Counting my words again.
Today my fellow Word Counters and I are sharing our monthly group post. Each month one group member picks
a number between 12 and 50. All participating bloggers are then
challenged to write something (or a few somethings, as the case may be)
using that exact number of words. Today we all share what we came up
with.
This month's number is 43.
It was chosen by Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings.
As
I've been doing in these Word Counters posts, I've chosen a theme and
am using my word count multiple times in keeping with the theme. This
month I've chosen the theme Hybrid Philosophy, I'm dipping my toe in the waters of Karma, Existentialism, Nature vs Nurture, and more. All inspired by a bag. . .
~ Inspiration can come from the strangest, most random places. Like a bag you walk out of the store with, carrying your holiday cards. I had walked out of the card store without ever really looking at the bag they'd given me. Who does?
~ I placed my purchases on the kitchen counter, took off and hung up my coat, started emptying the grocery bags, putting things away, and as the counter started to clear, there it was, staring me in the face, a message. It was this:
~ Although I can thank the card company for grabbing my attention and getting me thinking now, the message, of course, is not theirs. Sartre is credited with the theory of existentialism. He believed that our actions are what make us who we are.
~ I'm not someone who fully believes in karma, that what you put out there comes back to you. If only it were that easy! But that boomerang theory isn't backed up by facts. If true, nothing bad would ever happen to kind people.
~ I'm not talking about recipes going wrong, burning the roast, the cookies falling apart. It isn't the little things, it's the major life changes, heartbreaks. They happen to all of us, no one is immune, no matter how good or kind we are.
Peppermint Stuffed Cookies
~ I remember, while suffering the brutal ups and downs of infertility, finally being pregnant, then losing the baby. I went into surgery reading a book called "When Bad Things Happen to Good People." They do. They're not karma, not because they are deserved.
~ And don't forget nature vs nurture, you have to add that into the mix too. I believe in both. We are most definitely born with some inherent traits. And our upbringing has to impact how we grow and develop. We don't control either.
~ We start with our nature add the nurture provided, and a sprinkling of karma, the rest is up to us. We learn from our choices or not, giving us the power. Being a good person isn't for a reward. It is the reward.
Here are links to the other Word Counters posts:
Peppermint Stuffed Cookies
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Ingredients:
4 oz candy canes or starlight mints 1 cup canned vanilla frosting
1/2 tsp peppermint extract
50 vanilla wafer cookies
3 oz candy melts, white, red, or a mixture of both
Directions:
*Finely crush the mints.
*Mix the frosting with the peppermint extract and half of the crushed candy.
*Lay
out half of the vanilla wafer cookies, flat side up, and pipe about 1
TBSP frosting onto each. Sandwich pressing the flat side of the
remaining 25 cookies onto the top.
*Melt
the candy melts according to package directions. Dip half of each cookie into the melted
topping and immediately sprinkle with the remaining crushed mints.
*Place onto parchment paper and allow to set completely.
