BEGINNING IN 2014 I will reply to only occasional comments here, while appreciating every visit and all comments! My reason is to enable me to utilize that time to read and comment on your blog posts instead! If/when I get more organized I may later return to replying to comments here, but one of my New Years resolutions is to spend more time at your sites: reading, enjoying, learning! Thank you for understanding.
If your blog is associated with a Google+ account, I may not be able to visit you from your namelink. I do not wish to join Google+ and the site sometimes requires that I do so in order to read/comment on posts there.
Oh how true is this... once for fairy tales, now for 'combat' for most... At work we try more to use the interactive Wii and do bowling and the like...
ReplyDeleteI love it Lydia. Thanks for reading my blog. I just went through your latest posts and I felt the desire to read more and more. I've been away for some time now but I am back.
ReplyDeleteWish you all the best.
Khaled
PS I tried to fix the problem concerning my URL feed. I don't know if it is fixed or not.
Perfect.
ReplyDeleteAin't that the truth? :) Nice Magpie.
ReplyDeleteI love this - I cannot begin to confess how many hours I must have spent in my childhood gazing at myself in front of a mirror with an old towel wrapped around my head (hair) trying on my mums lipsticks! Kids of today sadly miss out on so much!
ReplyDeleteOh, gosh, ain't it the truth? Give me a chipped mirror any day.
ReplyDeleteMirror mirror and dress up are much better games for imagination than a PlayStation.
ReplyDeleteHappy weekend!xoxo
The mirror of imagination is very powerful! Well, have a fabulous weekend dear Lydia.
ReplyDeleteYou speak the truth!
ReplyDeleteAh, too true! LOVE the animation!
ReplyDeleteYou got that right!
ReplyDeletehehe. unfortunately...i never spent this much time inside when i was a kid...my parents had to drag me home when the sun went down...
ReplyDeleteReflections~ So much of it seems so violent. I didn't have kids so I didn't have to face the dilemma of allowing or not allowing that kind of entertainment at home. Your work sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteKhaled~ You have honored me by spending some time reading here at my blog. Much appreciated.
As you can see, your blog is still down there at the bottom of my blogroll - indicating that your last post was 6 mos ago, which is not the case and if anyone who reads this knows how to troubleshoot such a problem please let Khaled (his blog is perfection) or me know.
secret, fragile skies~ Thank you and you sure have been beautifully prolific with posts at your blog. I had a great time catching up last night!
ReplyDeleteSue J~ Yup, 'tis the truth! Thanks.
madamebutterfly~ You really did what the animation shows! That is so cute! I actually never played dress-up in front of a mirror. Instead, I sang in front of mine (and, no, if American Idol had been around then I would not have been competition for those kids!).
willow~ So true. I realize that I have a wonderful mirror that belonged to my grandmother over in the storage unit. How ridiculous. I must retrieve it. :)
La Belette Rouge~ Mirror mirror seems way better than a PlayStation to me. But I have only seen the new stuff and cannot attest to whether or not it is actually fun! Have a great weekend. xo
Phivos~ Yes! The mirror of imagination is powerful. I will imagine when I look in mine this weekend that I would see a Cyprus beach behind me! It will help me to forget the big rain that is coming. :)
Mary~ My, what a beautiful profile image you have. And that is the truth!
ReplyDeleteAna~ Sigh, yes, too true i guess. Isn't that animation fun?! I could watch it and waste too much time. :)
Rene~ Why, thank you! Wave at yourself in the mirror for me. :)
Brian Miller~ See my comment to madamebutterfly...it describes how I spent part of my childhood, and the rest was definitely outside until dark (no one had to drag me, though, because I was a bit afraid of the dark). :)
I am a mirror and imagination sort of girl. In fact, I wouldn't even know how to turn a playstation on. I have problems even with the TV remote.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. Just awesome. Love and Light, Sender
ReplyDeleteAngie Muresan~ You do have a wondrous imagination! I would be lost in front of a playstation also, or a Wii, or many of those kinds of games. Not ashamed to admit, however, that I do know my way around the TV remote.
ReplyDeletesenderupwords~ Your comment was awesome! Thanks much. L&L to you, too.
I am all in favor of the mirror and imagination. Plus I have told my mirror to lie if it has to. Squinting helps, too. Nonetheless, my son had a playstation game called Demolition Derby 2, that I quite enjoyed. If I had a bad day, I could spend a few minutes purposely ramming into other cars, all without any penalty! Woohoo! The game is still here, by the way, but it quit playing properly, and I finally put the playstation in mothballs.
ReplyDeleteplaystation wha? Good post-so timely with all the electronic distractions kids have.
ReplyDeleteI remember as a kid I loved playing a game by myself with a largish mirror that I would hold under my chest- staring down into the mirror I would pretend to be walking on the ceiling..stepping over doors...I was always able to amuse myself...
Try it- kinda fun!
Fireblossom~ "Plus I have told my mirror to lie if it has to. Squinting helps, too." Great lines! (Tell your mirror you have great lines.)
ReplyDeletekathew~ Wow, what a fun-sounding mirror game you made up! I had a nearly-constant childhood dream that I flew all around and especially loved skimming the ceilings of rooms. Seem similar imaginations in a way.
sadly, how true is this poem!.. i often wonder about how simple things have become so 'replaced'. at one time, the ability to read in your head was deemed amazing and magical.. the written word was a sacred art... makes you wonder what will happen to the poor playstations!?
ReplyDeleteAll things being equal the advance of technology took my diary to a whole other level. I often wonder what technology will look like in twenty years from now. Very nice poem,I agree with your last line completely.
ReplyDeleteAnd how sad is that!
ReplyDeletethe watercats~ The poor playstations will be added to the junk piles of our technological waste dump. Poor Earth! (From what you have written before, it seems your kid is not lacking in a great imagination. That's great.)
ReplyDeleteKristen Haskell~ My diary/journal died a quick death when we got a good computer. I have a journal software loaded that I really should use because any type of writing is a better experience (at least for me) on the computer, compared with handwritten pieces - and let's not even mention typewriters!
Snowbrush~ That is sad! Which is why I poked fun at it. :)