Yesterday was National Day on Writing. A teacher somewhere required her students to write a 6-word autobiographical story. I find this fascinating. It is reported that Ernest Hemingway wrote, Baby shoes. For sale. Never used. Brilliant. So in celebration of writing I spent my self-allotted 5 minutes of personal pleasure to construct a 6-word sentence. …
Category: Random
Dream Holders
While we were in Zambia, we took every opportunity to talk with the people and ask them what their lives were like. We wanted to know how they celebrated their joys and how they comforted each other in their sorrows. We also wanted to know what their dreams were. They weren’t so different than our …
FOOTLOOSE
After spraining my ankle this morning trying to get some exercise I ran across this. If there is one thing I wish I could do well it would be dancing. It just makes me happy to do it, to watch it, to imagine it. Hope you enjoy it. If you don’t….bah hum bug you poor …
Seven Sins Seven Virtues
As the world seems to be spinning out of control…. As if we could ever control the earths spinning…. I have pondered a great deal about what is causing the chaos. I decided to do some research. I began with the seven sins. All of which, at one point or another, I concluded was the …
Destiny
Oregon Park walk way- very GREEN. Ciera- That monster will eat us!!. Ciera got drenched on the boat ride. We all got drenched on the boat ride! What a cute and funny girl!! Loved sitting outside by the water! Loved jumping the waves! The sand was warm and inviting! Not sure what the sunglasses were …
Fringe Benefits
I often ponder about the poisonous and insidious diatribe that is so prevalent in our society today. Every group has an agenda and assisted by statistics and data are able to influence and recruit the masses to jump on any bandwagon. But not you, right? Certainly not me. We are the exception. We are the …
Wants Not
Write. Splatter the page with covert words. Suffocating between the sheets. Confused, contrived and denied Expire in heartless stead. Write. Until what is alleged is understood. What is sensed suffereth long. The lines and pauses and pages persevere. Suppressed lips liberate censored wrongs. Write. Others will own and mirror what they will. Embracing the pain …
The Point
I have many moments where I think, “what is the point”? It doesn’t matter what project I am working on, some days I wonder why I ever thought “it” was important or worth my time and energy. Today I finished a book called THE HELP. As I came closer and closer to the end of …
Ben and Breann’s Video
Newly Wed
Benjamin and Breann Bowman June 19, 2010 Honeymoon! Friends had way too much fun lighting up sparklers, but they wished them well as they began their adventure together. Mothers dance Sweet moment in the evening was hearing my son ask the crowd where his Mom was. I was watching. …