Friday is #MarketFriday by @dswigle (Denise! That is me!) I will be traveling and won't be home in time to post am an amazing blog, but, I will be back in time to catch all of the ones that come flying in! So, I put this out today I have internet available while I am here at the Public Library, who incidentally is keeping my homemade ice cream in their freezer while I leech off their free wifi. Oh, yes!! I am living the good life right now. I will be heading home tomorrow and hopefully, I will catch you then!

I am having a good time, but, of course, I missed you all! It always does my heart good to see all those #MarketFriday posts when I click on my profile on Friday! You people totally rock!

Fridays are all about the #MarketFriday Challenge! Looking to take part in it? Here is how:

How to Participate:

1. Go to the market! Any market will do! Food, Clothing, Plant or Animal, if you wish. You can go to the zoo or an art auction. Anywhere or anything that you pay money for a service. I once went to a nail salon.
2. Take pictures! Be creative (or not)
3. Tell us a little bit about the market, what brought you here?
4. Post the picture(s)
5. Don’t forget to hashtag it! #MarketFriday by @dswigle
6. Drop the link to your post here so I can easily find them

It is always interesting to see the different markets around the globe! C’mon! Show me your market shots! I eagerly await them!

Please leave the link to your post on here so it can easily be found by others. They will all be in one place!! Thank you! ❤

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I hope you will join us as we share our different lives. It has been such a pleasure to see markets from all over the world. Who doesn't love to see what they are selling? There is always a curiosity attached to foreign ingredients, different produce or any product sold. So, yes! I would love to see yours! So don't forget to take photos wherever you happen to be shopping - whether it be the grocery, art galleries, or anyplace - wherever money is exchanged for a service or for merchandise. Don't forget to use the hashtag #marketfriday and @dswigle.

CUE THE MUSIC MAESTRO!

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STOP!! BRAIN TEASER AHEAD!!

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There are 25 mechanical horses and a single racetrack. Each horse completes the track in a pre-programmed time, and the horses all have different finishing times, unknown to you. You can race 5 horses at a time. After a race is over, you get a printout with the order the horses finished, but not the finishing times of the horses. What is the minimum number of races you need to identify the fastest 3 horses?

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Answer! Can you guess??? The logic of finding the fastest horse is straightforward. First, the 25 horses are split into 5 groups. Any horse that loses a race cannot be the fastest overall. This eliminates 20 horses that finished in 2nd to 5th place.

Now the 5 winners race against each other. The horse that wins this race is faster than the other winners, and the other winners are faster than the other horses in their group. The fastest of the winners is, therefore, the fastest horse overall.

As always, there must be a flower. Always. To color my world. This flower is dedicated to #FridaySkyBlue #ColorChallenge by @Kalemandra, who colors my world every day.

And just like that, this post is done. I hope you had a good time! As always, I want to thank you for taking the time to visit #MarketFriday!! Thank you for supporting the challenge! Have a most fabulous day! Cheers!!

Let the sun shine in on your life
So the joy may touch your soul

I will resume my regularly scheduled programming tomorrow sometime! I look forward to seeing your #MarketFriday posts and will check them out! Be different if you wish! It does not have to be a traditional market! I will love it! I promise you! Don't forget to use the hashtag #MarketFriday and @dswigle.

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Thank you for visiting my post 💖 Because of you, I come back to post, again and again, I am encouraged by you, for the time you take to visit, comment or even upvote. For all of these reasons, I am eternally grateful. Don't ever forget what a wonderful world we live in, people. Let's hold hands around the globe and make this earth really spin. Some days, it is not as easy to see, how wonderful it really is. Kindness counts. Wherever you go, whatever you do.

I always post this poem down at the bottom of my posts. It is one that has become so near and dear to my heart. I only post the most famous part of it, but, wanted to post it in its entirety today.

they set my aunts house on fire
i cried the way women on tv do
folding at the middle
like a five pound note.
i called the boy who use to love me
tried to ‘okay’ my voice
i said hello
he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?

i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.

later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered,
"where does it hurt?"
it answered,

"everywhere"
"everywhere"
"everywhere"

warsan shire