Sunday Writing Prompt: Sunday, September 17, 2017
Tea and Civility

This week I’m offering a particular quote from a character, Sherlock Holmes, as taken from the BBC’s series – Sherlock. It’s an exchange that takes place, between James Moriarty, who is considered Sherlock’s ultimate foe.

This is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s work, The Reichenbach Falls.

There are two videos I’ve selected which set the scene – please watch both, it’ll be about 6 minutes of your time, in order to place things in context.

The first video, 3:27 minutes, is a meeting of the two minds – to discuss “the final problem” that exists between them – master criminal mind versus master sleuth with a peculiar and particular conscience.

The second video, 2:31 minutes, is a short clip. Please be warned, it’s a bit violent and graphic, but it contains the quote of focus for this week…

Here are today’s five thing to know about Dumplings:

1. Dumplings are cooked balls of dough.
2. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables, or sweets.
3. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, simmering, frying, or baking.
4. They may have a filling, or there may be other ingredients mixed into the dough.
5. Dumplings can also be sweet or spicy.

Today’s Food History

• 1630 Boston, Massachusetts was founded. Nickname, ‘Bean Town.’
• 1836 Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu died. A French botanist whose ideas formed the foundation of a natural plant classification system.
• 1900 Hotelier John Willard Marriott was born. Beginning with Hot Shoppe restaurants, then airline catering, and then motels, Marriott built his business into one of the largest, fastest growing, and most profitable hotel and restaurant businesses in the U.S.
• 1997‘Honey’ by Mariah Carey is #1 on the charts

One Word Photo Challenge: Journey

If you want to share a literal image of the actual word, do that. But if you’d rather play with word association, post something that reminds you of the specific word, or something you use the word for, do so. It only has to make sense to you. Have fun and keep on photographing!

Click here to see the full challenge details and future themes.

• Journey – Sep. 17
• Kangaroo – Sep. 24
• Ladybug – Oct. 1
• Lake – Oct. 8
• Landscape – Oct. 15
• Lens – Oct. 22
• Letter – Oct. 29

Last week’s contributors to Jewelry:

• Links coming shortly.

Weekly Weather: Sun

This challenge is all about…you guessed it…the weather. Each Sunday, a new topic begins. Share an image, poem, quote, drawing, etc. of an actual weather event, something that you do during certain weather, how that weather makes you feel – it’s…