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Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Happy

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happy

any reason to be glad is a good one

The sun finally came out today and the heat seeping in through the windows promised a spring not long to follow.  Although the snow is still in great mounds throughout the city, people have that glint in their eyes that tells how relieved they are to have made it relatively intact through another long winter.  They smile and strike up conversations with strangers more easily than in the dull days of January when everyone would look away and force themselves to make only the required contact.  Urban nature is a little louder than yesterday, more vibrant – the cardinal calls to his mate and the squirrels chitter arrogantly at the dogs nosing around their territory. Even the postman has a bounce in his gait despite his heavy burden of bills, flyers and subscriptions.

There was something in the mail for Miss Z this afternoon – the thick envelope from one of the best colleges in our city.  Thanks to the wonders of technology her acceptance was already a fact but the very tangible proof she could hold in her hands, the evidence she could wave in the faces of all those teenage detractors, was the perfect way to end her day.  Lo, like a cheshire cat our court does grin at such good news and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge can’t be anything but – Happy.

“How does happy look to you?” –  Your mum’s mug or hole the dog dug, friends gathered round, a night on the town, a yellow sunflower or a rainbow after a shower, a pair of shoes or a new tattoo …

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Gifts – Week 2

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strawflowers

everlasting

There are those who have a special bond with the earth. Our uncle – Wojek – was just such a man: stubborn and suspicious, with eyes like an animal that would size a person up in a glance, he was blessed with the ability to nurture all things green. With no patience to engage in dinner-table discussions about the state of the world or the latest styles for longer than it took to clean his plate, he could spend hours carefully twisting the branch of a bonsai, coaxing seedlings to sprout out of their cotton-wool nests or just turning over the dark, damp earth in preparation for that year’s vegetable garden.  He was our source of botanical wisdom – if Wojek said the brown withered plant held sadly in our hands was beyond salvation, we knew there was truly nothing else to be done. More often than not he would just give us the look, take it and in a month’s time have it four times the size, green and thriving in his kitchen window. Wojek had come through life like a character in a Russian novel and throughout the years never saw the need or the use of being on the giving end when it came to assorted family holidays but a passing mention about a childhood memory of strawflowers resulted in a bed of blooms as variegated as the colours of a summer’s worth of sunsets. It was just who he was.

This fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Gifts – is as much about the temporal as the eternal and last week, Across the Bored queried “What is a gift for you?” -A present, a prize, the look in her eyes, a talent to sing or big shiny ring, the love of a child or something more wild, the quiet of night or just waking up, right…… We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Gifts

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laduree

sweetly unexpected

It used to be that we would pack our bags and trot off to some far-flung destination with nary a care, now our journeys have become more defined. Time is of the essence and as much as we are still taken away from the nest for vacation, work or duty, more often than not in the recent past we are the ones to stay behind and wonder how life unfolds for our own young travellers.  Luckily, the luxury of technology lets us remain close through our devices – our phones even ring, oddly enough, in the tone of the land we are trying to reach and voices coming from across the ocean are sometimes clearer than if they were across the country. At first the days seem longer, quieter, less filled with the big, bold noise of life and then suddenly they are past and once again we are standing in an airport waiting for our missed ones return from another most amazing and enlightening adventure.

We are glad to see them back with all their appendages intact, no wallets, cameras or even worse, passports pilfered from pockets or packs and in a good mood, happy to be home.  There are enough stories and pictures to last through quite a few dinners, their experience of the world and observations of the people in it the source of much amusement and sometimes, disbelief. Our offspring have found this form of indulgence satisfying but have also learned that the little things do count, like taking the time to find a sewer-rat hand puppet for a sometimes annoying sibling.  And so, unexpected as a lovely box of macarons, the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge gives you – Gifts.

“What is a gift for you?” –  A present, a prize, the look in her eyes, a talent to sing or big shiny ring, the love of a child or something more wild, the quiet of night or just waking up, right…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Graffiti – Week 2

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graffiti

As the world becomes smaller and more information is made available to us, hopefully making us more tolerant of different points of view, it seems odd that there are still many places in the world where self-expression is frowned upon. Persecution of those who dare to assert their opinion in a creative manner is an old story that is being repeated daily as Malina Suliman, an Afghan graffiti artist, can attest. This form of art being practiced, sanctioned or not, is at its core statement-driven and this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Graffiti – would submit that it transcends borders.

