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Sunday

Happy Easter 2010 from the Meme Express

Happy Easter 2010 from the Meme Express

The Meme Express is taking a week off to celebrate Holy Week, spring break and the highest holidays ofJudeo-Christian faith.

Please feel free to choose any past prompts - from the Meme Express sidebar - for your blogging posts.

And be sure to come back to the Meme Express next week for brand-new blogging prompts.


Happy Easter. 
Happy Passover. 

Saturday

Saturday Stops - chorus


All Aboard the Meme Express – Saturday, March 27, 2010

This week, I had the privilege of participating in a multi-school choral contest. Young talent is truly abloom!

Today’s melodious blog prompt at the Meme Express is:

chorus

Have you ever been part of a choir? How about a chorus or a barbershop quartet? What part do you sing?

Or do you only sing in the shower?

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry. Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Friday

Friday Freedom - March 26th


All Aboard the Meme Express – Friday, March 26, 2010

Choo-Choo! It’s finally Friday again - right in the middle of March Madness. Are you ready for the weekend? How will you fill your Saturday and Sunday?

Do you have errands or shopping to do?
Easter Bunny preparations?
Easter baking?
Sweet 16 March Madness basketball viewing plans?
(Are you wagering on any of the games? Who’s in your basketball bracket?)
Maybe you have a list of movies to watch this weekend.

However, you spend the next few days, enjoy this first weekend of spring!

All aboard! It’s Friday Freedom at the Meme Express. Pick any subject you like for your blog post. Today you can take your own track.

What is Friday Freedom? It’s a Writer’s Choice blogging prompt. Post what you like (on your own blog), and return here to leave a comment with your link. (See “Super-Simple Linking” for instructions on creating active links.)

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Thursday

Thursday Thinking and Inking - Palm


All Aboard the Meme Express – Thursday, March 25, 2010

This Sunday, Christians will celebrate Palm Sunday. Easter, the highest Christian holy day, is one week off.

Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week on the ecclesiastical calendar. On Palm Sunday, Christians recount the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, when the Lord rode a borrowed donkey through the streets. As He passed, the crowd shouted, "Hosanna" and waved palm branches.

Less than a week later, having returned the borrowed donkey, Jesus' followers would place His body in a borrowed tomb. He needed the donkey for a few hours, and He needed the tomb for just a few days.

On Sunday, children in Sunday Schools all over the world will receive palm fronds and palm leaves to celebrate Palm Sunday. Some folks may pick up the Palm Pilots to record the occasion as well.

To mark this moment, here is today’s thought-provoking quotation for Thursday Thinking and Inking at Meme Express.

“To see the world in a grain of sand,
and to see heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hands,
and eternity in an hour.
William Blake
British Poet and Painter

Each Thursday, we offer feature a quotation as inspiration for that day’s prompt.

The Meme Express for today is simple:

palm

Look high and low for inspiration with this prompt!

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry.  Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Wednesday

Midweek Musical Memories- Sight or Site


All Aboard the Meme Express – Wednesday, March 24, 2010

American poetess and hymnist Frances Jane (Fanny) Crosby was born on March 24, 1820.

Blind since her early childhood, Fanny Crosby penned many of the most popular Protestant hymns in Christendom, including these favorites:

"All the Way My Savior Leads Me”
"Blessed Assurance”
"The Bright Forever”
"Close to Thee”
"Draw Me Nearer”
"I Am Thine O Lord”
"Jesus Is Tenderly Calling You Home”
"My Savior First of All”
“Near the Cross”
"Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour”
"Praise Him Praise Him"
“Redeemed How I Love to Proclaim It”
"Rescue the Perishing” "
Safe in the Arms of Jesus”
"Saviour More Than Life to Me”
"Tell Me the Story of Jesus"
"To God Be the Glory"

Today is Wednesday - and Midweek Musical Memories at the Meme Express. The Meme Express for today offers this prompt:

sight
Or
site

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create a drawing, a poem, a short story, or a journal entry.  Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Tuesday

Pick-a-Prompt - March 23rd


All Aboard the Meme Express – Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Welcome to the first Tuesday of spring!

