ABC-Wednesday - 19-Q

 Mrs. Nesbitt's 


ABC-Wednesday   

Round 19-Q














Hello and good morning, -afternoon, -evening, dear people who all participate is this wonderful photomeme, which is a joy to me, week after week, after week.
I’m always curious to what you come up with!

The challenging letter of this week is the Q and I've chosen for the word Quest

Coming again to the letter Q, searching for an appropriate word, I realized that filling in some letters truly is a quest.
Just joined ABC Wednesday, its the 5th time that I have to fill in this letter and that is not that easy, especially for someone who's native tongue is an other then the English one.
But for this time, I've succeeded. Next time?...Time will tell won't it? *smile*

 So many things can be categorized under 'quest'... can't they?
 I would like to say that life in itself is a quest, at least to me it is. Always trying to look for the bright side, however dark some moments can be.

Another quest, in which I find lots and lots of joy is going out with my camera, the quest for beautiful things to capture so that I whenever I want or need to, can relive that moment and re-feel the joy to that I had at the moment of capture. Photographing is my favorite quest, as you might have guessed by now. Its a quest which gives pleasure, lots of it, and who does not want to have that?

 What is your favorite quest?

 Have ave a nice ABC-Wednesday-day / - week ~ ♫ M e l o d y ♫ (ABC-W-team)
 
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Happy Birthday to.....

Hi all members of our ABC-Wednesday-family.. 

Saaturday, october the 29th we may congratulate Shooting Parrots with his birthday.

Wishing him a wonderful birthday with lots more in the best of health and happiness!


If someone wants his/her date to be added to our Birthday-Calendar, just let me know!

♫ M e l d y ♫ (abc-w-team)

P is for Pumpkin!

We are enjoying a great week of pumpkin fun - for the first time villages are coming together and working towards a full programme of activities. The banner above is displayed through all the villages.

Tomorrow we are having an exciting cookery session at our village hall - it is fully booked! The recipes sound fun!

I will be back to share!

Over on my blog more details are posted.

happy ABC Wednesday one and all!

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O is for October

I suppose I OUGHT to go with the OBVIOUS, O is for OCTOBER.

There are a lot of holidays, and holy days, this month.

OCTOBER 2 (evening), ending in the evening of OCTOBER 4 - Rosh Hashanah. Happy 5777 on the Jewish calendar

OCTOBER 10 - Thanksgiving (Canada). Columbus Day (US), which has been OFTEN supplanted by Indigenous Peoples Day, for reasons you can read about here

OCTOBER 11 (evening), ends in the evening of OCTOBER 12 - Yom Kippur

OCTOBER 24 - United Nations Day

OCTOBER 31 - Halloween, All Hallows Eve

And there are OTHERS.

I'd reviewed a book called Apocrypha Now, a slightly OFF-kilter book about the religious works that didn't find their way into the King James Version of the Bible, such as the Jewish midrash, the Catholic Douay books of the Apocrypha, and those New Testament gospels that did not make the cut.

ONE story was about God giving Moses the 10 commandments, then getting really annoyed by the golden calf worship thing and temporarily abandoning Israel. But ultimately God came around.

The nation of Israel was so overcome by God's forgiveness that everyone spent the day crying, and that got God crying, and soon everyone was just a big emotional mess.

"That was great," Moses said. "Really cathartic."

"You know what? Let's celebrate this day every year. We can call it 'Apology Day.' Everyone who deserves an apology gets one, and everyone who needs to apologize gets to," God suggested...

"I thought the climax of my relationship with the human race was going to be giving you the law," God said. "But it wasn't. It was forgiving you for breaking it."

Apology Day came to be known as Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar...

On the Ark [of the Covenant] they inscribed two of God's many names - Elohim: God the Powerful, and Adonai: God the Merciful.
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