Daily Archives: April 22, 2015

T. Time…Not enough? Too much? Running out of? #AtoZChallenge

A2Z-BADGE-000 [2015] - Life is GoodT. Back to the straight line letters. Balancing its cap on a vertical, almost as though it will begin to spin like one of those plates for the Chinese acrobats. Amazing balance, don’t you think? Tequila, T-shirt, tumbleweed (ICK!!) Tension, Torsion. But most important of all

TIME

We save time. We waste time. We lose time and make time. It seems some people have plenty of time while others run out of time. Yet we all have the same twenty four hours to use as best we can. And sometimes we want to stop time. Another song I love, one that runs through my head all too often. Jim Croce…another gone way before his time.

If I could save time in a bottle
The first thing that I’d like to do
Is to save every day ’til eternity passes away
Just to spend them with you

If I could make days last forever
If words could make wishes come true
I’d save every day like a treasure and then
Again, I would spend them with you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go through time with

If I had a box just for wishes
And dreams that had never come true
The box would be empty except for the memory
Of how they were answered by you

But there never seems to be enough time
To do the things you want to do once you find them
I’ve looked around enough to know
That you’re the one I want to go through time with

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And for the last, turning to my era’s go to philosopher, Gandalf, the creation of J.R.R. Tolkien. Here’s a quote I’ve remembered, and it looks like it’s popular with quite a few people, since there is a wealth of memes. Tolkien/Gandalf quote the words of philosophers from centuries past but it could not be more valuable advice for today.

... decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.” – Gandalf

And now it looks like I’m out of time. Night All

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S. In Springtime, Salukis…and Sex? #AtoZChallenge #MFRWAuthor

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Looking Toward Spring

A2Z-BADGE-000 [2015] - Life is GoodS..all smooth curves, almost in motion even when still, almost slithering like snakes on the page. Some of the script S’s look like they’ve tied themselves in knots and aren’t quite sure which way to turn.

S could be for Snake, or Saluki or Sex. It could be about Spring, and one of my favorite songs…I discovered this version, and this singer, last Spring

The song itself has always been fun for me but this man sings it to perfection. I had to be careful looking for this particular song since Bryn Terfel’s You Tube collection is huge and wonderful. And very distracting.

Did not know kale is perennial

Did not know kale is perennial

Spring brings us such a huge variety of weather: wind, rain, snow, frost, SUN. Sometimes all in one day. I hover over the perennial garden as bits of green peek through. Or not.

The Salukis go from tight thick coats to massive SHED in one afternoon. As much as possible I comb it out, gather it up, and leave it out for the birds. They like that sort of thing for their nests.

I see I put SEX in the title. Got your attention, didn’t it? Fact is, sex sells. I know that’s used as an excuse for the success of Romance writers. Yes there is sex in Romance books. There’s sex in life as well. It’s one expression of people reaching out to each other. It’s a deepening intimacy in books and in life. It’s also a part of nature.

As a writer, some of those scenes are the payoff for the effort put into the prior scenes. When I’m writing a ‘closed door policy’ book (where private things are kept private) the sex can be a reward of sorts to the characters who have helped me build their relationship to this point. Which doesn’t always  make sense to non writers. For some (most?) writers the characters have to be real or the book won’t be real.

In the meantime I’m going to enjoy the Spring I’ve been gifted with this year. In case it goes back into hiding.

Boo, Biddy, Fire Dragon, snow times a few years ago

Really, I saw Spring here, just yesterday

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