Category: writing
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A Bunch of Idioms:
And Other Lies I Tell Myself A SHORT STORY I’m not going to beat around the bush. It’s time to bite the bullet and get it out of my system. To make a long story short… I was waiting in line at the grocery store this afternoon, minding my own business, and this old woman…
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Shadow Emotions
Like a shadow, I am and I am not. Rumi I thought I’d backtrack a bit since I used the term “negative emotions” in my last post. What I’m coming to understand is that emotions are not necessarily positive or negative; or black and white. Like so many other things in life, they are more…
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Emotions: Hope
“Hope is a match in a dark tunnel, a moment of light, just enough to reveal the path ahead and ultimately the way out.” —Dr. Judith Rich I’ve been exploring faith and hope, and looking at the differences between the two—especially when it comes to visual interpretations. My thoughts were that hope would be yellow…
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Fluidity
“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” —Okakura Kakuzō I’m going abstract today because the thing that’s been on my mind lately is change. Transformation, modification, alteration… call it what you will. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes—and it is constant and never ending. That being said, I…
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Child’s Play
Three seconds of bliss, Colors my soul with laughter, Innocent child’s play. Written for Ronovan Writes Haiku Challenge: Color and Three I’m traveling back in time again. The featured image is a photo that I shared about five years ago. That’s my youngest grandson, playing with the same sprinkler that I played with when I…
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Pink Noise
Never let the noise of the world overpower the stillness of your soul. Merriam-Webster has a cool little tool called Time Traveler where you can find the words that were first seen in print in the year you were born (or in any year for that matter). I picked a couple from my birth year…
