dailyprompt

No playacting, just heart on display

eejoseph,

What does it mean to be a kid at heart?

The kid at heart knows he is the kinder king’s child

The world is crumbling with the most offensive aromas filling the air: adults clinging to irresponsible attitudes, kids denying their parents’ contribution to the world, and inventing virtual puberty and property to replace genuine growing up.

The kingdom of kids is

  • Laughing on the way up with no concern where the hands that send you flying are
  • Accepting parental gifts and guidance
  • Anticipating telling Mom and Dad to stuff it
  • Eating and drinking with perfect confidence and gratitude
  • Knowing that laughing at oneself and playing is priceless
  • Keeping memories and dreams alive

Enigma, inspiring, fallacious, glamourous, hard-nosed, industrious, mysterious and valuable

eejoseph,

Describe a family member.

To be perfectly honest I should have picked one member of my family and painted a picture for someone to use to engage their Sherlock Holmes instincts so they can serve that person up on a platter. Gee whiz! Another mystery solved!  No chance of that.

A family member

I have, like the average person, family members that fall into categories right across the board. I just want to make the point that I have reason to rejoice at the memory of my many family member musicians.  I have reason to puzzle over the embellished tales my family member can tell when the audience is right.  I often think, “When all else fails, there’s always Wotsizname”, and when everyone else has bought into the project the sky lowers when it is Siskeptic’s turn. My family member is nobody’s twin, not a centaur, no one-eyed Polyphemus, a genuine Caesar and brash and loud fisher who has my unending love.

Working this body is best experienced walking to the beach for a swim

eejoseph,

What is your favorite form of physical exercise?

I was born within a five minute walk to the Atlantic ocean, and getting to the beach was not only a shared joy it was good for our young bodies. A couple of fresh water ponds nearby also provided walking and swimming opportunities, and yet I never became a strong swimmer. Being a grown and flexible person, I walk when there is no ocean, and where there is an ocean, I swim. Sometimes the ocean is not a part of any physical exercise besides hearing the sounds, smelling the surf, and seeing the sights.

Out of place and right on time

eejoseph,

Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.

This pairing of time and place is a good reason to explore the vital connection between time and place, two things that imprison us.  I have to imagine that for some creatures neither time or place are not as traumatic as for humans. I have felt out of place for four years, and the geographic disorientation I experienced during that time – the points of the compass were out of place – cements my appreciation of being out of place and being right on time. For more see my https://eejoseph.com/2023/10/06/out-of-place-and-right-on-time/

Vibrant, victim no more

eejoseph,

Why are we going crazy about walls, land and loot? Could it be we’ve given up loving the truth? Your life without a computer: what does it look like?

Pushing Through. Song by Kyu and Ganjy

I have enough years on this planet to remember life before Microsoft, Dell, Acer, Google and Apple and mobile telephones. I also have enough sobriety to take strategic breaks from personal computing power, and I am acquainted with how to use books to gather information and do the kind of research that matters in my life. I will not be wringing my hands over life without a computer, even when the demand for all citizens to be computer literate and connected is universal. It will be a good thing to have nothing to sell or buy when the vast majority of humans will be identified as salespersons.

Life is vibrant today without computing power. To be a participant in the marketplace of the future is to be a victim of the lords of rapacious merchandising.

Beauty and the Blues

eejoseph,

What motivates you?

I thought a few words, probably less than five, would answer today’s prompt, but here I am explaining Beauty and the Blues. Motivators show up and disappear a mile a minute. Death, life, peace, war, famine, feast, deceit, honesty, kindness, and brutality have been known to motivate me. They all fall into two categories: comfort and discomfort, or ease and disease. That’s an easy filter that both artificial intelligence and the princes of the world will have major problems using to solve the mystery of slave trade, colonialism, patriotism, homicide, and the human longing for beauty and peace. I think I have a simple motivation continuum for a complicated family.

Assurance of satisfaction

eejoseph,

What do you enjoy most about writing?

Granting that writing fulfills itself where the audience reads, I have to say that writing brings me an ocean of contentment . I get the satisfaction of getting my thoughts into a form that informs readers reliably. My readers get to build their confidence in the common and certified sources of information, without arm-twisting and without rabbit holes and deadly concoctions threatening the integrity of the relationship.

Me and mine

On a purely personal level, and secondary to the writing-reading combination, I can also say that discoveries always await me, and discoveries inspire me to keep learning. Discoveries also come with pointers on how I can creatively express my findings.