Tag: dailyprompt
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The Only Constant, Change…
What is one thing you would change about yourself? Nothing. I’ll continue to change and grow regardless of my personal wishes, anyway… I am, as are we all, the result (or consequence) of the ‘birth-lottery’ and a hundred-thousand years (at least) of evolution and our particular positions in the space-time continuum. We are fitted into…
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To Meat Or Not
What are your feelings about eating meat? It’s complicated. I grew up in a ‘meat and potatoes’ household. Meat was part of almost every meal … That seems like a lifetime ago. Over the years, I kept hearing and reading how ‘red meat’ in particular, with all its hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives, was more detrimental…
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Which Would I deny?
What technology would you be better off without, why? Another word for ‘technology’ is ‘artifice’ … human evolution’s propensity for communication, making tools for survival, work, exploration, and ‘civilization’. All of our tools (mental and physical) are historically defined as ‘artifacts’. Artifice Artifacts defineHuman activities shineEdifices prime –LE So, which would we be better off…
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In Reality … All And None …
What’s the hardest decision you’ve ever had to make? Why? In Reality … All And None … Off the top of my head, I’d have chosen my decisions to not fight my exes in their bids to be rid of me. Not to fight the outrageous child support garnishments of my meager wages, that left…
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Why Choose?
Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why? Why Choose? Personally, I ‘prefer’ wherever I am, not only in the moment, but seasonally and ‘migrationally’… Right now, I prefer the High Sonoran Desert, where I currently live. In years gone by, that preference was for lake, river, and ocean shores, and occationally, the vertical faces…
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Only Three?
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Only three? My favorite (since I haven’t lived in a family situation for many years) meal changes from day to day and month to month. And it’s usually whatever I’ve chosen to eat in any given moment or situation…; -) Today, it’s Borscht … my improvisation of…
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Trust and Instincts – Yes
Do you trust your instincts? It took me ‘a while’ to trust my gut (instincts, if you will). Everything in our social conditioning from education to social gatherings infused me with the idea that everyone else’s opinions were more important, more ‘reasoned’, more real than my own. Therefore, I should listen to them and not…
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First Impressions
What’s the first impression you want to give people? This is not today’s prompt, but I finally decided how I’d answer it…; -) First impressions are just another name for the masks we wear. Why do we wear them? We wear them because we’ve been trained, conditioned by society’s gatekeepers (our parents, teachers, social, religious,…
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Who, Indeed?
Who is the most famous or infamous person you have ever met? I once met Jimi Hendrix, so I’m told. I related the tale in my memoir section on the ‘New York Commune’: https://cynop.xyz/2023/07/19/the-new-york-commune-memoir-continued/ I did, however, meet Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame at Publix bood store, at Playhouse Square, Cleveland, for a lecture…
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My Most Expensive Personal Item…
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). I’d have to say that it was my Bachelors degree, both in terms of money, personal grief, and family/relationship upheaval. And, in truth, I doubt that it was worth the time, expense, and all the grief that went with it. I…
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