Comments off, again.....

I'm making my field of vision smaller.   Keeping my eyes on what I can see around me. Beyond my field of vision, I have no ability to influence anything.  

But beyond my field of vision, there are so, so, so many things, I can become embroiled in.  And become worried about.  And become upset about.   And have my head almost "explode," over.

And thus, hurt my own health.

And at this time of life, I simply can't afford to hurt my own health.  Can't...  

So I am turning Comments off again...  Then I don't have to "worry" about offending anyone, by not coming here, and vetting comments and publishing them.  And by not visiting others.

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I award myself, a GOLD STAR!!!! :-)))

Autumn advertising...  Already....   Oh I suppose stores are full of back-to-school stuff.  But I don't go into stores, except when I need something.  So I haven't seen it.  But here came the on-line Victorian Trading Co. mail.  And silly me, it caught me off guard. 

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Then again, why am I surprised at Autumn selling?  The Black Eyed Susans are beginning to bloom.  And they are a late Summer into Fall flower.

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Getting a "lot of mileage" out of these lovely Tuberous Begonias in the big pot, on the front step...  :-)   We always put these flowers, in this pot, and they always thrive.  This is facing North, and does not get hardly any direct sunlight.  It stays quite moist.  They just love it!

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There!!!  I award myself a Gold Star.

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Comments Off, for the time being...... :-)

July is already busy.  And I am not here, as much as previously.  So for now, I'm turning off comments.  Then I won't feel bad, about letting comments go unpublished, etc.  But I can still pop in and post, from time to time!!! 

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I still "feel guilty", when I don't read/comment on the blogs of others, too.  So this plan, will eliminate that, as well.  :-) 
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Happy, happy, happy........

.I've been a bit 'down'...  The last few hours...   Silly me, I know...  Nothing really, to be 'down' about.

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But just now, I found that an awaited blog, has begun posting again.  And I am so happy.  :-))))

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And I'd love to share the name and link of this lovely blog, with you.  I actually have done so before.  But she wasn't back to posting, then.  And now she is!!!!   Happy day!

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Please take a minute, to use this link, and pop over and take a peek.  You won't be disappointed. 

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"We now return you, to your regularly scheduled programing...."

Yes, "We now return you, to your regularly scheduled programing...."

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After so much of my "inner life," revealed in posting here, I figure readers would like some quiet, simple, no personal views, no personal angst, etc., etc., etc., in my posting.

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And I can do that!!!!!  I can post flowers, with the best of them!  ,-)   For a lot of us, flowers are taking up a lot of our time and attention.  Because this growing season, in the Northern Hemisphere, is not so very long. 

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We know that almost in-the-blink-of-an-eye, Autumn will come.  Beautiful and wonderful though Autumn be, it makes us think ahead, to winter.  Brrrrr.... 

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So there are now, a whole lot of flowers on our minds...  Finding them, planting them, watering them, and just plain old enjoying looking at them.

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And an all year enjoyment for me, is "Victoria" magazine.   Just look at the beauty shown, on these covers!!!!!   Can't help but bring a smile to the face.

And a smile to the face, is something to grab, and enjoy, and hold on to.    There are always big or little frowns, lurking....   So grab whatever makes you happy and smile.  Notice it!  Fully enjoy it!  Don't let any of the Nice Things, pass you by.  Without your full attention.  :-)  In my humble opinion, that is.
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It started, with a comment.............. :-)

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On my last post, I received a comment...  A lovely comment, by a lovely  blogger.  I want to stress this.  A lovely comment, by a lovely blogger.

The post was about having a baddddd dream, and knowing that it was a "message" from my body.  Trying to get my attention!  For the fact that I was allowing myself to become wayyyy toooooo upset, by just about everything.  Something I knew, but had not acted on, yet.

But after that dream, I had no choice but to pay attention.  To make a decision, to stop "riling myself up" and raising my blood pressure, all the time.  Which is simply common sense and wisdom.  And I have tried to put this, into action, the rest of Thursday.  Good For Me!!!!!!!

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And Susie, being the sweet and caring person she is, commented to me;   "Cast your cares upon Him, for He careth for you. :)"

Now usually, I'd just let that pass.  Understanding that it came from a nice person, who figured that her views, would be of comfort to me.  As they would be, to the majority of Pretty Blog Land.

