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A New Room
How do you see this room? A new year is starting soon and it's a time to start fresh. So, in this empty room I see plenty of bookshelves and a big comfy chair of some kind. There will be one big, braided rug of either shades of browns or blues or even greens not sure yet along with a few scatter rugs for effect. There will be a floor lamp behind the comfy chair and maybe an ottoman in front of the chair. I am thinking blue or green curtains. How's that for a new room and new year.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
White Christmas
Another Christmas Everything is white serene and relax, In the house It is empty! The cold and emptiness blurred my eyes.
By Dinesha Pereraabout a year ago in Critique
Happy New Year!!!!
Another new year is coming upon us, and some would ask do you make resolutions for the coming year. What is a resolution really? Is it a wish to do something better or something to work on throughout the year. I think it is both. It is a wish to improve yourself, but with everything it takes practice to really get what you want. You will pass and yet you will fail at times, but we must not give up and to keep trying as each day progresses. So, as this new year comes at us just be yourself. Pray.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A New Year Coming
A new year brand new ideas to write in a book.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Christmas Day
Happy Christmas Day and all the smiles that this day brings to those around. The excitement of Christmas Eve has passed and the child in you awakes, and you head on down the stairs, and usually you head to the kitchen for coffee or whatever, but this day you head straight for the living room and all the glory that is there. You stare at the tree and the presents galore, but you do not think of the expense, but the happiness and joy that all these gifts will bring to all those around you on this glorious Christmas Day.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Christmas Eve
On a particular Christmas Eve what would you expect to find? Everyone knows about laying out cookies and milk for Santa and some even lay out carrots for his reindeer, but what else could be around on Christmas Eve that isn't there during the rest of the year supposedly. During Christmas Eve if one looks really close one can see even though it is not physical for one can feel a sense of happiness, love, hope, charity and joy and maybe even empathy for others around them. Christmas Eve is the time that seems to bring more of these ideas.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Why Is Keir Starmer So Terrified of The Daily Mail’s Bark?
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader with a forensic mind and a former prosecutor’s knack for precision, seems strangely preoccupied with the opinions of a newspaper whose influence, while loud, is not what it once was. The Daily Mail, long the lodestar of Brexit-blind bluster, remains a lightning rod for some politicians’ anxieties. But as Starmer inches toward a more European-friendly stance, the real question isn’t what The Daily Mail might say, but why he appears so rattled by the prospect of its reaction.
By John Harkerabout a year ago in Critique
Have you ever wondered why we sometimes laugh when someone we care about dies?
In the theater of the human mind, humor unfolds as an intricate interplay between expectation and reality. Imagine the stage: the setup is constructed with care, drawing on familiar patterns and the comforting predictability of our cognitive biases. These biases act as stagehands, arranging the scenery of our thoughts, shaping how we anticipate the world to behave. They craft assumptions, preparing us for what we believe is to come.
By Andrew Lehtiabout a year ago in Critique
Why I chose Vocal Media | A New Born Vocal Median Steps into Writing Success
A Writer's Paradise for New Comers I have been writing articles across various platforms for the past four years. Among them, Medium has been a popular choice. However, many of my friends have recently introduced me to Vocal Media for writing, recommending that I give it a try.
By Ralph Smithabout a year ago in Critique
La Migra
To first see the U.S.-Tijuana border is somewhat akin to stepping into the pages of Dante’s Inferno. It is a hellscape, a sort of desolate and eerie substratum between the third-world purgatory below and the city of angels above. Silver-tipped cholla cacti loom everywhere, ready to insert their fanged tubercles into any flesh that brushes past. Barrel cacti also lurk underfoot, and their steel ribs and fierce spines will slice right through a combat boot to skewer a whole foot. The night air is ripe and wretched; Mexican tire fires and wild anise ferment in the damp briny ocean air. The landing strip that separates the countries stands ready to snag a ringed finger and strip it to the bone, or take fingers off hands entirely. By day, it’s an open-air tacos-and-tennies for sale fiesta; by night, it’s an Olympic sprint, from the fence to the pavement, where shadowy groups that can number over 100, drop as silently as goats into the canyons beyond the highway, out of the reach of the border patrol, into waiting taxies, bound for Los Angeles, Denver, New York, and back again to la patria.
By Lora Comoabout a year ago in Critique
Justice?
It was evening I was admiring the evil of the nature Silence, monotony and the coldness No one one at home All ,have gone?
By Dinesha Pereraabout a year ago in Critique
Mary 2024 Movie
Mary (2024) is a heartfelt drama that beautifully blends emotional depth with a gripping storyline. Directed by [Director's Name], the movie follows the journey of Mary, a resilient woman navigating the complexities of love, loss, and redemption in a world that often feels unforgiving.
By Benabout a year ago in Critique