Last week, Across the Bored was curious “What does graffiti look like to you?” –  Political comment, die-hard declaration of love or mash-up missive to the world, cursive or abstract, community code, floral ode, tag on a train, scribble near a drain, Art or eyesore… We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Read more on what other WP bloggers are saying about graffiti at:

Forged in Sheffield: Faunagraphic
Graffiti Alley: An Oasis of Color
Arctic Graffiti

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Graffiti

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graffiti

many hands make light work

A few decades ago musicians playing a gig in the city would roll into a little motel with an exotic name just off the highway. It was far enough away from the downtown core that they could kick back after a show with a bottle, or something more nefarious, and make some noise long into the night without incurring the wrath of any neighbours or a visit from the police. Originally built to resemble its classic American counterparts complete with two-tier attached guest rooms, lots of parking and the requisite umbrellas and beach chairs around the pool, it never seemed to attract the wholesome family tourists its architecture aspired to. As the years passed it came to be known as that seedy place at the end of the strip where businessmen in ill-fitting suits with bulging breast-pockets, card sharks and other creatures of the night could skulk in and out in quiet anonymity.

At one point, the motel was taken over by new management but a change of name and a taller sign by the side of the road did little to change the sketchy nature of the place. With the passing of the seasons things got a little more run-down, the paint on the guest room doors started to fade and peel and the little restaurant that had once boasted a “home-cooked” breakfast served its last cup of coffee – we knew the end was near when we could see mattresses stacked against the walls of the now empty party room through the long-unwashed windows. From one day to the next it closed – no fanfare, no hue and cry from the long-time residents who had been swindled out of their trust funds, the shady ladies long-past their prime or the substance abusers with no where else to go. Like so many landmarks it just faded, still visible on the perimeters but a hollow shell of another more prosperous time. Various plans to convert the boarded-up buildings into a small hotel or condominiums never materialized and soon it was completely abandoned.

Or so most people thought. The squatters and vagrants found their way in, the homeless kids with their dogs, the junkies unable to get any further, all found a room for the night or in some cases, longer. The sheets of plywood covering the doors and windows must have seemed like a canvas in search of a saviour for one day the first tag appeared in bright, roiling cursive. It wasn’t long before each door and window was covered in spray-paint, its bold colour reclaiming the urban landscape as invasively as the weeds in the asphalt of the parking aprons. It began to look somehow … better and while waiting for the lights to change at a newly installed intersection we would peer across trying to pick out which new tag or message had appeared overnight.  In what the insurance companies like to call an Act of God, the motel was struck by lightning and went up in flames like so much kindling.

What’s left will soon be demolished – construction on an overpass progresses slowly as the cold concrete threatens to take over the last bits of green but already the first aerosol artists are laying claim to their very own Two Cents Tuesday Challenge with – Graffiti.

“What does graffiti look like to you?” –  Political comment, die-hard declaration of love or mash-up missive to the world, cursive or abstract, community code, floral ode, tag on a train, scribble near a drain, Art or eyesore…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Brilliant – Week 2

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old black phone

because the telephone was and always will be brilliant

Times used to be that one could find a reasonably priced public telephone on street corners every so many blocks, in the entrance of our favourite greasy spoons or the danker parts of the local drinking establishment. It was a given that in most situations one could scrounge up a quarter and call home for a lift, make an excuse about being late or dodge an awkward appointment without being tracked, traced or found. The tel-com companies thought that it was a wise idea to provide a dependable service that was available to everyone – not so much today. What is not brilliant is that payphones are getting increasingly harder to find and asking to use a telephone in a public establishment gets one looks once reserved for lepers. Those without mobile phones are considered pariahs, luddites, not cool or even worse, old-fashioned….

