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Things

 Thoughts. Thoughts are things. Thoughts are things, because thoughts become things. Think about your thoughts. What you think about you bring about.  Things are thoughts.  Thoughts. 

A Writing Machine

 I’ve created a monster.  After years of not writing, I followed a gentle hunch that it might be the time and now it’s like I unstopped Niagara. Watch out and keep your lifeboats handy. I wouldn’t want any of you to drown in the floodgates of my years of pent up words.  I NEED to write. I crave it. Just like some people need to breathe, I guess. I mean, breathing is nice, but writing is vital. It’s kind of like how I feel about dancing. I need dancing like I need air too. Could it just be that I have an incredibly creative spirit that I’ve tried to tether for too long? You know, you can only keep air in a balloon so long before it escapes. My mind is always going, always gathering, collecting and creating. There’s a lot going on in there. If I don’t dance or write or create somehow, there’s literally nowhere for that thundering current to go and then sadly, I forget. The ideas dry up. And I start living as only a shell of myself, robotically going through the motions of a...

Plain and Simple

Our life has become somewhat predictable. There is comfort in structure and routines, something this rebellious carefree mama never thought she would say.   I thought about this tonight as I laid out Michael’s clothes for tomorrow - his signature look right now of black jeans and a fresh white t-shirt (yes, it makes me think of Plain White T’s and Rhythm of Love).  My charger wasn’t in its usual place and as I tiptoed carefully through a land mine of LEGOS in the dark (a successful obstacle course if you ask me), I just felt deeply how much I enjoy being a mother.  I always wanted to have my own children, from the earliest age I knew that was a possibility and I remember adopting anything I could as “children” until I got my own. Now, more than dolls or babies I would snatch at church or children I would babysit and pretend they were my own, I now have three little miniatures I grew in my own belly. They carry my DNA and we share the same last name (the one and only reaso...