Inspiration

Dearest Shelby,      One day when Grandma was a young girl, God said, "I think I will give here a gift."      And so he did.     It was a wonderful present.     The gift was your Daddy.     Time passed, and God said again, "I think I'll add something to make the gift even better."     So He added a beautiful ribbon and tied  it with a soft, pretty bow around the first present.     That pretty Bow was Your Mommy.     Now, the angels were watching God wrap this Present to me and said,    "God, [...]

                                              A  Man's Dream                                    Each man has a dream  of his own                                                    Who he can be                                   What he wants to [...]

I love the title of this blog. It was an inspiration from one of my Mother's writings. You see that is what she called the pond outside of her log cabin home that she shared with her husband for many years. It was her place for inspiration. A place she loved to be , where she could watch the deer walk in front of their large sunroom windows. And on occasion, there was a bear in the woods that kept company with the woodchucks, beavers, squirrels and various other wildlife.I remember when she first moved out to the country. I [...]

It's been awhile since I have written a blog post. Too long. Too long away from pen and paper. It has called me in the whispers of my soul, each day, crying for me to come back. Yet, the grief of my Mother and the desire to focus on anything else that takes me away from emotion has led me astray from my creative life.The sunshine has started to peak its way through the darkness of my soul, yet, there are days when I am exposed to other people and the interactions with them gets too intense. The intensity sends [...]

And so the snow finally fell that year. It hadn't come until January 11th. A late winter snowfall.I remember looking out my living room window and watching the flakes as they passed by the streetlight. It was quiet outside. The earth was finally blanketed for a winter's rest and somehow my heart felt at peace. I looked across the street to the little blue house that my Mother wanted to buy so many years before that and wondered , would she still be alive if she had lived there. I would never know and my heart thought, at least this [...]