What emotion does this sculpture – Three Businessmen Who Brought Their Own Lunch: Batman, Swanston And Hoddle – by Alison Weaver evoke in you? Do you think Batman, Swanston and Hoddle feel that they have anything to look forward to?
My favourite entry of the week was this one from Gilly.
For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post.
No photo this week: I’m ambivalent about the whole kissing thing.
Sure, a kiss of any nature feels good (unless it’s from some lecherous golfing partner who’s intent on kissing instead of shaking hands) but then there’s that sound: like a dog licking itself or a person chewing with their mouth open – ewwww.
People kissing on the big screen or TV? Fine, just turn down the sound.
I thought this particular aversion was just another peculiar quirk of my ultra-cranky disposition, until a few years ago when a young colleague expressed his mystification at why his wife would fly into a blind rage whenever their spaniel would do his daily licking grooming.
“Does she have the same reaction to people kissing on TV?” I asked.
“Yes!!” he shrieked.
I was onto something.
I did some research. Turns out, it’s a disorder (Of course. What isn’t?!). And it goes by the name of Misophonia.
In my case, these rage-inducing noises are limited to certain mouth sounds in others: teeth-sucking, open-mouthed chewing, licking, slurpy kissing, lip-smacking, spaghetti-sucking, finger-licking (I guess you won’t be inviting me over for dinner any time soon, haha).
Actually, it’s not that bad – I don’t have to leave the room to deal with my neurological irrationality. Just wish I could use it to my advantage: I’d be soooo thin if I had the same reaction to the sound of my own chewing…
What about you? Are there any sounds that drive you beyond crazy?
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This is one of my all-time favourites.
I took ballet, modern and tap-dancing lessons from the age of 3 and aspired to dance like Cyd, but after a friend adapted the lyrics of ‘She’s a Long-legged Woman Dressed in Black’ to “she’s a short-legged woman” to describe me…well, you can guess the rest.
Sometimes friends have to be cruel to be kind.
Reconstruction of an Archaeopteryx – Melbourne Museum
The staff at the Melbourne Museum have done a wonderful job of reconstructing this strange creature.
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Five favourites from this week:
I rarely write poetry 
at my desk –
but prefer cafes,
trains,
wide open spaces,
gardens,
forests,
whispering places –
and on dark, stormy nights,
my bed,
next to cheeky faces
😀
xxx
For a chance to win a great prize in Nancy’s challenge,
hop over to Spirit Lights the Way for details
She was the first blogger to make me laugh out loud, by asking me, on my About page, whether I was a man or a woman – the question astounded me and was the beginning of my appreciation of the mind-altering value of blogging: the way others perceive us is often so different from the way we see ourselves.
Image via http://www.sxc.hu
Insightful and multi-talented, Monica of Sweet Planet Poems is one of my oldest blogging friends – and how grateful I am that she has stayed the distance! 🙂 She has a delightful sense of humour, a rare generosity of spirit and a passion for the natural world that infuses her enchanting blog and publications.
She is a tireless campaigner for the protection of wolves in their natural habitat and shares their mystique in her wonderful poems, videos and photos many of which she creates on her frequent trips to Yellowstone National Park.
Monica has woven this delightful found poem in response to my Search Engine Poetry Challenge – I see it as a mirror of all the good in her heart (even the “picking up dog poop” line. :-D)
xxx
And here are a few of my favourite posts on Sweet Planet Poems:
Wild Wolf Encounters – this post is a free download of Monica’s wonderful collection of poetry on wolves.
Thanks for participating, dear Monica
😀
Scientific Illumination
Anatomy of the human hand – Melbourne Museum
Five favourites from this week’s photo challenge: Illumination
We ended what has been a rather mixed year
of highs and lows
in a very good place:
with precious family and wonderful friends on our beautiful harbour.
Happy New Year, Fellow Bloggers!
Hope you have a wonderful 2013
Thanks for your community.
🙂
xoxox
Due to work and university commitments, I’ll be taking a break from blogging for a while.
Waratah – Blue Mountains
Floral Emblem of New South Wales
©beeblu
Happy Blogging
See you on the other side
🙂
Hey! What’s in my hair?! © beeblu
A few favourites from this week’s entries:
For more entries, see The Daily Post at WordPress.com
Do your blog’s search engine terms reflect the soul of your blog?
This sprang to mind when I read this found poem by Christine Whitelaw, which she wrote in response to my Search Engine Poetry challenge.
Image via http://www.sxc.hu
Christine lives in a beautiful corner of Australia with artist husband Stuart,
and her blog, dadirridreaming, is predominantly Christine’s exquisite photographic contemplation
of the natural beauty that surrounds their home –
birds, insects, flowers, ocean, kangaroos and wallabies, sky and much more.
She also posts wonderful travelogues (that make me green with envy) about their trips to places further afield,
such as Lord Howe Island, Singapore and Europe (getting greener by the minute!).
Here are a few of my favourite posts from Christine’s latest globetrotting adventure:
Christine also occasionally hosts yoga retreats (and I’m hoping to attend one in the coming year)
So, what do you think?
Is the soul of dadirridreaming reflected in Christine’s found poem?
Thanks for participating, Christine!
😀
My husband,
and his extremely silly sense of humour
(But, his sense of style…)
..need I say more?
😆 😆 😆
For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post at WordPress.com
My ways of seeing are uniquely mine,
as yours are uniquely yours,
but we can learn a lot from each other…
A glimpse of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on the Kirribilli to Taronga Zoo walk
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The wreck of the MV Sygna – Stockton Beach, NSW, Australia
What happiness is there for those who lead a solitary life through no choice of their own?
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It’s not what you’re thinking, Jo Bryant 🙂
Peels like a mandarin…
Tastes like a mandarin…no, orange…no, mandarin
No seeds!
Sumo mandarins, known as dekopon in Japan, have come to our local grocer from a Queensland grower
Yummmm!
Early morning swimmers – Bronte Beach Baths, Sydney
©beeblu
Our quotidian rituals
bring discipline,
structure
and joy
to our hours;
they are the anchors
of our existence.
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For more entries to this week’s photo challenge, see The Daily Post at WordPress.com
Tendrils
Think
of the marvellous
mechanism
by which
Nature
conquers walls,
one inch
at a time
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I’ll be gone for a while – Happy Blogging 😀
“I think I spy a worm…
“Got it!”
“Pssst, Horace, I think we’re being watched.”
“Oh for goodness sake, Edith, stop imagining things and eat your dinner…”
“Mmm…I think I spy a plumper morsel over there…”
“nom, nom”
Click here for the Animal Olympics
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means they have a history.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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