Monthly Archives: May 2014

Of Funny Words and Monkeys

Posted on by under For Family & Fun

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This post was created in response to Cee’s weekly questions at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/28/share-your-world-2014-week-17-2/

Stop on by Cee’s blog to see how others have seen things 🙂

What are some words that just make you smile?

There are so many words that tickle my fancy but for sheer sound pleasure I love the words: syllogism, lullaby, misanthropic, palindrome, and verisimilitude

When you lose electricity in a storm, do you light the candles or turn on the flashlight? How many of each do you own?

We light both plus an oil lamp or two. We own more candles than we can count but only one or two flashlights.

What is the longest book you ever read?

The Bible

So you win a pet monkey at a fair, but this isn’t just any old monkey. It can do one trick for you whenever you want from getting a pop out of the fridge to washing your hair. What would be the trick?

My monkey is an expert at shiatsu massage.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful God gave me health for the days I needed it to accomplish His tasks. I am looking forward to a week without any more illness!

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

Posted on by under Photography

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Howdy Everyone! I am getting back on track with blogging after my second illness in two weeks. I finished with the flu and promptly caught a horrific cold. I am on the upside of that now and would love to be enjoying the flower gardens right along with Cee. Since however it is all of 40 degrees and the only thing growing in my garden right now is frustration I thought I had better share some pretty-pretty pics from last years trip to Holland.

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller

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Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

Hans Christian Andersen

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Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.

John Harrigan



Check out more flower photos at:

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Flowers

The C.Cada Bop

Posted on by under C.cada: Arts and Stuff

We had 24 artists at this month’s collaborative meeting! Praise God!

If you are new to the C.cada scene here is our mission statement:

C.cada (Cornerstone Christian artist’s day apart) was begun in an effort to give artists from every genre an opportunity to come together to discover, develop, and deploy their talents in ways that will better the church and the community.

Yesterday we met, had breakfast then painted, wrote, played and carved away the morning.  After lunch  we met for a collaborative Bop session….That is we learned and practiced writing bop poetry. Here are some of our submissions:

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Best Intentions

by Jill Poland

used by permission

 

Oh Glorious garden of beauty and peace

Suddenly decimated by an invasion of hungry pests.

All I wanted was to enjoy the fragrance.

All I needed was some rest.

Why does this always happen?

Why, oh why, did I allow those locusts in?

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon

 

I know God’s Garden is eternal,

But the destruction looks so real.

Oh I hate those lying vermin

Destroying my refuge.

Where did my pretty flowers go?

I must find the way out,

Out of the darkness and the lies.

I know my hope is true.

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon

 

I stop staring at the broken flowers

Mangled and left to die.

I sprinkle that dark shadowy place

With faith and hope and love.

With the lying shadows dispelled, my garden reappears!

My lovely peaceful garden that was always truly there!

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon.

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Tares & Wheat

by Charlotte Dorais

used by permission

 

Green spikey leaves

Yellow flowers explode into puffs

Grass connected by roots

Flowerless but determined

Spreading beyond boarders

Over shadow petals of color

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow

 

Brown tinged flowerless spikes

Erupt and march across

Tender young greens

Sweet succulent fodder

Encourage visitation

Tall slender stocks invade

Red white blue yellow and purple

Peak through

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow

 

Kneeling digging bending

Pulling careless of stains

Black crescent nails

Breaking and splitting

Covering that which

 Remains hidden

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow