Every month a question will be posed that may prompt you to share advice, insight, a personal experience or story. Remember, the question is optional. You can write about anything that relates to your writing journey.
Let's give a warm welcome to our co-hosts: J.H. Moncrieff, Tonja Drecker , Patsy Collins, and Chrys Fey!
This month's question is: What are five objects would we'd find in your writing space?
Just five?
1. Do books count as one? Because I have lots of books in my writing space. Children's books, various kinds of thesauruses (thesuari?), history books, books on Tibet, books on myths and fairy tales... books, books, books.
2. Lap top.
3. Paper: which would include post-it notes, loose leaf, spirals and three ring binders.
4. Pens and pencils.
5. Various quotes on post-it notes like: "All religions are the same and all of them are good for those who believe in them." 14th Dalai Lama
"As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the suffering of the world." Shantideva
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." Kahlil Gibran
"Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle." Anon
"One word frees us of all the wight and pain of life: That word is Love." Sophocles
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I missed last month entirely. (Thanks for reminding me Margaret!) Apparently I was doing something very important (which I can't remember) and lost track of time and space.
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Christmas is coming, so I thought I'd throw out a Christmas memory.
Every year my sister Erva and I looked forward to the arrival of a very special tome: the Sears Wish Book. Most all of our presents came from the catalog. There were no Wal-Marts or K-Marts, no malls or stores where my parents could go shopping for things we might want. Sears was the ideal solution. They sold just about anything and shipped just about anywhere.Erva and I would pour over the pages. We'd ooh and aah and sigh and giggle and dream and wish. Santa must have been listening most of the time because somehow those things we'd paused over the longest, or circled with a pencil, or out right asked for, miraculously appeared on Christmas Day.
We got our first Barbie dolls around 1957 or 58. Mom sewed each of our dolls separate wardrobes. All the dresses were made on a treadle sewing machine, either during the day while we were at school or at night after we were asleep.
One time I got a wonderful two-story aluminum doll house that looked very similar to this one.
When I was nine I saw a beautiful doll in the Wish Book. She was a bride doll with a gorgeous white dress and veil. I wanted her so badly.... This was during the era of our aluminum tree which, by the way, we put lights on.
And here I am on Christmas day, in my favorite dress, with the red net petticoat, a little Bolero jacket, my white patent leather shoes, and my doll.
You know, I hardly ever played with her. I was just too much of a tomboy.
One time I got a wonderful two-story aluminum doll house that looked very similar to this one.
When I was nine I saw a beautiful doll in the Wish Book. She was a bride doll with a gorgeous white dress and veil. I wanted her so badly.... This was during the era of our aluminum tree which, by the way, we put lights on.And here I am on Christmas day, in my favorite dress, with the red net petticoat, a little Bolero jacket, my white patent leather shoes, and my doll.
You know, I hardly ever played with her. I was just too much of a tomboy.
Merry Christmas!!
Just
Being Thankful
Today I'm thankful I remembered to show up for IWSG!
What are you thankful for? Did any of you every get a toy you desperately wanted only to never play with it?