But I am not among the majority of Pretty Blog Land.  And something just "happened"...  :-))))))

So I will copy and paste below, the rest of my comment back to her.  Thus being very brave, and possibly turning off the majority of my Dear Readers.  :-))))

Susie commented; "Cast your cares upon Him, for He careth for you. :)"

And I wrote back;
Nope! None of that, for me. After 60, I give myself permission to Question my religion. Then spent years, studying and thinking and finding my own way.  Coming to no belief here, in ancient texts, which have been changed and interpreted, for 200 years. With some parts of which, based on beliefs, which go back even further.

Did you know who first came up with the concept, of a Force For Good anddddd a Force For Evil????? Zoraster! Who lived in the eastern part of the Iranian Plateau, somewhere in the 11th or 10th century BCE.

And many cultures, around the world, have the myths of the Virgin Birth, Savior, etc.

People brought up in a religion, don't want to look. Or question. Or think on such things. They are comfortable, and don't want to "rock the boat."  Which is fine for them!!!!!!

Whereas I was never comfortable, being a Roman Catholic. I wanted to question, even when I was told it was sinful, to question. By the age of 60, I finally gave myself permission. Finally!!!!!!! Oh Happy Day!

Wow, I am actually saying these things, in a comment, in my blog!!!!   :-)))  Can you imagine how BRAVE that is, of me??? To do so????!!!! The majority of Pretty Blog Land, is Christian. And so, if one isn't, one keeps one's mouth shut.

Did you ever know that???? Did you know that Christians can blog their views, all over their blogs????? But if a non-believer did so, they take the chance of "turning readers off"?

Oh yes!!!!! Listen and learn! We usually keep our mouths shut. But sometimes, we just can't, any longer.

Sooooo, if I got brave, and put this in comments, why not get fully brave, and put my views in a post?!?!?! I-just-may-do-that!!!!!!

I appreciate your good wishes, Susie!!! I do! I do! I do! But I just couldn't "keep quiet" any longer.

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And so.....   Regardless of what happens, after this post....  I am doing it.  Jumping out of my "Safe Boat," into the "Waters of Speaking What I Happen To Think."  Thus throwing caution to the winds.  Yes, I know, that sounds overly dramatic.  But, if one has blogged for as many years as I have, and 'kept my mouth shut,'  it is like throwing caution to the winds.  

But wow!  It feels good out here!!!!  Sailing unknown waters.  With the wind in my hair and the steering wheel, securely in my own hand.

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"June Is Busting Out All Over...."

June may be "busting out all over," but Blogger seems to be "busting," just to try to keep up.

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Had a terrible time, trying to change my blog look....  And now, the photos here, took "forever" to load...   ?????????

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Is anyone else, finding Blogger S-L-O-W today?????

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"Sorry......." "Nothing much, going on here............"

Guess I should begin with.....   "Sorry, there's nothing deep here..."  No soul searching, or brilliant views of the world in general...   No out of place comments on another country's political life.   Not really much, in the way of photos, even.  Just flowers at a Garden Place...   And some fabric, I got....  No deep thoughts.   

Nope, nothing much  going on here.  Just same old, same old blogging......
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And btw, I am not referring to "The Dark Side of The Broom" here.  If I could write like she does, I'd be writing reams, every single day.  !!!!!!!!!!  I love how she writes!!!!!

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Just, some wild material I got today.  And it is destined for a silly place, for wild material.   But hey!   It's my home.  I can do as I wish.  >,-)

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Mmmmm, is Mercury in retrograde or something???  Things/people "tick-me-off" big time.   I have been ready to "fly"!  For a couple of days.  With or without my broom!!!

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How to emabrace a not-so-sunny-day... :-))))

It is gray today....

The sun was struggling to peek through the clouds and the trees...

But I found a lovely little bunch of wild violets....

I will try to embrace the gray and overcast day, as Guinever von Sneeden does.  She loves a gray and misty day. :-)  Above is a screen capture of her lovely site.  

