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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Peace Not Perfection

Resolutions by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

Making a resolution to set yourself up for disappointment year after year is the definition of both insanity and stupidity.

small changes are best

don't set yourself up to fail

peace, not perfection

notes

https://chevrefeuillescarpediem.blogspot.com/2012/11/carpe-diem-special-6-issa-years-first.html

This post discusses the work of Kobayashi Issa (1763-1823) and talks about reverence for the new year in classic Japan.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2023-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-8

Today's prompt asks participants to write a sentence poem. It has been quite a while since I wrote a One-Bun. This piece came to me like a flash--like a vision. I just wrote it down. Then I chose an image from Unsplash. Then I added text art to that image using Pixlr. You are welcome to share the image, but please credit Cara Hartley/Ornery Owl if you do. A link back to this blog would also be appreciated.

Over the years, I may have given the impression that I'm opposed to making New Year's resolutions. I'm not. I'm opposed to making stupid New Year's resolutions that benefit no one but the multi-billion-dollar diet industry. Stop giving those devils your money for crappy products that don't work. As for signing up for a gym membership, I'm all for trying to improve or maintain your fitness levels. Just do it for the right reasons, not to conform to a narrow standard of attractiveness.

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~

Ornery Owl

"I resolve to keep improving my cooking skills in 2024."

Free use image from Open Clipart Vectors

Hangry Wyrm

"I resolve to be your taste tester!"

Free use image from Clker Free Vector Images

https://odysee.com/@superannuatedmusic:e/JIM-REEVES--distant-drums-:3?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

https://odysee.com/@superannuatedmusic:e/JIM-REEVES--according-to-my-heart--:e?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Carpe Diem Summer Challenge 2019: Sundown

Doomed version 7

Photoshop manipulation by The Real Cie

Some sundowns rise on another day of loss and one day set forever on a self ravaged by a broken mind.

~Cie~

Note:

Sundowning is a term for confusion in a dementia patient which worsens as evening comes on. Towards the end of his life, my father, who had vascular dementia, was sundowning. He confused reality with events on television.

My father was a college professor. I have cared for more than one college professor or other people whose work revolved around using their mind who ended up with dementia. The junk science sharticles which proclaim that exercising your mind helps prevent dementia make me see liquid murder.

You know what helps prevent dementia? Not having the DNA trigger for dementia coded in your genetic makeup. You could watch nothing but reruns of Jersey Shore and the Flavor of Love for your entire life and not end up with dementia if the trigger for dementia isn't in your DNA. I don't recommend it, but you could.

Dementia is horrible. It destroys lives. The least we could do is not insult those suffering from dementia and their caregivers and loved ones by publishing victim-blaming crap.