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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 " 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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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

🐱 panther pwheeler

about an hour ago
In response to "That Symphony of Purrs"

You are so right.

Noche sounds like an especially wonderful cat companion. I'm glad you had the time you did with her.

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Maid of the Mist Most Macabre

about 13 hours ago
In response to "Why Ghosts Haunt the Writer’s Muse"

Ah, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Now that's a classic. I laughed my way through Beetlejuice. As you point out, ghosts are as individual as people. This is a well expressed piece.

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Bodhisattwa Parekh

a day ago
In response to "The Fight for Values"

Eleanor Roosevelt stressed the significance of freedom of religion and speech and also freedom from want, expressing that these rights must be defended in all situations. The blogger supported her ideas, especially on religion and speech; she preferred the peaceful methods to promote these values without any conflict.

Battywyn🎶Prep!

Oct 11, 2025 at 6:18pm
In response to "The Fight for Values"

This directly relates to your recent comment on my blog about morality being shades of gray. There are always conflicting wants/needs. Case in point: there's a cemetery crisis in Germany. When I lived there in my youth, it was a problem for Jewish families, and a topic of political debate. According to Jewish tradition, burials are permanent, and graves should not be disturbed. But Germany has limited space to bury the dead, and so they recycle graves. From a freedom of religion standpoint, Jews are not being restricted in their beliefs, but one could argue their religious practices are restricted. But it's a legitimate logistical and financial issue. Is it Germany's responsibility to accommodate those religious needs?

It's easy for us to judge others from a place of privilege and claim abundance, but the fact is, resources are finite, and people (and other living things) compete for them. If there's enough food for one, but ten need to be fed, then nine (or all of them) will go hungry.

Money doesn't buy everything. If there's a drought in Africa, then Roosevelt's statement claims that the people should have access to water. To make that happen, someone needs to pay for the collection and transport of water, which takes money, and providing for that community's need also requires people who care enough to facilitate the collection and transport of water.

Are billionaires obligated to share their wealth with others? Are people who have water obligated to get it to communities where they don't have water? To the people who need water and have no other way to get it than the charity of others, it makes sense that they would say, yes, the privileged are obligated. There's abundance, and it should be shared. But how to the privileged feel about it? Some of them probably feel obligated, but others might see charity as something they don't have to do, but choose to do. And some might see it as not their responsibility at all.

Now consider the needs of a person who has destroyed their own life through bad choices. Does that change the obligation of the privileged to share with that person? People of the Abrahamic faiths would say yes, but what if my religion states that people's suffering is a result of their karma? In that case, obliging me to offer charity conflicts with my freedom of religion.

This is all a though experiment, since the planet does, in fact, have resources in abundance, and if billionaires and countries with an excess of resources distributed their excesses, poverty would be significantly reduced, if not eliminated.

BUT... what if we didn't have resources in abundance? Say, for example, the population of earth were to double or triple, or the damage we're doing to the environment today renders the earth incapable of providing for its human population. Would that change the obligations of people with just enough to share with the people who are lacking, so that everyone has an equal (but inadequate) amount?

If it's not obvious, I have complicated political opinions. I usually land at understanding (or trying to understand) all the sides of the argument. In this, I personally believe, because of my Christian upbringing, that we are obligated to help those less fortunate, regardless of how they got there, and regardless of my own resource abundance or deficit. Does that give me the right to force those beliefs on others, obligating them against their will?

I'm not sure it does.

A Warped Witch I Be

Oct 11, 2025 at 5:24pm
In response to "The Fight for Values"

Eleanor was notably long winded in her comments but very adamant about women's rights, and basic human rights She would be so disappointed in our present situation.

I had to pick a role model when I was in elementary school and I chose Eleanor. I would pick her today as well.

Maid of the Mist Most Macabre

Oct 11, 2025 at 1:41pm
In response to "The Fight for Values"

I suppose Ms. Roosevelt could have proclaimed all of this with something simple. Let everyone be.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

Oct 11, 2025 at 1:22pm
In response to "The Fight for Values"

Yes, I agree in general. And yes, language has shifted since then. I think 'want' meant freedom from wanting basic needs... as in freedom from poverty.

Yes, peace and peaceful means are better; but, with inequities that leave people without basic human rights or means for housing, food... etc. than that is a type of war. People in general will fight for survival. We are closer to that now than since the 1960s.

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A Warped Witch I Be

Oct 10, 2025 at 3:52pm
In response to "Neighbors"

I didn't have neighbors at my Maine home but we met through our children roaming the area on their bikes. Initially, I rode the nine mile block with them until they were old enough to do it themselves. There were 12 families with kids in this nine mile block and our families exchanged baked goods, did holiday parties together.

In New Jersey, our neighbors said hello if we did first but if we didn't speak they didn't bother.

Here in Vegas, our neighbors to the left are friendly but very loud. The one on the right works nights and sleeps days, we barely see him. The one across the street are the fireworks idiots, that I wish would move away. They never clean up, play loud music, have loud cars. Just a public nuisance.

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Silvern

Oct 9, 2025 at 6:30am
In response to "Course Unknown? Or is it?"

"Sea of destiny" is used symbolically. This destiny refers to our luck whereas the sea is our lifestyle. Our life, most cases, does not run at an even pace. Sometimes we become happy and get peace but not always. Many times we fall into danger. To overcome those situations, we have to fight hard.

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Bodhisattwa Parekh

Oct 9, 2025 at 3:21am
In response to "Course Unknown? Or is it?"

"Sea of destiny" represents life's unpredictable nature of challenges. These are searching for certain purposes. The blogger shares her journey through both peace and uncertainties, reflecting on how destiny shaped her identity and also on her ongoing questions about them.

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October 10, 2025 at 1:34pm

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Neighbors

Prompt:
Write about your neighbors--- are they good neighbors or bad neighbors?

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My neighbors? I guess they are all very nice people, but I don't really know them. Not like the time during the early nineties when we moved into this house. At the time, we were, maybe, the youngest couple on the street. Then, I got to know most of them. Nowadays, everyone is so much younger, as most of the older ones have passed away, and many moved in with family or went into retirement homes.

At this time, I think I am the oldest one around. I know this from the fact that instead of calling repair people for the upkeep of their houses, my neighbors do those jobs themselves. As for me, for such jobs, I have several companies doing the work.

As to my immediate neighbors, those to the left of the house just moved in and I haven't met them, although my son says he talked to them. People to my right are a very sweet couple with grown children. They moved in about six years ago. They are friendly and they gave me their cell numbers and asked me to call them if I ever needed anything, and during the holidays they always bring over goodies and stuff. Those across the street, we just wave at each other when outside.

Part of the problem of being unneighborly lies with me, though. I don't take a walk on the street as I once used to, unless someone is accompanying me. And really, very few people nowadays take a walk on our street, anyway. Then, for me, even going to my mailbox feels like a trip, which means taking at least 100 steps over the concrete one way. Especially I am wary when it rains because slipping and falling on the wet ground would be not much fun in old age.

During the 60s, 70s, and even 80s, when we lived up north, we knew everybody around, but it was then. Times have changed a lot over the years, due to the inventions of many other ways for us to meet and make friends with other people, near and far. Still, I feel good about the people in my neighborhood because we have a nice, quiet street with houses far apart and no one bothers anyone.

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