STAYING AFLOAT – by The Reclining Gentleman

I am reblogging this from one of my best WordPress friends:  It is beautiful!  Visit his site at: The Reclining Gentleman The ocean stretches beyond our vision We can no longer see where we started Its furthest reaches are invisible beyond the horizon We cannot fathom what may be ahead Unexpected Unseen We are vulnerable…

IT’S ALL ABOUT ME – AGAIN

Daily Prompt: This Is Your Life If you could read a book containing all that has happened and will ever happen in your life, would you? If you choose to read it, you must read it cover to cover. The original It’s all about me post can be found right here where I typed all these…

QUOTED INSPIRATION

Daily Prompt: Quote Me Do you have a favorite quote that you return to again and again? What is it, and why does it move you? I don’t often quote but when I do it is to make a point, or a quote says something way better than I ever could.  I love quoting C.S. Lewis, …

DREAM BIG

 Daily Prompt: Kick It by michelle w. on January 3, 2013 What’s the 11th item on your bucket list?   Since it fits the daily prompt I am reposting my bucket list!   Well as you can see below number 11 is to someday sell the notes I write in a Cafe for a fortune. …

THANKS FOR THE CONVERSATION

When I started blogging in April I had no idea I would end up with so much to write about.  Needless to say when I saw how many posts I had made in 9 months I was a bit….proud.  My friends would probably say they aren’t surprised because, although I think I am a good…

DIE KISSING

Writing Challenge: New Year’s Resolutions (Doompocalypse Redux) I have already packed 2012 into a trunk and stuck it somewhere in the furthest reaches of my mind. Maybe it was the loss of a dear friend, Rob, who I will forever miss. Maybe it was the other losses we endured; my beautiful friend lost her son, my…

THE ABBY NORMAL HEART

Have you ever seen Young Frankenstein?  If not you should, Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman are genius.  Anyway, I am frustrated…and for some reason I thought of this scene.  I am frustrated because I feel like Frankenstein sometimes.  I guess maybe we all do.  Like we were built wrong…well duh…none of us are perfect right? …

LIVING WITH FOOD

Daily Prompt: Live to Eat Some people eat to live, while others live to eat. What about you? How far would you travel for the best meal of your life? I certainly eat more than I need to live but I also don’t live to eat either! Food for me is like music…it makes life…

YOU CAN’T PLAY

A couple of months ago my daughter came home and quite simply said…I hate being left out.  Some kids on the playground formed a group to perform in the talent show and kicked her out saying they don’t need a 4th.  Yea…rejection sucks.  Being forgotten and ignored sucks.  Yet it is a part of life…

ONLY IF

Daily Prompt: Forever Young If there were a real Fountain of Youth, would you drink the water? As long as I could share with my family and the friends I have spent my life getting to know! I would only drink From the Fountain of Youth If I could share the cup with YOU