Devotional question: Where in your life do you need to become stronger?
Are there muscles for peace, kindness, nonjudgmental-ness, and keeping-in-touch-ness? Those places.
Category: 23 words
Stronger
Devotional question: Where in your life do you need to become stronger?
Biceps, triceps, abs, glutes… Wait — that’s my body, not my life.
Path
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells
Does that apply to shoveling snow after a storm?
Spice of Life
Ginger, I love your
Anti-inflammatory
Properties and the
Flavor you add to a peach
Smoothie — Wish I could make one!
Showing up
I see her at the gym every morning.
“Good job,” I said.
“I haven’t lost any weight,” she replied.
“But you’re showing up.”.
Listen
Music is a world within itself
Stevie Wonder, Sir Duke
With a language we all understand
Go ahead. Listen. So much joy.
Christina’s World
The challenge: mimic a master
The original by Andrew Wyeth:
The collage version made with pictures from children’s books:
Dismal fail.
Repeat tomorrow.
Journey
Where will life’s journey take you today?
To a farm? Past a castle? I really can’t say.
Embrace it. Enjoy it. Pedal away!
Wings
“Oh, that I had wings..” Psalm 55:8
The first story I submitted for publication 35 years ago was based on that verse.
Rejected.
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
She cinched it too tight –
I can hardly breathe, and yet
Composed, I pose here,
While imagining little
Ways to punish that servant
I’m going beyond the 23 words of my Ekphrastic Tanka (5-7-5-7-7) — To be honest, I’m not really sure I did the Tanka right because I know good poetry is more that counting syllables.
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (by John Singer Sargent) looks annoyed, doesn’t she? That’s all I see when I look at the painting.
And yet that seems so unfair to Lady Agnew. What if I’m just projecting my own annoyances onto her.
How about this tanka, instead.
I’m going to sneeze
I mean it — I can feel it
Rising, rising up –
So that my eyes smart [breathe in,
Relax, slowly breathe] — ACHOO
Really, it’s a lovely painting. I’m not trying to make fun of Lady Agnew. I want to know what she’s thinking. Is it deeper thoughts than the little annoyances she may be experiencing?
Hot Dogs and Marmalade 