“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
— Carl Jung
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I’m happy to announce that I now have 700 followers at Top of JC’s Mind!
Of course, the usual caveats apply. Some people get counted twice if they follow my page on Facebook as well as following on WordPress. Or if they follow my twitter. Or also subscribe directly by email.
I also know that there are people who read my posts without being official followers. I am sometimes taken by surprise when a friend will mention something that they read in one of my posts. It’s a reminder that followers and readers are not the same thing. While I know that only a small fraction of my 700 followers read any particular post, there are readers who are not followers who read every post I put out.
Whether you are a follower, a regular reader, or someone visiting Top of JC’s Mind for the first time, thank you so much for sharing in my blog. I couldn’t do it without you!
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This post is part of Linda’s Steam of Consciousness Saturday. This week’s prompt was to begin the post with a contraction. Join us! Find out how here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/02/19/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-2016/
“Lobbying physics is useless; it just keeps on doing what it does.”
~ ~ Bill McKibben on dealing with climate change from this article: http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/02/16/why-we-need-to-keep-80-percent-of-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground/ about keeping the vast majority of fossil fuels undisturbed.
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And enjoy our new One-Liner Wednesday badge! Congrats, Wes, on your awesome design!
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Are you a fan of Linda’s One-Liner Wednesday? Vote for the first ever badge for the series. You don’t have to be a participant to cast your vote. Join in the fun!
All the entries are in and now it’s time to vote for our new One-Liner Wednesday Badge! The badge that wins will be displayed here on prompt day and everywhere there is a One-Liner Wednesday post published for at least the next year to come, so vote carefully. Anyone, whether you participate in the prompt or not, can vote.
I’ll name them all to make it easier for voting purposes. Please make sure you look at all of them before you cast your vote. Here are the contestants in order according to when they entered:
Willow, with “Typewriter” https://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2016/02/09/one-liner-wednesday-badge-call-for-submissions/
Dean Kealy, with “Splashes on Purple” http://deankealy.com/2016/02/10/one-liner-wednesday-badge-design/
John Holton, with “White on Blue” https://thesoundofonehandtyping.wordpress.com/2016/02/10/rip-dan-hicks-1linerweds/ (it’s at the bottom of the post)
KG, with “1W” https://booksmusicandmovies.wordpress.com/2016/02/13/two-prompts-in-one-post/
Pamela, with “Squiggly Line” http://butterflysand.com/2016/02/13/design-contest/
Wes, with “Quotes” http://nearlywes.com/2016/02/14/one-liner-wednesday-badge-submission/
And Dan Antion, with “Clouds and Contrails” http://nofacilities.com/2016/02/14/one-liner-wednesday-badge/
The poll will close on Tuesday, February 16th, 2016…
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I often subscribe by email to comment threads on other blogs so that I don’t miss replies.
I just checked my email and found that a whole bunch of those emails got shunted to my junk folder at the same time that many others landed correctly in my inbox.
Weird.
I am really tired. I got up at 3:45 AM because I have a cold and started coughing.
And I am too tired now, forty-five minutes later, to write much of anything cogent.
I doubt I’m going to catch a nap later, so SoCS is going to be short and sweet.
Not quite as short and sweet as One-Liner Wednesday, but close.
Well, close on the short side. Not on the sweet.
Did I mention I am really tired?
Wishing everyone a good weekend. I hope that no one else has a cold or is tired…
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Linda’s prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday this week is “tire” – alone or as prefix or suffix. Join us! Find out how here: http://lindaghill.com/2016/02/12/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-feb-1316/
In honor of my new email address for Top of JC’s Mind, I have updated my About page.
I wish I could say that I was also drafting exciting new posts and poems, but I am coming down with a cold and not trusting myself with anything that takes a lot of brainpower.
It finally dawned on me that I should have an email account for Top of JC’s Mind, so I just set up a gmail account.
The address is topofjcsmind@gmail.com.
Not very original, but it makes sense.
Now, I just have to remember to check it periodically!
I’m guessing that most people will prefer to leave comments as usual, but there is now a way to reach me that is not public, if you so choose.
Please don’t flood me with messages just to see how long it takes me to notice or respond! 😉
~ Joanne
“I would love to live like a river flows….carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”
~ John O’Donohue
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As a blogger from the United States, I feel obligated to post on the Super Bowl yesterday.
Even though I am not a football fan or inclined to party over sporting events…
So, here are my impressions.
Why did the National Football League ignore its usual habit of counting the Super Bowl in Roman numerals? It should have been billed as Super Bowl L, not Super Bowl 50.
The one thing about the game I was looking forward to was Lady Gaga singing the National Anthem. She has a beautiful voice and did a really good job singing our not-easy-to-sing anthem. I appreciated that she had a piano so she had some grounding for pitch in the inhospitable environment of the football stadium.
After that, I would just have soon watched the news or something stashed on the DVR, but B decided to watch the first half and half-time show. I paid more attention to my email inbox than to the game, which seemed to be proceeding with quite a lot of fumbling and flags being thrown. I learned a couple of penalties that I didn’t know existed.
At 9:00, we got a break from the game to watch Downton Abbey. That was fun!
We switched back over to the game and watched to the end. So Peyton Manning and Denver, the more experienced team, beat the Carolina Panthers, making their second ever franchise appearance in a Super Bowl. That made sense.
One reason many people watch the Super Bowl is to see the advertisements, which are sometimes clever and innovative. I admit that there were not many that drew my attention this year. My hands-down favorite was Dame Helen Mirren telling the public in no uncertain terms how despicable it is to drive drunk.
That is the most important message that I hope people received from the game.
Joanne Corey 