It's the next to the last day of the A to Z Challenge for 2023! Time sure flies, doesn't it?
For my last post on the A to Z Challenge blog, I thought of another word that suggests resilience, yield. It can be used as a noun or verb. When used as a verb, it means to give way, to wait until someome else has passed before making a move yourself. You see YIELD signs on the highways, when you're on an entrance ramp and about to merge into traffic. It doesn't mean you have to stop: if, when you get to the end of the ramp, there's no traffic in the lane, you can go right ahead and move over. It's a sign of resilience to be willing to do that. Plenty of times, I've seen someone come barreling onto the highway, nearly causing an accident when they do because someone else is in the lane. If they do cause an accident, they're the ones at fault, because they failed to yield.
When used as a noun, yield relates to the amount of output you get. A recipe for muffins might yield 8 muffins; a deposit in a certificate of deposit might yield 3% interest over the course of a year. Participating in the A to Z Challenge, of course, yields 26 blog posts and hopefully a new attitude toward blogging. Maybe you'll end up with a book out of all your posts. Who can say?
Regardless of why you did the Challenge this year, we're glad you did. Thanks for participating!
13 comments:
Y is for Yarn
In the UK our road signs say GIVE WAY rather than YIELD. That is a phrase with various meanings as well. Both yield and give way may mean collapse!
My penultimate post for the challenge is https://suestrifles.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/you-decide-atozchallenge/
Y is for yellow snow
https://misky.uk/2023/04/29/29-april-a-to-z-challenge/
https://ladyleemanilablog.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/yes-from-me/
I lived for ten years in Ireland where they also use YIELD at junctions - a woman friend told me flirtatiously that if she was driving with a man she liked and approached a YIELD sign - she had the urge to do just that...
Penultimate letter -
https://how-would-you-know.com/2023/04/xmas-tree-extras-expelliarmus-made-up-languages.html
Howdy,
I think drivers education forgets to teach people what road signs mean in South Carolina (they just can't drive at all). Maybe it's me but Yankees are allowed and they also eat Yuppy Brownies
Cheers,
Barbie
It really is hard to believe we are on letter Y! It has been a wonderful challenge, some days harder than others. My Y post is all about how Your Story Matters.
YourStoryMatters
I thought of Yield, but decided to go with yellow instead and join with many others who found yellow to be their color of the day.
https://arbitrarydustbunnies.com/2023/04/29/dancing-in-the-rain/
Good one. The best I liked was it yields 26 blog posts
The Y shoe sketch: https://repeatsamb.blogspot.com/2023/04/atozchallenge-2023-y-is-for-yrsa.html
This year my A-Z blogging adventure will yield 52 posts!
Ronel visiting for Y:
My Languishing TBR: Y
Yodelling Dwarfs
I also talked about yield today, but as an abstract noun in contradiction with yearning: https://experiencewriting.com/2023/04/29/poetry-month-challenges-day-29-yearning-and-yield/
late but here: https://www.ladyinreadwrites.com/yam-by-the-yamuna-you-alone-with-the-yahz-so-amazing/
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