Not being one to jump on the technology bandwagon as quickly and vehemently as other members in our household, the whole cell phone kafuffle always seemed a bit of an over-rated non-issue and not very high on our list of priorities. The old one always worked well after repeated dropping, appropriation by the dog or frigid overnights in the cupholder of the car and when we were finally upgraded we somewhat unwillingly bequeathed it to the Ghost and gave in.  We now understand why some think these new fantabulous “phones” are as integral to their existence as underwear (or shoes) and the greatest thing since sliced bread. Our favourite toy and a funky tool, although admittedly we use it the least to actually talk to people, it exemplifies this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Brilliant. Last week, Across the Bored asked “What is brilliant to you?” –  The gloss on a Cadillac or chrome of a luggage rack, Benny Hill on a roll or a crystal bowl, an amazing shade of blue, slick patent-leather shoe, Mozart or Beaux Art … We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Brilliant

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painted brilliant

diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

Everyone from Craig Russell to Miss Piggy has taken a shot at this classic but long before Marilyn Monroe sashayed around in slippery hot-pink satin for her breathy version in Gentlemen prefer Blondes, Carol Channing was putting her particular stamp on this song.  The two blonde songstresses are memorable for completely different reasons – Marilyn was gloss, the epitome of desire whereas Carol was a no-messing-around, comfortable in her skin comedienne with chops that could rival any of her male counterparts. As entertainers, they were both accomplished, quick-witted and dazzling.

Wonderful performances such as these, classic movies, stunning sculpture and even a great meal often receive praise in the most direct of terms. There’s a simple phrase often used that falls into this category but which is two very loaded, distinct and completely opposite pronouncements: the first awestruck declaration is one of incredulity that such a thing could exist – a talent, picture or sound so marvellous that we feel the need to let everyone know of its wondrousness. The second, depending on how incredibly stupid the action or comment, is blurted out usually accompanied by an expletive. This too will make the rounds of friendly get-togethers and family holiday dinners, becoming the stuff that legends are made of and the source for endless embellishment as a “remember when” anecdote.  The Two Cents Tuesday Challenge states emphatically that it is – Brilliant.

“What is brilliant to you?” –  The gloss on a Cadillac or chrome of a luggage rack, Benny Hill on a roll or a crystal bowl, an amazing shade of blue, slick patent-leather shoe, Mozart or Beaux Art …

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Funny – Week 2

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Mr Bean

I make a joke to help you forget how screwed you are.
Rowan Atkinson as the narcoleptic enrico polinni in Rat Race

A while back, we organized a few shelves of DVDs into categories that always stop visitors in their tracks – among the subheadings are brit flix, american comedies, black comedies (and we don’t mean film noir), stoopid comedies because they really are, classic comedies and so on. Our definition of cinematic humour has its own distinct set of parameters and every once in a while a new classification, like saturday morning comedy, is formed. This genre doesn’t actually have to be watched on that particular day of the week but it does require that one be of a certain tolerant, slightly soggy frame of mind that won’t quibble about sitting quite immobile for 90 minutes or so. Harmless, silly entertainment that elicits a good guffaw in all the right places is essential for cleaning out the cerebral pistons clogged up from a nasty week at the office. Not overly demanding in the way of connecting the metaphorical dots, it doesn’t even have to be all that good – as long as it is mindless in an appealing way, has at least one decent comic character uttering a line that can be reused in conversation when appropriate and doesn’t cost more than a month’s Netflix subscription. Watching this kind of movie together is a good way to find out whether we are still on the same absurd page for, as anyone who has everyone sat stifling a laugh knows, this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Funny – certainly means different things to each of us.

Last week, Across the Bored wondered “What is funny for you?” –  A silly hat or floppy cat, Carlin, Cheech and Chong or chonga, mindless memes, youtube yahoos or sweet baboos … We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Funny

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Marvin

Oh dear. Now I shall have to create more Martians.

Marvin the Martian, Hare-way to the Stars

When we were kids the television got 3 channels when we were lucky and had adjusted the rabbit ears just so  – on the odd Saturday morning when the weather was clear and we had added little wads of tinfoil to the ends of the antenna we might pick up a station in the US getting a full 4 hours of cartoon heaven before being pulled away to more constructive pursuits like cleaning our rooms or doing the homework we had tried to bury in the bottom of our schoolbags. Memorizing the provincial capitals wasn’t half as easy as the words to “This Is It”, the theme song of The Bugs Bunny Show and we would pretend to be Bugs and Daffy strolling across our living room stage with no one but a disinterested cat for an audience. Rolling around on the carpet howling like idiots wasn’t unusual because Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng knew just what look, what line would get the loudest laugh but it was only many years later when our own rugrats were doing the same that some of the jokes Elmer made and the subtlety of Sam Sheepdog came to be fully appreciated.

