Politics are an angry conversation starter with some long before any words are spoken. Truthfully, I prefer to keep things private.
Without going into detail, I believe that there’s both good and bad on both sides of the political spectrum on many issues.
Have a friend and former neighbor who is a political lightening rod who will go off on her rants based sometimes even on the smallest or lightest comment. Honestly, I avoid her even online all the time.
My middle of the road is that to keep peace and to keep one’s friends over heated discussions that won’t change the problem or issue. My views haven’t changed much at all.
There’s peace standing in the middle of the road although I could run over or hit by others who want me to stand on one side or the other.
Trilogy of three different movies which I found the last two on Netflix and the first on Prime.
The third focuses on religion, two is on social media and influencers and the first one is about family relations with the patriarch being a famous writer.
“Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery” is when individuals who never met but are successful in what they do are invited to a remote island where someone will be murdered. Number two in the series is about the cost of success as social media influencers from different genres. The movie is complex of human emotion and interaction. Surprising turns.
“Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery,” is about a young priest that is assigned to a rural church to help the senior leader to fix the decline in attendance and in membership. There’s a community of people who come together and live through the crime like number two above. All of them have something to hide and something to gain.”
The original Knives Out is a thriller regarding the death of a famous mystery writer plus a group of unique and interesting people are bought together for a series of actions to determine the killer like the two sequels.
Tonight, I plan to be awake till 1am CST to finish watching all three. Grateful for Netflix for the last installment acknowledging its place as being in the top ten for December.
Pop your popcorn, get out your favorite beverages with friends or family for a night of thrillers.
You get to build your perfect space for reading and writing. What’s it like?
The perfect space for reading and writing for me and my feline diva princesses is a dream for my future home back home that will be comfortable and peaceful.
Currently, I live in a neighborhood that is full of tract homes that all have the same floor plan and same exterior but, thank goodness, people have made them unique with adding personal touches. At night, I hear trains and during the day, I hear the freeway a few miles away. Somedays, the pollution from the freeway lands in the area too.
My home is short on space inside plus my online closet takes up one room in itself, another room of things I didn’t unpack and the third bedroom is setup as my room. Mainly, I write in my living room.
My next home that I have a strong sense of that I will be back in a small town back in northern Michigan where I went to high school. The nearest freeway is 60 minutes east of the town. One might hear fog horns from the water for passings ships and birds outside the window.
My peaceful and comfortable space will involve a big comfortable chair near a window with a table and a floor lamp preferably in a condo overlooking a golf course or being on or near the water that flows into nearby Lake Michigan with opening up my windows to listen to the birds and the breeze plus see the occasional eagle. My cat’s space nearby would be the other chair of a matching set for them to nap while listening to the peace and quiet.
In addition, I will have time and space to walk into town or ride my bike near the beach to find inspiration. Spending time outside experiencing natural therapy listening to the waves and hearing the breeze plus experiencing beautiful sunsets over Lake Michigan.
My inspiration is that Ernest Hemingway wrote many of his books or got inspiration for them of land that he owned about ten miles east of my former family residence and my future home. Mr. Hemingway found peace of mind and soul being near the water in the woods of northern Michigan.
As for now, I will be content and thankful with me and my felines in my living room to write and to dream.
Above in the link are the requirements to have your Guest Essay visible to online subscribers of, “The New York Times,” that clearly states that one cannot counterpoint another essay. Likely, to avoid political debates.
If you ever submitted an essay whether it got posted or not, I’m interested in your experience.
Thanks again,
Leslie Elizabeth David.
PS. The Detroit Free Press uses FreeUp for content writers.
Despite how their season ended, I’m still a lifer fan and I still respect Coach Campbell.
When the NFL refs are scrutinized, the head of the league always reminds us that in the end, it’s entertainment and not the Olympics. So, the most marketable team should win?
Growing up in Detroit wasn’t always easy with people who work hard and smart for the auto industry. Possible layoffs or strikes were always possible and still exist.
Truthfully, as some commercial stated, that Detroit requires some toughness and strength to endure the weather and the culture years ago. Something about, “We are the Motor City,” where I will always consider home.
My most favorite car ever is my current one, 2017 Toyota Corolla LE,because it’s reliable and cute plus gets decent gas mileage.
This is my second Corolla that has a similar body type and interior to my old VW Jetta but more reliable. Same color too with black interior. My first one was basic model in blue which I promises myself to get a red one in the future.
In college, I went to a school that has a manufacturer auto show put on my students in automotive retail/dealership studies. I was fortunate enough to get on the Toyota team that allowed me to drive a new Corolla from the local Toyota dealership to the school.
In the future, I might buy another one in red and LE trim although, I’m loving this one at almost 100k in mileage and still running like a new car. Time will tell.
My creative energy flows at its own space and time that I have no control of. Without it, my ideas alone are lame from writing to planning a trip. When it flows, I believe that I cannot waste it so I write down notes to bring it back to life later.
My creativity touched the exterior design of my home that caused most of the town’s people driving by. It looks completely different from before from a light yellow siding and a clay colored roof to white wash gray siding, multi colored roof of grey, black and white with hunter green trim with pure white trimming the windows. Many copy cats followed. In addition, it has touched my online closet when I started arranging it much like a brick and mortar small boutique shop.
Back in the day, I used to be creative in the kitchen by altering recipes to something completely different from experimenting with different foods. Fortunately, I was living in Michigan at the time where buying foods locally grown were abundant and inexpensive.
As I ponder the thought of submitting an essay to a major media outlet, an idea came to mind that is close to my heart. My creative energy flows on its own clock so the topic is slowly developing in my mind, of course, at inconvenient times.
Let your creative energy flow and open your heart and mind to benefit yourself and help others become their best selves.
Did you ever hear a little voice in your head telling you to do something?
Well, this morning, it happened to me that encouraged me to submit an essay to a major US media outlet.
This particular media outlet has well written clearly stated guidelines on what is encouraged to write and how to proceed. The rest is up to the writer.
Grateful for the long Holiday time off from work to determine my path to make it happen. If you’ve written for a major media outlet, please advise. Thank you.
The power of influence like most others would be the ones closest to them in one’s formative years of growing up.
Furthermore, the influence depends on how the relationship is that shapes affects the person.
Coming into this world on a premature birth when the first weeks of my life, I was in pediatric ICU thus delaying human interaction in the most important time of a newborn. Although, my Dad was a physician, he couldn’t advise on my case.
As, time went on, I became more aware that I’m much different than almost everyone including family. And, was treated as such.
The power of influence for most of my life has been my parents who played favorites which I wasn’t by a long shot. Most favored was the fourth child and second brother then my younger sister followed by the youngest sibling then the oldest of us all putting me last. All of my life, I have fought to be treated like everyone else.
Life was such when I went through my divorce, my own father told me that I didn’t deserve a faithful partner that hurt be realized later that he was never true to my Mom either.
The power of influence crumbled after my move to Texas which my parents legally tried stopping me. The lawyers remembered me as a high school cheerleader and knew me plus my life since.
These days, work and friends are my influencers but not controlling. Plus, I am aware of power seekers who like to control others too. I’m my own influencer.
The Magnificent Modern Mature Woman 