Tag Archives: COMMUNICATION

Jan25

Just No – Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January # 25

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Just No – Stream of Consciousness Saturday & Just Jot It January # 25

 

The Friday Reminder for #SoCS & #JusJoJan 2020 Daily Prompt – Jan. 25th

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Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “last call.” Talk about the enterprise (sales or service) conducted by the last phone call you received from a business you’re not associated with (i.e. your workplace), or talk about that phone conversation itself. Have fun!

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Well, what we have here is a failure to communicate. That’s right – I don’t communicate with outside businesses that call on my phones. They have no business to call me umpteen times a day for no reason that interests me.

We have caller I. D. and if I don’t recognize the number I zap it off as fast as I can. It’s so annoying.

It’s just as bad when I get random text messages on my phone from weird places – like this one –

The messages say they’d like to sell our property, and sometimes they have our address, and sometimes it’s an address we’ve never heard of or lived at before. Then I have to take the time – a whole second maybe to delete the messages, because there’s always more than one.

On the phone ones, I have no idea what they’re selling, and even if I did know, I wouldn’t buy it from some random caller.

Just no – I will not communicate with any of them.

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2020 BS

Feb19

Signals – Three Things Challenge # 5

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Signals – Three Things Challenge # 5

https://lightmotifs.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/three-things-challenge-pl5/

Today’s prompt: chemistry, blanket, mailbox

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Back in the days of yore, when the Native Americans lived in peace with all of nature, there were many separate tribes. They all had their own sections of land to tend, and there were few squabbles. There were the inevitable little skirmishes and disagreements, of course, but mostly they all got along well.

Before being modernized by the Pony Express delivering mail across the vast nation, there needed to be some form of communication. The indigenous peoples figured out how to talk to one another over long distances, by using smoke signals. They didn’t write letters to each other, they didn’t have mailboxes for home and tent delivery of messages, so the smoke signals served their needs very well.

A smudgy fire would be lit, producing a lot of smoke. The head of communications, usually an elder, would use a blanket to cover the smoke, or let it out into the air. These smoky puffs were a sort of Morse Code, and all tribes understood what they meant. The signals could be seen over long distances, and read by others.

The early peoples didn’t really understand much about chemistry, but that’s what they were using. The chemical reaction of  wood and fire served to produce smoke, which for the time was a great invention in the art of communicating.

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Here’s a more detailed look at how smoke signals were used… https://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-culture/smoke-signals.htm

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Thanks for visiting! Peace ☮️

© 2019 BS

Jan20

INCOMMUNICADO – COMA

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INCOMMUNICADO – COMA

I didn’t know there’d be colors,

Here in outer space…

I’ve been exiled for so very long,

In this unforgiving place.

I see the flashing red…

A warning light, I fear…

My words are trapped inside my head,

There’s no one that can hear.

The words did put me in this mess…

The words will get me out…

They say that I lie quietly…

Even thought I scream and shout.

I’m not crazy crazy…

But, then how do I know?

I’m incommunicado…

I have no way to show.

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May9

HANDWRITTEN

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Take out a nice piece of stationery and a pen. Get comfortable. You are going to write a letter. Take your time transferring your thoughts onto the paper. Is it a love letter you are writing? Are you writing to a far away relative, letting them know how your family is doing? Whatever form your letter takes, you are continuing a long tradition of communication.

In this age of the fast paced, immediate way of sharing your ideas with others via the internet, on FaceBook, Twitter and emails, actual letter writing is now a rarity. However, there is something satisfying about writing, sending, and receiving personal, handwritten letters.

Don’t you secretely hope, when you check your mailbox, that there will be a letter or card from a friend or loved one? Why don’t we write more letters the ‘old fashioned’ way? Is it because the price of stamps have gone up? Is it because it takes several days for a letter to arrive?

Have you saved your love letters in a packet, tied with a ribbon? Have you treasured old letters you’ve found from a long gone relative? What will future generations have to remember our past thoughts, hopes, family news, and celebrations?

They will only have electronic missives, that are there on your computer, yet not there…just lost in the thousands of other emails and direct messages. Why don’t we all try writing actual letters again. Find some pretty or cute paper, add some stickers, maybe a card, use your imagination to make it personal.

Surprise someone with a letter in their mailbox. I can assure you, they will smile. Maybe the next time you open your own mailbox, you will be happily surprised.Image