Month: October 2018

RAKA Award

Random_Acts_Logo-296x300Hey All!
This week I am sending out the award I made, the RAKA award, the random act of kindness award.
I came up with this award because so many of us are touched by random acts of kindness, and they are worth mentioning.
All through life we encounter people who for no apparent reason help us, or extend a hand when needed. Some do it directly and some do it indirectly.
Rules are posted on original award post, but here is a recap.
1- copy or paste image for reward on your post.
2- Write a paragraph on a random act of kindness, either you saw, was given to you, or you have done. It is okay to spread the love people. You don’t have to name specific names or whatever but tell us about it.
3- Share this award and link to original post or tag the person who nominated you.
4- If you should want to do this then you can leave an open ended invitation, or personally tag others.
5- Pictures are a good share to, if you have pictures to share a random act of kindness, that is great!
https://mwsrwritings.com/2018/07/30/random-acts-of-kindness-award-ka/
I nominate…

http://writingmyheartout25.WordPress.com/ 

https://enjoycelife.nl/

http://thereluctantpoetweb.wordpress.com/

https://thepastduereview.com/

http://www.flavorsmasher.com/https://frankhubeny.blog/

If you haven’t checked these guys out, check them out!

 

Challenge/Friday Foto Fun

https://arousedblog.wordpress.com/

Unusual – 

Please share something you’ve seen in an unusual setting, maybe a bit out of context?
or
creatively write about an unusual situation?

Made a butterfly from buttons…odd and unusual

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Unusual to see a cat in a sink? Mine is an odd cat!

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Unusual cat bird!

Word of the day

Word of the Day : October 3, 2018

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Weltschmerz

noun VELT-shmairts

Definition
1 often capitalized Weltschmerz : mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state
2 often capitalized Weltschmerz : a mood of sentimental sadness

Did You Know?
The word weltschmerz initially came into being as a by-product of the European Romanticism movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A combining of the German words for “world” (Welt) and “pain” (Schmerz), weltschmerz aptly captures the melancholy and pessimism that often characterized the artistic expressions of the era. The term was used in German by the Romantic author Jean Paul (pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter) in his 1827 novel Selina, but it wasn’t adopted into English until the middle of the 19th century.

Examples
Carson found himself plunging into a state of Weltschmerz as he grew older and discovered that the world was much more complicated than he had envisioned as a youth.
“The mad narrator or central figure is in a world that may be experienced as confusing, grotesque or volatile; above all, it is private, closed in on itself, unavailable to outsiders.… The notion of insanity as a kind of extreme loneliness is good for a wallow in adolescent-romantic weltschmerz, if not much else.” — Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed, 29 June 2018

Challenge Post/FOWC

http://fivedotoh.com/2018/10/03/fowc-with-fandango-traffic/

Traffic

The stuff that moves in and out, like a busy street of commotion

I stop and think sometimes why am I constantly in motion?

My mind is like traffic that never seems to stop,

I know sometimes the havoc of it all makes my brain want to pop.

Traffic that has no sense of origin, not even an end

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I feel trapped by all in my head that enters in.

Sometimes for just a brief moment, my pain eases

I think honestly I’d have better luck capturing sneezes.

Traffic of a different nature, yes!

But still traffic non the less.

A fluid movement from an active brain

I know you probably think me to be insane.

If just once traffic could be averted for a while

I would rest for maybe a mile,

With a big fat smile!

 

 

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African Sweet Potato Stew

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Ingredients

  • 5 Cups peeled, chopped sweet potatoes
  • 3 Cups sliced (or halved, if small) fresh white mushrooms
  • 1 1/2 Cup small cubes of fresh pineapple
  • 3/4 Cups uncooked green lentils
  • 2 Tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 Teaspoons curry powder
  • 1 Teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger or 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 Teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 garlic clove, minced, or 1⁄4 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 3 Cups vegetable broth
  • 1 Cup chopped fresh spinach leaves, lightly packed
  • 1/4 Cup peanut butter
  • 1 Tablespoon lime juice
  • 1/3 Cup chopped peanuts, for garnish

Directions

Grease the interior of the slow cooker crock with nonstick cooking spray.

Combine the sweet potatoes and next 10 ingredients (through broth) in the prepared crock and mix well.

Cover. Cook on Low 3 to 4 1⁄2 hours, or until the sweet potatoes, lentils, and onions are tender.

Add the chopped spinach leaves, peanut butter, and lime juice. Stir well. Cook just until heated through.

Serve in bowls. Top with chopped peanuts.

Excerpted from Stock the Crock by Phyllis Good. Copyright © 2017 Oxmoor House.

5 Healthy Foods that are high in Vitamin D/Information Share

The Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is 600 IU of vitamin D per day from foods. If you don’t get enough sunlight, your intake should likely be closer to 1,000 IU per day.

Here are 5 healthy foods that are high in vitamin D.

1. Wild salmon contains about 988 IU of vitamin D per serving, while farmed salmon contains 250 IU, on average. That’s 165% and 42% of the RDI, respectively.

2. Herring contains 1,628 IU of vitamin D per 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving. Pickled herring, sardines and other fatty fish, such as halibut and mackerel, are also good sources.

3. Cod liver oil contains 450 IU of vitamin D per teaspoon (4.9 ml), or 75% of the RDI. It is also high in other nutrients, such as vitamin A and omega-3 fatty acids.

4. Mushrooms can synthesize vitamin D2 when exposed to UV light. Only wild mushrooms or mushrooms treated with UV light are good sources of vitamin D.

5. Oysters are full of nutrients and provide 53% of the RDI for vitamin D. They also contain more vitamin B12, copper and zinc than a multivitamin.

Eating plenty of these vitamin-D-rich foods is a great way to make sure you get enough of this important nutrient.

HealthyFollow.com

Word of the day

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quietus

noun

qui·etus | \ kwī-ˈē-təs ,
-ˈā-
\
Definition of quietus
1
: final settlement (as of a debt)
2
: removal from activity
especially : death
3
: something that quiets or represses
put the quietus on their celebration
Synonyms
curtains, death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, sleep
Antonyms
birth, nativity

 

Did You Know?

In the early 1500s, English speakers adopted the Medieval Latin phrase quietus est (literally “he is quit”) as the name for the writ of discharge exempting a baron or knight from payment of a knight’s fee to the king. The expression was later shortened to “quietus” and applied to the termination of any debt. William Shakespeare was the first to use “quietus” as a metaphor for the termination of life: “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, … When he himself might his quietus make / With a bare bodkin?” (Hamlet). The third meaning, which is more influenced by “quiet” than “quit,” appeared in the 19th century. It often occurs in the phrase “put the quietus on” (as in, “The bad news put the quietus on their celebration”).
Examples of quietus in a Sentence
was granted a quietus on the remainder of the debt in the old man’s will
her unshakable belief in a blissful afterlife allowed her to meet her quietus without the slightest tinge of fear or regret
First Known Use of quietus
1540, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for quietus
Middle English quietus est, borrowed from Medieval Latin, “he is quit,” formula of discharge from obligation