Closing Out October

October has been an interesting and a stressful month. I was without a computer for 15 days (it seemed like forever), so I didn't post to this blog for that time. I had a smartphone, with both a regular (very small) keyboard and a virtual keyboard. I attempted to post to my writing.com blog, using the virtual keyboard, and it took me an hour to post one paragraph. Therefore, I didn't post to any blog after that. Nor did I review on writing.com. The only thing I did with the smart phone was check writing.com and Facebook. 

Prompt Friday: Answering a What Question

Prompt: What can you find at home that you can find nowhere else? 

Neighbors who wake me up at 1:00 AM pounding on the wall. The question arises, why are they pounding on the wall with a hammer at 1:00 in the morning. The answer is (probably) driving nails to hang a picture. 

The second question is, why do they have to hang picture at 1:00 on a Friday morning. Most people in this complex work five, six, or seven days a week from morning until evening. This means that the want to sleep from about 10:00 PM until approximately 7:00 AM. Waking up at 1:00 AM, breaks up their sleep. 

It's hard sometimes for me to get to sleep. Once I fall asleep, I like to sleep through the night. Waking up at 1:00 in the morning disrupts my sleep cycle and causes me to curse. I don't like to curse, especially when I can't yell over the pounding to make the person using the hammer, hear me. I'm not going to know on the door of anyone who has a hammer or any other type of weapon in their hand, just to curse them out. At least not unless there's a police officer standing beside or behind me. 

Back Online

After 15 days (which seemed like eternity) without a working computer, I'm back online with a new computer. That is one thing I'm thankful for today. I have a lot of other things to put on my gratitude list. I'm thankful for my smartphone, because it allowed me to check my e-mail and a couple of websites I like to log into every day. 

The problem with the phone was posting. I attempted to post a poem to one of my wirint.com journals. It took me an hour or two to post three stanzas, and I couldn't use the bold or italics. I decided just to be satisfied with logging in for a while without posting any long messages. 

Bedtime Prayer

Now I lay me down to sleep, 

I pray the Lord my soul to keep, 

If I should die before I wake, 

I pray the Lord my soul to take. 

There are two or three different versions of this prayer. The one in this entry is the one I learn when I was a child. I don't know precisely how this version of the prayer affected me. When I say the prayer with my Mother or Grandmother, I never thought much about the meaning of the prayer. The only thing I thought about was the protection it gave me, and the spiritual feeling I had after saying it. 

This was the first prayer I memorized. Mom and Grandma saying it with me helped me memorize it. I don't say this prayer anymore. I say a prayer revealed by Baha'u'llah. It isn't anything like this prayer, but it does giving me spiritual feeling when I say or read it. Sometime I just say one prayer, and other times I read more than one. Most of the time I say or read about three prayers before going to sleep. When I read three prayers, I usually pick a prayer by Baha'u'llah, the Bab, and 'Abdu'l-Baha. 

Happy October

Happy October 

Pumpkin spice coffee ice cream 

Or pumpkin spice coffee cake 

Happy October 

Candy corn with black coffee 

Halloween coming 

Happy October 

Memories of my lost childhood 

Return make me smile