TUESDAY’S A TO Z CHALLENGE
Event Type: General Blogging
Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly
Description: Every Tuesday I offer the A to Z challenge walking step by step through the alphabet.
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Every Tuesday, step by step, I’m walking with my readers from A to Z, last week we had the “T”-challenge, so this week we’ll take “U” – I’m sure you’ll also find a photo, a story or a music title tagged with “U”! Feel free to add in the comments below the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “U”!!! Myself I’ll focus on “underwater”:
UNDERWATER
Some of us buy a ticket for an underwater aquarium. I was amused, when I noticed, that my internet connection to Graz in Austria, blogger Wolfgang had been in Berlin at the same location like me – watching the same shark!
above: title=”the girl and the shark” by Wolfgang H. visiting the Zoo in West-Berlin
below: video by frizztext, also shot in the ZOO “Tiergarten” in Berlin, background music: me and my guitar
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How gorgeous! I didn’t get a chance to visit any of the zoos there while I was in Berlin. Mine is also theme-park touch to it with U for Universal Studios. Here’s the link:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/photo-journal-a-z-photo-challenge-u-is-for-universal-studios/
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cars jumping through fire – that’s Hollywood, isn’t it?
P.S.:
sometimes I think, it would be better to read a book than attacking the own nerves with crime stories made in Hollywood…
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Wow, shark music.
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Here’s my homework:
http://spumonicaddo.wordpress.com/2013/11/24/uuu-challengeumbrella-of-gods-ultimate-love/
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it’s always a breath taking risk falling deep into your universe of words…
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Thanks Frizz–God bless you day!
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poor shark and fishes….They are so happy in the sea. But not in jail !
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of course it is better we visit them in their ocean in their natural action:
title=”Sardine Shoal at Kontiki” photo by Paul Cowell, on Flickr
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Underwater is beautiful…just not so sure about those sharks!
Here is my entry, Frizz; hope you don’t mind my addition
http://angelinem.wordpress.com/2013/11/18/u-and-v-are-for/
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thank U for the Ukulele on Utube!
I played an instrumental version of George Harrison’s “While my guitar gently weeps” on my guitar too – but your Ukulele artist Jake Shimabukuro is really fantastic, wow!
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Jake is an incredible musician. Gad you like the Utube!
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They are one reason I don’t really like to swim in the ocean….
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Underpants Japanese style feature in my UUU challenge response: http://travelwithintent.com/2013/11/19/dont-get-caught-with-your-pants-down/
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every nation has a special, different kind of humor…
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Hi Frizz!!!
Good morning!!!
Here is my entry!
http://ilargia64.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/uuu-unfocused/
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you amused me with your:
“With unconcealed glee
I must admit I like being unconventional
and a little undisciplined…”
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🙂 🙂
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Hi Frizz, my ‘U’ is UNDERVALUED – of Shropshire Great War poet, Wilfred Owen http://wp.me/pKVAM-sA
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hi Tish,
you’ve written a great tribute to Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), the war poet, and it is sad, that there nowadays are still gas wars (Syria), gas developing centers (in USA, UK, Germany etc.), selling military gas into war regions etc.
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Have you seen this campaign, Frizz?
http://noglory.org/index.php/articles/80-the-deeper-reality-of-the-first-world-war-poets-that-today-s-historians-want-to-deny#.UotgC_NFBaR
No Glory in War
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“‘The idea of sacrifice,’ says Paxman, ‘entirely acceptable at the time, has been lost to us, discarded along with religious belief and replaced with a cost-benefit analysis…”
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well, Tish, anti-militarism (together with atheism in my case) took place, scepticism more than nationalism is modern in Europe. Nevertheless I understand in your personal case of family history, that you are proud of your heroes. But as a political movement, developing national proud, I stay sceptic. Recently near Leipzig, in Germany, a famous battle vs. Napoleon was re-enacted. New for Germany. I noticed, there is a continuous tradition for this scene (“dressed in old war clothes”-groups) in USA and UK. .. – in the contrary I like to remember Socrates, who stopped in the very middle of a battle asking himself: “What I am doing here?” – Maybe the decision to hesitate for a moment is a little bridge between the Socrates message and the message of your war-poet?
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At first I tried to discuss this topic at
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/reenactment-events/
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http://www.voelkerschlacht-jubilaeum.de/
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It’s interesting thinking of family members who fought/died in war, I’m not sure I am proud. I admire people’s bravery and tenacity, but in the end people did not really have much of a choice. You had to be really brave to be a conscientious objector in Britain. And those who enlisted and then asked Socrates’ question, and stopped fighting were shamed and shot, and their families were shamed too. A horrible conspiracy. I find it interesting that Owen could write as he did about war, and yet it is clear that he had quite a martial character when it came to it. He led from the front. He returned to the battle when he could have ducked it. Nothing’s straightforward, is it?
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“He returned to the battle
when he could have ducked it…”
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yes, it seems, it was a sense for him.
