Standing Into Danger: January 2022

Friday, January 28, 2022

Aloha!

Okay, time to get back in my blogging routine again.
I am feeling so much better!

Hawaii is working its magic, and so is my medication.

I've been taking random shots of things that have caught my eye.

Here are some recent photos:

My Favorite Subject ~ Terry

West Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Bougainvillea

Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

A Regal Pigeon

Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

Wave Breaking Near the Queen's Walkway into the Ocean

Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

Surfer on a Wave by Robert Pashby

Queens Beach Near Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

Surfer Searching for a Wave

Queens Beach Near Waikiki, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

Hula Dancer

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 25, 2022

I Wouldn't Know This Was My Shadow

if I Didn't Take the Photo

Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Don't Forget Your Furry Friends!

Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Our Plane Comes in for a Landing at Kahului International Airport

Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

The Pavillion at Queens Beach

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 20, 2022

Spores in Ferns

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 25, 2022

Kids Playing

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 25, 2022

Kahoʻolawe from Maui

Wailea, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Waiting for Our Landlord

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 9, 2022

Work in Progress on Front Street

Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Boardwalk by Resorts at Ka'anapali Beach

Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

West Maui from Wailea on the Southern Leeward Coast

Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Hula Dancers

Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, USA

January 26, 2022

Sunset at Waikiki

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 9, 2022

Next week I will be posting on Wednesday, January 2,

for the Insecure Writer's Support Group's monthly get-together.

I'm still catching up with my blogging friends.

Stay happy and safe!

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

On the Bay of Fundy
© M. Louise (MacBeath) Barbour/Fundy Blue
All Rights Reserved

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

IWSG: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 ~ Writing Regrets

It's the first Wednesday of the month,
the day that members of the
Insecure Writer's Support Group
share their writing struggles
and writing successes
and offer their encouragement
and support to fellow writers.

To visit the IWSG website, click here.

To become a member of the IWSG, click here.

Our wonderful co-hosts who are volunteering today,
along with IWSG Founder Alex J. Cavanaugh are Erika Beebe, Olga Godim, Sandra Cox, Sarah Foster, and, Chemist Ken!

I hope you have a chance to visit today's hosts and thank them for co-hosting.

I'm sure they would appreciate a visit and an encouraging comment.

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Every month the IWSG announces a question that members can answer
with advice, insight, a personal experience, or a story in their IWSG posts.

Or, the question can inspire members
if they aren't sure what to write about on IWSG Day.

Remember the question is optional.
This month's featured question is:

What's the one thing about your writing career you regret the most? Were you able to overcome it?

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Happy New Year Everyone!

Here's hoping 2022 is a good one for each of you!

I'm keeping this short because I'm still dealing with

a raging thyroid and worsening eyesight.

I now weigh what I weighed when I was eleven!

As of today, my endocrinologist is treating me more aggressively with drugs,

and I see an ophthalmologist who specializes in Graves eye disease on Thursday.

Feeling better, seeing better, is getting closer.

So is Hawaii!

Yes, fingers crossed, Terry and I are flying to Honolulu on Sunday.

Waikiki from the top of Diamond Head

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

March 10, 2018

My biggest writing regret?

I wish as a university student I had seen writing as a career option.

But it was drilled into me throughout my young life

that I must have a career,

that I must be able to stand on my own two feet,

and I must not depend on a husband.

Generations of tragedy on both sides of my family fueled these imperatives.

My parents sacrificed everything for their son,

and their four daughters, to graduate from university,

so I never considered writing as an option.

I needed a solid and secure career that came with good pay and benefits.

I regret not having decades and decades of writing

what I wanted to write behind me now.

But if I had followed that path,

I would have missed the wonder of rocks and geology,

the thrill of searching and drilling for oil in the Oil Patch,

and my rewarding teaching career with all those amazing kiddos.

Driller Jack Taylor and I in the Doghouse

DNB Rig, Western Kansas Oil Patch, USA

February 1982

I never did anything halfway.

I was always called an overachiever ~ How I hate that label!

I was not an overachiever!

I was passionate,

and I poured my heart and energy into my different careers.

I had nothing left over to write the books inside me.

I wrote constantly connected to my work,

but it was not what I wanted to write.

I think we all must wonder about the roads not taken.

I took a different road from that of a professional writer,

but my chosen road was a rich and fulfilling one.

Regret is a powerful emotion. Maybe I feel more of a what if.

My life is what it is, and now I can write.

I'm greedy for life, and I'm greedy for time to write.

I've smacked into a giant pile of downed trees obstructing my path,

but I'm sawing through them,

and soon I'll be back to writing as I want to.

This past month I've been beaten down physically.

I had a wonderful visit with some of my family in Calgary

and a lovely Christmas Eve with Terry's family,

but most of the time I've felt rotten and exhausted.

My brother Roy, me, Terry, and my sister-in-law Susan

My best day in December (10th)

Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I haven't looked at my blog or opened my email in a month.

I'm posting today because I care so much about the IWSG.

I can't promise that I'll get around much to visit today.

I have three medical/ophthamalogist appointments in the next two days,

and I have to pack.

I cannot wait to see the ocean, palm trees, and Diamond Head.

Our apartment on Waikiki has good wifi,

and my stronger and new meds should kick in soon.

So, I will get around to all my blogging buddies and IWSG visitors very soon.

My manuscript is traveling with me.

And, even if I have to crawl, I'm getting to the top of Diamond Head.

Our Great Niece Ella Grace MacBeath

An Independent Young Woman at Four

December 10, 2021

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

I hope each of you has fun visiting around today.

Happy writing to each of you in January!

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

https://selkiegrey4.blogspot.com

Books Read in 2024

"5 Languages of Love: The Secret to Love That Lasts" by Gary Chapman
"At Home in the World" by Joyce Maynard
"Cockroaches" by Jo Nesbo
"Death's End" by Cixin Liu
"Eruption" by Michael Crichton and James Patterson
"In Darkness" by L. Diane Wolfe
"In My Time of Dying" by Sebastian Junger
"Nothing to Fear" by Julie McFadden, RN
"The Bat" by Jo Nesbo
"The Dark Forest" by Cixin Liu
"The Frozen River" by Ariel Lawhon
"The Last to Vanish" by Megan Miranda
"The Montauk Monster" by Hunter Shea
"The Road to Character" by David Brooks
"The Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller
"The Twist of a Knife" by Anthony Horowitz
"The Uninhabital Earth: Life After Warming" by David Wallace-Wells
"The Women" by Kristin Hannah
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens
"Writing the Shadow" by Joanna Penn

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Aloha!

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

IWSG: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 ~ Writing Regrets