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Hoe - Hoe - HoeNo, It's Not Christmas in April I guess you can’t keep me out of the garden. Or from other places where digging occurs. Admittedly, I am a pest in that way. Although, I am not going to shovel out a second challenge post this month, thinking about it has not stopped. I do hav...
04/14/2025
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Planting A Pretty PlotOrPerhaps A Foolish FlopMy April 2025 AR Challenge Post As each ActiveRain challenge is announced, thoughts begin to form. If as well as how I can interpret the concept enter my mind. This month Eileen Burns 954.483.3912 and Nick Vandekar, 610-203-4543 have plotted th...
04/07/2025
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Thanks A ThousandA Gratitude JourneyA Book Review of Sorts Recently, I finished the book, Thanks A Thousand by A. J. Jacobs (no relation). He is the author of a number of books I have read as well as more than a few others still in the process of starting or finishing. As previously shared, I re...
04/03/2025
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Fifteen On Sunday, March 30, I will have been an ActiveRain member for fifteen years. Like many, I joined then lurked about this place until writing my initial posts and commenting later in 2010. Quite frankly, I didn't understand how AR operated but through time, trial-and-error as well as s...
03/27/2025
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Aspects of CuriositySpring Arrives as the Seasons Satisfies and Shares a Sense of Things To ComeAnother AR Challenge Submission The comedian, Steven Wright has been attributed with the saying, “Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect". Whenever I hear the quote, it still makes ...
03/20/2025
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I’m at Peace On Pi DayAnother AR March Challenge Entry(Or is it an Entree?) In some circles today, March 14, 2025, is also known by its far more interesting name, Pi Day. No, not National Pie Day which is celebrated each January. Admittedly, there are countless confusing things in everyday life...
03/14/2025
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As Stories Are Shared. . .A March 2025 ActiveRain Challenge Entry The annual Academy Awards presentation earlier this week may not have had much or any impact on you. I understand that. However, it is an event that still interests me. Beyond the movies nominated or any historic reach of the i...
03/05/2025
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Love ActuallyWords & Countless Other ThingsRemain in Motion. . . If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: for the fathomless mystery that it is. Listen to your life. ...
02/14/2025
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California Dreamin’As Reality Continues to ClearThe Air. . . California is a big place. It’s diverse as some know. Or assume. Some, maybe much, of such things have elements of truth. Likely similar sorts of stuff can be said about that place where you live. Or have previously r...
02/05/2025
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Closing Thoughts as Another MonthApproaches Its End. . . Sooner or later, everything old is new again” attributed to Stephen King January can be special for many reasons. There is something to be said for being first, right? But along with being placed in the front of most calendars, January i...
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