Lisa Jo asks us to write for five minutes today on tired. I think I know a little about that. I can tackle five minutes. Just five minutes though. Because I’m so . . . tired. GO The tables were beautiful, draped in white linen and scattered with Hobby Lobby pirate gold coins. Mom would […]
Five Minute Friday ~ Grateful
GO! Grateful for this home away from home that will in so many ways be hard to leave. Grateful for staff who have become friends–no, family–who have kept watch and cared for her with such love and dignity. Grateful for tender hands and compassionate hearts. Grateful for Nick who has seen so many come and […]
Five Minute Friday: Grow
Joining again with Lisa Jo and community. Spilling words for five minutes on this week’s prompt. GROW. Go! There is growth in the soft places. In the darkness of the womb, nourished by life. Sculpted by nothing. And babies grow into little girls. And little girls into young women. And there is no control. No […]
Five-Minute Friday: Putting on the Brakes
Five minutes. Unscripted. Unedited. On unexpected. GO! Here I sit at the Dodge dealership watching televised observances from Arlington. I stopped on the way back to the Cottage for an overdue oil change. I didn’t expect to be here that long. Usually I’m in and out. But today is Veteran’s Day, and they are busy. […]
Five Minute Friday: Remembering Useless
Casey, a therapy dog We’ve been taking a lot of walks down memory lane. Like yesterday when a volunteer brought Casey to visit. It got us talking about our own dog. The one my dad brought home one day, the last left of a litter that some vet was giving away. His mother was a […]
When You Want to be Relevant
Bold and beautiful. Without editing. In five minutes. That’s how we’re supposed to write on Five-Minute Friday. So. Go! It’s not a word I use much. Relevant. But Lisa Jo is at the Relevant Conference. So that word is on her mind. I had to look it up. And then I wondered if it was […]
Aunt Emma
Today Lisa Jo asks us to stop, drop, and write for five minutes on the word, “catch,” without worrying if what we write is right. GO! “Look! Penguins!” I was maybe four years old, and we were at the train station. Great-Aunt Emma had come from out of state for a visit. Sister Mary Lucinda. […]
Just an Ordinary Friday – Not!
It’s Five Minute Friday, and Lisa Jo is asking us to spring off the word, “ordinary.” Five minutes of free writing–no overthinking, no editing. And when you finish reading this, head over to taste some of the other offerings. READY! SET! GO! Just an ordinary Friday morning. We slept with the windows open, though. I […]
Centered on Joy
Sara is going home soon and continues to spill joy as she makes her final journey. “This week,” writes Lisa Jo, “is for Sara – taking the prompt from her life’s commitment – to choose joy, no matter the circumstances.” So the prompt is JOY. No editing, over thinking, or backtracking. GO! My feet ache with […]
What is Real?
Joining Lisa Jo again today for another Five Minute Friday, where we spill from the heart. What comes, comes. What spills, spills. No fixing allowed. Today’s prompt is in real life . . . GO! “What is real?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit. And the Skin Horse tells him it’s when someone loves you, really […]
