Welcome to My Life (Book) https://www.Writing.Com/main/books.php/item_id/1954602 "" Thanksgiving 2023 Can you smell the turkey in the oven roasting. Give thanks for the Thanksgiving Feast. *Poet's Note:* Thu, 23 Nov 2023 17:24:45 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1060002 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/1060002 ʻIdÃl (Justice), 10 JamÃl (Beauty) 177 B.E. Wednesday, May 6, 2020 ""This is that which hath descended from the realm of glory, uttered by the tongue of power and might, and revealed unto the Prophets of old. We have taken the inner essence thereof, and clothed it in the garment of brevity, as a token of grace unto the righteous, that they may stand faithful unto the Covenant of God, may fulfi...[Read Full Post] Wed, 06 May 2020 16:41:43 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982906 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982906 FiḍÃl (Grace), 9 JamÃl (Beauty) 177 B.E. Tuesday, May 5, 2020 #6 for April Meditating on the Prompt What is the first line? Where does the poem begin? I meditate on the prompt! âNothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.â Mary Shelley, Frankenstein...[Read Full Post] Tue, 05 May 2020 18:53:59 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982824 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982824 JamÃl (Beauty), 7 JamÃl (Beauty) 177 B.E. Sunday, May 3, 2020 "What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him." Pope Benedict XVI For me Sunday is JamÃl, the day of Beauty, and--like every other day of the week--is dedicated to the All-Glorious Lord because JamÃl is a ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 03 May 2020 17:34:58 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982666 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/982666 " [Link To Item #mhwa] Task 20: Tell us about the strongest person youâve known. What is it about that person that made you admire them so much? How do you carry their strength with you?" The strongest person I ever knew was my father's mother, Belva Darbe. She was Grandpa Darbe's second wife, and several years young. Grandpa Darbe was a farmer, who plowed his fields plow horse. After his first wife died, he ma...[Read Full Post] Sat, 20 Apr 2019 21:49:15 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956676 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/956676 " [Link To Item #mhwa] Task 18: Find a mental health disorder or symptom that you know little or nothing about. Research it a bit and tell us in a blog entry or item: What did you research and what did you learn? Have you ever known anyone with this symptom or disorder? What forms of treatment are available for this issue? What articles can we look at to give us further information?" It's amazing how a few days of...[Read Full Post] Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:40:40 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/954597 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/954597 MHWA Topic of the Week Mental Health and Careers "What do you think about telling employers about mental health challenges? Is it a good idea or not? Have you ever personally done it? Under what circumstances is it a good idea? When is it a bad idea?" This type of information should be given on a need to know basis. The only people who need to know are doctor...[Read Full Post] Wed, 01 Aug 2018 21:32:06 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/938938 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/938938 " [Link To Item #2146101] Task 2: Misdiagnosis happens quite often since many forms of mental illness have similarities to one another. Have you ever experienced being misdiagnosed? If so, share your journey with us. If not, find an article or blog online that tells a story of someone else who was misdiagnosed and share what you learned." How Misdiagnosis Prevented Me from Moving on to Recovery â g...[Read Full Post] Thu, 03 May 2018 21:42:40 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/933775 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/933775 âIdÃl (Justice), 10 JalÃl (Glory) 175 B.E. - Wednesday, April 18, 2018 ""Praise the Lord! You servants of the Lord, praise his name! May his name be praised, now and forever. From the east to the west praise the name of the Lord! The Lord rules over all nations; his glory is above the heavens." Psalms 113:11" Praise the Lord*#* Pra...[Read Full Post] Wed, 18 Apr 2018 17:47:08 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/933050 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/933050 âIdÃl (Justice), 3 JalÃl (Glory) 175 B.E. - Wednesday, April 11, 2018 Old Houses*#* I love old houses! Old houses have mysteries waiting to be solved. Old houses have secrets waiting to be revealed. Old houses have histories demanding to be written. Old houses have flaws yearning to be transformed. Old houses have poems desiring to be composed. Old h...[Read Full Post] Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:00:06 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/932591 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/932591 " [Link To Item #2146101] Task 22: Write about a song/film/TV show that is your go-to place when you really need to smile." There isn't just one song that is my go-to place when I need to smile. I go to YouTube, pick out a Baha'i song, let it play (sometimes singing along with it), and after it finishes I let the next song play. I let the songs play until I am smiling again (which doesn't take long), and I ...[Read Full Post] Sat, 17 Mar 2018 18:40:41 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/930860 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/930860 " [Link To Item #2146101] Task 12: Write about a book you've read with a character who had a mental illness. Would you recommend the book to others? If you haven't read one, research some potential books to read where a character has a mental illness." According to the website Cracked*#*, there are "6 Beloved Characters That Had Undiagnosed Mental Illnesses"*#*. "(1) In Gone With the Wind ...[Read Full Post] Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:33:02 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/930183 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/930183 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 26: List your current worries. Dementia Losing my support system Congress taking away my food stamps Congress taking away my medical Losing my transportation The cost of gas The cost of electrical power Overdrawing my bank account Those are the main worries I have right now, and in the order I worry about them. There was a time when I worried ...