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Down the Rabbit Hole

by MD Maurice

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing · #1197218

Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland

Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland

Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find...

"Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland

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Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Apr 28, 2025 at 12:08pm
In response to "April Showers and CG Jung "

Where do you live again, I've forgotten. I love the slow awakening of Spring too!

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Apr 24, 2025 at 11:22pm
In response to "Finding Solitude and Exercising with Word play"

Interesting use of the required words.

I agree that solitude isn't just for females. I see setting is important for both of us. This evening before the sun set, there were 6 cactus wrens playing in the birdbaths happily chattering and 2 hummingbirds buzzing around. It was so relaxing watching them.

Kåre เลียม Enga

Apr 24, 2025 at 4:23pm
In response to "Finding Solitude and Exercising with Word play"

I need solitude. I need connection.

In Montana I live alone. Too much ALONE. I am sitting at the Senior Center after lunch, after having connected; but, I need connection to everyday people of all ages and this is not enough.

When I travel I usually stay in hostels for the connection. If I need solitude I take a walk. Alleyways, parks, gardens... anything.

Basically, I can find both or tolerate either for a short period of time. A cruise would probably be too much. A cabin in the woods, too little.

Soldier_Mike

Apr 23, 2025 at 10:27pm
In response to "The Ocean Giveth and Taketh..."

The thought of all those people being plunged into freezing waters hundreds and hundreds of miles from land is just horrible.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Apr 22, 2025 at 11:00pm
In response to "The Courage of a Teacher's Advice "

That's so cool your teacher's book made Oprah's list. Writing what we know makes us stronger.

"I think it you are boasting about how brave you are, you are likely trying to convince yourself more than others." So true!

Joy

Apr 22, 2025 at 2:09pm
In response to "The Courage of a Teacher's Advice "

Very nice entry and so smart!
"I think it you are boasting about how brave you are, you are likely trying to convince yourself more than others."
Yup, you said it!

Dorianne

Apr 21, 2025 at 6:16pm
In response to "The Ocean Giveth and Taketh..."

To the writer about the Titanic. I think that your observation of things that impresses you was right on. Of all the people who got passage on that ship, they became similar in that they all died. That was sad. But then there were heroes who gave up their places to unfortunate ones to go on in life and touching other parts of history.
I wonder if I would give up my place. I will never know. I also have a newspaper clipping of the 4 chaplains who gave their life jackets to a military man when a ship was sunk during a war. These men were of different religions but showed their feelings and love of God by this act. Not too many people know of that.
There are probably mention of other acts of courage and sacrifice that will never be mentioned. I just know that people do strange and unexpected things when the time comes. The Titanic might be considered one of those.
Thank you for sharing.

Apondia

Apr 11, 2025 at 3:39pm
In response to "The Ocean Giveth and Taketh..."

Don't like the Titanic. Have an irrational dislike because it was described as an unsinkable ship and sunk on its' first voyage. Upset by the amount of people who died on an unsinkable vessel. Told you it was irrational dislike.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Apr 10, 2025 at 11:47pm
In response to "The Ocean Giveth and Taketh..."

I remember how sad I felt seeing the quarters for the less fortunate versus the wealthy in the movie because like you reading about it didn't impact me. I don't think the history books really paint the picture as vividly as they should.
I agree with you about human arrogance, nothing is invincible.

Lyn's a Witchy Woman

Apr 9, 2025 at 10:40pm
In response to "Oceans and Overcorrections "

It's good to see you blogging again.

Like your friend, I'm very concerned about human rights, finances, healthcare and my grandchildren's future. I'm not getting around enough yet with the knee, but I am bombarding my representatives with phone calls, and letters.
I hope to be at the next protest on April 19th. (I had knee replacement)

November 7, 2018 at 9:12am

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Pantser - Guilty as Charged!

"Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"
Day 1787 November 7, 2018
Prompt: There are two kind of writers: plotters and pantsers. Plotters outline, planning their beginning, middle and ending. Pantsers don't write first drafts. They fly by the seat of their pants. Are you a plotter or a pantser?

I am by all accounts a pantser. I would love to have the organization and the discipline to be a plotter but I just do not possess either of those traits when it comes to my writing. When I have an idea, I tend to bust through it, writing in a great initial bursts for as long as I can. I do go back and edit my drafts but I do not usually change it or revise it in any meaningful way that would make it an official "first draft". It is something I feel I need to work on as a writer. I need to develop more discipline and take the time to plan out the pieces so that when I run out of steam, I have somewhere to pick up and go back to.

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November 7, 2018 at 8:56am

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Green - Nov 7th

30-Day Blog Challenge Nov 7th
Wednesdays are the days I get to pull a prompt from the “Challenge War Chest!” These are prompts that have been suggested by bloggers over the years. Today’s prompt is: The color green. What do you associate with the color green and how does it make you feel?

Green is a color of dichotomy for me. It represents the new, bright growth of new grass and the daffodils that break from the soil in early Spring, their green tips a harbinger of warmer weather to come. It is also the color I associate with greed and envy. Green has a connection to dirty money, to jealous rumblings in the gut and to the creeping excess of the obscenely wealthy.

The color reminds of Kermit the Frog. I grew up watching the Muppet Show and was a huge fan of Kermit's sweet nature and flailing arms. I had a stuffed doll that accompanied me most places in the way some children carry around a security blanket. It is also the signature color of Wicked's famed Elphaba, another character that captured my fascination. I saw the Broadway production of Wicked at the Gershwin in New York City with Idina Menzel playing Elphaba against Kristin Chenoweth's Glinda. Menzel's rendition of "Deflying Gravity" brought me to actual tears.

Green is a problematic color when picking exterior paint for the aircraft we sell. Green, in all its variations, does not have a wide appeal to potential aircraft owners and using it in any scheme tends to translate into an aircraft overstaying it's time in inventory. It makes the list of colors we steer very clear from when designing aircraft paint schemes. Perhaps buyer's subconsciously associate the color green with nausea? We can't sure sure but we play it safe and avoid it.

Overall the color green reminds me of my daughter's eyes. Her eyes are a sea-change shade of green, somewhere between a deep Jade and a smoky gray. There is no relative alive or in recent memory, who has possessed such eyes. My husband and I are convinced that somewhere along one of our bloodlines resides an ancestor who is responsible for those unusual peepers.

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