February 22, 2006
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Internet Island Topic Post 7.00
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Hmmm, I made Featured Content. This doesn’t happen a lot to me, especially when I’m posting a regular entry and not a Blogring Topic entry, so I want to thank everyone who commented on my News And Notes column from yesterday.
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A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT CARTOONS AND MUSLIMS (Revised from…
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Posted by baldmike2004 – 2/21/2006 at 11:05 PM(The Topic Post will last approximately two weeks. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the two week period. The link for the current entry is always at the top of the page of this blog under the header for easy access. If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.)
I will attempt to keep a list of links to the topic entries in my header. The most recent posts will be listed first.
The degree of “difficulty” of these Topic Posts is supposed to be a little above a “blogthing questionnaire” and below a Socrates Cafe philosophy discussion. I want to inspire “great thinking” but I also want to have fun. This topic post is an “Open House” post. I’m going to give you a choice of three “topics” but I am going to ask for other “Topics” from the blogring members and will list suggested topics at the bottom of my own “list of three” below. In this way there will be more than one topic and more than one response. I sometimes will read so many responses on the same topic that they all seem similar after a while. What better way to get other blogring members who might have some interesting ideas involved if they want, and to give the average ”Islander” more of a smorgasbord of topics on which to blog.
7.01: Anger Management Department:
When was the last time you were angry? Why? Who or what made you angry and did this anger resolve itself in any way whatsoever?
7.02: Set of Wheels:
Since I’m a guy, I tend to really like automobiles, and even though I’m in my 50s, I drive a convertible sports car. Some of the gals similarly like a nice set of wheels. There are lots of stylish cars on the road again after a couple of decades of blandness. Write or show us with photos, etc, about your “set of wheels”. This could be a reminiscence about an old car, or your infatuation with your “new car”. My roommate thought he saw a scratch on his brand new car the other night. We conversed for quite a while about “first scratches.” Create a blog article or entry about automobiles, motorcycles, RV’s or go carts in your lives.
7.03: The Slices Of Life:
For the last few years, probably commesurate with turning half a century old, I have been “preparing” for each birthday, emotionally and psychologically. I never thought about life slices when in my 20s and 30s or even 40s. Now I think about them all the time. Last year I wrote a poem called Decades. (presented below) Instead of “years”, I finally started to look at life in ten year chunks. How would you differentiate between the different decades in your own life? Describe briefly each decade, the highs, lows, personal or professional goals, friendships, etc. If you are 20something or younger, slice your life in your own increments.
Other Topics from members’ comments will be added here. Topic Entries will be accessible from comments and from the list on the header for this blog under the “Current Internet Island Topic Post” link.
YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT. IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!
Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Pagewill “sort” the members by latest post, date joined, and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man.There are no “right” or “wrong” responses to any Topic Post for Internet Island. All responses are just as valid as any other response.
“Decades”
Poetry by Michael F. NyiriTuesday, April 12, 2005
6:17 a.m. PDTThe first decade
Awe inspiring
Waking to the cacophonous
music
of newborn phenomenons
The “firsts” of experience
Walking and talking,
Learning and yearning,
Eating a meal of instantaneous submersion
Attention to detailing the dance of wonder
Childlike babysteps of burgeoning attention
The second decade
Arriving at misbegoten conclusions
Fighting for a meager grasp
of parental freedom
Going one’s way
but having to bypass
the obstacles of derisive delusions
Playtime and pulchritude
Passive meanderings
Hormonal misunderstaning
And angsty anger appears
much too often
Graduation from childhood
The third decade
Arriving as an adult in society,
Learning too late
that the first two decades
should have been embraced
more resolutely while
they were happening.
Career minded cares
Love and affection,
Staking a claim for life
Bright skies and dark nights
Experimentation with fulsome fallacy
Marriage for some,
and then:
first decades to experience anew
Fourth decade
brings realizations almost too late
Foreign concepts of aging
and fickle fate
Arriving too soon
Then disappearing from view
For some the cycle
Understandable
And for some the
lessons don’t come
Fifth decade
Settling into consistency and boredom
Or implicitly creating one’s destiny
Awareness and instability
Errors and terrors of aging arrive
The mirror becomes
one’s worst enemy
And as cycles repeat
Time not only won’t stop
It quickens with a petulant laugh
The sixth decade
Memory replaces experience
Excitement sometimes evaporates
But small pleasures
Abound in the garden
Physical attraction
to self and others
doesn’t seem so important
Undone acts and unseen places
Unborne incomprehension
And nervous laughter at
mortality’s message
The seventh decade
Arriving for more and more
Never arriving for some
Contemplation
Eradication of the
memories so important
in the sixth
Elusive mind meanderings
Wisdom courses
through realization
Memory plays tricks
sometimes
The eighth decade and beyond
A journey about to end
Wrinkles on the hands
become the hills and valleys of our lives
stretching into infinity
with the mellow love of God’s
final solution(Originally posted 4/12/085 Composite photo of “The Decades of Womanhood”uses my own positioning, but the photos were obtained by doing a google search of photos on the internet. No violation of any copyright is intended. MFN)
Comments (43)
Helo Mike. Just passing through from a review of featureds. Interesting site, keep on keepin on. Peace.