A delight for the senses...   Even with lovely music, to accompany her delightful little videos.  :-)

If she can love a day like this, she can show me how to do so also.  We can't have bright, sunny days, all the time.  And yes, they do make us feel more perky.  Well, most of us that is.  :-)   I'm sure she is not the only one, who embraces less sunny days.

Please, do  visit her, by clicking here.  Her life is very different than mine.   Than many.   But it's a delightful place to pop into.  It's really "another world."  She actually does live "in a Faerie Tale."  :-)))))

She also had a lovely blog (Slender Nettles), but has not updated it, in a few weeks.  With luck, she will begin again, there.  But meantime, there is the link I leave, above.  Where you can pop in, for daily delights.  :-)))))

Please and thank you....

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How do you view........?

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How do you view blogs?   

On a computer?  

A tablet?  

A cell phone?  

Please and thank you.

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A topic, which never grows old...... ,-)

How we interact in social media???  The topic never grows old.  Because there are always new forms of social media, to become enamored of.  And someone is always saying, that blogging is dying.  Etc.  Etc.  Etc.

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The only forms I am in, are blogging and IG.  And I do see the lure and fun, of IG.  A quick picture...  A bit about it..  Maybe just Good Morning, or Good Night...  And you are posted.

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Then you visit your lovely IG-found-friends, and click on "Like".  Or click on "Like" and also leave a short little "comment", and your IG time is done.  Quick, easy, covering all the bases of interaction, in social media.  It is a nice place.  

But for me, thoughts and words (and a couple of pretty pictures), have always been my first love.  Blogging is the place, for that.  Of course you can only leave a picture and a few words, or a quote, in blogging too...  And have a post.  A quick post, by the way.   Which seems more and more the norm, of people's busy lives.  And I have been falling into that rut.  Quick.  Not daily.  So no one has to spend too much time, here.

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But, if thoughts/words are my first choice, why not indulge in them?  It's my blog.  If people want to take the time, to read...  Wonderful.   If not, that's fine too.  I am not running a popularity contest here.  I am not selling anything.  Numbers should not make any difference.  Doing what I want to do, with my blog, should be the norm.

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And now, what are your views on this whole topic, of interaction in social media?  You must have views.  You are  in social media right now, with reading here.  :-)  Will you please share, with us?   Please and thank you.

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Living in a dream...Living in reality....

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Who wouldn't want to live in that cottage, near the woods, above.....?   And wake and wander through a misty morning field...?

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But I think that most of us, wake to morning coffee, some form of the news (even if it is reading blogs on the Net), and perhaps eating an unhealthy breakfast.  NO!  Not everyone!  I really make my self eat properly, these days!  :-))))
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Wanna' see someone who does live in a magical stone cottage, near trees?  And who loves to wander, in the mist?  And who dresses, as in another time?  Do you?  :-)  Of course you do!!!!!  :-))))
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Just follow "these bread crumbs" and they will take you to a magical blog...
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And "follow these bread crumbs" and they will take you to her  Instagram...

And these breadcrumbs will take you to pictures of her magical stone cottage, near the woods.

Lovely photos of her cat.....
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And photos of her beloved large bunny, "Oliver Winterbottom"...  Who sadly recently died.  But last weekend she got 2 more rescued big bunnies, to love.
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I hope you have enjoyed this peek, into a unique lifestyle.  :-) 
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And now I must admit, that this nasty cold, has this "olden gal" tired out.   So I will take a nap.
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I hope to soon be able to visit and comment in your blogs, again!  :-)))))
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Blogging muse..... Flown away.... Again.....

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My blogging muse seems to have flown away, again.............

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I seem to only have pretty pictures, to put in my blog entries....

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I don't like to have bloggers simply "go missing" in blog land.  If they are busy, or away, or have simply lost their blogging muse...  I like them to tell me.  :-)

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And so, I say this here.  So no one will worry about me.  So you will know that I'm just lacking my blog writing muse.  -sigh-   Often, when I say she is missing, she comes back again.  Perhaps this will happen, this time.  :-)

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Blog Rating...????????

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Blog Rating...  Have you heard of this?  I just saw it, in this blog.  She was complaining about such blog ratings.  And I certainly agree with her. 

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Do Blog Lists, now show blogs-you-follow, by ranking???

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