It seems like most members of the WordPress Community are careful in their comments on other members’ posts, intending them to be complimentary. Most comments offer encouragement and are uplifting. While I haven’t seen comments that disagree with a member’s post, I’m pretty sure most of those who comment are careful to be constructive, and civil. Checking email today, I found two uncomplimentary . . . Continue reading “Careful”
Sunday evenings at my parents house, while sitting around the dinner table, we would argue some topic or other. It was a sort of dialectic in which we tried to rationally establish some great truth about something that may have occurred or something in the news. It was more or less amicable. Occasionally when I deviated too far off . . . Continue reading “Argument”
“Each word drew another line between me and the past.” —Jennifer Lee Worth
Jennifer Lee served London’s East End as a nurse and midwife in the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s. She married and left that life behind her, changing careers to become a piano teacher for the London College of Music. Many years later, now Jennifer Lee Worth, she wrote several book that told the story of those heroic women who served the people of that impoverished East London community. Jennifer Lee drew a line Continue reading “Border”
RealizeThe 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”
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”
Daring can just as easily mean courageous as it can foolhardy. When a daring act turns out well, we can easily say that it was so courageous. On the other hand, after a failed adventure, it’s all to easy to label it as foolhardy.
For instance, Continue reading “Daring”
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
Jonah’s Song 