Words for Wednesday April 3 & IWSG

This challenge started a long time ago. Now it has turned into a movable feast with Elephant's Child as our coordinator; and the Words are provided by a number of people.

The general idea of this challenge is to make us write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

 It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrive on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

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The Words for the Wednesdays in April are provided by Elephant's Child.

For today we had:

Wife,
Comfort,
Time,
Book,
Doors
     And/or
 Certificate,
Appreciation,
Elephant,
Olive,
Major

I did not have much time for writing today, this everyday prose is what happened:

  Being a wife to my husband is a great comfort. We take time together to talk of books we have read, we repair and paint the doors together, and loads of other things. Recently we dug the beds in the garden, a good thing, as rain and even snow is foreseen for the most of the coming fortnight.
  We need no medals or certificate to show the appreciation of one for the other. There's no elephant in the room, only hubby oft-times teases me with my dislike for olives in any form; which sure is not a major issue, neither the teasing, nor the dislike.

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Today is also the first Wednesday of the month. Time for the monthly Question from the Insecure Writers' Support Group

April  3rd question: How long have you been blogging? (Or on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram?) What do you like about it and how has it changed?

My answer: I have been blogging since January 30th 2012 - that is more that 12 years now. I almost always forget to celebrate my blogoversary; even installing a countdown timer on my blog did not help.

I like the slow pace of blogging and the possibility of writing long posts interspersed with photos. I like that the posts stay, that I and everybody else can go back, see how it all began, what happened years ago, and how the kids have grown.

Of course I tried my hand at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on. But I do not like the fast pace, that the reels do not stay, so that I have to check everybody every day if I do not want to miss out. Facebook was more 'slow' in the beginning, and IG too - Twitter was always another soup, fast-paced, meant for quick messages and replies. Nothing cut in stone there. 

I feel sorry that blogging seems to have fallen out of fashion, I see too many blogs just stopping in the middle of a story, and if I search, I mostly find the authors alive and kicking at FB or IG.

When I began blogging, great communities existed, with groups like Moms of Many, or homeschooling or gardening circles; and lots of challenges, literary, photographic, writing, drawing, Monday Memes and so on.
  Now it seems that community is old-fashioned, what counts is likes and followers. Most of the challenges are now mainly - or indeed exclusively - happening on SoMe.  It's as if the people hosting and participating in these challenges have given in to the swiftly flowing river of infotainment. We have no longer time for the reading of long posts; heck even writing a comment is too much when you can't just throw a like.

I know this is a bit barking up the wrong tree, as exactly IWSG is still keeping the flags flying, but I feel fairly frustrated these days.