Hi Mike. Thanks for the visit today, and for the comments last week about the young woman who died in the car accident. I appreciate your candor. I see below that you have posted the question of Internet Island being viable. I think it is. But not for everyone. I have only posted on a few of the topics and didnt go around reading lots of the sites. There are a lot of interesting members of that blogring, that is for sure. I simply don’t have the time to do it all. 140 subs, plus I have 60 or so that I try to keep up with. I am oversubscribed! Lots of other people enjoy it though. I think I will remove myself from the blogring – I know you wanted to have a smaller number of people, but you became very successful.
http://www.xanga.com/youhavetosintobesaved/447658914/item.html
i wrote my blog today on anger yet i see again i didn’t answer a single question….
i keep doing that… going to visit islanders…
RYC:
Ha! Bite me.
with respect,
mr. dmv
:goodjob: I like the way you put ‘The degree of “difficulty” of these Topic Posts is supposed to be a little above a “blogthing questionnaire” and below a Socrates Cafe philosophy discussion. I want to inspire “great thinking” but I also want to have fun.’ perfect. I just posted for Topic #6. This one is exciting as well. I’ve written much already today; I just put 1 entry on hold until tomorrow. I shall post for #7 by Sunday. Great & thanks for keeping this going!
Trying to hang in there, so here is a SuzyQ lite post!:lol:
http://www.xanga.com/suzyQ_darnit/447722032/helloooo.html
I think I’ll probably hit on all of these in the next week or so. Not this morning, though. I need some dream detox first. I don’t want to write about anger. To write about cars will be fun, but right now it will only inspire more talk of dreams. I decided to comment here to touch on your poem. I like it. I scanned the format of it before I dug into the words, and I noticed that there weren’t any stanza breaks between each decade. I would have put them in, but I would have been absolutely wrong. The years and decades flow into one another too well. My twentieth birthday is one I remember, but it wasn’t a particularly special day. I was the nanny all that summer for some of my cousins in Colorado. While the baby was napping and the two older children out running around, I opened my two gift boxes quietly in my room. My mother sent a shirt that I still wear, and my Katelyn sent a series of little beautiful things- multicolored post-its, a spiritual rock, some things that smelled good, a small leather pouch. The days bled into one another, though. Each year is not a separate stanza but sometimes a separate line, a small bump in the road. Thanks for the new topics. :wave:
Good morning, Mike!
I had read your post yesterday, but wanted to be able to give it the thought, time, and attention it required in response when I felt that I could escape the constant distractions that I feel from my children and husband. I’m very glad that you have decided to keep the blogring going!:sunny: I’m very new here, but I love the concept of this blogring, and feel badly that you feel it hasn’t achieved the expectations that you have for it. When I first figured out how things work here it was just after you had posted an entry to your own last topic. In other words, I read the topic and YOUR entry to that topic at the very same time and I felt a little intimidated–You are a very gifted writer, Mike! I love to write, but life interferes so often lately for me, and it really irritates me. The past month and 1/2 have been just HORRID for me. I had bronchitis, then pneumonia, broke my rib, my youngest had the flu, and then I got that to. Just soooo much illness on top of the normal day to day chaos that comes with being part of a family, and it’s been really taking it’s toll on me and my creative juices. I’ve fallen into that disturbing place where one just regurgitates their boring day on their xanga, and I don’t like it. I want and need more, and am on a quest to claw my way out of the hole I’ve placed myself in. Your topics provide a means for achieving this for me, and I thank you for providing them!:sunny: Perhaps I could even use the post I’d already written this morning as a response to the first topic– Anger management– though I didn’t at all address resolution to this anger that burns within me. Quite honestly I don’t know that there can be resolution for me:rolleyes:. My “anger” comes from feeling that my sense of self has been stifled by my role as a mother and wife…..to put it simply.:shysmile:
Congratulations on making F.C. You have disproved my theory which is that for the most part FC isn’t about quality, it is more about having a following, and very much has to do with how many sites you read and comment on (the more sites you hit the more comments you get in return). Any time that I have made F.C. it was never on a post that wasn’t a “fluff” post, and was never on something that I felt was a quality piece of writing……but again, you have just disproved this myth for me.:)
Have a great day!
