“Black appears to be your favorite color, Mr.President?” The journo wanted to end the conversation on a lighter personal note. “Yes. It’s formal, it’s dark, it’s distant and honest.” “Honest?” “I’ve never understood why Devils wear a red tie.” https://katmyrman.com/2019/07/16/twittering-tales-145-16-july-2019/
Indira’s views on our responsibility towards environment and an impending water crisis ….
Reena’s Exploration Challenge #95
PROMPT
There are two words given below, with the meaning. Choose any one and write a piece encapsulating the spirit. It is not necessary that the word appears in your piece unless you want to include it. You are brilliant if you can include both.
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I found myself on the psychiatrist’s couch. The person sitting opposite me spoke more like a judge than doctor. “You suffer from eleutheromania.” “How did you arrive at that conclusion – whatever that word means?” “I’ve heard what your family has to say about your rebellious nature and lack of discipline?” “But you haven’t bothered … Continue reading Free
I wonder if anybody would notice my absence if I disappeared. They are busy searching for a meaning of life on their screens, or trying to forget what they don’t like about their lives – and that could include me. Do I really care? I evade the question. I need a roof on my head, … Continue reading Companions
Save VJ from going under the rock 🙂 “Utterly redonculous” by VJ Knutson
Looking for a rock at present,
preferably a boulder,
might dig myself a cave
and await resurrection
sacrilegious, I know,
but the tasks are overwhelming
and the words – just too much!
I mean, eleutheromania?
The mere utterance enough
to make me run for cover
and now I am to believe
that pulchritrudinous
equates with utter beauty –
oh my raspy voice
stumbles over the words
as brain loudly protests.
Too much, I say –
will have to save creativity
for another day
Meantime,
I’ll be under
that rock.
(Prompts today elicited irreverence: Reena’s Exploration challenge – see for yourself; and Ragtag Community’s unusual word; slightly tamed by Fandango’s “raspy“. )
a wistful bud hoped for hospitable ground to just bloom somewhere it failed – stayed solitary was hailed as the desert rose https://frankjtassone.com/2019/07/13/haikai-challenge-94-7-13-19-desert-rose-haiku-senryu-haibun-tanka-haiga-renga/
“Why does it look hungry for more?” “There are many more in the air.” What are you two talking about? Silence. Two days later, there is another storm which breaks all records. There appears to be a vortex, which sucks everything around it. Trees fall, buildings crash. The strangest phenomenon is several large bird-like creatures … Continue reading It happens …
Asphyxiation …. Suffocation ….. choking feeling in the throat. She could never find the exact word for the feeling. But this is how she felt all her life with the negativity and pessimism around her. They are all well-meaning, highly respected people in their social and professional spheres, but who lack the capacity to imagine … Continue reading Asphyxiated
Acatalepsy … by Jade Li
Source:https://www.adventureinyou.com/
I went out and did a little reading and found info at wikipedia (my favorite learning destination). It talks about the philosophy of the Stoics, who believed that truth could be absolutely apprehended, which is katalepsis. There was an “opposing” group called The Academics, who believed this was not true, and called it acatalepsis. From wiki:
The Academics responded to the Stoic theory of katalepsis with the following syllogism:
1.There are true and false impressions (phantasiai).
2.False impressions are non-kataleptic
3.True impressions are always such that false impressions could appear identical to them.
4.Among impressions with no perceptible difference between them, it is impossible for some to be kataleptic and others not.
5.Therefore, there are no kataleptic impressions.
Acatalepsy in philosophy is incomprehensibleness.
One way I think the theories of katalepsis and acatalepsis fall short as a philosophy is their assumption of one definition of knowing a…
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Read about an outstanding personality in this piece ..
Dieynaba Sidibe. Photo: Ricci Shryock/ONE
How do people react when they learn that she’s Senegal’s first female graffiti artist? Do they grimace because they believe that women shouldn’t paint or do they applaud her for following her passion?
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This is based on Dieynaba Sidibe, Senegal’s first female graffiti artist. Through her artistic expression, Dieynaba wanted to show solidarity for women, because “all women, everywhere, whether they are fishmongers, graffiti artists or office workers, we are all fighters. Women are fighting to be free to do what they want, to do work that pleases them, to be paid equally to men, and to follow their passion.”
If you want to read more about her, click Here.
This was written for the Weekend Writing Prompt by Sammi Cox. For instructions, click Here.
