What do you do when you feel like your feet won't touch the ground? When you can't wait until the morning? People are moving so fast all around me, but I want to be the one moving. I've really got none, but I feel like I have so many problems. And it's all because of one. My feet are firmly cemented in the ground, while my mind is busy traveling the world.
It seems like God always has me in these periods of waiting.......and waiting..... and yeah, still waiting. Meanwhile, I have not the slightest idea of what exactly I am waiting for. It seems like such a waste of time. What;'s a girl to do during this lull? How do you make it worthwhile?
Monday, August 29, 2011
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Oh to the Poe
Baltimore native, Edgar Allen Poe, had an imagination almost incomparable to any other. He took pen to paper and came up with stories of murder, mystery, and madmen. Even as an adult (although sometimes hindered by alcohol consumption) he had the imagination of a child.
As I age its becoming harder to find my imagination. There was once a time when I could have been equally comparable to Poe, well almost. Where has my mind gone? I can look over my shoulder and see it miles behind me down the road as I keep walking further and further away.
I think it might be time to make a U-turn (perfectly legal in Maryland). I need my imagination back before life is boring and my mind is stagnant. I need to hear a heart beating in the floor and have a raven constantly looming over my head. I need that excitement and intrigue or I will begin sleepwalking through life down a one way street where U-turns are illegal.
As I age its becoming harder to find my imagination. There was once a time when I could have been equally comparable to Poe, well almost. Where has my mind gone? I can look over my shoulder and see it miles behind me down the road as I keep walking further and further away.
I think it might be time to make a U-turn (perfectly legal in Maryland). I need my imagination back before life is boring and my mind is stagnant. I need to hear a heart beating in the floor and have a raven constantly looming over my head. I need that excitement and intrigue or I will begin sleepwalking through life down a one way street where U-turns are illegal.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Philosphers and Gentlemen
Fireside Poet John Greenleaf Whittier said: "Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been." As an ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery, I can imagine him as he penned this statement, invisioning the day that slaves will be free and the Civil War concluded. He may just have been sitting at his desk jotting down quotes with no sentimental value, for the sole purpose of us reading them in the future thinking how wise they are. Whatever he was doing or thinking about when he wrote it, it has impacted me this day in 2011. I would hate to look back at my life and think "it might have been".
For his 70th birthday, Whittier had a dinner party which included some of the most talented authors and philosophers in the world, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Though the party may have been somewhat lame, and the conversation a bit over my head, I would love to have joined the party and asked them how to prevent "might have beens", "could have beens", "should have beens", and "would have beens"; and how to live without regret.
For his 70th birthday, Whittier had a dinner party which included some of the most talented authors and philosophers in the world, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell. Though the party may have been somewhat lame, and the conversation a bit over my head, I would love to have joined the party and asked them how to prevent "might have beens", "could have beens", "should have beens", and "would have beens"; and how to live without regret.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
This day (August 4) in history, Anne Frank and her family were captured by Gestapo (1944), Lizzie Borden "took an axe" (1892), slain civil rights workers were found in Mississippi (1964), General Custer and the seventh calvary were attacked by Indians (1873), and I am sure the list could go on and on.
The significance of these events probably don't mean much to some of us, but to those who were there, they meant history.
I found a very motivating quote today, that in some ways contradicted the list of historical events listed above. "History will be kind to me for I intend to make it" (Winston Churchill). Some of these names and events will be recalled in our history books or on tv specials occassionally, but was history "kind" to them?
"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41." Yes, Lizzie Borden made history to the extent that a little jingle was written about her. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" (Anne Frank). Anne's innocence, spirit, and deplorable death that we read about in high school will be impressed in our minds.
Though one was the victim and the other the culprit, both made history.
What kind of history am I going to make? Hopefully not one that involves using an axe. Probably not one that will be read in any ones textbook. Prayerfully, one that leaves an inheritance and legacy to my children and maybe their children.
The significance of these events probably don't mean much to some of us, but to those who were there, they meant history.
I found a very motivating quote today, that in some ways contradicted the list of historical events listed above. "History will be kind to me for I intend to make it" (Winston Churchill). Some of these names and events will be recalled in our history books or on tv specials occassionally, but was history "kind" to them?
"Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her father 40 wacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41." Yes, Lizzie Borden made history to the extent that a little jingle was written about her. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" (Anne Frank). Anne's innocence, spirit, and deplorable death that we read about in high school will be impressed in our minds.
Though one was the victim and the other the culprit, both made history.
What kind of history am I going to make? Hopefully not one that involves using an axe. Probably not one that will be read in any ones textbook. Prayerfully, one that leaves an inheritance and legacy to my children and maybe their children.
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