Thru Sonia's Eyes' photostream on Flickr.
Please check these out and let me know what you think please. If you can not leave a comment on flickr, then respond here! thanks
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
A Trip to a Local Cemetery
A couple pictures taken this weekend. My son has developed an interest in filming movies and is currently working on a zombie movie. He asked me this weekend if I would take him to an old cemetery so he could film some "opening scene" footage. "Sure son...lets go."
To be honest, I really just wanted to go with my camera and my own agenda.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Waiting Room Observations. . .
To my left a mother quietly reads to the small child in her lap;
. . . slowly encouraging her little one to pronounce the words herself.
To my right an elderly lady with a blush to her face;
. . . speaks into her cell phone, "Didn't you hear my friend? I am getting married, this fall!"
I sit in between waiting to hear- waiting for a Doctor to tell me for good or for bad;
. . . "Well, this is how it is."
A strange place to be, bordered by Hope on both sides of the room;
. . . when you have none.
. . . slowly encouraging her little one to pronounce the words herself.
To my right an elderly lady with a blush to her face;
. . . speaks into her cell phone, "Didn't you hear my friend? I am getting married, this fall!"
I sit in between waiting to hear- waiting for a Doctor to tell me for good or for bad;
. . . "Well, this is how it is."
A strange place to be, bordered by Hope on both sides of the room;
. . . when you have none.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Ready for Another One?
I understand. . . all of my two readers are probably starting to get bored with this, but here I am back again with another wonderful question from Mastin Kipp's The Daily Love and author Jackson Kiddard. Believe me, I know that few people really read this blog...but these past few days have been a good exercise for me. My hope is that some of it has touched another person...somewhere, in some small way. (** Note, please do not in any way misinterpret that last statement!)
"If it were true that everyone you meet is YOU in another body, how would you treat them?"
Boy, I really wish I could get some comments on this one. It seems at first like a simple question with a simple answer, but is it? My first quick answer to this one is "I would kick their ass!" But that is me and most times I really don't like myself very well. The experts (and my therapist) tell me that I really should not feel that way but that self-loathing keeps me in line at times. All the inspirational material advises me that I must love myself before I can love another. Well...darn it, I guess based on my answer to this question -that it TRUE.
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Let me attempt to answer the above question again, the way my therapist would want me to. If everyone I met was me in another body, I would smile and say "I love you...and you are great!" STOP.... No, I can't take it!! I am beginning to sound like Stuart Smalley! Nope...think I will stick with my first answer!
"If it were true that everyone you meet is YOU in another body, how would you treat them?"
Boy, I really wish I could get some comments on this one. It seems at first like a simple question with a simple answer, but is it? My first quick answer to this one is "I would kick their ass!" But that is me and most times I really don't like myself very well. The experts (and my therapist) tell me that I really should not feel that way but that self-loathing keeps me in line at times. All the inspirational material advises me that I must love myself before I can love another. Well...darn it, I guess based on my answer to this question -that it TRUE.
Let me attempt to answer the above question again, the way my therapist would want me to. If everyone I met was me in another body, I would smile and say "I love you...and you are great!" STOP.... No, I can't take it!! I am beginning to sound like Stuart Smalley! Nope...think I will stick with my first answer!Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Question of the Day- Part II
As promised yesterday, and as an exercise in forcing myself to write everyday, I offer up to you my second probing question. Once again I remind you that these questions were taken from author Jackson Kiddard as I noted yesterday. This time...I am going to take a chance and answer this one for myself. Please feel free to reflect on it-either internally or leave a comment.
If you knew you had a choice about what kind of life you could be living, would you choose differently?
Wow, my first thought when reading this question was, "Hell yeah"! However, the more I reflected on it and looked at my life, I began to be a little embarrassed at that quick response. I thought to myself, "Wait, you mean I did not already have a choice?" I was under the impression that I always had a choice in what kind of life I was living. Don't we all? Once we become adults, we make very independent decisions about life- do we not? I tried to search deeper into my memory to find a moment that as an adult, I did not have a choice in what path I took, what corner I went around or who I included in my life. The life that I am living in right now, is the result of several independent choices I have made.
It seems to me this question might be asking, "If you could go back and do over some of those choices you made and change your current life, would you?". To be honest, I am not sure that I would at this stage in my life. I made some really bad choices a few times in my life, but I learned from them and I don't think I want to lose the lessons that I gained from the experience. I guess if I really want to be honest, I would admit that there might be a few little choices made that I would change...like not spending as much money, or telling my family that I love them more often. What about you?
If you knew you had a choice about what kind of life you could be living, would you choose differently?
Wow, my first thought when reading this question was, "Hell yeah"! However, the more I reflected on it and looked at my life, I began to be a little embarrassed at that quick response. I thought to myself, "Wait, you mean I did not already have a choice?" I was under the impression that I always had a choice in what kind of life I was living. Don't we all? Once we become adults, we make very independent decisions about life- do we not? I tried to search deeper into my memory to find a moment that as an adult, I did not have a choice in what path I took, what corner I went around or who I included in my life. The life that I am living in right now, is the result of several independent choices I have made.
It seems to me this question might be asking, "If you could go back and do over some of those choices you made and change your current life, would you?". To be honest, I am not sure that I would at this stage in my life. I made some really bad choices a few times in my life, but I learned from them and I don't think I want to lose the lessons that I gained from the experience. I guess if I really want to be honest, I would admit that there might be a few little choices made that I would change...like not spending as much money, or telling my family that I love them more often. What about you?
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