Today I rolled the Metaphor Dice. The words; wonder, memory and unspoken spoke to me. If you would like to use the words in a poem or short story in a post, please do. After you post, copy its link in my comment section to share your writing.
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Unspoken
Memory is an unspoken wonder
Disappearing quickly over time
Delete the past to make space for the present . . . or vice verse.
We cling to the passage of time.
Fond memories become fonder, an unspoken wonder of days gone bye.
Their legal elected official motivation, much more.
It is a mouthful.
… Seriously just saying
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I is for Impossible in the Alphabet Series. There are many fabulous words beginning with the letter I. Words like; impromptu, improvise, improbable, and imply to name a few and therefore it was difficult to choose.
Then I woke-up today and have a crazy habit of reminding myself of the date, day of the week, and how many days are left in the year. Well, there are only 113 days before we say goodbye to 2023, and hello to 2024. And that’s where impossible became first and foremost in my mind. Impossible, as in never or slim to none chance of happening.
Yet how did it happen! How could I possibly be seventy-five years old? It’s not my birthday, or even my birthday week. My birthday is in June. But every day since then I’ve lamented the impossibility of being this age. I could approach this impossibility with an attitude adjustment. Is the glass have full, and I’m lucky to be alive, or half empty, and holy crap; I’m done with the good years?
Since I work well towards a goal, I’ve decided to reach 80 (that’s only 5 years away), so let’s make it 90 which is fifteen years away and not be wearing diapers. It’s not impossible
. . . just saying
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Metaphor Dice is a game by Taylor Mali to help students and writers be creative. It is reasonably priced so I bought a set, one for myself and one for my college bound granddaughter. You can play as an individual or as a group. Toss the dice and build a metaphor, or rearrange for something more.
For example:
My teacher is a well worn song bird.
A song bird is my well worn teacher.
Now write a story or poem.
Ms. Feathers was my seventh-grade music teacher. Her face was well worn by years of students who called her catbird, not behind her back.
Or a poem: SONGBIRD
A songbird is a teacher
Well worn by its flight
Singing of travels
A musical delight
Taught life lessons during solo flights
Stopping here and there to spend the night
It’s a journey
Never finding the meaning of life
. . . Seriously just saying
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D is for disappear as in the New York Times Best Seller novel, “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn.
Nick and Amy Dunne, two out of work New York City writers, move to Nick’s childhood home in North Carthage, Missouri when they learn Nick’s mother is fatally ill.
Nick is a journalist.
Amy writes surveys or opinion questionnaires, e.i., Which of the following will lead to personal happiness.
A. Caring more about others than yourself
B. Discovering a passion
C. Exercising and eating well daily
D. All of the above
Nick persuades Amy to invest the last of her Trust Fund in a business for him and his twin sister, Margo. They name the bar, “The Bar”.
Amy disappears on their wedding anniversary, and Nick becomes the prime suspect.
However she didn’t disappear, she’s hiding.
Gillian Flynn has written a plot driven novel that I read quickly and was reviewed favorably, but I could have put the book down easily. The twisted ending was a turn off for me. The movie also has the same distortion of love, or love gone crazy ending. I like happy endings.
“As The Washington Post proclaimed, her work ‘draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty addiction.’ Gone Girl’s toxic mix of sharp-edged wit with deliciously chilling prose creates a nerve-fraying thriller that confounds you at every turn.”
Amy’s disappearance is not to vanish, perish or cease to exist. Her vanishing act is one of revenge and dysfunction, concocted when she discovers Nick’s infidelity. Victimized and bamboozled Amy plans to get even and does.
I can imagine the survey/questionnaire Gillian Flynn might ask readers to take about her character, Amy.
What makes this character happy?
A. If you can’t have the one you love make sure no one else can either.
B. Make everyone who hurts or disappoints you suffer for the rest of their lives.
C. Inflicting pain on others is key to personal happiness.
D. All of the above
The author, Gillian says “she was not a nice little girl,” and “Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women”
“The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”
Have you read the book or seen the movie?
. . . just saying
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The attention span of a gold fish is nine seconds. Currently, our attention spam is eight. Worldwide millions of people suffer with diabetes, mental health problems and obesity. People wait to get sick to eat well. Our bodies are getting bigger and our brains smaller. We are becoming dinosaurs, and we know they are extinct. *
Recently, I watched Lewis Howes PBS television show, The School of Greatness. His interview of Dr. Daniel Amen was a life changer for me. The physiatrist has many Youtube discussions on Brain Envy, authored many books, and is considered an expert (with a sense of humor) in his field.
It started when he was thirty-seven years of age. He compared his mother’s brain scan with his own. Her brain was healthier. He called it Brain Envy, and attributed this early brain changes to having meningitis as a child, and playing high school football; but wondered. . . if behavior contributed, could a change in behavior stop or reverse the damage? His research proved it does and supports his conclusions that diseases that produce inflammation effect blood vessel flow and the brain.
Dr. Amen has work with the NFL to restore memory for players, been on the New York Best Seller List and view on PBS television.
Lewis Howes ended the interview by asking Dr. Amens for three tips for a healthy brain.
Love your brain/practice good habits; sleep, diet, exercise.
Don’t believe everything you think, rid yourself of negative self-talk.
Think positive, ask; What will I do today to help my brain?
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