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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:

Soldier_Mike

about 3 hours ago
In response to "Have it All?...EEEEEK!"

There's definitely a lot of comedy out there. Apropos to your post, there's this comment by comedian Stephen Wright: "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"

Celebratin'Slipslidin'Senior

about 9 hours ago
In response to "Role Models and Charles Barkley"

This is a thoughtful piece of writing. I have never understood the hero worship, or stars as heroes thing. Role models need integrity for sure.

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Bodhisattwa Parekh

about 19 hours ago
In response to "Role Models and Charles Barkley"

To become another's role model, or to choose a role model, is a tough task. It's not impossible but difficult.From birth, we are habituated to copying our seniors, mainly parents. Role model is something different. It is related to our hobby or passion, nothing else.

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Seffi

a day ago
In response to "Role Models and Charles Barkley"

I agree - it's those people who constantly try, and then pick themselves up who I admire. Being "successful" is great, but it's not more important than being a good person. And you don't become a good person by being prefect.

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Silvern

a day ago
In response to "Seasons "

Wow! What a lovely blog post it is! This blog post nicely compares these seasons with our lives. I agree with those.
Let, a year be a book. Then every season is a chapter of that book. Summer comes with warmth. It may be considered as our youth when we take on most of the workloads.
After a summer autumn comes in with some coolness. But, those crunchy leaves are indicative shows uncertainty, too, giving us stability and patience. But we are gradually getting older.
Winter comes with leafless trees and coldness. Those leafless trees can be compared to the loss of human life and the coldness of the pain of old age.
In the Spring, we can see trees are full of leaves. In human life, it symbol of new possibilities and energies. At the same time, that tells us, no vacation is permanent.

1 Like

Silvern

Sep 14, 2025 at 8:24am
In response to "Law and Order "

The blogger has a tremendous sense of humour. The first part is not very interesting. She indicated that it the an artistic honour. Before appearing interesting phase, her husband slept.
Whether it's based on any reality, she can think this type of reality.
These add special flavours to this blog post.

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Bodhisattwa Parekh

Sep 13, 2025 at 10:02am
In response to "No Such Thing as Yours Truly and the Westerns"

Even today, I often see parodies of Western films here and there.The director may follow any form of good art.I love the blogger's sense of humour. She tells us, 'Why can't she watch the movie?' Due to her children.

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Silvern

Sep 13, 2025 at 3:46am
In response to "No Such Thing as Yours Truly and the Westerns"

We, all people, love speed in our lives. But, some moments appear with tough challenges. Those are boring, but we've to tackle those challenges carefully. The passes indeed go very slowly.
In a movie, we generally see the reflection of real life. So, some movies runs slowly, difficult to understand.

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Seffi

Sep 12, 2025 at 11:56pm
In response to "No Such Thing as Yours Truly and the Westerns"

"How could I have tried my hand at writing westerns when I did not like westerns in the first place!" I feel ya!

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Witchy Woman

Sep 12, 2025 at 3:22pm
In response to "No Such Thing as Yours Truly and the Westerns"

Eastwood wasn't in Once Upon A Time in the West, that was Charles Bronson and Jason Robard and Henry Fonda and Claudia Cardinale. My mother was a huge Robard and Fonda fan, and took us to the movies when it was released in 68.

"Clint Eastwood starred in many iconic westerns, including the "Dollars Trilogy" (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) directed by Sergio Leone, and later films like Hang 'Em High, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, and the Academy Award-winning Unforgiven. He also directed some westerns, such as High Plains Drifter and Unforgiven."- Google

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September 17, 2025 at 3:38pm

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Have it All?...EEEEEK!

Prompt: What does it mean to have it all? Write about this in your Blog entry today.

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Frankly, I think only God has it all. We all have a bit, or more, or in abundance. Then, even when we have something more or in abundance, something else either goes haywire or breaks or falls away. So, we cannot have it all.

It would be fantastic if some of us, while trying to have a lot of that "having it all," thought of things more like: being a less self-centered person who is of service to others, performing random acts of kindness, and comforting people in pain like my wonderful nurse-friends do.

Then, some people are quite happy with their lot in life. If so, why reach for something more? Then, "more" wouldn't be enough over time, either, because we people get tired of what we already own, anyway. Not everyone and not really astute people, though. When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes of Sinope, and offered to fulfill any one wish Diogenes desired, Diogenes replied, "Stand out of my light."

It is tough to be a Diogenes, however, isn't it!

As to the phrase itself, I think someone sang a song or made up one. Nice, upbeat lyrics, too! But I thought, when this songwriter wants someone else to have it all, there's some element of selfishness or serving his own needs lurking in his words. Worse yet, Heaven forbid, what if he meant, "I want you to dethrone God and sit in His place?" Wouldn't that make God real angry? I wonder.

Here is the song, copied from the internet:

Have It All
Jason Mraz

Have It All (Lyrics)

[Verse 1]
May you have auspiciousness and causes of success
May you have the confidence to always do your best
May you take no effort in your being generous
Sharing what you can, nothing more nothing less
May you know the meaning of the word happiness
May you always lead from the beating in your chest
May you be treated like an esteemed guest
May you get to rest, may you catch your breath

[Pre-Chorus]
And may the best of your todays be the worst of your tomorrows
And may the road less paved be the road that you follow

[Chorus]
Well here's to the hearts that you're gonna break
Here's to the lives that you're gonna change
Here's to the infinite possible ways to love you
I want you to have it
Here's to the good times we're gonna have
You don’t need money, you got a free pass
Here's to the fact that I'll be sad without you
I want you to have it all

[Post-Chorus]
Oh! I want you to have it all
I want you to have it
I want you to have it all

This internet is the hub of all comedy. Don't you think!

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