As a German I’m thankful of course
that UK, USA etc. fought vs. Hitler –
compare
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/daily-prompt-faq/
Joe Winter at first escaped from Germany –
and then he came back as US-soldier to fight vs. Hitler
(the Richie boys)
[he’s our family-hero]
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Very gentle shark music, Frizz.
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Hi Frizz, I have a different version of underwater… Here is my entry: http://shareandconnect.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/u-for-underwater-portraits/
Happy Tuesday!
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hi Amy, thank you for your youtube links; following your path I discovered even an underwater circus:
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How beautiful! Be nice to go there for an escape 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Frizz!
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Ooops, I saw a different video link a min. ago, something about paradise….
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Love your challenge. Back on board. Here is my entry http://wp.me/p23TG1-3ct
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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hi Francine,
your “twisted metal” composition is ART!
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thank you for the honor to show this picture in your great forum
i love your guitar music
i myself play on a too low level to present it
but i have fun with it
i wish you all the best
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I’m very surprised (and amused)
about the post Frizz-frizz-frizz
http://vastlycurious.com/tag/frizz-frizz-frizz/
by “vastlycurious”: with background music!
P.S.:
I know, I’m nearly aged 70 and the doctors begin with their typical experiments – but though I’ve been in the Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin, my aim is not to end there in an urn, even if they would spend three for me! Would like to be buried in my garden beside my cat under the hazel tree…
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Underwater with chilled out shark music, the opposite to Jaws 🙂 and my contribution is also under…. underground. http://nomadsproggblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/underground-the-man-who-can-taste-the-tube-map/
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we enjoyed the London Underground, photo below by my wife Barbara – and the describing of the smell is very amusing!
read at
http://nomadsproggblog.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/underground-the-man-who-can-taste-the-tube-map/
“…the English breakfast taste of sausage and eggs
at Tottenham Court Road,
others … like the choking smell and taste of hairspray at Bond Street…”
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Those fellas look like they have earned their breakfast, good photo!
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That’s as close as I’d like to get! Here’s my UUU – http://lynneayersbeyondthebrush.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/unaccompanied-under-the-umbrella/
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melancholy in Florence, lyrical mood!
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For Me U reminds the uniform of soldiers who secure our freedom
http://amarnaik.com/2013/11/20/three-items-or-the-number-three/
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Loved your wonderful video, Frizz. The guitar music is so fitting. 🙂
I’ve started a new blog. The hammock lady is no more. 🙂
http://anotherday2paradise.wordpress.com/
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Terrific shot Frizz! the little girls body language conveys her awe! 🙂
Regarding Wolfgang and you being at that place at the same time, I was surprised myself to find an image of the Taj online, with the same village woman carrying a bundle of sticks on her head. Same sari, same children, identical goats!! 🙂
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stolen … – it would be fair, to set a link leading to your great blog!
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No no, not stolen, just shot on the same day! What are the chances of finding that? 🙂
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sometimes friends told me, when someone used some of my pics at http://www.flickr.com/photos/frizztext/
when I made contact they deleted their illegal upload or set a link to me – or even payed for it, when they liked to use it for a magazine (100$) or for a book cover (yearly fee):
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of course there is a software available searching for photo doubles – but I’m not so selfish: the world wide web is a street to meet others, exchange information, compare lifestyles and emotions, being influenced – and not making battles …
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I wouldn’t trust that mean-looking shark one inch, Frizz. I’ve got a U, I do! Just need more time 🙂 (I had S and T too but they are lost in the sands of time)
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My grandchildren love shark week, a crazy week of television of documentaries about sharks. I will share your cool shark post with them. Looks a little close to me, even with the glass! Thank U for the music, too.
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http://hemadamani.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/uuu-challenge/
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those colored umbrellas are good for a feeling of welcome instead of pain …
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Yes They are! The annual rainy season here is a much awaited one here!! 🙂
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Great post. Love the photo and the music. My response: U is for Uros, the people who live on the Floating Islands in Peru. http://naomibaltuck.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/1916/
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hello Naomi,
I’ve read several times about the Uros on the Lake Titicaca in Peru, but never such a wonderful detailed tribute to the little handmade islands – thank you very much for sharing your photos and article = an interesting bridge to understand a thought provoking culture! P.S.: I was amused to notice: “Solar panels provide music and television to make the youth more content with island life…”
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U is for Undoing all the words that would – please have a look at
http://acrossthebored.com/2013/11/25/uuu-challenge/
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not unexpected,
that you would create a great poem again –
I like the metaphorical INTRO:
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“Unexpected
was that emotion
Unloosed, Unlaced, Unknowingly
Unleashed…”
etc.
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Thank you so much – so sad we are Unavoidably coming to the end of the alphabet… another round next year?
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another round next year – if I’m still healthy enough for that …
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I’m sure you will be! Pace yourself …
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Caramba! A day late! I’ll come back later to read through your comments. They look great 🙂
http://restlessjo.wordpress.com/2013/11/26/u-is-for-ursula-ursulines-and-urodziny/
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the letter V which is next up doesn’t exist in Polish? I saw some Volkswagen there 🙂
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So many smiles, along the way, Frizz. Loved your underwater circus! 🙂
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