From Marvin Martian: Greetings and Salutations, Earthlings and fellow Blogophilians!!Welcome to Week 35 of Year 16 in Blogophilia! We are finishing up February and heading into March this coming week. We are guessing many of you are ready for some spring weather soon! :)
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Hard Bonus: Incorporate a lyric from Soundgarden
Easy Bonus: Use the phrase “life is short”
City of Lights & Reflection
Soundgarden "Hunted Down" from Down on the Upside album 1996
You smile as you look in the mirror
Tears have left your eyes
Your face has a different exterior
Permanent disguise
Life is short, depending on how you define it... When we are young, time lasts forever, but moves faster as we get older. Some people don't make 50, others pass 100 - don't wait Until the Twelfth of Never or you'll lived too long or too short without experiencing life. Go get 'em.
Marvin Martian‘s message: Hello dear Blogophilians!! It is WRITER’S CHOICE WEEK – YOU pick the topics, YOU pick the bonus prompts, and you have the freedom to use the picture provided, or choose your own! Happy Writing!
Hard Bonus: WRITER’S CHOICE Incorporate a line from the movie Purgatory Easy Bonus: WRITER’S CHOICE Use a line from U2’s song Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Peaces of Chalk
Remember when kids used to use chalk on the sidewalks to either do hopscotch or pictures? I wasn’t allowed, but had fun at those who did. It’s too bad the short chalk pieces didn’t get used to make a peace sign… back when we were relatively worry free. It was easy to tell people Peace, Baby!
As an adult, I feel like often peace obligates protest. And it’s not just for the young people who are college aged. While teenage angst is what movies depict most, I think there’s a lot more going on when we grow up, especially if we struggle to make ends meet, and it’s greater when we have children. Even when we go ask for help, we don’t necessarily get it, because there are limited resources with growing population who need the help… So, sometimes, when we are told to go here or there & we’ve already been, I want to say, “I don’t want his help! He didn’t help Melanie and he didn’t help me. Look at me! I wanted to be a lawyer, because I believed in justice. Ha! That’s a laugh. Does this look like justice to you? Oh!” – Purgatory 1988 film
I get it that we will never agree fully with political stances… there are a wide range of beliefs. yet I feel like the right keeps moving to insane measures, and the left has been also… There seems to me no middle ground anymore where the opposite sides can agree, even if it’s limited… Though seriously, I don’t get it as to why free (healthy) lunches for students, Medicare for all, and affordable higher education are so whacky to some people… Which is why it baffles me that conservatives, who always want to be “fiscally responsible” voted for a clown… I’d like to quote U2’s Sunday, Bloody Sunday
I can’t believe the news today Oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away
And the battle’s just begun There’s many lost, but tell me who has won? The trenches dug within our hearts And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
No, I will not compromise equity for people of color, LGBT, women, disabled, etc. just for saving pennies in the store and gas pumps, except that look, the grocery prices have gone up more than gas prices have come down. The clown was voted in to discriminate without helping the economy…
Martien Ecrits (aka Marvin Martian) says Hello dear Blogophilians!!Welcome to Week 33 of Year 16 in Blogophilia! This week it’s all hearts and flowers – Happy Valentine’s Day to all! ❤
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Hard Bonus: Include a line from the movie “Pretty in Pink” Easy Bonus: Mention your favorite candy
Tree of Hearts
In high school, one of my science teachers mentioned that “change is the only constant”. At face value, it doesn’t make much sense, but it’s true… As we age, our bodies & minds go through changes. The economy, social norms, life’s happenstances, etc… Nothing stays the same. So, the concept that organisms (humans included, maybe even business practices, too) must constantly adapt and evolve their current position in an environment where their competitors are evolving is The Red Queen Effect. As living beings, we want to be relevant somehow. Even when we look in nature, with schools of fish, flock of birds, even like trees growing near each other, we want to belong & count somehow. Yet, long gone are the days of generational farmers, or starting a job at 18 and staying until retirement… And when our income doesn’t meet up with our bills, it seems as if working a full-time & part-time job is no longer feasible, especially since once upon a time, 1 income supported a family, so if a part-time job was had, that was for extras, not just to survive. I’m trying to reinvent myself to have gig work as a musician to keep up with everything.
And talking about changes… “Principal (to Andie): “If you put out signals that you don’t want to belong, people are going to see that you don’t.” I was always one that liked to people watch, and didn’t like to be the center of attention. Being in a larger concert band, I could blend in with the other musicians. Yet I’ve been good at public speaking, and in college, kept getting asked to take leadership positions… So I’m not sure if the principle is correct – I didn’t really belong when I was in Japan, being the only American kid in school, but then didn’t fit in here, being the only Japanese kid… it was strange. Yet, there I was, with multiple officer positions with the International Student Organization, Multi-cultural co-chair & chair of Women’s Issues committees with student government…
Now I need some candy… but I can’t choose right now between Snickers, KitKat, peanut M&Ms, Twix, Reese’s peanut butter cups, ugh, so many choices!
Marvin Martian says Hello dear Blogophilians!! Welcome to Week 32 of Year 16 in Blogophilia! Time to get on those hiking boots and get moving!
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Hard Bonus: Have a character “walk on fire” or include the phrase in your blog Easy Bonus: Incorporate lightning
On the path to adventure
I miss the days of going to a cabin, lodge, campsite, etc. when I could Hike in the Woods! I’d always take the side turns, twists, etc. and find these spots to find frogs, wild berries, or something… I’m just glad that so far, I’ve never had to walk on fire, although I do love a good, natural light & sound show, and still have yet been able to capture lightening in a picture. I love a thunder & lightening storm with the rain coming down… I miss my covered porches so I can sit outside.
