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 30, 2011

The Wall #8

Today's Saturday Centus was writtern from a picture prompt rather than words...the word limit...100! Keeping on with the The Wall...the story goes...

After dinner, I decided to take a walk, careful to keep to the main street, among the crowd. But I felt uneasy and returned to my room. The humid air hung about the window long after the light had faded.

Despite the events of the day, I fell quickly asleep. My dreams started out peacefully reminiscing family times before Grandfather's passing. One, in particular, was of a mid-summer vacation to New Mexico to visit a writer friend of his. It was so hot, you could fry an egg on the pavement! It was my first time to swim in a pool...

Pondering My Meanderings,
Wanderer

16 thoughts about my meanderings:

1 jeff campbell said...: Such a wonderful dream...and quite lovely writing...Peace and blessings; July 30, 2011 at 8:11 AM
2 Pretty Pretty Sweet & Spicy - Swicy said...: Oh, thats great writing!; July 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM
3 Ames said...: I have heard that and lived it too!~Ames; July 30, 2011 at 11:28 AM
4 cj Schlottman said...: I am amazed at how you keep this story going. And your style is smooth and readable. Great!; July 30, 2011 at 11:47 AM
5 Karen S. said...: Oh great sriting, and I hope the swim in the pool can cool things down a bit...cuz there is heat brewing in your very cool centus! Thanks!; July 30, 2011 at 2:51 PM
6 To the Toy Box and Beyond said...: great job.; July 30, 2011 at 3:05 PM
7 Rawknrobyn.blogspot.com said...: This is captivating and leaves me needing to keep coming back! Nice job.; July 30, 2011 at 8:10 PM
8 Dazee Dreamer said...: wow, you are writing a book here right in front of our eyes. great job.; July 30, 2011 at 11:46 PM
9 jfb57 said...: Lovely. Great links here & it's all ready for next week's! Clever!; July 31, 2011 at 7:41 AM
10 Susan Anderson said...: I'd like to see it all together when you are finished. You have done a great job of creating this ongoing tale.

=); July 31, 2011 at 2:15 PM
11 Sharon said...: Thanks! I'm adding each week's challenge to The Wall page so folks can read it all together if they want to.; July 31, 2011 at 3:07 PM
12 Gems said...: Oh the pool....yes please!; July 31, 2011 at 10:13 PM
13 Jo said...: kudos on keeping this story going ... and kudos on the this bit of writing ... swimming in a pool sounds wonderful right about now!; August 1, 2011 at 12:13 AM
14 Unknown said...: Great that you keep on course with the different prompts. Lovely dream!
Best wishes,
Anna
'John Tell, expert on tourism' Anna's SC wk 65; August 6, 2011 at 5:50 AM
15 Jenny said...: I'm always impressed how you keep this story going.

It will be interesting to read it start to finish someday!

Thanks for sharing this week. You are just so cool.; August 6, 2011 at 3:22 PM
16 Sharon said...: I look forward to the Centus each week. It's a nice challenge. Thanks for pushing us to reach inside for a new idea every Saturday!; August 7, 2011 at 12:25 AM

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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