{"id":704,"date":"2019-01-10T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=704"},"modified":"2019-01-10T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:55:49","slug":"alphaday-6-season-xv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/alphaday-6-season-xv\/","title":{"rendered":"Alphaday 6 &#8211; Season XV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi\nAlphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome\nto Alphaday 6 and to the year 2019 which is still uncharted waters with a\nwealth of opportunities waiting to be snapped up. I hope we\u2019ll make the most of\nit and enjoy the pleasure of words that perform the desired tricks to\nperfection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With\nAlpha we\u2019ll continue to share our passion for writing \u2013 be it toil or triumph.\nSharing with other Alphas is always a companionable pleasure as we try out new\nways together and admire results achieved by our fellow Alphas. For this first\nAlphaday of 2019 we have pooled together a typical Alpha feast as is our wont. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s\nagenda is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This\n     bulletin from me<\/li><li>The\n     results of the photo challenge from Sarah <\/li><li>The\n     collated entries for the haiku Christmas challenge from Jackie<\/li><li>The\n     brief for Ch.5 from Morgen<\/li><li>Your\n     Log news from Sally<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s\nplenty to get your teeth into and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll enjoy checking it all out as\nit comes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s\nno special Alpha news today. We\u2019ve had snippets of news from Alphas in their\nNew Year\u2019s greetings and somehow the ups and downs that were aired seem like a\ntypical map of \u2018life generally\u2019. Some have been poorly, others busy with family\nand so on. There was much talk of snow and eventually \u2013 hurrah! \u2013 a sprinkling\nof it showed up \u2026 plus some black swans visiting. (There are black swans on the\nriver Wylie in Wiltshire and you might come across Odette and Odile swimming\nside by side.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ngeneral news is dominated by Brexit and procrastination. The latter is\nsomething we writers are familiar with, but why don\u2019t we leave it to the\npoliticians for now, while we \u2013 for once \u2013 get on with it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\nword, \u2018procrastination\u2019, has a sneer to it; like getting your knuckles rapped.\nThe semantically significant part of the word is the Latin word \u2018cras\u2019, meaning\n\u2018tomorrow\u2019. It turns out that the Spanish word \u2018ma\u00f1ana\u2019, which means the same\nthing but with the stressful part replaced by a smile and a shrug, was\noriginally preceded by the Latin word \u2018cras\u2019 and the full expression \u2018cras\nmane\u2019 meant \u2018early tomorrow morning\u2019. The difference between the two\nexpressions is that \u2018procrastination\u2019 says that \u2018I won\u2019t do it today; it\u2019ll\nhave to wait till tomorrow\u2019, while \u2018ma\u00f1ana\u2019 means, \u2018no problem, I\u2019ll sort it\nout first thing tomorrow morning\u2019. Better still: why not do it right now,\ntoday? There\u2019s another Latin expression for that: \u2018carpe diem\u2019. That\u2019s the one\nI recommend. Let\u2019s make the most of every day. It\u2019s surprising how much you can\nget done in a single day if you get on with it. Tell that to the politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best\nwriterly wishes for 2019 to you all,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 6 and to the year 2019 which is still uncharted waters with a wealth of opportunities waiting to be snapped up. 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