Beleaguered with requests for photos, and having made promises to one or two people to blog on her - ie, Nick Holley and Jay Lauser , here is my promise fulfilled. I started on her birthday - November 10th, 2010, at 8:15pm. :P I finish today, the 22cd, at 1:00pm Smiling a little, I leaned down, tucking the quilt around my mother and kissing her cheek goodnight. Even as I silently moved across the room to tug off the lightswitch, she was still talking; drowsy, mumbling her words, but still talking. I've not seen Mom so verbal in ages. Although she was lacking 36 hours sleep, as soon as she had eaten her day-old homemade, reheated soup and drunk a cup of steaming, fragrant coffee, she sat there for ten minutes describing in vivid detail the birth of her latest grandchild - her first granddaughter. More amazing for me, I was sitting there with an inane grin spread over my face, highly excited over the recital, instead of landing in a heap on the floor! (I am useless with blood and gut
Praying God will reveal to you what is to heal the ache and what those mysterious words and music are.
ReplyDeleteAs to writing...I've had similar (in a lesser way) frustration, where I want to write, I sit down to write and then the words won't come or they come so slowly I give up. I have so many ideas in my head and longings to write something meaningful, but it doesn't want to flow. For me, what's finally helped is realizing I'm not going to write the perfect book on the rough draft. I told myself "No one is going to see this, just write it". And that has helped SO much. Because otherwise I get caught up in "What will people think?" "Too many adverbs!" or "This is horrible dialogue!" and I have to start at square one and tell the bare bones story. And Lord willing, the clearer plot, the snappy dialogue, the details, and the deeper meaning will all come in time.
Long explanation. :P Don't know if that helped or not...
<3 Pip
Queen Jane!! You have a blog!!! <3
ReplyDeleteIf there is supposed to be a video, I don't see anything, it's not loading :(
J
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