A TO Z REFLECTIONS

“Sometimes, you have to look back in order to understand the things that lie ahead.”
― Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful

 
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, 

a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

If reality differs from person to person, 

can we speak of reality singular, 

or shouldn't we really be talking about plural realities?

And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?

What about the world of a schizophrenic?

Maybe it's as real as our world.

Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, 

but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can't explain his to us, 

and we can't explain ours to him.

The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, 

there occurs a breakdown in communication ...

and perhaps that is the true curse of being human, of being locked within our skulls.

We shared different facets of our thoughts this past month, 

getting to know others better and giving others a month long chance to get to know us more fully.

Perhaps every person takes the limits of her/his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Due to work and health issues, I was restricted in how many friends I could visit.  

But I visited Paris, the American desert, the Canadian landscape, and renewed friendships with Disney and old movies.

How much was your world enlarged by this year's A TO Z CHALLENGE?

A TO Z SUPERIOR TO NANOWRIMO? A REFLECTION

A TO Z SUPERIOR TO NANOWRIMO?

Yes.

Why?

1.) NANOWRIMO is supposed to teach you how to keep deadlines 

by having you slap together words on a page just as fast as you can on a daily basis for a month --

after all, you can always go back and edit, right?

Structure is everything in building AND writing.  

A flawed foundation in either endeavor will destroy what you are trying to build.


2.)  A TO Z insists you not only write daily BUT without going back.  

EACH POST must be whole within itself, polished enough to entertain and amuse.

EACH POST must be fully edited each day -- no sloppy prose allowed.

 
3.) A TO Z insists you stay consistent to your theme, stretching your imagination to its utmost.  

EACH POST must be lean to encourage visitors to read your posts every day.

 
4.) NANOWRIMO is popular for the group spirit to it.  

A TO Z encourages bloggers to visit one another's blogs and comment,  

birthing a community feel to the endeavor superior to the "race" mind-set of NANOWRIMO.


5.) In that sense,  NANOWRIMO sets one blogger against another 

in a race of learning sloppy, destructive writing habits of just throwing words together for quantity not quality.

 
6.) A TO Z urges us to entertain daily with the best, most interesting prose we can write --

while visiting our old friends and making new ones!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Just because I wanted to hear it:

Z is for Aw, C'Mon, You Know What Z Is For!

I could hardly do a post on QUEEN OF SWORDS and not do one on ZORRO!

 

I didn't learn of Zorro through Disney

 

but through the black and white movie starring TYRONE POWER I saw on TV.

 

But that movie led me to VHS tapes of the Disney ZORRO.

 

When Guy Williams first visited Argentina in 1973,

 

he was quite taken by the admiration and fascination the Argentine people expressed for him and his character of 'El Zorro'.

 

 In return, Guy fell in love with the culture and people of Argentina.

 

In the late 1970's he retired,

 

except for personal appearances, to Recoleta, an upscale neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

 

In 1989, while spending solitary months in Argentina, Williams disappeared.

 

The local police searched his apartment in Recoleta on May 6, finding his body.

 

He had suffered a brain aneurysm and had been dead for several days.

 

Due to his great popularity in Argentina,

 

his ashes lay for two years at the Argentine Actors' Society cemetery at La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.

 

In 1991, in accordance with his wishes,

 

Williams' ashes were spread over the Pacific Ocean in Malibu, California.

Y Is For My Inspiration To Have Samuel McCord In Key Moments of History

Did you watch any of these episodes? 

Lucas charges too much for me to purchase the DVD collections!

Due to its enormous budget, the series was canceled in 1993.

However, following the series' cancellation,

four made-for-television films were produced from 1994 to 1996 in an attempt to continue the series.

In 1999, the series was re-edited into 22 television films under the title The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones.

 

HAS A TV SHOW EVER INSPIRED YOU

IN YOUR WRITING?

X Is For Myth and Mystery

I am drawn to XENA because, to me, it is a mythical tale of revenge, love, and redemption.

Sandra drily replies that Xena's long legs and black leather corset have nothing to do with it, right?

Did you think the 300 Spartans stopped the Persian's first rush? 

No.  It was Xena, daughter of Ares.

 

 

WONDERING ABOUT THE MYSTERY?
 

 

And Now Fox is making a new 6 Episode X-FILES!
 

 

When David left the show, I left as a viewer.

How about you?

IS THE SYSTEM WORKING?

Many in Baltimore would say No.

When rioters cut the water hoses as firemen struggle to keep a fire from consuming an entire neighbor, you scratch your head.

When violent looters take advantage of the valid protest for color-blind justice, it is sad.  

It seems there is a latent underlying sense of powerless in so many.


Our economy and society depend on most people feeling the system is working for them.

But a growing sense of powerlessness in all aspects of our lives

 -- as workers, consumers, and voters -- 

is convincing most people the system is working only for those at the top.

 Powerlessness comes from a lack of meaningful choice.

 Big institutions don't have to be responsive to us 

because we can't penalize them by going to a competitor. 

 Fifty years ago, a third of private-sector workers belonged to labor unions. 

This gave workers bargaining power to get a significant share of the economy's gains along with better working conditions -- and a voice.

 Now, fewer than 7 percent of private sector workers are unionized. 

 The companies we work for, 

the businesses we buy from, 

and the political system we participate in all seem to have grown less accountable. 

I hear it over and over: 

They don't care; our voices don't count. 

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

W Stands For Family, Craziness, and Laughs

WKRP in Cincinnati is a situation comedy television series

that features the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The show was created by Hugh Wilson

and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI (AM) in Atlanta.

Many of the characters and even some of the stories

(including season 1 episode 7, "Turkeys Away") are based on people and events at WQXI.

Like many other MTM productions,

the humor came more from running gags based on the known predilections and quirks of each character,

rather than from outlandish plots or racy situations since the show has a realistic setting.

The characters also developed over the course of the series, generating a sense of family.

During the third and fourth seasons,

CBS moved WKRP around repeatedly,

so much so that cast and crew members claimed that even they didn't know when the show aired.

When the show became a hit in syndication,

some cast members joked that the reason for its success was that viewers finally knew where to find it on the schedule.

Don't you get the impression that studio executives

sometimes decide to kill a show?