Humour is relative – no matter what culture you are from, whether you are old or young, serious or silly, the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge absolutely knows that there is something out there that you find – Funny.

“What is funny for you?” –  A silly hat or floppy cat, Carlin, Cheech and Chong or chonga, mindless memes, youtube yahoos or sweet baboos …

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Habit – Week 2

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teamaker

A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them
Stephen king

The slow slipping back into consciousness at the start of each day signals that, like it or not, we must get up and get on with the business of living. Although the sequence of events may have changed ever so slightly over the years to accommodate different age requirements, in our digs it has remained consistent with some of us doing much the same things in much the same order that we have for far too many moons. Unless we are on vacation, away on business or out of our own cozy nest for one reason or another, this fortnight’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Habit – would be the one word to describe how our household gears up every morning.

Last week, Across the Bored had inquired “What does your habit look like?” Is it something simple or complex, the velvet hat and crop you don to ride a horse, the path you take when walking the dog, a dirty ashtray or morning smoothie, a Friday night activity or the subject you can’t seem to stop photographing… We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Habit

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bed in bright stripes

how use doth breed a habit in a man

William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

In another part of the forest the view is not quite as idyllic, the “complaining notes” sung not by nightingales but rather those in search of a clean pair of socks, favourite t-shirt or escaped undergarment.  Some tasks are unforgiving, sometimes quite painful yet oddly necessary in the greater scheme of things that we do only to please ourselves – ironing sheets would fall into that category and when asked Why? by incredulous acquaintances, their mouths agape and eyes wide as saucers, the answer would have to be because it makes a difference – it feels better. There is, of course, a whole raft of responses to that particular question (because my mother did, neatness, tradition, we’re used to it, it’s cheaper than therapy, etc.) but having tried out a few it was the reply that most quickly got the conversation off to more interesting topics.

Some skills we learn in the line of duty, some as a form of rudimentary self-preservation or just to improve our lot in life. A basic nugget of wisdom summed up, handed down through the generations and still getting some use in our household as anachronistic as it may seem is:

Know how to do all things domestic well so that if one marries money you will know whether the servants are doing their chores properly and if one marries for love then you will know how to do it yourself.

Such words are usually uttered with the ulterior motive of getting someone to do something they don’t already know how or to practice it so that we won’t have to do it – again. Sadly, we are still waiting for the day when afternoon tea will be served whilst we “tune (our) distresses and record (our) woes” and so have learnt much in the course of a lifetime. In being human we have certain obsessions, penchants and routines and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge asserts that we all have our own, unique – Habit.

“What does your habit look like?” –  The velvet hat and crop you don to ride a horse, the path you take when walking the dog, a dirty ashtray or morning smoothie, a Friday night activity or the subject you can’t seem to stop photographing …

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 14 days (there will be a reminder post at the 7 day mark) after which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

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bus shelter

in darkness one finds light reflected

How many of us believe in coincidence? Its dictionary definition – in which events or conditions that are closely related by time, space, form, or other associations which appear unlikely to bear a relationship occur at one time apparently by mere chance – can in itself be puzzling.

Statisticians note in dry, withered tones that synchronicity is inevitable and often less remarkable than it appears intuitively but it is nonetheless marvellously strange that the photograph now being entered in a challenge about light on the 11th day of this month – and that had lingered in a folder titled “future blog pix” waiting for just the right moment to appear in the multiverse – was taken the eve of December 11th last year, the very same day Across the Bored posted the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Illumination.

Hmm.

Trip the light fantastic with this week’s entries at the Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Resolution Week 2

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one direction

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice
must have strong wings
douglas adams

It is the second week of January in what the astrologers and various other morale-boosters promote as an auspicious year provided we pay attention to our own foibles and put some positive back into play.  Many of us find ourselves back in routines we had gladly shrugged off pre-holiday and are putting into effect versions of 2013’s first Two Cents Tuesday Challenge theme – Resolution.

