Share Your World With Cee Cee 2014 Week 19

Posted on May 14, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This post is written in response to Cee Neuner’s blog series Share Your World. It has been a few days since I have written anything so I thought this would be a good exercise to warm up my “write” brain.

When you have finished with me here go on over to Cee’s forum to see what her other contributors have said. You can find those posts here:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/05/12/share-your-world-2014-week-19/

Here are Cee’s questions for the week:

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

I just had to answer this before I began the questions proper. The reason I could not write this weekend was because I was attending my daughter and future son-in-law’s graduation.

Amanda Lillie, graduate Northpoint Bible College

James Franklin graduate Northpoint Bible College and his future wife Melanie Lillie

Now all of my kids are college grads. It was so nice to have them all together for the graduation. We made a pretty splendid party when all was said and done.

Note how happy Amanda is to be photographed

This week I am looking forward to meeting with the Winchendon Garden Club to discuss the Ingleside project and our community garden project.

Do you prefer shopping or going to a park?

I much prefer going to the park. I was just telling my life coach the other day that I needed more time to just sit and watch the world go by. I don’t need to buy it. I just need to see it.

What is the highest score you’ve ever made in bowling? Actual or virtually played.

Oh this is embarrassing. I think my highest score was between 60 and 70.

Name the foreign countries you’ve been to.

I have been to Mexico, England, Iceland, Ireland and Holland. I am going to tour Ireland with Amanda in the fall.

Describe your own outlook on life in seven words or less.

Follow Christ. Love others. Live your passion.

Windows On My World

Posted on April 17, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

As I race through Holy Week I wanted to take a few moments and give you a glimpse through the window into my world using Cee’s Share Your World forum.

Lots of bloggers go to “Cee-Land” to share bits and pieces of their lives through Share Your World; So if you want to grab a hold of the tail of the blogosphere and discover tons of other fun bloggers pop on over to Cee’s blog when you are done here.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/14/share-your-world-2014-week-15/

Here are this week’s questions to self-discovery:

For your blog do you basically use Windows or Mac, laptop, desktop, pad, or phone?

For writing my blog I use my desk top Windows almost exclusively. when reading and commenting I am generally on my Kindle.

As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?

As a boy I wanted to be a naturalist. But from eighth grade on I was pretty certain I wanted to be a pastor and a writer. I am one of those few fortunate given the privilege to realize his dreams. I love my life.

Did you grow up in a small or big town? Did you like it?

I grew up in a small town called Winchendon. My Grandad, my Dad and my Mom were all involved heavily in civic organizations and town politics. My folks owned a restaurant that was sort of the hub for local gossip and I started working there when I was fourteen. My graduating class was 72 kids. I absolutely loved the small town experience and wouldn’t have traded it for the world.

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

About 80. I’ve been called an old soul, but I think I’m pretty spry for an eighty year old.

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

I am so grateful for the opportunity to teach our church’s membership class and to host our town’s community garden planning meeting. I am so looking forward to Good friday, Easter and to celebrating my daughter’s 24th birthday! Oh and I am looking forward to the spring snow melting away. Here is what I woke up to this morning.

Beautiful but soooooo wrong!

The Great Convergence OR Share Your World With Cee 2014 Week 14

Posted on April 10, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

This week “SYWWC” is all about the traffic patterns. At least for me. It has been a week of “You never know who you are going to run into.”

To bump into some other fine bloggers here in the blogosphere take a hop on over to Cee’s page and read some of her other subscriber’s answers to this week’s questions.

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/04/07/share-your-world-2014-week-14/

BUT FIRST:

If you had to describe your day as a traffic sign, what would it be?

If my life were a traffic sign today it might read “LANES MERGE UP AHEAD” or maybe it would just say this.

It feels like so many things are coming together right now in some sort of great convergence: home and family life, ministry, artwork. It’s a little disconcerting to see myself hurtling from what appears to be six lanes of life traffic down to two. I am on heightened alert and I see the potentials for trouble and yet I see the great adventure that lies before me as well. I am speeding on!

Is your hair short (total neck and ear showing), medium (covering ears and neck), long (below shoulders), extra long (at least halfway down your back) or bald?

My hair is short and thinning near the top. Wrinkles is not just going grey (and there is a lot more grey than there used to be). He is going bald-ish.

When you are with your friends, do your interactions include much touching—for example, hugging, kissing, rough housing, rubbing backs? Would you like to have more of this? (Note: the answers may vary depending on where you live on this wonderful planet.)

The word is New England. Not an extraordinarily touchy group of people are we. We love deeply but usually from a distance. 🙂

What do you feel is the most enjoyable way to spend $100?

