Always Time for Prayer

Awake at midnight,
I don't have to turn on a light
I can just whisper a prayer
or access the prayer app
on my smartphone,
because there is always time for prayer.

At noon
I just face the point of adoration
recite the short obligatory prayer,
and go on about my day,
because there is always time for prayer.

A spiritual mood is easy to find,
when I inhale and exhale
the stress of the day
after which I can say
a prayer of gratitude
or protection,
because there is always time for prayer.

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What Will I Write?

What will I write today?
Will I write a poem or a rant?
Will I write prose or an essay?

My muse has gone AWL,
left for part unknown,
took a trip to another galaxy
or perhaps another universe.

I'll take a momentary break
to say a prayer
and see if my smartphone
is completely charged.

Hopefully,
by the time I return
my muse will have come home.

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My Notepad App

Midnight
time to write
phrases and lines,
I don't have to turn on the light
I can compose poetry
using my smartphone's notepad app.


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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. 

Living in the Twenty-first Century

At 70-years young, 

I'm finally moving into 

The Twenty-first Century. 

Yesterday, 

While at one of my doctors' offices, 

I downloaded an app 

To my smartphone. 

This wonderful little app, 

Calle Easy Pedometer, 

Counts my steps. 

The goal is 

1,000 steps per day, 

And I'm already 

Up to 605 steps. 

Tomorrow, 

I may have to double 

The goal. 

Thursday Thoughts on Falling Asleep

Istijlál (Majesty), 4 Bahá (Splendour), 174 BE - Thursday, March 23, 2017 CE about 10:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time 

"Research indicates that you should end screen time well before bedtime for quality sleep. What is your take on this, do you believe it makes a difference or not?" Blog Prompt 

I usually get off the computer about twenty to thirty minutes before I go to the recliner I sleep in. It takes me around thirty minutes to get ready for sleep. After I sit down then I put some eye drops in my eyes, take medication, put lotion on my feet and legs, say prayer and read something. This takes me about an hour. 
Once this is done I put another type of eye drops in my eyes, turn out the light and attempt to go to sleep.

My smartphone usually lays on the wooden television stand on the left side of the recliner. Also on that stand is my prayer book, a loose leaf notebook, a pen, the pillbox containing my morning meds, and a bottle of water. I close my eyes and attempt to fall asleep. Sometimes it is easy to fall asleep and sometimes it is difficult. If I find it difficult to sleep then I meditate by closing my eyes and focusing my mind on something pleasant. The only time I don't have any difficulty falling asleep is when I eat some chocolate before laying down. 

I don't think putting my phone farther from my sleeping recliner would make any difference. At least it hasn't made a difference the few times I've left it on the desk by my computer. I also don't think sleeping in a bed or on the couch would make any difference. When I sleep in a bed my back hurts so badly that I can't sleep. When I sleep on the couch I can't raise my feet up comfortably. My doctor has told me to sleep with my feet up. The only solution to my sleeping problems is to sleep on a recliner. 

Motivational Monday: The Telephone is quiet this afternoon

Kamál (Perfection), 16 Kamál (Perfection), 173 BE - Monday, August 15, 2016 AD about 3:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time 

Monday afternoon and my smartphone is quiet. This morning it was ringing out of my hands. I have to admit that I was pissed at the reason for the long distance calls. The calls were from two different number.  Two different men calling me from the U.S. Grants Department to give me a $9,000.00 grant to pay my bills. I swear some people must think that anyone over 60 years of age is stupid or something. That last scam-artist that called hung up when I said I'd been through this before. I haven't received a call from them this afternoon, but maybe they only work half a day. 

I like having a smartphone. I like the convenience of having caller ID. I do get a bit belligerent when the scammers repeatedly call me to con me out of my hard earned money. I don't have that much in the bank, but apparently they think that anyone over 60 is rich. The weird thing is that the two guys sounded nice, so they could make an honest living if they tried. Those calls did motivate me to consider writing a story of some type about technology that can help protect seniors from scam artist. 

Tuesday's Accomplishments and my new Motorola 4G Smartphone

Fidal (Grace), 3 Mulk (Dominion), 172 BE - Tuesday, February 9, 2016 about 4:40 AM Pacific Standard Time

I still have two things left to accomplish today. I have to check my To Do List to see what they are. The most important thing I accomplished was to active my new 4G Motorola smartphone. I also managed to make two telephone calls with it, three it you count setting up the voice mail, but I'm not sure that counts since I'm don't know whether I sit it up properly or not. I'll worry about that tomorrow because the phone history will show me if anyone called.

The next task on the phone is to make sure the voice mail is set up properly and put all my phone number in my contact list. I'm not going to do that today, instead I'll print the contact number off and figure out which ones I want to put back into the phone. There are a couple I'm not sure about because I haven't talked to the people in at least three years. I guess I could call the numbers to see if their still active, but I don't want to take the minutes to do that. As it is, I'm sure I'll have to purchase more minutes or more data time for this phone. I don't mind using the minutes of the time since I can now take and upload both photos and videos with this phone.

My old phone would access the internet, but I didn't use that feature because I couldn't take videos with that phone. In fact about the only thing I used the old phone for was text, phone calls, wake up alarm, and calculator. I stopped using the alarm on the old phone a couple of months ago and found out that I didn't need it. I don't really need to use a calculator, so I won't use the calculator on the new phone. What I have to do is download some apps.

I suppose the first app I need to down load is from my bank. This phone will allow me to take a photo of a check and deposit it. I'll have to think about that for a couple of months. The truth is I enjoy making the trip to the bank to deposit a check. I don't get out of the house a lot, so trips to the bank and medical appointments are something to look forward to. I might be getting out a lot more since I have easy access to the internet and a real keyboard to use when I'm typing.

Eventually I plan to use the phone to compose blog entries. I think I might need to download an app for that. I have to make a list of the apps I want to download, so that I don't forget which ones. I'm going to have fun learning to use my new phone. Getting a new piece of technology is fun. The two problem I foresee when it comes to posting to my blog from my smartphone is (1) my atrocious spelling and (2) my grammar issues.