Activity – Jill – Den of Writers

Jill posted a new activity comment 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Congratulations, Sandra and fellow entrants. All excellent stories which touched me and brought tears to my eyes. Sandra’s image resonated with my own recent experience and sadness as my husband had to go home alone for nine days, tired and worried when I was in hospital. I chose not to write a personal story as enough personal emotions w…[Read more]

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Jill posted a new activity comment 9 months, 4 weeks ago

We do need these laughs!

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Jill posted a new activity comment 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Thank you. 3rd chemo finished today so now halfway through treatment! Go well, Athelstone. 😊

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Jill replied to the topic Positivity in the forum Blogs 10 months ago

On another personal note regarding positivity, (forgive me) my consultant had

good news this week as a scan had shown that the treatment is doing its job. He and we are delighted and he agreed that positivity helps the body help itself so to speak. Thank you for the previous good wishes from Denizens. Jill x
- Athelstone replied 10 months ago
  
  Nothing to forgive. Brilliant news, Jill.
  - Jill replied 9 months, 4 weeks ago
    
    Thank you. 3rd chemo finished today so now halfway through treatment! Go well, Athelstone. 😊
Jill replied to the topic Positivity in the forum Blogs 10 months, 1 week ago

I began this blog by citing how Positivity is helping me at the present time and now I would like to explain why I believe and sincerely hope that it is helping my immune system be as strong as it can be in the light of the fact that chemo does temporarily compromise the immune system.

The physiology of positivity is interesting. I quote from…[Read more]
Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 1 week ago

Good to hear from you, Bella – small world indeed! Wishing you and your writing well. 🌈🌞🌈

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Jill replied to the topic Positivity in the forum Blogs 10 months, 1 week ago

Yes, Athelstone I read all about him on Wikipedia and he was a very interesting and talented, intelligent man. Also related to the Henry James’s.

Hope your day and writing going well. Jill 😊
Jill replied to the topic Positivity in the forum Blogs 10 months, 1 week ago

Looked up William James and found he was an American Philosopher and Psychologist.
Jill replied to the topic Positivity in the forum Blogs 10 months, 1 week ago

Happened upon a little book of quotes on my heaving bookshelf 😊

William James (? Do not know of him) considers that “There is but one cause of human failure and that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.”

Eileen Caddy in The Dawn of Change says “A soul without a high aim is like a ship withouna rudder.”

This I think mirrors one of Athelston…[Read more]
Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 1 week ago

Thank you, Athelstone. Hope all well with you and I look forward to reading your July comp. entry! 😊

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Jill posted an update 10 months, 1 week ago

What is new for me is that participating here amongst previous writing friends has opened up a veritable well of ideas and words! They are gushing forth: just popping into my head! This surely must slow down soon?!! Meanwhile, this creativity is helping with my positivity as I approach 3rd chemo cycle and feel in fine fettle. So thanks to fate…[Read more]
- Athelstone replied 10 months, 1 week ago
  
  Glad to hear it, Jill.
  - Jill replied 10 months, 1 week ago
    
    Thank you, Athelstone. Hope all well with you and I look forward to reading your July comp. entry! 😊
Jill replied to the topic Monthly Comp – July 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months, 2 weeks ago

THE VESTAL VIRGIN

Background History

(Some data courtesy of Wikipedia)

This is the story of Lucia and her parents who lived in Ancient Rome. Lucia was prepubescent and had been chosen to be enrolled in The Virgin Goddess Vespa’s College of Six Priestesses.

This is the story of a young girl chosen to help protect Rome’s Sacred Hearth…[Read more]
Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Not sure where this will appear. Meant for my blog but think I have mis directed it! Hey ho!

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Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 2 weeks ago

A few quotes I have come across~~ inspiring positivity?

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world”. Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is not something ready made, it comes from your own actions”. Dalai Lama

“Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day”. Alice Morse Earle

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it an…[Read more]

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Jill posted an update 10 months, 2 weeks ago

I found it interesting, if sad that Athelstone was reminded of a Cypriot student friend by my comp. entry. What suffering that friend endured like so many Cypriots. My husband was working in Cyprus at the time of the coup and invasion and we were caught up in the mayhem, but we did not lose our own home and were eventually safely back in England…[Read more]
- Bella replied 10 months, 1 week ago
  
  Gosh. Small world. My father was working there at the time and my younger sister was born earlier in the year. I was 5. Luckily for us we were able to leave sharp-ish shortly before the coup. I’m sorry you got caught up in it but glad you got out.
  - Jill replied 10 months, 1 week ago
    
    Good to hear from you, Bella – small world indeed! Wishing you and your writing well. 🌈🌞🌈
Jill replied to the topic Monthly Competition June 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Thank you, Athelstone for setting the thought provoking theme and now for your considered and kind comments in judgement. I enjoyed each of my fellow writers’ entries and it is a good feeling to be amongst such talented people once more.

Last but not least (sorry!) I extend huge congratulations to the worthy winner, Seagreen.
Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Thank you, Janette. I never really stopped writing something or other for long! For instance, after four or five years of writing a weekly story and sharing it on FaceTime with younger grandson in America, I did have to admit that ideas had dried up! So we went over old ones, but then have found other literary ways of sharing the gift of…[Read more]

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Jill posted a new activity comment 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Thank you, Janette. Lovely to speak with you again and hear that positivity has carried you through many life challenges. Another philosophy I have come across, to paraphrase, is that a crisis can be turned into an opportunity. Maybe a more difff

Thank you, janette for your kind words and positive vibes. Lovely to connect once more and hear…[Read more]

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Jill replied to the topic Monthly Competition June 2025 in the forum Monthly Competition 10 months, 4 weeks ago

The Last Divided Island (approx 300 words)

The mini heatwave in England in June slowed down Stella’s physical activities and afforded her more time for reflection and remembrance. Almost fifiy-one years previously she and her parents had been forced to flee to London from their Cypriot home amid the mayhem and sufferings of war.

The woman she w…[Read more]
Jill posted an update 10 months, 4 weeks ago

I think I have an idea/outline for the June competition, but needs working on ~ my exchanges here to date have inspired me to try my luck. ‘It is not the winning, though but the taking part’ as someone once said…. Also I am having to get used again to how Den functions!
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