Sure, everyone seems to be talking about health care - particularly in America - with Obama's health care program receiving nods from Capitol Hill. (See yesterday's post.)

As politicians and public opinion pundits debate the ramifications of the new health care programs in America, what is the healthiest thing you can do - particularly at this time of year?

The solution is quite down-to-earth! If allergies, colds or the flu turned you a little green to the gills during the winter, why not get out in that garden and dig in the soil a bit?

The weather is warming up. Grab those garden gloves and your favorite garden tools. It's time to clean out those perennial gardens and prepare the yard for spring planting!

Today the Meme Express offers you a choice: Pick-a-Prompt.

Scroll down the right-hand sidebar, and select any previous Meme Express writing prompt from the blog archives. 

Or look through the Pick-a-Prompt labels list for a topic that interests you. Publish your blog post, and return here with a comment and link, so other Meme Express participants can find and read your post.

Post your poem, story, song, photo or other entry on your blog. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

Then come back here, and post a comment with a link to your own entry.

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Monday

Monday Mayhem Health Care


All Aboard the Meme Express – Monday, March 22, 2010

Obamacare is in the news today, at least in America. Democrats and Republicans continue to debate the health-care dilemma. What will the new plan prescribe for the average American? What will health care look like, now and in the future?

Here’s Monday Mayhem at the Meme Express. The Meme Express for today offers this mixed-up prompt. Choose as many prompt words as you can for your blog post today:


Feeling strong today? How about the economy and the health care system? What’s your take on this much-debated issue?

Perhaps these blogging prompt words will inspire you to create a drawing, a poem, a short story, or a journal entry.  Post away! Then return here to leave a comment with your link to your own blog post. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Sunday

Sunday Invitation - for March 21st


Sunday Invitation – for March 21st   

Have you enjoyed the weekend, or has it gone to the dogs?

This is your invitation to SIMPLY SNICKERS – home of weekly poetry prompts, accompanied by classic fine art. Here’s this week’s sampling:

Misse and Luttine
By Jean-Baptiste Oudry
1729
It's Sunday again, and the MEME EXPRESS invites you to join us at SIMPLY SNICKERS for today's prompt:
horn
hound
hours

You will find a bit of background and some lovely fine art for the occasion. Use the art and prompting questions, or not. It's your choice! Just click here: SIMPLY SNICKERS to visit and view today's poetry prompt (or the archives):

Don't forget to c'mon back and leave a link to your post!

Be sure to leave your comment link
at SIMPLY SNICKERS too –
and increase your blog readership.
 

Be sure to bookmark the MEME EXPRESS . . . so you can come back tomorrow for a new blogging prompt!  


Saturday

Saturday Stops - Baking


All Aboard the Meme Express – Saturday, March 20, 2010

Do you like to bake on Saturdays? Some folks set aside time on weekends to whip up big batches of home-baked cakes, cookies or cupcakes for the rest of the week. Perhaps you are baking goodies for Easter or a spring bake sale at school.

Have you ever made home-baked bread (or biscuits, pizza dough or rolls) from scratch? Or do you prefer to use baking mixes? Do you bake cookies on baking sheets, or do you like to use baking stones?

Baking Bread
By Helen Mary Elizabeth Allingham
British artist
(1848 – 1926)

Today’s warm-hearted and homey blog prompt at the Meme Express is:

baking

Cook up your own blog post today! What's in your recipe for a wonderful blog post on baking?
Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry. Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)
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Friday

All Aboard the Meme Express – Friday, March 19, 2010


All aboard! It’s Friday Freedom at the Meme Express. Pick any subject you like for your blog post. Today you can take your own track.

Or ... bloom where you are planted today.

