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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
Off the Cuff / My Other Journal
#673903 added October 30, 2009 at 1:57pm
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Halloween
I'll go get candy late this afternoon. I waited until now, because of a car problem. I hope we'll get the car back in a couple of hours.

I buy the same things every year, Hershey's dark chocolate bars, six in a box, and a few boxes of KitKats . Kids seem to like them as do their parents who come to the door. If anything's left over, it is for our consumption. *Wink*

It used to be my kids would have a fit if I accompanied them on their trick-or-treating. I still did but stayed way back, out of sight. Parents, rarely -if ever, accompanied the children, then. I am so happy to see so many parents coming around with their children during the later years. I feel like treating the parents, too, but that would be funny and odd. *Laugh*

The Irish and the Scotch brought Halloween to US. Christian and Celtic rites combined (Sam'hain), the holiday originally was a day/night of feasting and mischief. Jack-o'-Lanterns are probably a couple of centuries older. It belonged to the night watchmen holding a simple lantern. Somehow, it became associated with Halloween.

This year's Halloween is a bit more special for me, because the next day, I start NaNoing for the first time. After having prided myself in acting cool in most situations, NaNo did away with my so-called cool. *Laugh* Drama, drama, drama! I've turned into a drama queen.
Even though I know it is no big deal, I am curious about me: how I'll do; how much I'll complain; will the arthritis in my legs jump to my fingers; how will my family react to my new obsession, and so on and so forth. Still, I am really looking forward to it. Weird? Yeah, that's what I am.

Happy Halloween!

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