Leaping for freedom (part 1)

As soon as I saw this picture (via pixabay.com), I thought of blogging neighbour Sarah C at This’n’ThatWithMe – not only does she make great leaps, she loves planes…

 

This leaping pixabay image’s filename is …’freedom’…

 

I was looking round for a picture to go with my writing in response to discussion in Jacquie’s latest vlog – she shares a wonderful poetry reading too.

This was a lovely podcast for Sunday.

I really enjoy Jacquie’s conversational style – and the subtle ad lib variation to her poem text as she performs it, in spoken word style.

Anyway, the picture kind of fits the acookingpotandtwistedtales’ question(s) from Jacquie’s vlog too:

“Is it possible to be angry and dance?”
and
“…the meaning and essence of freedom?…”
http://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/2016/02/28/be-free-vlog/

Monthly Look Ahead – leap into March!

 

Thank you to IamDonovan at Coolbeans4

first, for the MLA challenge and new badge announced on LeapDay! yay!

and for remembering & taking part in the Leapster challenge 🙂

• I can’t believe how far I had to go the long way round to find my previous LMA post in my blog! I need my blog to have plenty of easy access navigation points… looking forward to doing more of my blog admin in March and somehow getting a system going…

 

• I’m also looking forward to making my ‘2020 vision’ …(Leapster) and mini challenge posts (but running late!)

 

• Very late in the month it’s (you might know I’d be late in the month for my own) birthday… I should be looking forward to it but…

 

• Leap Day feel’s like a New Year – or the start of another four year cycle – which of course it is. By the 29th of March, not only will I have celebrated my birthday and be drafting next month’s MLA post, but I’m making every 29th of every month a leapster day, somehow… sort of… y’know….? Of course that excludes next February when the theoretical day falls somewhere between 28th Feb. and 1st March…

 

• Seeing if we can grow a #blogdare and / or #writingdare network going for sharing and responding to off-the-cuff informal challenges. that could be fun….

 

I’m sure I should be looking ahead more… there’s Easter of course – and I can always come back and up date this post later… is that what they mean by ‘dynamic content’?

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Leap Year Guestbook 2016

Thanks for stopping by 🙂 My blog is born again on 28th February 2016, I hope you like the theme (one day old today!) and it’s a comfortable visit – please speak up if there’s something lacking or anything you need here?

Wishing you all a Happy Leap Day and a Happy Leap year 2016 😀

If you can spare a moment, please ‘sign’ my Leap Year Guestbook 2016

Are you taking or making a Leapster challenge #blogdare?

Please share… pingback or comment to let me know…

 

Leapster Challenges (joining in?)

Happy Leap Day!

If I’d had better energy and not distracted with theme changing I might have got this Leap thing off the ground better, made an event page and submitted a listing. But, right from the beginning the Leapster was a free-flying flit about just making a leap sometime, somehow… ‘Your leap, your way…’

“Leap and the net will appear.” John Burroughs

“One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical… We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.” Stella Adler

Source: Brainyquote.com

My Leap, my way.. coming soon:

• a Leap proposal…
• my 2020 vision (not a plan, just a glimpse ahead…)
• round-up post of leaps along the way (thanks SarahC et al for joining the fun 🙂
• ‘make-a-leap’ mini-challenges so far so…

It’s never too late to join in, 2020 is a long way off and it’s Leap Year for a lot more days yet 🙂 Leave a comment or pingback here or to any other challenge post to join in.

Happy Leap Year 2016! Are you making a 2020 vision?

 

 

Leap Day!

It’s also the last day of this year’s African-American History month in the U.S. I’m quite sure it doesn’t stop there and many of us remain interested all year and lifelong.

I don’t know much about any kind of history, least of all the school-taught version which was often dictated to a class of automatic-pilot-writers of teachers’copy. Meaningless.

History is full of meaning.

I’m not American, have no African ancestry that I’m aware of, but I find history interesting. At Blogger’s World , my (occasional) guest post for the ‘Authors who made history’ feature last week was about W.E.B. Du Bois. I discovered him on his birthday researching for my guest post of quotes elsewhere.

Did you know…?

Seventy six years ago, on Leap Day 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award, for her roles as Mammy in Gone with the Wind.

Source:wiki

“A woman’s gifts will make room for her.” Hattie McDaniel (source)

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Buttons up (stating the obvious)

Valentine’s Day seems like yesterday… I made myself a promise to make a real effort with this blog and get it sorted once and for all. Hopefully it’s getting there. I would have liked to have signed up for B201:IC next month and completed it this time – I got close to the finish in Novemeber. But I’m very slow off the mark learning how to make menus and widgets work properly. It’s starting to fall into place…

Catching up for Leap Day …

My fourteen days of posts stalled at ten (reblogs from the cooking pot shindig…and Matchmaker Q&A). So, I’ll finish all four of each type of post tomorrow, in one post each.

I miss my old header. This isn’t it. It’s the result of trying to crop my previous header. Its ovalised, but I quite like the twist. I might try it here and move the other one, or vice versa… What do you think?