Contests and Challenges

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Contests and Challenges There are some (good) things going on here on the MyLot place - challenges and contests of several kinds. The prizes that a person can win in those contests and challenges are many. You get to practice with your discussions and you get to see your stuff in writing and, as often as you wish, as your pictures are broadcast out over the great world wide web of the Internet. Not a bad deal at all - actually, a really good deal. There it is. You can make of it what you want. Someone started a photo challenge and started things off by offering up a really fine photo image. Make a photo and post it. (Lots of rules there, right?) I was thinking about putting up a challenge of sorts - like "Tell us what you saw in the news yesterday" kind of thing. The reason that challenge idea came to mind was something I saw in the several minutes I spent watching the TV broadcasting of the RNC political convention being cobbled together in Cleveland, Ohio here in the colonies. At one point in the goings-on, the new leader of the RNC stood there behind the speaker's microphone and said a bunch of stuff to his many followers and unfollowers. I forgot to listen to what the guy was saying as I watched him as he said it. What I saw gave me a bit of uneasiness. Some of you here on the big MyLot place may have been around, as was a really youthful "me" in the days of the late 1930s and early 1940s. We may remember the photo of the then Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, as he gave a talk to his people and, in which he folded his arms before his chest and jutted his chin way out as he looked down his nose at the world. I saw someone do that at the RNC political convention and, frankly, it scared the bejabbers out of me. So I decided to not put up a "what did you see in the news yesterday?" challenge. I might be tempted to enter my own challenge with some stuff describing chin-jutting and the like. Instead, I will simply enter the photograph, the one on top of this posting, into that on-going photo challenge. My image is guaranteed to not scare the pants off of anyone here. * * * * * * * * * * Image source: Just a teenager tree - Gus Kilthau * * * * * * * * * * A non-challenge photo challenge