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  All, Nothing OrPerhaps Something In BetweenMy Third June 2025 Challenge Entry   Wandering the aisles of The ActiveRain Point Store this month, has shown me many offerings already on display. All sorts of combination too or standing out separately.   As I tour each floor of this ginormous empori...
06/16/2025
 With Points in Hand, Another AR June 2025 Challenge Entry I feel fortunate.  In numerous ways.  As for the ActiveRain platform, I have accumulated a lot of points. I guess there may be those who say my membership and participation has been rewarded. Maybe, too frequently and/or too much. And I a...
06/10/2025
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 As Birthday Moments Increase,Pondering About Point AccumulationContinuesA June 2025 Challenge Entry   On Sunday, a group of us gathered to celebrate a birthday. Once again, a combination of thoughts came to me. With this month's challenge announcement newly placed in my mind, I was grateful my g...
06/04/2025
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Once again, I head to the dictionary. Today that leads to the definition of memorial. While not unknown to me, its meaning as something, especially a structure, to remind people of a person or event may be a bit dull to some, the moments surrounding the word can provide much inspiration to others...
05/26/2025
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 About NineteenOn The 19th. . .      Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story:  Lilly Ledbetter    The above quote is longer but there is no need to share those additional words in this...
05/19/2025
 Pedestrian PonderingCommonplace Or RareMaybe Both SimultaneouslyThe Merriam-Webster dictionary shows two definitions of the word, pedestrian. It is both a noun describing one who walks or an adjective meaning commonplace, unimaginative. Realizing that such differences exist can be helpful when m...
05/12/2025
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  Redos, Repeats and RevisionsA Look Back A May 2025 AR Challenge EntryThere are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.  One is called Yesterday and the other is Tomorrow.  Attributed to Dalai Lama The quote goes on to include: Today is the right day to Love.  Believe, Do and mostly ...
05/05/2025
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A Pink PianoAnd April Showers From The PastCombine As Thoughts-A-Plenty Continue to Grow Nearly a decade ago, I shared the above photo which I snapped while out and about in Pasadena after a bit of a drizzle. It's interesting what can be observed in the course of a day even one that might otherwi...
04/28/2025
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 In The Weeds. . .  Thinking of idioms can be fertile ground for my imagination.  Searching for real world relevance remains more than a rabbit hole adventure for my wandering and curious mind.        fThe dynamics of thought and randomness continue to feed my interest. Meanwhile as jellybeans an...
04/21/2025
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 Hoe - Hoe - HoeNo, It's Not Christmas in April   I guess you can’t keep me out of the garden.  Or from other places where digging occurs. Admittedly, I am a pest in that way.    Although, I am not going to shovel out a second challenge post this month, thinking about it has not stopped. I do hav...
04/14/2025
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