Across the Bored had asked “What does resolution represent to you?” Is it the sharp outlines and incredible detail of a macro shot, a settlement in St. Thomas or some awesome Mahavishnu guitar orchestrations… perhaps an idea you had on the eve of this new year has changed – whether broken or fulfilled, accomplished or midstream… We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, some great entries and the guidelines for this fortnight’s challenge can be found here. Need more info or want to browse past themes? Have a look at HOW DOES THIS WORK.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved

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to do

how long have these been here?

Everyone knows that bad habits are hard to break but those that may masquerade as good ones are sometimes even more difficult. What once upon a time seemed like frivolity, a dalliance, a minor amusement, can become addiction, obsession, a time-sucking void upon whose edge we teeter precariously while all else falls away into the blackness of eternity.

So with that in mind, in an effort to fit as much creative productivity into 24 hours while still managing to get some sleep, attend to the quotidian demands of real life and retain some semblance of sanity without losing too many bits, Across the Bored resolves to:

  • Keep posting what the Muses hurl at us
  • Continue participating in the challenges to which we have become accustomed
  • Visit, like, reply to and thank our followers, readers and casual passers-by as much as humanly possible
  • Visit at least 5 “new” blogs a week

BUT

We also find ourselves having to:

So not bad in all, nothing all of us can’t live with and hopefully just as entertaining…

Find as many visual declarations as there are days in the New Year at the Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Resolution

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star stream

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice
must have strong wings

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Like Arthur Dent, circumstances beyond our control can sometimes infringe upon our routines and interrupt the flow of what we have become accustomed to calling our daily life. While the end of the year by no means compares to a Vogon constructor fleet ready to eliminate all earthly life in favour of a new galactic thoroughfare, it does hold in its last ticking minutes the promise of change.  Affirmations of any kind signal the desire and courage to go forward into the future with purpose – while some pledges will be successful and others fall by the wayside, what we can ask for is to see things in a different light, view the ordinary in a new way and take into consideration that there is another side to every story.

As it is the first day of January and we have all decided upon directions for the coming year, the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge proposes a – Resolution.

“What does resolution represent to you?” – the sharp outlines and incredible detail of a macro shot, that vow made to oneself on the 31st, a settlement in St. Thomas or some awesome Mahavishnu guitar orchestrations…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Relax

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back jan 2013 pic

happy holidays, a merry christmas and very happy new year to everyone out there
our very best wishes today and always

Well, we made it, once again! When all the commotion has died down, everyone is fed and content and the anxiety-fraught lead-up has disappeared like mist over the snow, we can now sit back and reflect over the events of our year.  For Across the Bored it was a bang-up, mash-up, rock ‘n’ roll ride to a new reality – the lens on life has been redirected to a different perspective, and with that in mind the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge decrees that this week we veer from the usual (no challenge) and we all – Relax!

Whether you put your feet up, don’t get dressed for the day, do all those things that you wouldn’t the rest of the year, indulge or don’t, do a marathon video catch-up or just plain nothing looking out the window at our wonderful world – We hope that everyone has a well-deserved break this Holiday Season and want to thank each and every follower, reader and casual visitor for making this endeavour one of the more rewarding that 2012 has put on our plate.

As a reminder of how incredibly lucky we all are and how thankful we should be to alive in this most inspiring of times, please have a look at Giacomo Sardelli’s video Further Up Yonder.

For a bigger view see the 2048 x 1152 version (mp4)

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, there are guidelines for the challenge (which will begin again in January 2013) on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Sweet

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puppy ice cream cone

Some of us know a good thing when we see it and don’t hesitate to ask too many serious life questions upon their presentation. So it should be, in moderation of course, for at this time of year the temptation to partake in just one more small minty bonbon, to slide into a new pair of dancing shoes or max out the credit cards on that porsche you’ve always wanted to see sitting in the driveway, can be truly overwhelming.

