wp-spamshield domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/ii5ad04abu2u/public_html/downjotter.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Fate Of Imaginary Friends “It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many real friends, and lose them in the course of nature. It is the fate of all authors or chroniclers to create imaginary friends, and lose them in the course of art. Nor is this the full extent of their misfortunes; for they are required to furnish an account of them besides.”–Charles Dickens
Story-tellers Live Life Learning “A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”–Ursula K….
Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses “If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…
Schemes Gang Aft Agley In his poem “To A Mouse”, Robert Burns said, “The best laid schemes o’ mice and men, gang aft agley”. Murphy’s Law, named after Captain Edward A. Murphy in 1949, basically reiterates this: something will always go wrong. Take, for example, my last actual post. When it was posted on January 2nd, I was expecting to get back to something close to a schedule. Obviously, my schemes went awry. Between caring for the generation before me…
Another New Link For You I know it’s been a while since anyone has heard from me (working on a post about that). I want to take a moment and share another new link with you. If you enjoy poetry, check out https://poems-by-tom.weebly.com/. Tom has decided to take a dip in the blogging pool and share some of his poetry with the world. In addition, he will also be sharing poetry from the masters (maybe even me) from time to…
Value Of A Name A few weeks ago I discovered the value of the domain names for my two blogs. Downjotter, despite being my neglected child, actually has a higher value than my other site, www.ten-thirtyministries.com. My first thought was that it had to be some kind of mistake. Ten-Thirty has a lot more posts and many more daily visitors, so why is it valued so low? The reasons vary, but it all comes down to the domain name itself….