Daily Prompt: The Glass
05 May 2013 2 Comments
in Daily Prompt, My Thoughts Tags: be real, brave, challenge, inspiration, life, living
Is the glass half full or half empty?
My glass is nearly always half full, at the very least. And if it’s half empty, that can only mean that I at some point gleefully helped myself to the top half. Life is very clearly there to be lived! Why else would it go on and on for most of us? I talk with cautious people every day who are afraid to risk anything, and their lives make me feel sad and frustrated. There are things I’m physically unable to take on, but the world inside my head is full of excitement and challenge and change! Balls to the wall, boys and girls — make a difference!
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Get over it …
03 May 2013 4 Comments
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
― Criss Jami,
In Every Inch In Every Mile
The critic doesn’t count …
18 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
It isn’t the person who doesn’t like me that matters, their voice isn’t what I will listen to. Instead, I hear the whispers of those who love me … “Carry on.”
(from a wonderful shirttail cousin)
When it’s over …
17 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don’t want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
~Mary Oliver
Change is what life’s all about …
16 Apr 2013 Leave a comment
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I can feel the mix of emotions experienced by the farm wife who, through the wonder of a time machine, finds herself standing in front of her former home — the one she watched her raw new husband build board by board, then furnished with the bare necessities of life and swept daily with a crude broom in order to keep the dust to a dull roar. I see her sending her stoic farmer for the mid-wife and birthing their babies in the same bed where they were made out of love and awkwardness-turned-to-familiarity. I see her well-tended garden gone to ruin and reclaimed by the elements. Her disbelief. Her chagrin. The ache in her heart. The incomprehensible change that overtook it all once she was out of the picture.
I see the change in my own life, moving from painful to sweet, that has brought me to the man who pulls off the highway, drives down a dirt road, and treks across a wheat field because he spots just the photograph I need for my blog.
I try to open-heartedly embrace change since I learned years ago that it’s what life’s all about. Once you get that far, it all becomes infinitely simpler to deal with.
You’re On Your Own, Pal
11 Apr 2013 2 Comments
in Daily Prompt, Press This, Re-blogging Tags: be real, blogging, brave, friendship, inspiration, learning, life, living, marriage, relationships
I love Transman and his story … and this one touched my heart in a unique way. It deserves to be Pressed.
Playing for Time 
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