December is the month for making a special effort to find or make those things which give others (hopefully) a modicum of pleasure within the parade of holidays from Ashura and Bodhi Day, Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa through to New Years. Strains of melodies ingrained from childhood, air redolent with ginger and spice, the simple acts of kindness one sometimes unexpectedly encounters – these are the things which restore our faith in humanity and remind us why we go to so much effort to do them in the first place. Across the Bored knows that more than a few of you have a little something on your lists that may fit this bill and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge whets its appetite for – Sweet.

“How does sweet appeal to you?” – as a little sugar coated nibbly confection or a baby’s smile, that steely Harley or the never-ending reply from a Dude, glam rock band or pioneer of phonetics…

We would love to see your vision.

This week’s challenge would like to thank GertyGiggles at Paradise has Mosquitoes for proving that we are not alone in our indulgences.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Illumination

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xmas lights

It seems as though the younger elves have subconsciously begun to work-to-rule and some of Saint Nick’s helpers are starting to feel churlish being more than a little behind the eight ball as the big deadline looms close.  In this part of town, the transformation from quiet residential neighbourhood to festive, holly-bedecked Santa beacon is eerily covert. All of a sudden a wreath appears here, an inflatable snow-globe pops up there, some shiny metallic globes or silver garland materialize where one wouldn’t have thought possible and one wonders whose busy hands have accomplished these feats in the dead of night.  Which renegade gnome climbed high up onto that apartment balcony and rearranged the pair of glowing reindeer into a position that defies censorship?

It is an intense and kaleidoscopically eye-opening time, for the generations each have their own idea of how the season should be celebrated, or not – how much emphasis is placed on what it means to us and the myriad ways we bring it to fruition to make it visible. That is really what this century is all about – enlightening each other.

Across the Bored ponders whether tonight the view of Earth from space will be particularly colourful and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge shines a light on – Illumination.

“How does illumination appear to you?” – as a state of mind or fact of science, that long-awaited clarification or brilliant resolution, twinkly LEDs or burnt-out bulbs, the soft glow of the family hearth or brake lights in a traffic jam…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Decoration

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small waiting for santa

Small children are particularly adept at memorizing carols and seem to take particular glee in the act of singing them over and over again even if they don’t quite have all the words down.  One such tune we used to inflict upon anyone who would listen was “The Twelve Days of Christmas” and our wobbly chorus would begin the 1st of December – in this reality, 12 days doesn’t seem quite enough to do much of anything let alone count the hours as they dance and leap away towards the Big One.  Twenty-four seems a more reasonable number in which to get December tasks accomplished and also provides enough words to festoon and bedeck any of our holidays.

Saint Nick’s list comprises:

  1. Artefact – a man-made object taken as a whole; like the reindeer made out of a fossilized candy-cane and pipe cleaners from the Ghost’s kindergarten year
  2. Bow – a decorative interlacing of ribbons once fashioned by crafty hands and now bought by the dozen in a plastic bag
  3. Christmas tree – an ornamented evergreen used as a Christmas decoration now made out of plastic or recycled material because the real ones are considered a fire hazard
  4. Design – as in “the dog made a design near the neighbour’s inflatable manger”
  5. Embellishment – a superfluous ornament; pretty much everything hauled out of the 12 boxes marked “festive” in the garage
  6. Finial – an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; or that fancy thing that is always lost that holds the lampshade onto the arc
  7. Gimcrackery – ornamental objects of no great value; what’s inside those expensive crackers everyone insists must be placed on the holiday table and no, you cannot make them yourself
  8. Hood ornament – that metal bit on the front hood of a car emblematic of the manufacturer and usually broken off to be hung on a chain as a last minute gift
  9. Incrustation – a decorative coating of contrasting material that is applied to a surface as an overlay: see Happy– Part 1
  10. Jingle bells – those noisemakers that warn that carollers are coming
  11. Kringle – better than a kugel and sweeter than a knish
  12. Lunula – a crescent-shaped metal ornament of the Bronze Age hung by historians on their Christmas trees
  13. Marzipan – those cute little fruit, vegetables and animals that harden into sweet tree ornaments if not eaten immediately
  14. Necklet – a fur piece, precious metal or preferably gemstone necklace worn about the neck on Santa’s to-get list
  15. Oranges – laboriously stuck with cloves til fingers bleed
  16. Pattern – a decorative or artistic work; what happens to walls when felt pens are left out and small guests arrive
  17. Quills – better for writing letters and in baskets than in Rover’s inquisitive nose
  18. Rosemaling – a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration consisting of floral motifs best left to those who know how to do that type of thing
  19. Set decoration – part of the set of a theatrical or movie production that takes place in living rooms at this time of year
  20. Tinsel – a showy decoration that is basically valueless; those metal strands that took hours to place that the cat would eat like spaghetti
  21. Ugly – a matter of opinion but usually in reference to footed pyjamas with animal appendages
  22. Volute – a spiral or twisted formation more fun in food
  23. Wind chime – a decorative arrangement of pieces of metal that hang together loosely so the wind can cause them to tinkle and drive the squirrels crazy – enough said…
  24. X is for red lipstick kisses on cheeks, Y because….
  25. Z – is the sound of peace

