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  • Knock on wood, Why?


    I wonder about this one pretty frequently. There are just so many sayings out in the world. One time a friend and I spent an entire day on Facebook posting cliches at each other but in conversation format. It got pretty weird lol, it still had to make sense and Im not even sure how it started. What I do know is this one is starting with me wondering where the saying “knock on wood”, comes from.

    Welp, with most things it can be traced back to a few places. The first one I read talked about how the spirits of the tree’s would protect the knocker from harm? Really, ya bang on their house and think everything is going to go your way… Knocking on a spirit inhabited tree would seem to be the type of thing you would want to knock on wood to clear up. Not sure how much stock I put in this one.

    Then one during the Spanish inquisition about people of the Jewish faith using a secret knock code on the wall of the synagogue to gain entry, “Knocking on Wood” Seems tit is done to bring a positive outcome rather than a way to avoid tempting fate. Well anyway… I’m trying to catch up again… so I hope this fulfills my quote for the “K” letter for this years A to Z… Knock on wood.

  • Just say no – and others.


    Thats something we were told as kids. Thos of us born on the 70’s and even the 80’s I would think. at one point or another we were subjected to some of the most ridiculous attempts to stop us from doing things. Things like drugs… some of them were really rather spectacular. The one that stood out for me was Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No! I remember it well. She really was everywhere for a while. I tell my kids about it now, sort of making fun of it… and yet No drugs. This is one of my favorite ones. still made me laugh.

    The just say no campaigne did give rise to DARE it seems, I didn’t know that I did a quick read I mean… I’m writing I should read a bit about it. mostly though I was reminded of another commercial. This particular one was on all the time. How many of you remember this?

    I don’t have any, do you?

    So many weird things they tried to keep us kids away from. Never mind most of us were two steps away from feral (laugh) There were after school specials on everything you could imagine, Drugs, AIDS, Abuse, Drowning, Pregnancy. TV shows would have special episodes about drug abuse, and what could happen. I remember Nancy Reagan Being on Different Strokes. I vividly remember an episode of 21 Jump Street about AIDS that was just horribly done. Other things

    My most Favorite one though originated in Australia for trains encouraging safety, enjoy the song and the video it really is entertaining.. and JUST SAY NO!

  • I is for indecisive…


    As in what should I write, where should I eat and what too. Indecisiveness is rampant in the world and probably always has been. imagine Grog the caveman getting ready to go on the hunt. Has his sharpened stick that he hardened in the fire, looks to his mate and asks “what would you like to eat”? Poor Grog, got his stick and everything, now he doesn’t know what to do.

    My wife and I can never decide, it does not matter which of us asks the question the other one always says “I don’t know”. We just did this verbal back and forth today for lunch. I didn’t want to eat lunch home today and she was working from Home after working 12–14 hour days for the last few days. Thought hey let’s go sit and eat a meal… where should we go, “i don’t know”, followed by “where do you want to go”. We used to joke that if we ever opened a place, we would call it ‘That one place’, as in let’s go eat at that one place, you know the place. Turns out several other people have done this.

    This can only be matched by the phrase, “what do you want to do”? this could be for a movie, going to a show, choosing a game, a puzzle… doesn’t matter what it might be we can’t decide… “No, what do you want to do?” replaces “no, I love you more” late in the relationship (laugh). We are so invested in not suggesting something the other may not like that we just dance around the issue of what to do or eat or go that we sometimes end up going no place and I end up with a delicious PB&J sandwich.

    Indecision plagues me, some days I am so worried about things not turning out right that I just don’t want to do anything at all. I do it anyway, maybe not all of the things I want to, but I force myself to at least accomplish something that’s necessary. I specify necessary cause playing my games isn’t needed… but doing dishes or laundry is (laugh). Anyway… what should I have for dinner tonight?

  • Haiku’s Are easy and fun.


    Haiku’s, good, great GO!
    Thinking, doing, write them now.
    You should Haiku too.

    Did that real quick, Haiku’s are something we learned in grade school. Well I did, not sure if it is still taught. A Haiku is a type of Japanese poem that has three lines and 17 syllables. I was taught they were in the order of 5 syllables in the 1st line, seven in the 2nd and five in the final line. They are historically about nature but have evolved into almost everything. When done in the Japanese writing symbols they even looked like nature/art. Today, they are used in many way’s some of them just don’t make sense.

    I feel that it’s more an exercise in thinking, for me anyway. I can think of something I want to say, but condensed or, more often… a feeling I can’t covey easily. I find the structure helps me narrow it down and the pattern makes me think. Having to do word puzzles is a good thing for me, I dislike crosswords, but I feel this is similar in how I have to dredge up information.

    Memory suffers.
    Hauku’s can help us retain.
    Brain retrains, remais.

    Point being, it’s good for you to write poetry, simple thought puzzles to convey ideas. Remember five syllables in the first line followed by seven in the next and then five in the last line to finish. Go ahead and give it a try today, Maybe put Haiku’s in the comments.

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