Tag: thoughts

  • The Valley

    This is an ongoing story that is continued each day using the Daily Spur’s word prompt. Todays word is: Other. The previously written parts run below the new addition so that, in the end, it will be a completed short story. Backwards. I hope you find it entertaining! Part Four Things hadn’t always been uneasy…

  • Alternate Universe

    Alternate Universe

    There were times in the past when I feared that my optimism looked too much like “fantasy” to some. Now, with the great divides that have literally split our world apart, I fear that my optimism is much more real than the reality of some. With each day, I am more and more amazed at…

  • Revision, Revision, Revision!

    Revision, Revision, Revision!

    After publishing my post, Be Gentle, I played around with my illustration a little more and came to like this sketched version better than the original. Maybe it’s a more accurate depiction of “gentleness” because of the softening of the colors.  I hesitated to share it because you’ve already seen the original, so it seemed…

  • Road to Happiness

    The road to success [or a better life] is always under construction. Lily Tomlin [and me] As you probably know, I never tire of learning about the power of our minds. Sometimes I’ll read or hear something and it sends chills down my spine. Good chills. It’s like a feeling of excitement that what you…

  • Be Gentle

    Be Gentle

    “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.” Saint Francis de Sales I’m doubling down today and combining my Word of the Month with a new illustration. What inspired my young woman was a photograph someone saved on Pinterest – for the sake of a wedding dress. As I pondered what…

  • Circling Around Again

    Circling Around Again

    “We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” —T.S. Eliot I’ll be honest here. I wasn’t sure what this line from T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding” was about, so I Googled it. And I’m still…