Across the Bored would venture that this word is being used in some form this month as a noun or verb and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge is about – Decoration.

“What is decoration to you?” – minimal or elaborate, clutter or clean, eyesore or eye candy, holiday or everyday… and it doesn’t have to be seasonal….

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Morning

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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with – W.C. Fields

Many of the habits that we acquire as young adults last far longer than we expect and some of them are hard to break.  We all have relatives, or know of someone, who rises before the crack of dawn and expounds on the joys of being up while even the birds are still asleep, gets so much accomplished before breakfast and wonders why we do not do the same with as much relish.  They have been doing it forever and cannot seem to break the cycle.  One tries to convince them that this can be changed, that there is much to be said for the pleasure of rolling over and pressing the snooze button, but to no avail.

In truth, many of us have dogs or small children, teenagers who need rousting from their comatose state, a daily commute, a shower that needs taking, bread that needs baking, a million reasons to get out of bed…  In another city, another time zone, on vacation or just away, it is easier – a pleasure – to get up and out and see what the world in the wee hours has to offer: the similarities can be remarkable and the differences incredibly alien.  Across the Bored has gotten accustomed to the sun rising each morning and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge casts first light upon – Morning.  

“How does morning appear to you?” – does it creep in or blast you out of bed, is it routine or haphazard, the last of the night or the dawn of a new day, do you fortify with granola or revive with hair of the dog that bit you…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Style

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Whenever one needs a reminder of exactly how things looked and sounded at any point, in say the last 75 years, all we have to do is surf through virtual reality. The closest repository of all manner of trend, fashion, vogue and design, simple searches can bring back very particular memories – whether it is the sinewy curves of a buffed e-type jag, the pout of a hollywood icon, the grandeur of a world-class opera house or a melody long-forgotten, every bit is like a prompt out of the past.

Pull out your red shoes… and let’s dance

We all have ways of expressing ourselves and pretty much everything we lay hands to becomes impressed with a personal, distinctive hallmark.  Across the Bored marvels at so many ways of seeing and the manner in which we put our stamp on this world and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge topic spotlight is on – Style.  

“What is style to you?” – can it be acquired, assumed or inherent, is it old or new, the tilt of a hat,  swagger in a walk or lilt in the talk, styling or stylish…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or opinion of yours or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble – but it has to be about the topic!
  3. Please, don’t just link to an old post… challenge yourself.
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on your own blog.
  4. Feel free to pick up your badge on the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge page
  5. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Home

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You are here – somewhere…

Alot of us have spent much of our lives travelling around – it is irrelevant whether near or far but the journey there and back informs much of the way we see our world, in particular our idea of that one spot where we feel an ultimate sense of belonging.

Sometimes we do not find that special place until much later, having set down temporary roots wherever work or love or adventure takes us, others never leave the place where they were born for there is no need to.

Across the Bored would posit that this extraordinary destination is truly where the heart is, and so the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge topic becomes – Home.  

