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Y Ddraig Goch

by Seffi

Rated: 18+ · Book · Other · #2010700

For the avoidance of doubt... Yes... I definitely have an opinion...

Welcome to my Blog!!

Having an opinion is better than not having a thought of your own.
I have many of both....
Pull up a pew and grab a hot, steaming mug of your choice.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Princess Megan Rose

about 10 hours ago
In response to "Sept 24 - Place of enchantment"

Enchantment means different things to each of us. I get this. Thank goodness for our Enchantment.

Joy

Sep 22, 2025 at 7:08pm
In response to "Sept 22 - Tupac Shakur"

I wasn't into Tupac Shakur either, but I loved the quote.
And yes, he was probably talking about the underprivileged people of color, but the idea speaks positively to all of us, daring us to rise over difficulties, regardless of our color, background, and stance in life.

Joy

Sep 21, 2025 at 11:14am
In response to "Sept 20 - Friends"

So true! And you don't have a split personality. You are multi-faceted.

Witchy Woman

Sep 19, 2025 at 2:05pm
In response to "Sept 19 - Freedom of Speech"

Nor did Melissa and Mark Hortman, they have children as well not just Kirk.

"I think there are many people, on both sides, that are responsible for stirring the pot and creating a very real, very visceral hatred for anyone who disagrees with their view point. I think it’s dangerous and needs to be called out. And I think the very worrying trend of “fake news-ing” things you don’t want to discuss, threatening journalists who ask tough questions, and even cancelling talk shows is going to make the problem that much worse. When you start censoring the news, what’s seen on TV you start to tread in dangerous water – the type that was wide spread in Germany 1930/40, the type that’s in China and Russia now.

We need platforms that discuss the different viewpoints. We need people who are willing to call out people in power when they say something wrong, stupid or dangerous. Satire and comedy has always been a very powerful tool to do that."

You've hit the nail on the head, censorship is extremely dangerous. What Kimmel said did not harm anyone, he drew attention to the fact there was a lot of finger pointing and the new ballroom focus for the cheeto. The cheeto is weird everyday, why would that offend anyone?

Joy

Sep 19, 2025 at 1:31pm
In response to "Sept 19 - Freedom of Speech"

"I am an outsider. I don’t really understand American politics."
I'm in the states and I don't understand it, either. And my opinion doesn't matter, also.
The way I see it, though, it used to be better than this, way back when.
And I learned what Kimmel said from your entry. I don't much watch or care for TV, and the internet is even more iffy.
Then, about Charlie Kirk, yes, no one deserves that. Especially not his two very small children and young wife.
Good entry.

Joy

Sep 16, 2025 at 1:50pm
In response to "Sept 16 - Role Models"

Exactly my point. Flashy careers do not necessarily make role models, if that flashiness doesn't include being good, moral, and altruistic. And also, nobody is perfect.

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citruspocket

Sep 14, 2025 at 5:14am
In response to "Sept 14 - Animals"

Great post - I've learnt a lot - especially amazed to learn that grizzly bears can give birth while hibernating

Sumojo

Sep 14, 2025 at 3:58am
In response to "Sept 14 - Animals"

So sorry to hear about Indy, she sounds as if she was quite a character.

Witchy Woman

Sep 12, 2025 at 5:04pm
In response to "Sept 11 - We Remember, We won't forget"

"The world watched in horror, an unwilling bystander, unable to do anything to stop it. We watched the second plane hit; we watched the towers fall… In real-time. There is no unseeing those things. There is no unfeeling those things. They are etched permanently in our memories."

I agree with Joy, many of us are unwilling bystanders in the majority of our current politics. Now, we're watching freedom of speech, the right to vote without harassment and losing more everyday.
The rising cost of groceries, drugs, insurances there is no unfeeling those and unfortunately the numbers won't be as visible as they were on 9/11. This country hasn't been the same since that day and I'm afraid it's going to become much worse.

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Joy

Sep 12, 2025 at 12:35pm
In response to "Sept 11 - We Remember, We won't forget"

"The world watched in horror, an unwilling bystander..."
The world is still a bystander with just about everything. Then, at times, one country or other, takes the side of a country on either side of a conflict, which doesn't help, either.
I worry about the consequences and hope we may learn very quickly.

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September 23, 2025 at 12:13am

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Sept 23 - The heart and the ocean

Prompt: Heart and the Ocean - “Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.” Bob Dylan In what ways is your heart like the ocean? Are you aware of every single thing that your heart holds inside it?

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I have to be honest, I first thought this was the quote from Titanic…

Bob Dylan forgot the “and dangerous” part about the ocean. Interestingly, ‘mysterious, dark, and dangerous’ also describes my taste in book-boyfriends…

The ocean is vast – as is the ‘hearts’ capacity to love – which is what Dylan is talking about.

I doubt he was referring to a physical heart, though you could argue the heart is as vital to our own survival as the ocean is to the world. There is no life without it. At least, one worth living in. Conveniently the same can be said about our metaphorical hearts. The poetic symmetry has a undisputable elegance to it.

Love, like the ocean, can be many things depending on… well everything. The ocean is possibly the most powerful force on the planet, and yet it’s affected and influenced by everything that goes on around it: weather (though this is a circular affect), pollutants, and the moon… a possible tangent to friends & family, trauma, and hormones.

Love can be all consuming, alluring, and dangerous. It can be calm and enduring. Tempestuous and ferocious. Unexplored and uncharted, yet feels like home. A force of nature that’s hard to steer against. Affected by outside forces that we have little control over. And sometimes, full of scary ‘monsters’ and wrecks from our past… no? Just me then… And sometimes it’s full of sunken treasure.

It’s a good comparison.

I don’t think anyone could successfully audit a heart. It’s too messy. I think it’s a bit like Mary Poppin’s bag… it’s much bigger on the inside and holds so much more than you think it does; you keep pulling out random crap that you completely forgot was there. Sometimes it’s a nice surprise or memory, other times it’s like you just found one of the kid’s half chewed sweets, half wrapped up… and you pull that universal face of disgust.

My point is, it’s rare that you swap one love out for another. Your heart just keeps expanding and filling up with different experiences and people as you navigate life; spouses, parents, siblings, kids, pets, friends, best-friends, ex-boy/girlfriends, places, and hobbies. The things you love and that make you feel alive. There is room for it all.

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