SOLSC: Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots

SOLSC: Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots - 31/31

The Slice of Life Story Challenge

Parting Thoughts and Empty Spots

Thank you, Ruth, for sharing this novel idea - poetry in the iPod! I had so much fun piecing the titles of the songs together. The words were all there, I just had to change and rearrange!

Beautiful Day - To Serenade a Rainbow

Take the time

Quiet your mind

Heart and soul

Imagine

Deep in the heart

Pictures and memories

All the small things

Little moments like that

Addicted

Stay

Always on my mind

Stuck like glue

Every day

All I wanna do

Because of you

Daytime Friends

I learned from the best

Wouldn't change a thing

I can see clearly now

Something to be proud of

Everything I said

The good stuff

Farewell and goodnight

364 days to go

Thinking about her was the same
as the hole you keep on feeling

with your tongue after you lose a tooth.

Time after time, my mind kept going
to that empty spot, the spot where I
felt like she should be.

(Thoughts from Opal about her mama
from the book Because of Winn-Dixie.)

The challenge is complete. April will be that empty spot.

Thank you for an unbelievable month!

A Conversation with My Writer Self

I don't know what to write about today. [Scratching head. Bulging eyes staring at the blank screen.] Write about the ordinary. Write about the little things. Just write and write. I know, I know. But I don't know what to write. [Shoulder shrug. Clicking fingertips on the keyboard.] Open your writer's notebook. Search for an idea, a seed, a spark. Let it grow, ignite and you will write. My writer's notebook? Oh, that little book that has been ignored? Unattended? Left blank? [Digging and searching for my notebook.] Live the life of a writer. Ideas breathe all around you every day. In and out. In and out. I know. I know. [Dusting the notebook off. Cracking it open as if it hasn't been opened in years.] It's time to revive the notebook. Open your eyes and ears to your world that's waiting to be captured and shared. I know what to write about today., but first, let me write down a few ideas. [Bringing my wr...

{bedtime stories} 2/31 #sol16

The March Slice of Life Story Challenge hosted at the Two Writing Teachers Join us for a month of writing! _________________________________________________________ "Time to head upstairs. PJs on and let's brush teeth!" My very favorite time of the day is bedtime with the girls. I hurry and hustle and bustle them along, so that we have plenty of time to settle into a bedtime story or two (or more like three). Each girl picks out a book and then one usually snags a third. "Mommy, this is one that you want to read. Right?" When the girls are completely ready for bed, we meet in my bedroom to snuggle in the big bed. I'm in the middle, sandwiched between the two girls. Heads resting close by, slowly slithering closer, they each nestle on my shoulder to get a closer look at every ...

sols: a gift of words

Slice of Life hosted at the Two Writing Teachers . Join in and share a slice of your life. One of the best gifts I give myself is time to write Monday evenings for the Tuesday Slice of Life. That writing time allows me the opportunity to think about the little moments in my life. Sometimes those moments are big and important. Other times it's a funny moment that made me laugh. Or a celebration, a word, a poem about the ordinary life. I'm still amazed that I have been writing each week for over three years! Yet, there is another gift . . . My mom and dad have published my writing. Just this past Christmas, I received volume five of my blog writing. Yes, I have five books f...

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