“What does home look like to you?” – apartment or house, where you are now or where your ancestors were from, what it is, used to be or what you wish it were – it is yours, after all…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or post by you or attributed to someone else, a piece of music, a song, a video, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble.
  3. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another challenge.
  4. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on Across the Bored’s blog.
  4. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Pressure

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This is our last dance – not much has changed since 1982…

For those of us of a certain age, the saying there there is nothing new under the sun starts to have greater meaning.  Trends in many circles – art, music and fashion – come and go, then reappear, reinvented with a new coat of paint, appropriated riff or brighter shade of lipstick.  The cycle seems to get shorter as time goes on but then our life experience alone suggests that we have probably seen or done it at least once before.  It is said that people born between the first World War and 1960 have witnessed more changes to our planet and the way we conduct our daily existence than those at any other point in history.  Some days, life plays out with nary a hiccup, on others it is “full of sound and fury” but on most we are, at best, reacting to circumstance.

The heavy load that man doth bear…

When the stresses of the 21st century seem about to collide all at once in some sort of weird cosmic finger-pointing, all that is necessary is to step back – or to the side – and think about how someone else is dealing with the vagaries of life at this precise moment in time.  Such visualization can have dramatic and profound results: Would you really want to be in those shoes?

Today, of all days, when a good portion of the population on this continent feels the onus of civic responsibility weighing down upon them, Across the Bored puts forward the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge topic – Pressure.   In all its incarnations as a verb or a noun, action or reaction, as a social construct or in the animal kingdom, from architecture to hydraulics, sound to weather, our world is an example of how everything is affected by compelling and constraining influences.

So,  “How does pressure appear to you?” – As a butress flying out from a gothic cathedral, the force of a hurricane bending trees to its will or as that long line of voters snaking into the distance?

If this is all too much, just Relax…

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers to Across the Bored, here are some guidelines for the challenge: HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Your point of view on the current week’s challenge can take any form: a quote, a motto or saying, an essay, poem or post by you or attributed to someone else, a work of art, photograph, graffiti, drawing or scribble.
  3. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another challenge.
  4. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. If you would like your reader to see what others are presenting for the same challenge, add a link to the “Two Cents Tuesday” challenge on Across the Bored’s blog.
  4. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Compromise

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Your choice

The last few days dealing with surly clients were fraught with high drama and the gnashing of teeth but fortuitously, offered up this week’s Two Cents Tuesday Challenge!  Daily life, whether technicolour, monochrome or gray-scale can be, at best, give and take.  How we deal with it relies solely on how we react – with logic or emotion, fact or fancy, nature or nurture. This week’s topic – Compromise – can be found in all the spheres that intersect: human, animal, plant, even things inanimate. It is sometimes as simple as our summer garden where the neighbour’s zucchini plant wound its tendrils along a shared fence and down into our tomatoes – the compromise rested between plant and static architecture, between friends’ understanding that sometimes nature needs to seek its own way rather than bend to our will.

So  “What does compromise mean to you?”

We would love to see your vision.

For all those who are new readers and in the spirit of this week’s topic, Across the Bored has made a few (minor) changes to the challenge:

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same.
  2. Feel free to attach photos or artwork you have that fit the current week’s challenge.
  3. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted upon which I will post another challenge.
  4. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

 SO – Create your Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Two Cents Tuesday Challenge: Procrastination

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From a tuppence to a toonie

Procrastination is the order of the day and in a effort to remain productive while still managing to avoid doing the really pressing work at hand, Across the Bored presents the Two Cents Tuesday Challenge!  What better way to waste time and let everyone know your tuppence worth (yes, we actually are soliciting your opinion!).  So without further ado, this week’s topic is all about that time-sucking void we all know and love (or despise) – Procrastination.

“How do you waste time, delay, put off, goldbrick, postpone, or shilly-shally?”

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

  1.  I will post some commentary on a random topic that pops into my head (such as the above) and then ask you to respond on the same in 2 lines.
  2. Feel free to attach photos or artwork that you have that fits the current week’s challenge.
  3. Please enter only once!
  4. The Challenge will be open for 6 days after it is posted.
  5. ENJOY, have FUN and TELL your friends and fellow bloggers.

Create a Two Cents Tuesday Challenge post

  1. Then add a link to your blog in my comment box.
  2. To make it easy for others to check out your post, title your blog post “Two Cents Tuesday Challenge” and add the same as a tag.
  3. Remember to Follow My Blog to get your weekly (hopefully) reminders.

Thanks to Cee for the simple format and to everyone who has visited, been reading and followed. You provide endless good reasons to procrastinate….