Tag: dailyprompt

If I didn’t sleep, and sleep off unregulated fantasy and vision, I might create. I might!!!!!!! But that is not for many: so I enjoy my sleep instead.

November 17, 2024

The Sleep Foundation (at this link and not related to the commercial ‘infographic’ above) gives seven reasons why we need sleep. They are given below without the trusted sources of information that their web page does have (I have given a link above) to the scientific evidence behind some of these claims. Sleep is needed, … More If I didn’t sleep, and sleep off unregulated fantasy and vision, I might create. I might!!!!!!! But that is not for many: so I enjoy my sleep instead.

… to sleep, / To Sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! (‘Hamlet’, Act 3, Scene 1, lines 72 – 73) – and a prompt question!

November 15, 2024

What part of your routine do you always try to skip if you can? … to sleep, / To Sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! Hamlet Act 3, Scene 1, lines 72 – 73). [1] Iris Murdoch had long before written her wonderful novel based on the model of Hamlet, The Black Prince, … More … to sleep, / To Sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub! (‘Hamlet’, Act 3, Scene 1, lines 72 – 73) – and a prompt question!

‘So cool that it was mint’ but you can’t EVER keep it.

November 14, 2024

What’s the coolest thing you’ve ever found (and kept)? So cool that it was mintWhen found, my hand lost warmth,Until in sharing heatThe feel of it was hot.Nothing ever will keepIts cool so long withoutSome cold sad heart to seepIts freezing thought intoMutual desire,andLeave it at last alone. The temperature of loveWill never be its … More ‘So cool that it was mint’ but you can’t EVER keep it.

In honour of MacDiarmid’s standing on a Raised Beach on Raasay. (1)

November 13, 2024

A beach is but a plateau on the edgeOf mountains in the sea, whose base extendsDown falling slowly through the upward forceOf water into deep chasms of time.A poet praised raised beaches because theyStood up to mark an earlier surfaceOf time’s causation of interactiveTardy play between dry solid ground and wetFluidity of chance and Change. … More In honour of MacDiarmid’s standing on a Raised Beach on Raasay. (1)

‘Krapp’s  Last Podcast’, with apologies to Samuel Beckett.

November 12, 2024

What podcasts are you listening to? I desperately want to see this production A late evening in the future.THUS THE STAGE DIRECTION READS.To show you that the podcast to which IListen is probably that I’m making,Is probably that I hear in my playIn that future, where the true present lies. Krapp listens hard in the … More ‘Krapp’s  Last Podcast’, with apologies to Samuel Beckett.

All the benefits of Daisy, so much more than ‘a pet’, come from ‘being with’ and relating to her; not to possessing her.

November 11, 2024

What is good about having a pet? The NIH (National Institute of Heath) USA wheel graphic on the benefits of having a pet Here I go again – harping on about the reification and commodification of everything  that matters in life. Basically, I do  it because the culture out of which WordPress prompts arise is … More All the benefits of Daisy, so much more than ‘a pet’, come from ‘being with’ and relating to her; not to possessing her.

Why do we define the personal by the items that you considerable yourself capable of financing? It is a pernicious way of reducing the person to the status of a commodity.

November 10, 2024

Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car). Now the prompts from WordPress recycle and fresh questions do not appear, I have to answer the ones I rejected answering the first time round. Times like now when I have no project blogs ready to go, I pick apart the … More Why do we define the personal by the items that you considerable yourself capable of financing? It is a pernicious way of reducing the person to the status of a commodity.

‘Screen time’. Another red herring of an issue in a world where time is seen as a commodity for consumption.

October 29, 2024

Who would have thought that ‘screen time’ is a phrase that could be discussed on Wikipedia but it is!. That discussion focuses on the bad effects on the developmental physical and mental health of children but adults are considered as in this extract, which makes the point that screen time for adults is divided between … More ‘Screen time’. Another red herring of an issue in a world where time is seen as a commodity for consumption.

A whimsical response from Old Father William to being asked his ‘favourite form of physical exercise’, implicitly at least, by his son.

October 20, 2024

My lovely husband who is 83 is ill of the lurgy-thing I seemed to be sloughing off, as I approach 70 next Friday. I  am in the guest bed trying to let him rest and not able to sleep. I hope using a nonsense poem he loves from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  to answer this … More A whimsical response from Old Father William to being asked his ‘favourite form of physical exercise’, implicitly at least, by his son.

Supporting the negative risks in positive risk-taking is working collaboratively and in the interest of all.

October 18, 2024

Would this man have jumped if you knew the sea contained underground rocks and dangerous currents, or if he did not know there were emergency services to redeem what to him was personal failure? When I worked in mental health roles in both or either NHS and social work roles the concept of positive risk-taking … More Supporting the negative risks in positive risk-taking is working collaboratively and in the interest of all.

The living deadness of the static ‘I’ infects our pride in self.

October 14, 2024

Joseph Addison Anyone who attempts this question will soon get caught in a trap, for the first word of their answer will be their downfall: ‘I am most proud of …….’, they start and then describe a quality of their personality or appearance in the world, or perhaps some past action undertaken that they feel … More The living deadness of the static ‘I’ infects our pride in self.

A perhaps-too-bitter little poem about fanciful giving.

October 13, 2024

If you had a million dollars to give away, who would you give it to? If all I had was mine to give away,I might give it. My choice,left with nothingTo be or not to be: being alone,Not having, might be solely my purposeWere life ever to be that abstract thingSuch questions tend to assume … More A perhaps-too-bitter little poem about fanciful giving.