Allright, in response to Topic 7:01, here is mine: http://www.xanga.com/ilsurvive/447851278/item.html.
I hope I’m doing this linking and such correctly. :shysmile:
The Island thingy scares and confuses me, but you seem like an interesting fellow. I’m somewhat of an aspiring writer. I say somewhat because I’m not going to college for it or anything, I just kind of write in my free time, and I say aspiring because I’m young and haven’t done all that much.
I don’t have much to say on anything but the “Set of Wheels” post. My car, which is my first, is an 1992 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Royale. It is affectionately nicknamed ‘The BattleWagon’. A friend of mine even wrote it on the hood. With Crisco. I’ve had it for about a year and a half, and I’ve washed it twice. Once was done by the high school colorguard. There’s dents and scratches all up and down it, and I clipped a post backing out of a parking spot, which popped a headlight out of place. I’ve rear-ended three cars (two were slippery conditions, and one some guy cut me off and deserved it) and I took out two mailbox’s with it in a snowstorm this year.
Nothing ever stops the BattleWagon. It’s never been out of commission for more than a couple hours, even though something has gone wrong with just about everything on it.
I love my first car, because it has always gotten me to where I need to go.
Oh, and drop me a line. You might need to explain that Island thing to me. I’d love to talk to you about writing and stuff, too.
Just wondering:
Ever get typer’s cramp?
End of wondering.
Sincerely,
Kaz
Thanks for the topic (s)…I’ll be sure to work on that for this weekend.. Hope you are doing well Mike.
…..just checking back in to see if anyone else addressed the topics so I could go and read/comment.:)
my post his here
http://www.xanga.com/prettynosyarentu/448054581/best-thing-since-sliced-bread.html
Mike – my post about the decades of my life (well for the moment about one decade of my life) is posted here
-Jeff
Good Evening Mike and thanks for the visit
Congrats on making featured I suspect it is not
the same as when I used to be there…and the
mention of dear Terry bought back some sweet memories
RYC: I really don’t have the technical know how that you possess
to put together what you have no doubt worked on for years (nor the patience)
I need to make the time to re-visit your site completely for it was always
such a joy to behold your genuis…keep up the great work Mike
Dear Group,
My Entry is POSTED.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
my post on anger is done
Diana
Hello, Mike! I posted my blog entry re: 7.02 regarding my fav auto-mobile! Check it out
http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?tab=weblogs&user=NanaLana&uid=448728169
Mike, I did II’s # 7.03, on decades–it’s posted!
http://www.xanga.com/soonaquitter/448456936/item.html
The Warrior-Wizard short recap of the Slices of Life is done
Mike, you were by, but forgot to put my name up for my Internet Island topic!
This is my first visit to your blog. I really enjoyed the video and found myself disappointed when it was over. Hope you don’t mind if I subscribe to you, you’re a very interesting person.
http://www.xanga.com/screaminginmyhead/449595418/item.html mine’s up
http://www.xanga.com/Silverthorn/449963644/internet-island-topic-701-anger-management-department-.html
it’s going to take me a few to figure out how this works. Blonde hair here! but, I did post something on my xanga site today. Come by and see my entry on 7.03: The Slices Of Life:
Hiya There Mike!!!! I posted about the writing assignment. Here is the link http://www.xanga.com/angelheart82/450050571/item.html Take care…Hugs…Amanda
Here’s my post! Set of Wheels: http://www.xanga.com/private/yourhome.aspx
Here’s my posting re: the car topic.
Ok, let me try again…here’s a post about the topic of My car.
Well, it took me awhile but it is here…slices of life
I decided to do a post on my favorite set of wheels also.
Diana
here is my entry: http://www.xanga.com/sportsgoddess/450539643/item.html
i did mine! http://www.xanga.com/sorrowfulheart/450552202/item.html
Here is my entry-
My Internet Island Topic Entry
. :wave:
Here’s my contribution to the Internet Island topic. Take care!
Mr. Mike,
I loved you topics, very nice. Here’s my post. Sorry it took so long. Hope all is well. peace out and take care.
Autumn
Wow… that poem is amazing…. love it!
Here is my post
My post is here.
I took the topic, and made it my own.
http://www.xanga.com/abbyndc/447705321/internet-island—cars-and-life-phases.html
Part one of what’s going to be a Mike-style epic 7.03. Enjoy
Bouree7.03.1
Hello Mike. Here is my post.
Kat