Author: Terry Wil Robinson

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Realize

 

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Wednesday’s Child

The first thing that comes to mind when I think of R E A L I Z E should be some lofty platitude such as Realize your Potential, or Realize your Dreams. In my mind’s eye I should see one of those inspirational posters with an eagle soaring above snow-covered mountain peaks with some pithy words emblazoned on it. In my mind I should hear loving words such as, “Do you realize just how much you are loved.”

But I am Wednesday’s Child, and full of woe. The glass was always empty for me when Continue reading “Realize” →

3 Quotes, 3 Days: Day Three

notallwhowanderI’ve been nominated by Mia Grizzle who blogs at The Grizzle Grist Mill for the 3 Quotes, 3 Days Challenge. Thank you very much Mia. I enjoy Mia’s writing and her variety of posts. Stop by and check out her site. The Challenge sounds like fun, and a great way to contribute to the WordPress Community. The Challenge: Post three quotes and nominate three people a day to the challenge, for three days.

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from J. R. R. Tolkien. I was first introduced to Mr. Tolkien’s most famous work, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in the early 1980s. It was my Continue reading “3 Quotes, 3 Days: Day Three” →

Tree

This redwood is so named because of the enormous branches balanced on either side of the trunk, branching out approximately 100 feet above the ground, like a giant three-armed candelabra. The carved tunnel opening is quite wide, making it easier for larger vehicles to pass through.
This redwood is so named because of the enormous branches balanced on either side of the trunk, branching out approximately 100 feet above the ground, like a giant three-armed candelabra.
The carved tunnel opening is quite wide, making it easier for larger vehicles to pass through.

There are trees and there are TREES. Despite the disparaging comment by President Reagan, “If you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all,” the mighty redwood is an amazing tree.

Yet my first thought when I saw this Daily Prompt was not a single tree, but a tree house. I fine them fascinating. I’ve thought about building one. It does take the right tree or combination of trees, however. I have a book that shows how to properly secure the beams so that the trees to which the houses are attached may continue to move with the wind, and continue to grow. While some tree houses are platforms built into the branch structure of one large tree, often houses are suspended from three of four trees that lack a large branch structure. Tall pines with branches only on the upper section of the trunk are good. It’s amazing how much weight four trees can support! Continue reading “Tree” →

3 Quotes, 3 Days: DAY TWO

I’ve been nominated by Mia Grizzle who blogs at The Grizzle Grist Mill for the 3 Quotes, 3 Days Challenge. Thank you very much Mia. I enjoy Mia’s writing and her variety of posts. Stop by and check out her site. The Challenge sounds like fun, and a great way to contribute to the WordPress Community. The Challenge: Post three quotes and nominate three people a day to the challenge, for three days.

Today, from across the pond, I have three quotes out of the many wonderful words and works of C.S. Lewis. Well known for The Chronicles of Narnia, Mr. Lewis also wrote  some incredible books that explained the Christianity in a simple, straight-forward manner. According to Wikipedia, “Charles Colson‘s conversion to Christianity resulted from his reading [Mere Christianity], as did the conversions of Francis Collins, Jonathan Aitken, Josh Caterer and the philosopher C. E. M. Joad.

I hope you enjoy these three from C.S. Lewis:

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.

Try to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean. That is the whole art and joy of words.

 

And the nominees for Day Two are:

Like Mia at The Grizzle Grist Mill, these writers/bloggers write from their hearts, sharing with us there lives and how they see the world. I hope you’ll find their work a joy to read.

Unashamed of Jesus
Jason C. Cushman
Josephine

Let me leave you the rules of the challenge:

Three quotes for three days.
Three nominees each day (no repetition).
Thank the person who nominated you.
Inform the nominees.

Thank you to Mia for nominating me for this challenge.

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3 Quotes, 3 Days Challenge: DAY ONE

I’ve been nominated by Mia Grizzle who blogs at The Grizzle Grist Mill for the 3 Quotes, 3 Days Challenge. Thank you very much Mia. I enjoy Mia’s writing and her variety of posts. Stop by and check out her site. The Challenge sounds like fun, and a great way to contribute to the WordPress Community. The Challenge: Post three quotes and nominate three people a day to the challenge, for three days.

Since my high school days in the Rebellious 60s, I’ve enjoyed the works of Henry David Thoreau. I can’t say I’ve ever lived as simply as he did at Walden’s Pond, nevertheless, his works left their indelible mark.

Here’s three of many things he said/wrote that I love:

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

And the nominees for Day One are:

Sam
Bird
DinamicDynasty

Like Mia at The Grizzle Grist Mill, hese writers/bloggers write from their hearts, sharing with us there lives and how they see the world. I hope you’ll find their work a joy to read.

Let me leave you the rules of the challenge:

Three quotes for three days.
Three nominees each day (no repetition).
Thank the person who nominated you.
Inform the nominees.

Thank you to Mia for nominating me for this challenge.

 

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Unfinished

Bucket Lists. Wish lists of to-dos before a person dies. It’s the title of a movie from 2007 about a couple of cancer patients that escape their death sentences and check of things they want to do before kicking the bucket. I didn’t have a bucket list—still don’t. I did have an unfinished chapter of my life that I left behind many years ago.

When I met Shorty Sellers he was in his mid to late eighties. He didn’t know how old

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Dilemma

Dilemma

Strolling along a path, in a thickly wooded valley, you come to a small clearing that has two exiting paths where the path branches. One path goes just slightly toward the right, and the other just slightly toward the left. Neither appears to have been well travelled, so the advice to take the least travelled path is not valid. Besides, aren’t you really done with the whole adventure thing. You are faced with a dilemma. Which path will you choose? Appearing out of the mist are twin wizards—did I say there was an eerie mist? Well, there is an eerie mist. You seem to know that one wizard ALWAYS tells the truth; the other ALWAYS lies. You also know you can only ask one question, and only address one wizard. What will you ask? Which one will you ask?

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Poser

The Urban Dictionary defines poser as:

  1. one who pretends to be someone;
  2. who tries to fit in but with exaggeration.
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Not A Poser. Photo by eRobinson, 2014.

Ultimately a poser is one who must pretend to be something they are not. I’d not heard the term until my son poked a little fun at his girl friend’s father, calling him a poser for his sweet ride—a shiny black Jeep, which contrasted his own black Jeep (photo above).

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Slog On

WordPress Daily Writing Prompt: Slog

Slog. I’ve never heard it used before. It sounds like an Appalachian drink made with moon shine and a touch of molasses. It has an Earthy ring to it. Slog. It could be a great name for a dog that you take to the groomer for a bath and who comes home only to roll around in the hog pen. Slog. I can hear it used as a substitute for the sixties term “waste.” As in, “Wow, man, did we get like slogged last night.”

Listening to myself say, “slog, slog,” I can almost hear the sound of my boots as Georgia red clay grips the sole trying swallow me, nearly stopping my progress down a wet, tree-lined trail. That’s a bit closer to the definition of slog, too. Slog on. Keep pushing onward despite the overwhelming pressure to stop. Slog on to finish the boring, repetitious, task, the tediousness of the work that lulls us to nearly sleep.. Seems like there is a lot of ways to use slog and not be in danger of a cliché for sometime to come.

Slog on, then, has to do with fighting against some opposition, pushing hard to overcome, and move beyond some difficult situation. Apostle Paul used the term “press on” in his letter to the Philippians (3:13,14)

. . . one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of G-d in Christ Jesus.

Slog is an okay name for a dog, too, as well as a drink.

When the going gets tough, the tough slog on. Keep calm, slog on. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Lord Bless, Keep, Shine. . .