I am a member of the Black Friday Fellowship. Or maybe it’s the Sisterhood of Silliness. Whatever it is, it’s tradition. This dark rising to set forth into the land of cold and crowds. Slushing through snow in tennis shoes and unbuttoned jackets. Gloveless. It always begins with a coffee stop. Sometimes there’s a plan, […]
Archives for November 2010
Fly ~ A Photo Prompt
“Everyone sees it. God’s work is the talk of the town. Be glad, good people! Fly to God! Good-hearted people, make praise your habit.” Psalm 64:9 (Message)
Playing Scattergories
Crumbs still clung to the harvest cloth between blotted Coke and orange juice. The fake decorations drooped a little when yawns gathered around to begin the traditional games. The eight-year-old asked to play Scattergories. The adults groaned knowing the difficulty she would have, fearing her frustration. But she persisted, and the adults relented. She took […]
Words~In More Than 140 Characters
Words–so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne A word fitly spoken and in due season is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Proverbs 25:11 (Amplified)
Bread
Lines of breadless bellies and moldy dreams black blizzard coming in the bread basket breadwinner lost dusty hope. Hungry children chew on hands because it’s not my day to eat waste not, want not let’s play eviction. Some buy what they can use while others can’t buy what they can’t live without Bread of Life […]
Listening (Repost)
It’s 5 a.m. I hadn’t planned to be at the computer this early. In the morning dark. At 12:05, I had buried my face under the covers and cuddled next to a suitcase. Dennis packing for Dallas. At 3:50, I awoke to music. Loud. Hadn’t heard it for 20 minutes. “Are you awake?” I groaned. […]
I Will (repost)
I will seize today for it is shiny and new sparkling with promise a gift wrapped with moments for delight to savor. Anticipation. I will let go of yesterday’s wrinkled regrets faded failures broken bows of disappointment moments to forget and forgive. Finished. I will not treasure tomorrow for God has not promised on earth […]
Photos That Make My Heart Sing
“Good art shows up in the most unexpected places, and yet it’s all around us,” she says. She wonders how we spot good photography. And she gives us an assignment. Find five images from five different photographers. Blog about what makes those images good. Take a good image yourself after being inspired and share it […]
On Adopting a Droid
I am in a land of shiny things. AKA–the Verizon Store. Where inhabitants speak a strange language and rows upon rows of shiny alien mouths line up neatly on shelves. I’ve owned these before. Their little jaws have bitten me in the past. Snapped right on the web between my right thumb and forefinger and […]
Gratitude~In More Than 140 Characters
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and […]
