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Arte y pico: Thanks but no thanks

I’ve had the Arte y Pico Award bestowed on this  blog by crochetyoldmanyellsatcars

The Rules thanks to Arte y pico: www.arteypico.blogspot.com
Rules:
1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award, creativity, design, interesting material, and also contribuites to the blogger community, no matter of language.
2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.
3) Each award-winning, has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.
4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of “Arte y pico”blog , so everyone will know the origin of this award.
5) To show these rules.

Joe and I have discussed this and I’m now going to do the same thing I do with all memes. The first five bloggers, who have blogs that already appear on my link page, and who post a comment to this post are free to take their award and continue the meme.

As for me, once again I am begging my readers,  PLEASE do not include me in memes.

Hands up! it's a meme

I’ve been tagged by MusEditions to take part in a meme.
Rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it
– Omar Khayyam

This is perhaps the most famous verse of Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat, and with good reason- it is hard to think of any way in which it could possibly be improved. That’s one of the things I most like about short poems, actually – at their best, they can attain a self-contained, gemlike perfection that longer pieces are hard-pressed to match, and the Rubaiyat definitely take their place among the best of the breed.

1fingerpointing.JPGClick the image for the YouTube – Dorothy Ashby – The Moving Finger from the album “The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby”, Cadet label, 1970.

Dorothy was a pioneer in her day. She was compared to Alice Coltrane in her spiritual vibes, but in my opinion Dorothy’s song had more of a funk flavor and other artists were heavily inspired by her work. She has also been sampled by many Hip Hop artists.

Feedback
I know the intent of these memes is to get to know others better and to include an every increasing number in one’s circle of friends but, I truly dislike them. Whenever I am ‘tagged’ I feel as if someone is pointing a finger at me and expecting me to respond right (write) now. I also feel that being tagged implies that I won’t be considered to be a “good” person if I do not wish to participate and tag others. This runs against my grain for three reasons. I’m not under any obligation to blog, my face-to-face friends would never make such demands of me and, those readers, who are close to me communicate with me by means other than blog posts and comment boxes. I will not point the finger at 5 more victims but, if any of you below would like to volunteer to participate then, please do go for it and enjoy. :-)

Seven things about me meme

The Meme

  1. link to the person who tagged you
  2. share 7 random/weird things about yourself
  3. tag 7 ppl and make link to their blogs
  4. leave the comment to each person’s blogs, just to let them know that they have been tagged

I have been tagged by Richard to reveal seven things about myself so, here goes …

(1) I have two blogging “handles”.  My timethief blogging handle signifies that I have twice won my life back from the grim reaper. My brightfeather blogging handle comes from a memory I have as a four year old. I remember standing by a long row of pink, rose and wine colored hollyhocks and watching motionlessly as a hummingbird flew in and entered a flower just past my nose. A tiny red feather fell from the bird and landed on my moccasin.

(2) I prefer vegetarian food and the way to my heart is through my stomach (I love men who can cook).

(3) My favourite animal is the horse but I love all animals — domestic and wild.

(4) This summer I gave up being a bra-less hippy chick and became addicted to wearing expensive, lacy lingerie.

(5) I’m into aromatherapy and I love bubblebaths.

(6) I do not like wearing nail polish on my finger and toe nails.

(7) Regardless of the season, I always wear socks to bed.

I’m choosing not to tag any particular readers. Instead, I’m calling for volunteers.