Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge:
Child & Grow
Unfurling your buds You go from a seed to tree Watching my child grow Ritu 2021
Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 339 CHILD and Grow
05 Jan 2021 18 Comments
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Chai And A Chat #117 #ChaiAndAChat #CoronaDiaries Week 41
04 Jan 2021 31 Comments
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The first Monday of 2021! Is it just me, or did that weird year, 2020, actually fly by?
Wonder what the joys of 2021 will bring?
Right, got your drink?
- If we were having chai I’d tell you that I wasa quite excited to get my desk a couple of days early! Yes, I had one before during the original lockdown, but when we did our house refurbishment, my desk ended up being repurposed as a TV stand! So, with the chance that we may need to work from home more this term, and the fact that I really want to get writing, again, I decided to sort another desk out. It’s still white, but it’s a little highter, and bigger, so I can really spread out. Ideal, as I want to be able to get back into my lettering and journaling, too, and the space is perfect!
- If we were having chai I’d have to tell you that I signed up to a #journalingjanuary challenge. They email a prompt a day, and I get a chance to sit and relax while I create! How do you think I’m doing?
- If we were having chai I’d tell you that we visited another three houses, too. It is tough trying to find a place that everyone agrees on! Pretty much everywhere there is three out of the four of us who likes, and one who says a flat No! So, the search continues…
- If we were having chai I’d say how we had to give in and take the tree down just after Boxing Day, because of this little munchkin. He has a tendency to go aand chew the branches, then spends a while regurgitiating all the fibres he chews… nutcase. I’ve had enough of waking up, and having to clean the carpet or floor!
- If we were having chai I’d excitedly tell you that I took part in a Tweet competition for the RNA (The Romantic Novelists Association) entitled #RNAFestiveTweet, where we had to write a mini festive story… and I came third! I won an Amazin voucher, which will always come in handy!
- If we were having chai I’d have to tell you that I have not slept well the last few nights. Three reasons. 1. I am struggling to get back to my school routine. 2. The government have done their usual of playing havoc with the Education Sector, at the nth hour, and many, but not all, schools are transferring to online for the next two weeks. That means Lil Man’s mocks for his GCSEs are postponed. And as we are in Kent, with a really high infection rate, our primary schools are shut, too. So we need to get all our home learning ready for the next weeks, and make sure all safety measures are in place, including some amendments. We will be having Vulnerable/Key Worker children in, as we did in the last lockdown, too. A definite reason to not sleep well… and 3. because I am not sleeping, I end up reading, and then it is 3am in the morning!
- If we were having chai I couldn’t forget to tell you that, if you have signed up to my newsletter, I managed to actually send my first one out! I’d love to know if you received it, and whether you enjoyed it, too!
This week, I’ll need you to give me some strength. This week will be all about school. Getting back into school, but getting into school online, which I have always said, is far too hard for the younger ones to cope with. School is not safe, right now, with the numbers, and the inability to socially discance sufficiently. We have seen it with the amount of staff who tested positive over the holidays. We are starting back wth at least 4 members not able to return to work yet, because of either testing positive now, or still being unwell. Hoping to hear about more house viewings, but that just isn’t my priority right now…
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Spidey’s Serene Sunday – Part 304 – Anything Is Possible 2021
03 Jan 2021 40 Comments
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“Once you choose hope, anything is possible.”
Christopher Reeve
Thank you, Spidey, for finding a perfect quote that ties in with my WOTY! (Word Of The Year)
Definitely a motto I choose to live by.
Such truth.
Which is why I never lose hope.
Things may be going crazy around you, but sometimes, you just have to cling to the hope that they might just get better.
Though, I must add, more often than not, it’s not just hope that helps change to occur. You have to be kinda proactive with your actions, too!
So… tell me, are you hopeful for our future?
Have a peaceful Sunday Peeps.
#SoCS 2nd Jan. – In The Corner
02 Jan 2021 41 Comments
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Linda’s #SoCS Prompt this week:
Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “in the corner.” Write about whatever the image or thought of “in the corner” brings to mind. Have fun!
As soon as I read the prompt, the first thing that came to mind was Dirty Dancing, and that like “Noboby puts Baby in a corner!” line, spoken by Johnny Castle, played by the late, great Patarick Swyze.
A film I absolutely loved when it came out, and it’s still up there, as one I could watch again and again.
In fact, I’m of a mind to go and watch it right now!
2021 – Word Of The Year
01 Jan 2021 78 Comments
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Well, that was a year we all were kinda glad to see the back of, wasn’t it?
Bye 2020!
Still, it wasn’t all that bad, was it?
I’ve carried on my new tradition from the last few New Year’s Days, of choosing a word of the year.
2019 was Self, and I really embraced that, making sure I took time out for me, ensured self care was a key part of my life,
2020, I chose Believe. It was all about strengthening that belief in myself, that I could achieve my goals and dreams, and also, feed my belief, spiritually, too.
I admit I had wobbles, especially since the pandemic hit, but, when I look back, I realise I have actually done a lot more towards that word, than I thought!
I did believe in myself, and I published that book. I wrote a good 50K words on the second, which was no mean feat considering being in school during this crazy time.
Spiritually, the more frequent temple visits didn’t happen, due to Covid-19, but my beliefs have not wavered.
Unfortunately, that belief that I would get healthy didn’t quite work… I started walking lots in the summer, when the original lockdown happened, but since we’ve been back at school, and the weather has changed, that hasn’t happened, and a lot of food has been consumed… put it this way, I don’t need a cushion to get cosy on a chair, right now!
And now, here we are in 2021. What would suit my feelings? What will help me achieve a better Ritu?
After not too much thinking, a word stood out. One that I think is really important to have in all our lives, and it is this:
Yes, Hope.
Inside, I have that hope, that things will get better.
I hope that I have the time and energy to keep writing.
I hope to finish that first draft, and have my novella ready for a reader magnet. (Well, I need that, not hope to do it, so I can send it to newsletter subscribers!)
Another hope, is that I can cope with the responsibilities of this new job role, and that I make it to the end of the academic year, successfully, especially considering I am stepping back into it in a couple of days with another set of enforced home learning for a while… not sure how long for, either!
Oh, and I do hope I can work out a healthy, happy balance with exercise, and food!
And, I hope we finally find our forever home, and by this time next year, I’ll be typing my post in a totally different place!
Believe will stay with me, after all we are ever evolving, and improving ourselves, as will Self.
But Hope will be the big one!
So, my dear Peeps, do you have a word for the year? What are your goals, plans, hopes or dreams for 2020?
But I Smile Anyway... 