Week 31, The 52 Project

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

What’s he thinking?

Today is week 31 of The 52 Project and I am obsessed with photos of my new g’son. I can’t help wondering about the thoughts going through his head. What does he think about this new world and his loving new family? I can’t recall if babies can distinguish between them, but what does he think of the color red? What does he think of me? I love this photograph of him with the necklace around his neck. He looks like a baby hippie. If I must say so myself, he is one handsome and precious little guy.

Creative Writing Saturday

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

Hearts (Explored!) (Photo credit: qthomasbower)

I hope you wake with a gasp, a thousand flutters in your heart

Not from the whirlpool of worry. Not from a bad dream.
Not from a deadline or a string of demands, or the great to-do
of the still-to-be-done. Not from the lopsided weight of futility and failure
or some wayward mutiny shaking your bones. Not from the loss
of letting go or the grief of giving in. Not from the illusions of your metaphorical
imprisonment or escape. Not from grass-is-greener or anywhere-but-here.
I hope, instead, you rise from the tremble of something finding its edges,
earthquaking its way into being. That riotous pulsing of birth, and the cry that comes
just after, the lungs taking in their first overwhelmed breaths. That same lucid
sweetness of entry and release. The song of your life being sung. ~ Maya Stein

Quote Tuesday

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Lydia | Leave a comment

tree (Photo credit: Sheila in Moonducks)

Today, instead of a quote, I have a poem for your day. Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
Can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness and prosperity,
To every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them.
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work for only the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of your others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past.
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize one another.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words, but in great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best in you. ~ Christian D. Larson