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Gary Spangler's avatar

Cloudy skies today in your town? Downpours here plus lightning and thunder! Oh my!

If making sunshine through your creativity was your mission today, Bingo! Plain as day! Sunlight emerging from the page with the terrarium. Pencils, or watercolor pens, glowing as if radioactive, also with sun shiny hues.

Then the word message(s). Proscriptive actions to work out the tensed muscles. Allowing our friends to attend to a trigger point can work wonders! (Asking for and accepting help. Novel!)

Thalia’s comment about gloom passing is reminiscent of You’ll Never Walk Alone:

“At the end of the storm. Is a golden sky. And the sweet silver sound of a lark.”

(A Rogers and Hammerstein classic from yesteryear. Nicked later on by various pop artists.)

Perhaps this is not a day for larks in Wisconsin, but it can readily be a day for gloom to pass and lessons to emerge!

“Zip-a-dee-do-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. My oh my what a wonderful day!” Not intended for Cha-Cha-ing. 😉

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3musesmerge's avatar

San Diego has June gloom... Waukesha has December, January, February, March, and sometimes April and May! It is snowing lightly today which brightens the world up a bit!

This time of year we all start talking about getting lamps that produce sunlike rays, but nobody ever does or we wouldn't continue to have the conversation every year? 😂

Oh my... stormy weather! Stay dry and grounded!

P.S. It's a lightbulb!!!

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Karen DeBonis's avatar

Our weather has been dreary too. As was Chicago when I visited my sister last week. Have you heard of the new book "Bittersweet" by Susan Cain, the best selling author of "Quiet?" I haven't read it, but it's on my to-be-read list. She argues that for those who don't mind dreary days, "embracing the bittersweetness at the heart of life is the true path to creativity, con­nection, and transcendence." It's an interesting perspective that may apply to me, but I'll know more after I read it.

https://www.amazon.com/Bittersweet-Sorrow-Longing-Make-Whole/dp/0451499786/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UAE69W0J8QP9&keywords=bittersweet+susan+cain&qid=1674407906&sprefix=bittersweet%2Caps%2C122&sr=8-1

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3musesmerge's avatar

Quiet was a bedrock book in my life -- finding me at just the right time. IIRC, it was on my e-reader with highlights on almost every page.

I've also read Bittersweet! Very good!

Thanks for sharing a breadcrumb for others to follow if they are interested in learning more about the book. 🤗

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Karen DeBonis's avatar

I'm glad to hear your assessment of Bittersweet. I look forward to reading it!

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

Today’s humor comes at the expense of your reply to Spangler... “P.S. It's a lightbulb!!!”

If I hadn’t been distracted, when you first posted, I would’ve asked you where you nicked the lightbulb drawing from, (rhetorical question), and we could’ve eliminated Spangler’s confusion. Then, he would’ve had an entirely different reply to you, which is interesting when you stop and think about it... 🤔

It’s the artist’s business to create sunshine when the sun fails. 
~ Romain Rolland

Your quote has my full attention as I make gathering sunshine part of my daily activity so on the days when it doesn’t shine, all I have to do is open up my phone and there’s the sun waiting for me… 🌞😎🌞

P.S. I love the lightbulb!💡

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3musesmerge's avatar

I find some really fascinating information when I look up the originators of some of these quotes.

Romain was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian, and mystic who was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1915...

He was a leading supporter of Joseph Stalin in France and is also noted for his correspondence with and influence on Sigmund Freud.

Thanks for your lightbulb appreciation!

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Bobby Kountz's avatar

I have accidentally found out more things than I could’ve ever anticipated from simply doing as you described.

I love that you’ve discovered so much information on the author of the quote.

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Pennie R. S. Nelson's avatar

Love the lightbulb. Sunshine is great, but when you don't have it, your creativity can light the way.

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3musesmerge's avatar

Is there anything more rewarding than creating your own way out of a pickle? 🥒

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Jack Herlocker's avatar

George Carlin: “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?” 😁

And what powers flower-filled lightbulbs? Florality? 🤔

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Gary Spangler's avatar

‘This the season for S.A.D. lights. Seasonal Affective Disorder is associated with both less daylight hours and particularly our winter attire and behaviors preventing sunlight from “bathing” us as it does in warm weather.

Might be the impetus to get out the inflatable paddle board and find gentle slopes, grassy yard areas, preferably with some snow coating. LSB! Long snow boarding... Ideally with head and face bare to catch the sun’s rays. Oh, windchill. 😔

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