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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!
Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas Open in new Window. became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.


Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.


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January 22, 2026 at 2:06pm
January 22, 2026 at 2:06pm
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Prompt:
The Winter Olympics are almost here. What Winter Olympic sports will you be watching,? Write about this in your Blog entry today.


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To tell the truth, I am not going to watch any Winter Olympics. In fact, I don't watch much TV at all.

My husband, on the other hand, wouldn't miss any sports events. He really loved the TV, especially the Olympics, for he himself was a long-distance runner in his late teens.

Which reminds me of his adoration for Jesse Owens who upset Hitler's White Supremacy obsession during the !936 Olympics in Berlin by winning four Olympic medals that year. That might have been God's preliminary warning to racists, which must have been to alert them to the final result of World War II. I guess, black or white, or any color, doesn't a hero make. It is the person, the human being with his mettle, who is the most important.

As for me and TV watching, I have never sat in front of a TV, unless I was doing something else as well. But I did sit next to my husband while he watched...always. As I sat across from the TV, then, I could have been writing down ideas, eating, knitting, sewing, peeling veggies. etc. I liked to stop what I was doing and watched figure skating, however.

Nowadays, after my husband, I only have the TV on to news while eating supper. Considering today's news and happenings all around the world, it is a miracle I didn't get any ulcers...yet!


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