Sunshine Blogger Award #10.

Hello everyone and here we are with another Sunshine Blogger Award!  This time I was nominated by Mrs. Holliman and I thank you so very much for nominating me for this award!!  It is very much appreciated!  I haven’t been following Mrs. Holliman for very long but she has some interesting content so check her out if you have some time.sunshine-blogger-award

Sunshine Blogger Award Rules:

  1. Thank the blogger who nominated you
  2. Answer the 11 questions the blogger asked you
  3. Nominate new blogs to receive the award and write them 11 new questions
  4. List the rules and display the Sunshine Blogger Award in you post
  5. Notify the nominees about it by commenting on one of their blog posts 

My 11 questions to my nominees:

  1. What is you favorite thing about life?  Being alive.  Good friends.  Family.  CHOMP! AAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! My foot!!  And of course, Muffin!!!  My foot!!! Bandages!!
  2. How do you feel about how the world is becoming? More dangerous! My poor foot. The world is getting worse too.
  3. Do you love the beach? As long as it’s in a warm place. I just love easy questions.
  4. Have your heart ever been broken before? Yes.  Getting easier all the time.
  5. What makes you happy? Muffin’s question.  Meow, meow, meow.  Which means, having my very own human.
  6. What is your favorite movie? Hmm, this one is tough. But I do like Abbot and Costello in ‘Hold That Ghost’.
  7. If you had to choose between Hawaii and Bahamas! which one would you pick?why Either one would be fine.  Why? They are both warm.  Hey, I was asked!
  8. Are you an outdoor person or indoor person?why Indoor during the winter, because it’s too cold outside!  Outside in the snow free season, because it’s much nicer outside and I enjoy spending time with nature, plus it’s much healthier.
  9. Where do you find inspiration for your blog posts? Mostly in nature, times with my dad, things that happen to me and MUFFIN!!! Whew, that was close.  These things are just getting so dangerous.
  10. If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life, what would you be? French fries!! Yes, I know they are not healthy, but they sure are good! Or strawberries, those are healthy.  Maybe blueberries, also healthy.
  11. What is one way you relieve stress at the end of the day? Hmm, reading. Meow. Just a minute Muffin. Watching the sunset. Meow!! Almost done Muffin, just wait. Spending some time on the computer. MEOW!! CHOMP!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! My foot again! Bandages!! Most important though is cuddling with Muffin!!! My poor foot!!

Now my nominees, I hope you have a cat, also, if you can please let me know when you have done this award, but remember, there is no rush to do it;

https://bloggo.art.blog

https://verbalcreation.home.blog

https://map195.wordpress.com

https://dragthepen.wordpress.com

Home

https://greathappyliving.wordpress.com

Now my questions:

  1. Why did you start blogging?
  2. How long have you been blogging?
  3. What is your main goal for blogging?
  4. Do you prefer to vacation in your own country or go to another country?
  5. Would you like to experience a real winter with lots of snow and -40 temps for 2 weeks?
  6. If you could not use any electronic device such as computers, phones, etc, for 2 weeks, would it be easy or hard?
  7. Do you enjoy sweet things, like cakes, pies, cookies?
  8. Do you like to eat fish?
  9. Do you like coffee?
  10. Do you like to spend time alone?
  11. Are my blog posts too long, too short or fine the way they are?

Well, that’s it for this one folks, but there will be more coming up this week.  Amazing, I know.  I hope you are enjoying your week and God bless!

Steve and Muffin.

© 2019 Steve McLeod.

 

AZQCueu2- A to Z cue you too Society.

This is a first for me.  Thank you Lillian for tagging me for this quote challenge and it was a bit challenging since my letter was ‘O’ and that made things a bit difficult for me.  But, I managed to find something that fit.  Even though it took a while.  Guess that’s the challenge part of this game!

game created by Rory

Each week, he will select a Random Topic from any genre for the game itself.

AZQCueU2 is a fast challenge game, meaning that when you tag someone it’s because you know they are online on a regular basis and not perhaps every few days, so a daily presence is required for the duration of the game to continue at a certain speed. This game was created for speed and ease, conveniency and efficiency.

Each week he will create a new AZQCueU2 Post with a New Game Topic and he shall begin the game with the first letter of the alphabet which is course and obviously.

To better understand I will quote Rory below:

A

I shall then find a quote on the selected topic where upon the quoter’s surname ends in A.

With my A quote firmly on display, l shall then tag one of my own readership and award them with the second letter of the alphabet ….

B

Their task is to find a quote on the topic from someone with a surname beginning with B, when they have completed the post, they too must tag one of their readership and award them the third letter of the alphabet …

C

This continues until the game stops due to an inability to find a surname beginning with the selected letter for the topic in question.

Only one Quote is required from each player.

The Letter X has been extracted from the alphabet we use.

The Quote used must be the Surname only, not the forename.

Should you create a post, all l would ask of you please is to provide a ping back to the link in game and also provide a manual ping back, so l don’t lose sight of the game itself, which as we all know with WP at present is sadly easily done.

Each newly created reader post, must contain all quotes created by the previous readers so that all newly tagged readers can see the alphabet running smoothly and there is no confusion.

Got it? Ok, this week topic is Society.

Rory took the letter A

“Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,

man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.

Man’s life is independent.

He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.”

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

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Paula took B

“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”

James Baldwin

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King Ben’s Grandma took C

“To me, the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind.”

WILLIAM E. CHANNING, Thoughts

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Beckie took D

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

Frederick Douglass

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Sadje took E

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein

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Li took F

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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Jim took G

Galileo said, “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

Galileo Galilei

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Punam took H

“Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.”

Alex Haley

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Fandango took I

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

Lee Iacocca

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Ashley took J

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”

Thomas Jefferson

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Ribana took K

“Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.”

Robert Kennedy

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Huguette took L

“Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.”

Joseph Lancaster

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Simon took M

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

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Orkidedatter took N

Vi er alle oppdagelsesreisende i livet, hvilken vei vi så enn følger.

Fridtjof Nansen

In English:

We are all explorers of life, which way we then follow.

Fridtjof Nansen.

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Steve took O

Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.

Sandra Day O’Connor

Thank you once again Lillian for nominating me for this challenge.  I now pass the letter ‘P’ on to;

Renee at https://hearttokens.home.blog

Steve and Muffin.