February 22, 2006

• Internet Island Topic Post 7.00

  INTERNET ISLAND TOPIC POST 7.00

  Open House

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  A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT CARTOONS AND MUSLIMS (Revised from… Total eProps: 40 | Total Comments: 25 Posted by baldmike2004 – 2/21/2006 at 11:05 PM

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  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.

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  YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU!

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  “Decades”
  Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri

  Tuesday, April 12, 2005
  6:17 a.m. PDT

  The 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)

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