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Writings in the Sand

by Ned

Rated: 13+ · Book · Entertainment · #2199980

Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life.

I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance?

I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them.

Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog.

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Beholden

Oct 10, 2025 at 10:40am
In response to "Another bad-tempered rant as I resist the inevitable"

All my life I have talked to inanimate objects. And now, when they can at last answer back, I find that they're all idiots.

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Maid of the Mist Most Macabre

Oct 8, 2025 at 10:41am
In response to "Another bad-tempered rant as I resist the inevitable"

Just think what the Monty Python crew could do with an AI sketch.

ᗷαᛠᛠy~ᗷθθҽyҽʐ

Oct 8, 2025 at 9:39am
In response to "Another bad-tempered rant as I resist the inevitable"

"AI is grooming us"

I felt so much calmer before I read that ...

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Ned

Oct 7, 2025 at 1:56pm
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

🦉 Owl-oween: 23 yrs WDC!

I don't seem to be writing. Just writing what is necessary to complete the daily streak requirements. Eventually that leads to feeling unfulfilled. And MBs lose a bit of their shine.

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🦉 Owl-oween: 23 yrs WDC!

Oct 7, 2025 at 1:42pm
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

Sometimes I feel like a prisoner to those streaks!

After reading your post, I just might take a break, too. We are going on a fall color trip next week. Maybe I'll do it then...I don't know. I'm finding I am not spending the time on my writing as I'd like to. So much is going on in RL, too, right now.

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Ned

Oct 6, 2025 at 11:45am
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

Beholden

I am a great believer in freedom.

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Ned

Oct 6, 2025 at 11:43am
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

Maid of the Mist Most Macabre

I watch the cheesy Christmas movies because they have snow and twinkly lights. Plot don't come into it. I don't watch any that are set in warm climates or down under. I like lots of snow. I watch lots of Christmas movies year round, like Miracle on 34th Street and last year I watched seven different film versions of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In fact, I just reread A Christmas Carol over the weekend for a brief online literature course. I might have to go put up the tree...

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Maid of the Mist Most Macabre

Oct 6, 2025 at 11:28am
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

For me, those cheesy Christmas movies, and their close cousins the romance genre offerings evoke feelings of dread. Too many share the same predictable plot and outcomes. My spouse is enamored of them. I get it. Not every day is an occasion to streak.

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Beholden

Oct 6, 2025 at 10:14am
In response to "I didn't mean to do it"

I was recently forced to break my streaks through a period in hospital. When I came out, I decided that I didn't want to remain in thrall to merit badges anymore. So I took my time and fancy in picking up on a few of them. Pretty soon I was doing what I wanted, when I wanted, and feeling much better for it. I still have days when I do 'em all and weeks when I crack the lot. But now I don't care and really enjoy those days when I think, "Nah, not today."

Freedom!

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Ned

Oct 4, 2025 at 6:58pm
In response to "Coffee for Rent?"

PNGravebound- 📓

Thats a reasonable explanation for the name. But four cans is not enough, no matter how small the apartment.

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September 14, 2025 at 6:00am

#1097328

About Hate

Jesus says that if you hate your brother, you are already a murderer in your heart. If so, then who is innocent?

If you say you’ve never hated anyone, even if it was just for a moment, I don’t believe you.

But, in terms of a free society, do I have the right to stop you from hating anything or anyone?

I just want to state up front that I am aware that there are people who hate me. I do not believe they should be killed for this.

It seems that the biggest crime anyone can commit is to disapprove of whatever another person thinks or believes. Differences of opinion are now "hate". Challenging someone’s beliefs is now so heinous that killing that person is considered a reasonable response.

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