At her blog Today's Little Ditty, Michelle's January guest was children's poet Douglas Florian. He posted the January Ditty of the Month challenge to write a poem about NOTHING. (Read Mr. Florian's interview and challenge HERE.) I've enjoyed these poems a lot during January as they debuted on Michelle's blog and others. I wrote one… Continue reading A Creation Tale
I was intrigued by the word "Selah" when I first saw it on our list of one-little-words a few weeks ago. This will be interesting, I thought. When I started working on Michelle's one little word this week my initial intuition was confirmed. Selah doesn't have a sure meaning. "Selah" by the dictionary is: "An… Continue reading Selah
Abundant Rain Journal: A Devotional Journal for Writers of Faith by Marcia Lee Laycock My rating: 5 of 5 stars Marcia Laycock's Abundant Rain Journal is a devotional journal that will be of special interest to Christian writers. Each of the 30 one-page meditations deals with some aspect of the writer's life. Laycock's own experience… Continue reading Abundant Rain Journal (Review)
Glimpses of Paradise: A Novel of the 1920s by James Scott Bell My rating: 5 of 5 stars We first meet the main characters in Glimpses of Paradise, 17 year-old Doyle Lawrence (athlete and poet) and 16 year-old Zenobia (Zee) Miller (want-to-be movie star), in the spring of 1916 in Zenith, Nebraska. Doyle, fascinated by… Continue reading Glimpses of Paradise (review)
Last week I poemed about our retired garburator. This week another kitchen poem. It's about the contraption that has taken garburator's place. I wrote the poem last fall at the height of fruit fly season, and took some photos to prove it. Meet our green pot… Green Pot Our new organics bucket has holes… Continue reading Green Pot
Margaret Simon's one little word PRESENT was fun to explore because of its many meanings. I think I know the meaning of "present" that is giving her inspiration, but maybe not… In writing about it, I chose as my subject a Bible character who demonstrates what being present means to me, even as I used… Continue reading Present
I love the garburator that is part of the sink apparatus in our townhouse. Love it, but rarely use it now because we've been asked not to in favor of collecting our organic scraps for recycling and conserving water. (For those not familiar with this gadget, you run water as you feed organic stuff down… Continue reading Kitchen monster
Many of us have chosen one-word themes for the year. Holly Mueller our Spiritual Journey Thursday hostess has invited us Thursday pilgrims to share the thoughts and spiritual aspects of each others 2016 one-word choices each week until we’ve covered them all—a process that will take us into mid-February. Our word this week is BELIEVE,… Continue reading Believe
The End Begins by Sara Davison My rating: 5 of 5 stars It's October of 2053. After a series of terrorist attacks, for which a fringe Christian group has claimed responsibility, Canada is under martial law. For feisty Meryn O'Reilly, soldiers storming into the service of the Kingston church she attends is just the beginning… Continue reading The End Begins (review)
Spring chooses apple quince, cherry, plum trees for blooms but Winter's crystals, indiscriminate, flower any plant whose arms are raised. © 2016 by Violet Nesdoly (All rights reserved) ********** Last weekend we had a few days of gorgeous hoarfrost. This is not usual here so I was thrilled to have my camera along on Sunday… Continue reading Generous Winter
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