I love to go out to dinner with friends and then maybe a movie as long as it involves superheroes! The movie that is, I have never had dinner with a superhero. Though, how cool would that be?

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 that the good Lord helped me to keep up my exercise regimen everyday last week! I am looking forward to finishing at least 5,000 more words of my new novel.

In the Land Of Cee!

Posted on March 26, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

Hidey-Ho fellow bloggers and readers! We have come once again to the land of Cee. I come to the land of Cee (which is also known as Portland Oregon by those who don’t know better) once a week to mine for great questions with which I can build strong blogs. This week I found five.

Cee asks:

What is your most favorite smell/scent?

My favorite smell is pine in the spring. I once took a trip to Texas and was gone from my home state of Massachusetts for nearly a month. When I drove back across the border from New York the first thing I smelled was the fresh pine scent of the Berkshires.

How do you write: computer, longhand or other?

I used to write exclusively longhand but over the years computer has become my favorite mode of writing.

Your favorite blog post that you have written? (add link)

Oh boy I have to choose just one? I guess this one sticks out in my memory as my most recent favorite.

http://wp.me/p39vIx-Xt

What’s one of your favorite books from childhood?

Again! I have to choose just one? I guess I would say my favorite book was a child’s anthology and my favorite story in it was “The Giant Thunderbones”

I
This is Giant
Thunder Bones.

II
This is the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

III
This is the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

IV
This is the Princess of Wandeltreg
Who, while playing a game of Mumblepeg,
Was caught by the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

V
This is the Prince so brave and so grand
Who sailed over sea and rode over land
Till he found the Princess of Wandeltreg
Who, while playing a game of Mumblepeg,
Was caught by the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

VI
This is the Goblin with fingers so frail
Who hopped with ease over mountain and dale
As he chased the Prince so brave and so grand
Who sailed over sea and rode over land
Till he found the Princess of Wandeltreg
Who, while playing a game of Mumblepeg,
Was caught by the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

VII
This is the Witch with Broomstick and Cat
Who sputtered and snarled and shook her tall hat
When she missed the Goblin with fingers so frail
Who hopped with ease over mountain and dale
As he chased the Prince so brave and so grand
Who sailed over sea and rode over land
Till he found the Princess of Wandeltreg
Who, while playing a game of Mumblepeg,
Was caught by the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

VIII
And last comes the Kobold who slept while ’twas light
And did all the housework in the dead of the night
To worry the Witch with Broomstick and Cat
Who sputtered and snarled and shook her tall hat
When she missed the Goblin with fingers so frail
Who hopped with ease over mountain and dale
As he chased the Prince so brave and so grand
Who sailed over sea and rode over land
Till he found the Princess of Wandeltreg
Who, while playing a game of Mumblepeg,
Was caught by the Gnome with beard so gray
Who digged for gems all night and day
To please the Dwarf with anxious looks
Who guarded the castle and kept the books
For Giant Thunder Bones.

Stella Doughty.

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 for a wonderful group of people gathering with me on Thursday nights to pursue the knowledge of Jesus. I am looking forward to getting together with them this Thursday night for another session of “Turbo-Follow.”

Many other people travel to the land of Cee to mine their own questions and answers. You can find their discoveries by going to

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/03/24/share-your-world-2014-week-12/

A Jolly Book

Posted on March 11, 2014 by joseph elon lillie under For Family & Fun

It is time for SYW once again and this week Cee has come up with four humdinger- homerun-questions (is triple hyphenation linguistically correct?). I especially love the new question she is giving us!

Describe yourself in a word that starts with the first letter of your name.

Jolly.

If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find leading a more satisfying life than yours?

Not very many. I feel like I am living out my purpose and while I have not accomplished everything I set out to I am on my way. I have learned more than half the fun is in the journey anyway.

If you were a tree, would you become a book or furniture? Please describe.

Oh most definitely a book. It would be a big book for sure and for certain, no short stories or poetry compilations please! Just a flat-out adventure that goes on and on until it comes at last to a satisfying end leaving room for a sequel.

You are trapped in an elevator, who would you want to be trapped with?

I am assuming we can choose more than one person; So I would choose to be trapped with a really good storyteller to while away the time with, an optimist to keep our spirits up. A pizza delivery guy who just happened to be delivering Hawaiian pizza to the 15th floor and of course an elevator repair man/ acrobat who can climb through the ceiling tile like you see in the movies to fix what’s broken.

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 that God helped me to accomplish so much last week. Every week it just seems like the work expands along with the blessings. Here are some of the high lites from last week.