Ponder My Meanderings

The wandering thoughts of a child of God, a wife, a mom to two homeschool graduates, one of which is a missionary wife bound for a foreign field, and a Grandma to the sweetest little girl! I'm a friend, a homemaker, a gardener, a woodwife of sorts, an aspiring herbalist, an artisan, crafter, and vintage gathering repurposer, the occasional writer of a fairytale or poem, lover of happy endings, somewhat of a hopeless romantic. I'm also interested in traditional, sustainable, homesteading skills.

July 2, 2011

The Wall #4

~Pondering the letter, I wondered how much I should say about the key. Maybe it was just my memory playing tricks on me. There was a quick knock at the door. Feeling a bit nervous about my find, I didn't want company just now. After some fumbling with the lock, the door opened and a foppishly dressed, middle aged fellow I'd seen in the lobby breezed past me and moved quickly across the room.

“Oh, say, can you see the mountains from your window?”, he blurted, looking surprised to find me there. “My room has a terrible view.”
Just then, everything went black... ~

Writing from the prompts of Jenny and friends @ Saturday Centus.

Since this is an ongoing story, I've been feeling terribly convicted about the controversy over splitting the prompt. I've gone back and moved a few things around to remove the problem. Corrections have been applied to The Wall page. Here's the original sentence that's provoked some of the comments below: ~ "Oh, say," he blurted, looking surprised to find me there, "can you see the mountains from your window? My room has a terrible view."~

Pondering My Meanderings,

Wanderer

17 thoughts about my meanderings:

Unknown said...: O.K. .... wha'ja find??? Come on, you can tell me!! Good one.; July 2, 2011 at 9:03 AM
cj Schlottman said...: Good that you took this in a direction other then the obvious!
I love the mystery of this.

Namaste..........cj; July 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM
jeff campbell said...: Very interesting and creative take on the prompt...mysterious...I want to know more...Peace and blessings; July 2, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Judie said...: VERY clever use of the prompt. I'm glad to see you continued your story. Now, let's have the rest!!; July 2, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Unknown said...: You split it! Can you really do that? Otherwise it's a great text.
Best wishes,
Anna
A Rainy Day in July-Anna's SC wk 61; July 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM
Susan Anderson said...: I guess an itty bitty bit of prompt mischief is okay for such a good story!

;); July 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Sharon said...: Lord willing, there's more to come. @ Anna - I didn't really split it into two sentences. I just dropped the "said by" part in the middle of the sentence that was spoken. Maybe the "C" in "Can" shouldn't be capitalized...fixed it. Thanks!; July 2, 2011 at 3:43 PM
Unknown said...: Great write. I think splitting the line is just fine:-); July 2, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Kelly Sedinger said...: Cheating? I thought I was the only one who found ways around the "rules" of the Centus! :); July 2, 2011 at 10:30 PM
Dazee Dreamer said...: I thought this was a great piece. Good job. even tho you did cheat. :); July 3, 2011 at 1:28 PM
Jo said...: oh, I am just loving this continuation and the way you split the prompt ... darn i wish i had thought of that!!!; July 3, 2011 at 9:06 PM
Sharon said...: LOL! Thanks! Who knew a little punctuation could be so controversial? How is my use of the prompt different from the line Francis Scott Key wrote at the beginning of our national anthem? Guess we'll let Jenny make the final call on the acceptability of the, so called, "split" in the prompt. Ma'am?; July 4, 2011 at 8:49 AM
Tgoette said...: Oh, nicely done continuation! I love a good mystery! Great job!; July 4, 2011 at 4:40 PM
Jenny said...: Ummm...

Ummm...

Gosh...

Ummm...

This is what I think. The prompts are guidelines to inspire you, shake your muse up, and make you write even when you don't feel like it.

If the muse speaks to you with punctuation, by all means...

I am not quite courageous enough to stand between a writer and the words in their soul. I suspect it is a place as fraught with danger and the dirt between a mother bear and her cub...

So...

I'm just gonna say...I love this ongoing story.

You, my dear, are a joy to read...no matter what you do with the prompt!

Thanks for linking!; July 4, 2011 at 10:53 PM
Sharon said...: Ho! Ho! Very diplomatic, Ma'am! Thanks for the inspiration and for hosting such a fun linky! I'll try to behave from now on. ;); July 4, 2011 at 11:48 PM
Sharon said...: BTW - thanks for all the comments on this little ditty. Hope I can keep the story going.; July 4, 2011 at 11:50 PM
Karen S. said...: Oh no a terrible view...but what else could there be.....great use of the prompt...very cool!; July 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM

What's this all about?

Keeping a journal or diary has never been easy for me. I loved the idea of it but remembering to do it daily was a problem. Then I'd feel guilty; procrastinating, thinking I'd make it up the next day only to find that a week had flown by without so much as a word from me! The worst part was that I couldn't remember some of the clever things I'd planned to say about the mundane experiences I'd had that made me...well, me. I think I'm a different person than I was all those years ago...expanding on old interests and learning new ones...teaching my little women and learning from them as well.

That time was longer ago than I care to think about. But the idea of putting down my thoughts where I can find them again has been ruminating lately so I decided to try it again in a newfangled context. What follows are the occasionally profound (said with tongue in cheek), often tedious, possibly interesting wanderings of a thoughtful mind.

Perhaps some of the musings that pass this way will inspire you, touch your heart, or brighten your day. So keep an open mind as you ponder my meanderings.

Ponderings of others

"If I'd never met you, I wouldn't like you; and if I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you; and if I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you, but I did, I do and I will."

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." ~Ingrid Bergman

"A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night. A true man will romance the same girl for the rest of his life." ~Ana Alas

"Love grows by giving."

"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

"The only way to retain love is to give it away." ~Elbert Hubbard

"A smile is almost always inspired by another smile." ~A

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." ~Judy Garland

"Love can make you do things that you never thought possible." ~Phil Collins

"The kiss~a sweet discovery of oneself after a long search." ~A
"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself." ~Jean Anouih

"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me."~W. H. Auden

"Love is the only true adventure." ~A

"If you think you've given something your all, but your all is all about you, then you haven't truly given anything." ~A. Gimbledorf

"You don't love someone for their looks, their clothes or their fancy car but because they sing a song that only you can hear."

"Unless your heart, your soul and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness."

"Until one is commited, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness...." ~William Hutchinson Murray

"Life is confusing enough; Let's try not to muddy the waters with obscure statements that make folks scratch their heads in bewilderment." ~A. Gimbledorf

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