What is Friday Freedom? It’s a Writer’s Choice blogging prompt. Post what you like (on your own blog), and return here to leave a comment with your link. (See “Super-Simple Linking” for instructions on creating active links.)

In your blog post today, be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Feel free to grab our train graphic from the sidebar, and post an active link on your own blog. Why not add the Meme Express to your blogroll?

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Thursday

Thursday Thinking and Inking - Mud


All Aboard the Meme Express – Thursday, March 18, 2010

Mud is us today!

Grab your yellow slicker, your Mackintosh or your spring raincoat. Pack that poncho or rain gear. Pick up those mud boots, hip waders or galoshes. Got waterproof garden gloves?

Are you ready for the spring weather? Watching meteorological reports of rain and warmer temperatures? Seeing ice and snow melt into sloppy muddy messes?

Who doesn’t love spring?

Spring is fun and filled with promise … as long as you have a good umbrella and appropriate footwear for spring weather.

Here’s today’s thought-provoking quotation for Thursday Thinking and Inking at Meme Express.

 “the world is mud-licious
and puddle-wonderful.”
American poet
(1894 – 1962)

Each Thursday, we offer feature a quotation as inspiration for that day’s prompt.

The Meme Express for today is simple:

mud

Squissssssh! Have fun slogging and slopping around with this prompt.

Where will this prompt take you? Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create and post a drawing, a poem, a photograph, a short story, or a journal entry.  Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Wednesday

Midweek Musical Memories - Cloud


All Aboard the Meme Express – Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Last night, the American Idol Season 9 Top 12 finalists performed songs from the Rolling Stones. Did you watch the FOX TV program? (CTRL-click here for a complete recap.)

Of course, with only 12 finalists, the American Idol contestants missed several of the top hits from the Rolling Stones, such as the 1967 smash, “Get Off My Cloud.” (CTRL-click here for a list of 35 songs the American Idol Season 9 finalists missed.)

Here’s “Get Off My Cloud,” by the Rolling Stones.

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Today is Wednesday - and Midweek Musical Memories at the Meme Express. The Meme Express for today offers this prompt:

cloud

Perhaps this concept will inspire you to create a drawing, a poem, a short story, or a journal entry.  Then return here to leave a comment with your link. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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Tuesday

Pick-a-Prompt - March 16th


All Aboard the Meme Express – Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Spring has nearly sprung! Yesterday, I put our spring wreath on the front door. Hope springs eternal, right?

We will be grabbing those garden tools very soon to prepare those beds for planting. Watch for perennials to pop up. Crocus and hyacinth and daffodil and tulip shoots may show up soon. Before we know it, we will be buying potting soil and entire flats of annuals at local garden centers.

Time to spring into action. Today the Meme Express offers you a choice: Pick-a-Prompt.

Scroll down the right-hand sidebar, and select any previous Meme Express writing prompt from the blog archives. Or look through the Pick-a-Prompt labels list for a topic that interests you. Publish your blog post, and return here with a comment and link, so other Meme Express participants can find and read your post.

Post your poem, story, song, photo or other entry on your blog. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

Then come back here, and post a comment with a link to your own entry.

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Monday

Monday Mayhem - hoops


All Aboard the Meme Express – Monday, March 15, 2010

College basketball fans, get ready! How about those 2010 NCAA basketball tournament predictions? 

What’s on your basketball bracket? What are your 2010 March Madness predictions? Who will be in the Final Four for the NCAA basketball championship?

Here’s Monday Mayhem at the Meme Express. The Meme Express for today offers this mixed-up prompt. Choose as many prompt words as you can for your blog post today:




Who knows? Perhaps these blogging prompt words will inspire you to create a drawing, a poem, a short story, or a journal entry.  Post away! Then return here to leave a comment with your link to your own blog post. (Be sure to include a link to the Meme Express. Grab our train graphic from the sidebar for your link, if you want.)

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