretty smart here. Yes.
Cuddle Taco Bonus: Not this week. Not even a nacho chip.
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:
7 out of 10 Tacos.
Not the Feast but grab some bean dip and you’ll be fine and with no Cuddle Taco Bonus eat all the dip you want.
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, well, if you leave out the bean dip.
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Long Song Medley.
Here is a treat for you all. A student from long ago can really hit some high notes, and I’m not talking about the woman.
Enjoy.
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