Greetings Readers!
Today we announce our Burning Love in February
Contest!!!! We're hoping it reflects the month—passionate, yet
short. We're basing this contest off a quote and a saying.
The Quote. . .
"Love is something eternal—the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and it was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function." Vincent van Gogh
The Saying…
Man sagt, die
Zeit ist das Feuer, in dem wir brennen.
They say that time is the fire in which we burn.
In other words time consumes—we should be careful with it.
In the spirit of the Dutch painter, we'd like to hear your
thoughts on the whole Good-Lamp/Lit-Lamp concept. All kinds of love (and loving acts) can
cause us to "light up"—we want to hear about your own experiences, or times you've witnessed it in others.
In the spirit of those upbeat Germans, however, we'd like
for you to keep it short—no more than 140 words. (14 for Valentine's Day,
0 for additional word count).
Bonus points will be awarded if your entry rhymes! Just kidding. Unless you really want to.
Perhaps this is rather complicated. You could just
send us conundrums with exactly 140 words. Then we will answer with
exactly 140 words. Whichever way you decide to write in (miks@shentel.net or mfmik@yahoo.com), we at
Connecting Now will go with it. We're flexible. Semper Gumby!
You may enter as often as you like. We'll award three fun prizes at the beginning of
March—one for our favorite entry (In
the event this decision induces ulcer formations, we may ask for outside
unbiased help)—and two for random entries because we really appreciate
your participation.
SIDENOTE: We're pretty sure we were
subliminally influenced in the set up of this contest by Jan over at
One-Hundred Words. So if you read this and aren't a follower of hers,
please go HERE and sign up. We don't want her taking
us to court over intellectual property theft.
That and we love her.
So there it is, Readers! Let the confusion begin!
Mucho Amore,
Lisa and Maddie
Ok! I'm in!
ReplyDeleteWait.
What?
What am I supposed to do?
I KNEW I smelled Jan's influence when I read "exactly 140 words". :) I'd like to add, for those who haven't entered Jan's contest -- FUN! I've entered 3 times, and I may go back for more. So obviously I must meet this challenge, especially since the MikChicks are throwing in another 40 words.
Much LOVE,
Cat
I would just like to point out that most German words have at least 140 letters in them and seem to be formed by running smaller words into each other at high speeds, causing collisions so intense the original words are permanently fused.
ReplyDeleteThe rare, shorter German words are like this, as well, but weigh in at less than 140 letters each, such as the word, "Dermongoveinerschnitzelvotistastinglikedersauerkrautbattendownderhatches".
I was going to provide examples of a couple of longer words in German, but was afraid even one of those would make the character count on the Mik Chiks' blog fly into a rage and reject my comment. I would hate to have to slice the comment in half somewhere in the middle of a 298 character word.
So, even 140 words can make for a too long contest entry in German.
140. Bam!
ReplyDeleteThere's not much I can say here--mainly for two reasons. First--you're right. So right. And second--we did invite the confusion to begin. Our bad.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't submit that as an entry, did you? Miles?
ReplyDeleteIt's so tempting to say, "Yes", just because it would be the most ADD, or lame, or confused entry ever, given the rules. I wasn't confused. At least, if I was, I wasn't *that* confused.
ReplyDeleteSo, no. It was just my usual free association. I wrote it, got to wondering how many words I had, added a little more, counted, added 7 more words, and had 140. Just because.
I'm not holding my breath waiting for someone to explain to me the spiritual meaning of the number 140. Especially in German.