They came back last year. Full and flowing and bubbling over like the Frio inself. The High Calling editors. Their words carved a hole in my soul. An aching yawn in my heart that longs to be filled with the beauty of a Texas canyon. To embrace those who have become like family. L.L., who […]
Five Minutes with Older: I’m Not Ready to See Jesus
It’s Friday. And it’s Lisa Jo’s birthday. So today our prompt is older. Five minutes to let it spill. This should be easy . . . GO! I’m getting older. With way fewer years on this earth ahead than behind. I have a lot more I want to do and see. But the sands of […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Five Minutes with Beauty
It’s Friday again. And again I’m linking up with Lisa Jo as we explore beauty in five minutes of pure, unedited spill. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. ~Psalm 139:14 (NIV) GO! They buried Grandma King in her wedding dress. My […]
What If? (A Glass Slipper Sonnet)
And now for something a little light, a little fun, and a lot corny (pun intended.) L.L. Barkat and Tweetspeak Poetry have put out a glass slipper sonnet challenge. What If? (A Glass Slipper Sonnet) What if she hadn’t slipped slipper from foot? What if she’d hurtled headlong down the stair? Would an ungraceful girlfriend […]
Textures of Text: Let’s Go All Word Wild
Perhaps the role of those involved in the arts, then, is to awaken ourselves and others to beauty–in all its risk and richness. ~Luci Shaw Let’s go all word wild. Let’s bound over boundaries and color outside the fence lines. Let’s open up new spaces within ourselves and dive in deep waters. Let’s be reckless […]
Fuel for the Weekend: Whole in Five Minutes
Lisa Jo is back with a new Five Minute Friday word prompt. Whole. For five minutes of unedited bleeding. GO! Pieces. It takes pieces to make a whole. Atoms and molecules and cells organize into organs and organ systems. Body parts make a whole body. God’s made us that way. To function as a part […]
Textures of Text: Servant of the Word
Again, as so often before, I felt the secret thoughts rising in me, trusting them to be God-thoughts making themselves known. ~Luci Shaw breath of His breath I watch and wait spirit of the wild and untamed wind rushing water of many colors swirling dry bones dance to celestial tunes God-thoughts rise beauty to beauty […]
Window on Writing: Where I’m From
She issued a writing challenge based on a poem by George Ella Lyon titled Where I’m From. She offered a template link. Here’s my attempt, but I think I deviated from the template. I am from black-and-white two channels antenna perched on post turned to fuzzy and not-so-fuzzy by hand in all weather window open. […]
I’m Done, I’m Full
We are on the road again. Back “up north” to pick up my son’s car while he works. It took ten days and more than half that in dollars to fix the damage. He ran into the back of someone in bumper-to-bumper traffic on his honeymoon. So we decided to grab a little alone time. […]
Five Minutes with Grateful
Joining Lisa Jo today for her five-minute word prompt on GRATEFUL. Pouring words for five minutes with no editing. GO! I’m grateful for water that ripples and waves that crash. For sand that sings beneath my feet. For “I do” and “I love you” and a tender smile. I’m grateful for family and friends and […]
