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About This Author
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.
 
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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.
February 11, 2026 at 2:54pm February 11, 2026 at 2:54pm
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Prompt: The Winter Olympics. Are you watching The Winter Olympics? What do you like about them? Write about this in your Blog entry today.
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I'm not watching The Winter Olympics or much TV, at all. I only watch the news for a few minutes while I have supper. Yet, this wasn't always so.
I sometimes used to watch the Olympics with my late husband, but not anymore. Partly because, speaking for myself, I am not an athlete, and also, I have little respect for the Olympics in general. While they encourage individual accomplishments, historically speaking, they've also served to create and add to conflicts and disputes among nations.
This started probably after World War 1 when the losing nations weren't allowed to participate in 1920 Antwerp games in Belgium. Later, during World War 2, Olympic Games were canceled until after the war. Then, in my lifetime, my first disappointment came about with Jimmy Carter's boycotting the games because of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. I can still feel bad about our athletes who had trained so hard at the time only to find out that they weren't allowed to attend the games to represent the USA.
So, then and now, I believe, no matter what happens in the world or among nations, the Olympic Games should be sacrosanct.
Well, they aren't. That they aren't doesn't make them international, does it?
It is understandable when a country may not have enough means to train athletes for the games, and thus it may not participate, but the idea of boycotting for politics annoys me big time. The only real excuse I can think of is North Korea's canceling participation at the 2020 Summer games, which was because of Covid. Not that I like North Korea or anything, quite the contrary, but theirs was a legitimate reason, the way I saw it.
Olympic games should be for all nations in the world. They are to serve and encourage excellence, respect, and friendship. They are meant to inspire generations through athletes' stories.
This is because, in essence, they are for the people of the world. This is because they can be crucial for promoting global unity, cultural exchange, and peace by bringing nations together in friendly competition, and bridging divides.
Yet, unfortunately, they can't! And because they can't, their meaning is lost to me.
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