Daily Archives: February 21, 2016
Mandarin Oranges Symbol of Good Fortune
iPhoneOgraphy – 18 Feb 2016 (Day 49/366)
During Chinese New Year, mandarin oranges and tangerines are considered traditional symbols of abundance and good fortune. During the two-week celebration, they are frequently displayed as decoration and presented as gifts to friends, relatives, and business associates.
Mandarin oranges, particularly from Japan, are a Christmas tradition in Canada, the United States and Russia. In the United States, they are commonly purchased in 5- or 10-pound boxes, individually wrapped in soft green paper, and given in Christmas Stockings. This custom goes back to the 1880s, when Japanese immigrants in the United States began receiving Japanese mandarin oranges from their families back home as gifts for the New Year. The tradition quickly spread among the non-Japanese population, and eastwards across the country: each November harvest, “The oranges were quickly unloaded and then shipped east by rail. ‘Orange Trains’ – trains with boxcars painted orange –…
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Petunia × atkinsiana ‘Storm Pink’
Cannon Street, London.
January Haul Part 2 Skincare&MakeUp
Welcome back to the second part of my January Haul. In todays post I will be talking through all my new skincare and makeup bits. Enjoy and if you haven`t yet seen the first part of this haul I will put a link HERE so go check it out!
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Hospital Visitations: Patient Questions
It’s OK To Abuse Creatives?
Amanda posted this on Mad Genius Club
The second article by the Guardian is worth it just for the headline: Publishers should pay authors as much as their other employees. The article doesn’t say much that most of us here at MGC haven’t said before. Publishers complain about the rising cost of publishing and use that as an excuse for not paying authors more. However, those same publishers continue to insist on having their offices in high dollar office buildings in the middle of high dollar real estate areas in places like London and New York City. At a time when it isn’t unusual to find authors, especially new authors who aren’t being pushed by the major publishers as the “next big thing” receiving advances of only $5,000, “even the lowliest shuffler of proofs gets more than £11,000 a year.” Now, unless the dollar has taking a…
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GRATITUDE FOR “MY” WOMEN
GRATITUDE FOR “MY” WOMEN
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I would have come on my own,
But she said to bring the wife…
Can’t get away with “nothing”
But that’s how I prefer my life.
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Even joking is dangerous
For what, in an instant, he’ll do…
Reminded of certain realities.
Makes his heart remain true.
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What’s in a fertile imagination
I’m told in a man is okay….
But when he strikes out for “freedom”
He mustn’t slip away!
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He loves his wife, but excitement
Of another woman looks fun…
Sometimes a loving reminder
Confirms you’re the only one!
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He may not like his dreams dashed,
By the targets of his urge….
But he needs to face it–
Betrayal is not a loving word!
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–Jonathan Caswell
Power Plant Men 2015 in review
I have now completed my fourth year of Power Plant Men Stories. During my first year (2012), I decided that this would be a four year journey where I would create one new story every week. With 208 unique Power Plant Posts.
I have succeeded. I have created one new Power Plant Man story each week, and each week I have re-posted the stories from the years before. My last new post was created last Saturday and is about the day I left the plant to change careers and go into IT at Dell in 2001.
Most of the time I didn’t know what I was going to write when I sat down, I just had a span of years that I wrote about each year, and I tried to make the stories fit into that time frame.
For the most part, these were all true stories. There are a…
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