A Little Red Hen listed First 50 Words among her E for Excellence choices.
Several months back, CooknTcherMom also singled us out for the Thinking Blogger Award, and I was too busy to even mention it.
Thanks to A Little Red Hen and CooknTcherMom for the awards.
As for my choices, look in the blogroll. These are my nominees for best blogs.
I’m reading “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins. This book makes me mad as hell. Here’s proof of how American corporations have raped the planet and reduced many of it’s people to poverty as part of their normal business day. And been rewarded for it.
I know this book came out in 2004 and there was a whole lot of conversation about it at that time, but why isn’t anyone talking about it now? (John Edwards might be talking about it.)
Have we lost our understanding of how evil looks and . . .
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “mad as hell.”
I discovered a blog today that encourages a practice called “Sacred Life Sunday.” The practice suggests you take one day a week to celebrate the simple, sacred things in your life in some way. Just taking notice of them may be celebration enough. A few minutes of attention and appreciation can change your outlook, your attitude, your spiritual appreciation of life.
What could you do to celebrate sacred life Sunday?
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “Sacred Life.”
I went to the local used bookstore and stocked up on used paperback mysteries. I expected to be away from home for a while and decided it would be Mystery Month while I was vacationing. I love a good mystery. Oh, heck. I love a mediocre mystery.
I read all the stuff out in paperback by my favorites like Sue Grafton and Kathy Reichs while it was still in hardback. So the pickings from paperbacks have to be writers I don’t know or don’t keep up with in hardback. This is a crap shoot. Sometimes you find a really great new author you love. Sometimes you find someone so bad you wonder how they got published in the first place. Who are your favorites?
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “mystery month.”
See my whole entire story–a beginning, middle and end–today at the Elder Storytelling Place. If you have any comments about the story, please leave them there.
If you’d like to write 50 words of your own on the topic “laughing in loving” feel free to do that here.
I’ve been reading We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Morgan. I’ve had yearly reminders of Bataan because I’ve lived in New Mexico where there are events and memorial bridges honoring the soldiers who were there. But I’ve not read anything about the nurses who were there. This book is fascinating. If you have any interest in WWII history or merely in what a woman can overcome . . .
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “Bataan.”
Hey, yo, you there. Here’s a world changing website that will help you find your way to a bright, green future. Ya want a bright green future, don’tcha? Yeah, I thought you did. Well, read that stuff and you’ll find all kinds of ways that people are working to keep your world green. Your world. Uh huh.
The folks at world changing wrote a book, too. The call it World Changing: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century. It uses up 600 pages of recycled paper so it has what sure feels like a ton of good ideas for ways to keep this old world breathing and producing fresh water. Yo.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words on the topic “world changing.”
I know it appears that I haven’t posted in a few days, but yzed and I have been playing ping pong with the prompt “Animals Are” from May 5. 2006 for several days. You might enjoy reading our story or joining in.
Please leave a comment with your first 50 words about the topic “ping pong.”