[Read Full Post] Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:44:25 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929450 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929450 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 22: Write about a childhood memory. Childhood memories, some are good, and some are bad, but none of them are ever indifferent. I always enjoyed going to The Lake (I don't know the name of this recreational area because we always called it The Lake) with Grandma Mary and Grandpa Frank. It was here that I learned to water ski, and got my arm ca...[Read Full Post] Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:02:47 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929282 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929282 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 21: Write about a song that makes you feel sad. Sad songs don't always make me cry, Sometime the make me ask why, I feel like the tears are welling up, Like an overfilled coffee cup. It's been a while since I, intentionally, listened to a song that makes me sad. Normally, I find country songs work best when it come to raising the dragon of...[Read Full Post] Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:04:19 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929280 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/929280 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 12: Write about your most admirable trait. Considering that I'm not used to, and was never taught to look at my positive traits, I'm going to go with one that has both positive and negative connotations. This trait is my most praiseworthy, under certain conditions my most shameful, trait. I am referring to steadfastness, the ability to push forward even when faced wi...[Read Full Post] Mon, 12 Feb 2018 21:23:17 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928803 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928803 " [Link To Item #2146101] Day 11: Find an article about one of your specific issues and write your thoughts on the article." Review of Maladaptive daydreaming: Symptoms and management*#* by By Aaron Kandola This article has two goals. The first is to establish ways to identify Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD). The second is to cope with it so that it does not intrude in the daily life of the MD sufferer. One of the main things this article does is to define t...[Read Full Post] Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:15:35 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928556 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928556 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 7: Write about how you feel today and what has caused you to feel that way. It's Monday morning, and I'm feeling distracted and unfocused. I think the problem is that this morning, unlike last week, we had the two of the neighbor's children in the house. De watches them while their mother is at work, they came to the house about 6:30 A.M. This disrupted my mornin...[Read Full Post] Mon, 05 Feb 2018 12:20:48 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928424 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928424 " [Link To Item #2146101] Day 6: Make a short term positive goal, take the initiative to accomplish it, then come back to edit the entry with the results." Short Term Goal Write an introduction and post it in [Link To Item #2146092] . Results of Short Term Goal [Link to Forum Post #3161161] [Link to Book Entry #928385] ...[Read Full Post] Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:32:15 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928377 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928377 [Link To Item #2146101] Day 5: Write about your support system. My support system changed drastically in 2012, the year my mother succumbed to the Alzheimer's disease and her soul transcended. For a while, after her death, I went to a support group at the hospice she was in the last day of her life. That lasted until sometime in late 2014, when I moved from the money trap (this is how I refer to th...[Read Full Post] Sun, 04 Feb 2018 15:27:17 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928238 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/928238 IstijlÃl , 6 Sharaf (Honor) 174 B.E. - Thursday, January 4, 2018 On the First Thankful Thursday in 2018 On the first Thankful Thursday in 2018 I am grateful that there are 51 Thankful Thursdays left in the year. This means that I can find 510 more things to be thankful for before the beginning of 2019. I am thankful that my poem [Link To Item #2143...[Read Full Post] Thu, 04 Jan 2018 15:41:00 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926326 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926326 KamÃl (Perfection), 3 Sharaf (Honor) 147 B.E. - Monday, January 1, 2018 It is motivational Monday, and a new Gregorian year has begun. In 2017, I didn't write down any goals or resolution at the beginning of January. I continued this trend on Naw-Ruz of 2017, and, as a results, I can remember only two of my goals. I accomplished both of the goals I remember, however, since I didn't write the others down, I don't know if I accompli...[Read Full Post] Mon, 01 Jan 2018 14:50:51 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926096 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926096 JamÃl (Beauty) 2 Sharaf (Honor) 174 B.E. - Sunday, December 31, 2017 It is New Year's Eve 2017, and I have managed to either write or read without playing any type of online solitaire game. I hope to continue this record for the rest of Sunday and into Monday, January 1, 2018. I admit to Googling solitaire earlier today; however, instead of playing the game I went to BahaiTeaching.org*#* and read the article "Am I a Racist?"*#* by Chris Kavelin. I hope to continue writing, reading, an...[Read Full Post] Sun, 31 Dec 2017 19:07:20 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926025 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/926025 IstijlÃl (Majesty ), 17 MasÃâil (Questions) 174 B.E. - Thursday, December 28, 2017 As the Gregorian year draws to an end, I contemplate the next three months, and the goals I have decided on for the period between January 1, 2018, and March 21 of the same year. I used to chose goals on January 1 for the year and then reevaluate them around Naw-Ruz (March 21). I got out of that hab...[Read Full Post] Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:29:48 EST https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/925911 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/925911 I have written this title before inspired by various poets, but I am unsatisfied with each attempt. Unsatisfied, with each poem, I rewrite, I put them away, I look at them later, and realize I am unsatisfied with the improvement: I am left wondering if I have improved the ode. Today, I recognized the reason I am unsatisfied! The poems do not speak from my soul, they are neither metaphors nor similes for my love of God, His Glory, or any...[Read Full Post] Sat, 28 Oct 2017 18:46:18 EDT https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/922841 https://www.Writing.Com/main/books/entry_id/922841