Wabi Sabi Simple, Page 123

Barbara, owner of Silverwheel Astrology, tagged me for this meme.

1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Ordinarily, I don't do tags but strangely enough I had bookmarked this page a few days ago! So...

Wabi Sabi Simple by Richard R. Powell
Three sentences from page 123.

The amygdala and the other structures of the limbic system have been in the animal population for millions of years, and they function largely automatically, coordinated and mediated by the cortex in more evolved animals. The cortex sorts and compares experiences and proves more accurate and discriminating abilities.

We humans also have a neocortex, an additional layer of cells in our brains that allows us not only to sort and compare experiences, but also to think about them, and speculate about them, and imagine events based on the experiences we have already had.

Tagging:
Sherry, Noah, Andree, Skittles, Michelle

Green

Heads or Tails, the Tuesday meme from Skittles, offers the prompt of green.

A John Deere tractor is green and the following poem is about green.

March

Timid sun before its time
slips across frosty roofs
shines on eager buds
small as withered seed,
a laughing crow circles
drops his shadow
on split fence railing,
tree limbs rocked by breeze
dance with snowdrops
leaving shingled eaves,
sullen green grass
unwilling to be awakened
pouts crisply underfoot.
Spring knocks.

Original Watercolor by Sue.

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Naturally

One Single Impression offers the second prompt of its new life, Kindness.

Feel free to play along...

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ides of march
slide across the snow
leading spring

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bits of blue
trimmed by clouds of gray
spring quilting

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droplet of sun
puffs up by a pine
first buttercup

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Writers Island - Rising

This week’s, and the twenty-fifth, Writer’s Island prompt is: “Rising”. Come along and play!



Bubbling Up

Questioning...

I never read prompt posts before I write my own.

After writing and posting, I read and see that some of the same words and thoughts have bubbled up, and I wonder. Where do the prompts come from? Do they fall from the same bucket of words that rise from each of our minds?

Comments, too. I read comments only after I write my own, yet many times the same statements are repeated. How odd is that?

How often do you read blogged prompts only to find you've written a similar post? Several times, I've searched for a specific and unusual word and found someone else used it as well.

Recently, I posted to my 2000 Mythsteries and Other Pithy Shorts blog and the next Newsweek cover carried the very unusual phrase I'd coined.

It feels like strong synchronicity or outright woohoo voodoo.

Has this happened to you? Do you read first, write later or vice versa?

If similar words wait on the surface, why are Powerball numbers so difficult to dig up?

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