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(Reblogged from September 22, 2015)
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Welcome back to The Sandbox Writing Challenge! This week’s challenge MAY be an easy one for you, but maybe NOT! We’ve already touched on what makes us unique, but now we’d like to know what it is about you or that you do that makes you stand out from those around you? It’s hard for some of us to give ourselves the kudos we truly deserve, so here’s your chance to do just that. (And we all LOVE you, so go for it with gusto!) Don’t hold back now!
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Now tell us, please, what makes you…
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As always, remember to include a link to this post on your blog. Or if your response isn’t overly long, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. If you would like to play with us and see the previous prompts, they’re listed in the menu at the top of the blog in The Sandbox Writing Challenge 2018. But please feel free to just jump in wherever we are at the moment! After all the prompts are really for YOU to get to know YOURSELF!
Next week’s challenge is a bit more “playful!” 😀
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Clare’s post (Clare’s Cosmos) — Time to Shine
Cheryl’s post (Impromptu Promptlings) — Let your light shine,
Kelvin’s post (Kelvin M. Knight Blog) — Shining the Lamp
Linda’s post (Spiritual Dragonfly) — Fanning My Widow’s Inner Flame
Shannon’s post (Survival Skills) — Akhilandeshwari
Fim’s post (Quantum Hermit) — Like Sunshine Coming Down
Raili’s post (soulgifts – Telling Tales) — Shine On…Epitaphs
Ivor’s post (Ivor.Plumber/Poet) — I Do Thee Shine (see below)
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Impromptu Promptlings 
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Love makes me shine – animals, nature, grandchildren, wife and infinity. The world is wondrous; music is wondrous; friends are wondrous.
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Hi Calen, this could be my last Sandbox Challenge reply/answer/story, I’m afraid my tears may have washed all the sand castles away. Anyhow my poem is only short, and I’ll paste here.
I Do Thee Shine
When I was little and young.
“Your heart will always shine” Said Mum.
When I grew up, a know-all teenager.
Head strong, and an all-night rager.
“Your love of life will shine through” Said Dad.
Later on I married, so happy and glad.
Suddenly, one spring, MS touched her bad.
The shining dulled and time turned sad.
Dad said, “Your heart shone through”.
And Mum said, “Her Star will always shine on you”.
My Star, my Dad and Mum, you are my spine.
For you, I do thee shine.
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Ivor, that is so absolutely beautiful and perfect. You really are quite the poet. I’m so sorry these challenges have dug up so many memories for you. That must be really difficult. I totally understand your plight. Please know you are always welcome to come by any time. We love you, dude. ❤
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Haha, that’s a first, this Aussie Ivor being called a dude, nice xx, Oh don’t worry Calen, somebody will bring back the sand castles…. When I write I dig with my heart and soul, and the spades too big for my bucket, and I’ve been in the trenches for so long…….. I’LL BE BACK…… once I’ve sponged and dried up my desk here …… I recover more quickly these days
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Those memories will never go away, Ivor. Neither the bad nor the good. I think that’s why learning to grieve well is so important. We just have to learn to live with them peacefully, even though they hurt like crazy sometimes — even the good ones… {{{Ivor}}}
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Digging deep, Ivor, reveal the deepest beauty. Your nuggets always shine. Sorry I’ve been so distant, just so much happening here with a dear friend, battling cancer, and me battling, myself. I’m with you though, please never doubt that. Shining on you while you shine on me.
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Thanks Kelvin, so nice to hear from you, that’s very sad about your dear friend, and you take care of yourself too. I’m going ok, just sometime I’ve this ability to dig deep inside myself and dredge up memories that I thought had disappeared, and it real stuns me and emotionally tears at my very soul. My well seems to be bottomless. but I’m ok now, and writing again with gusto. xx
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Things that make me shine: working out. Not because I’m good. Because I “glow” (this is what my aunt always insisted: horses sweat, men perspire, women glow).
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😀 I’ve heard that expression before. Me, I just drip! ‘Course these days on this stupid prednisone I can stand STILL and just drip!!! It’s got my furnace so stoked.
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As soon as I saw you’d posted this week’s Challenge, I told myself I’d do it tonight… but I can’t, since I don’t remember how it feels to shine. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have the answer…
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This was awfully close to the unique one, but Allen apparently felt there was a difference, so I kept it.
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It’s a good question – just not a good time for me to answer it 😉
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