Tuesdays Tunes: What is the Hit Song?

Let's pretend that this picture is an album cover (remember those days when we collected albums?), and I invite you to think of a song title to go along with the picture. Are you ready to play along and be a songwriter for a minute or two? Album titles are welcome too :)

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Margaret, I promise to do a Thursdays Haiku this week :)
Getting back into the swing of things!

Wednesdays Ten: Featured Post Winner

Ready, set, go! Okay everyone, give me 10!!! What could be someone's thoughts in 10 words when gazing at this chandelier?

Congratulations Kathy on the winning contribution. Very nice!

Decadence, anticipation
glowing evening of hopes
tired and busy servants

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Mondays Meme: Featured Post Winner

Thanks, septembermom, for your contribution!

I loved taking pictures of newborn feet. I also loved taking pictures of my babies' chubby feet. There is something playful, fragile, and miraculous when you celebrate the newness and promise of humanity in even such a little way.

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Wednesdays Ten: Featured Post Winner

Congratulations to Wendy on the winning post.

The sun went down clutching my dreams in its burning fist

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Wednesdays Ten: Featured Post Winner

Congratulations to septembermom on the winning post.

There must be a way out said the frazzled butterfly.

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Thursdays The: Featured Post Winner

Congratulations Dani on the winning contribution.

The sea was always her favorite place. She sits on the deck now, wrapped in the quilt her mother gave her for her wedding long ago, watching as the sky faintly changes shades. The universe is a beautiful place and as she is close to leaving it, she doesn't feel as though it is really goodbye. Somehow as it gets closer, day by day, she is feeling closer to the world then ever before, like she is becoming part of it. Her soul is at peace and she sits comfortably, watching the waves roll in and out and the sky fade from pink to white like her sight fading from the colors she knows to the unknown.


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Fridays Poetry: Featured Post Winner

Congratulations bel on your winning contribution.

They wade in for wet sand
Chasing the waves away.
Castles grow and are toppled,
Chased away by waves.

They chase the waves away
With the sound of girlish giggles.
Then the waves chase them away,
Shrieking, laughing. “Help me, Daddy!”

With the sound of girlish giggles
They leave dainty footprints in the sand.
“Help us, Daddy!” they shriek, laughing
As they scatter the gulls into the wind.

Leaving timid footprints in the sand
They wade in again.
The gulls scatter with the wind as
Castles grow and topple over.


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Mondays Meme: Featured Post Winner

Sarah, your memories of self are so familiar to my own :) Congratulations on the winning post!

I wasn't like my teenage girlfriends. I didn't want to lay around the sand and get a darker tan or sit and watch the guys..although I did keep an eye out for the cute ones. I loved to walk and walk and walk. Something about the ocean front that just made me want to wander. Always keeping my eye out for seaglass and shells or a pretty rock. Listening to the gulls cry and the waves crash. That salty smell of the ocean..sand in my toes..breeze in my hair. Oh I love the beach I do..miss living so close. Funny..I still got a wonderful tan and had fun at the same time.

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Thursdays The: Featured Post Winner

Congratulations Heather on the winning contribution.

The morning felt fresh, like crisp Spring air. I heard little giggles coming from down the hallway and knew that it was time to wake up, to get out of bed. I couldn't bring myself to do that just yet, it's so much more fun to wait and listen.

Tippy-toe, tippy-toe, giggle-giggle-giggle, creeeeek.

I can feel his presence just inside the bedroom door, I pretend to snore. He thinks that he's being sneaky as he creeps closer and closer. Peeking just enough through my eyelashes to see his little round face, nose to nose, he watches me...and I snore one more time, just before I grab him up. We laugh out loud and I tickle his little round belly. As we sit back and sigh out all of the laughter, I notice the little toes on the little feet that once fit in a little box on a small piece of paper and I can only hope that time will be gentle on me.


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Mondays Meme: Featured Post Winner

Wonderful memories shared, septembermom :)

Sometimes the improvised games are the best ones to entertain little kids. I remember how the kids enjoyed a little bowling game on the kitchen table. The apples in the fridge turned out to be great bowling balls. Small paper cups were the perfect pins. It was a nice time for all of us to giggle and play. I think I'll try that game again soon!

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Mondays Meme: Featured Post Winner

I couldn't resist sharing CDB's witty rhyme of a memory with you all. I enjoyed reading all of your thoughts to our inspiring photo today. Congrat's to CDB:

Ah, the Wooden sled

My winter's bed

And so much coldness around it

My toddler's discovery

Four walls will not smother me

We have the joy to surround it

O please, Wooden sled

Make memories, not dread

With speed unlike that which we found it.

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Mondays Meme: Featured Post Winner

Although I enjoyed the other two entries, I will admit that morganna's really stole my heart.

I had a foot problem when I was small. When I was four, the doctors thought perhaps it could be corrected by making me wear heavy leather shoes with steel shanks in the sole. They hurt, and all the other little girls wore pretty shoes. The shoes didn't even cure the problem.

Then my mom took me to a new doctor. He said, "The best thing would be to let her go barefoot. Since we can't do that all the time, just buy the shoes she wants."

We went straight to the shoe store. My mom said, "You can pick out whatever shoes you want." I looked around that brightly lit store, full to the ceiling of beautiful shoes, and I cried from joy.

On a personal chord; I know exactly what you were feeling in those early days of being a girl. I was born with two club feet, one slightly and the other fully. I had to wear special shoes, then received the same prescription only I was not to ever wear heals.

 

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