Our Powerful 5 Senses: Sight, Smell, Sound, Taste and Touch

copyright Emalou King

Doesn't  this juicy lemon make your mouth water? 

You can even think about this and salivate when your mouth is dry.

All of our senses should be used to glorify our Creator.

That's  common sense!

Music: Our Universal Language

   

       

Sing to your babies
Hold them close
Thank God for them  

Talking Prompt: Stop the Secrets

                                  Tell someone you trust...

Progress Not Perfection: A 12-Step Slogan

 Yesterdays progress was getting half of my office in order. A table cleared, baskets emptied, books arranged on the shelves, donations set aside and a trip to the shed. It's easy getting behind in my office. So, I opened the windows, let the sun and fresh air in and asked for help. What do you think was the hardest part?

More progress...last evening I got notice that Under My Roof ~ A Mother's Story of the Heinous Crime of Incest is now a Nook Book, available from Barnes and Noble.

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Charity: Modern Day Down-sizing and De-cluttering!

The bread which  you do not use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes that you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot;
the money that you keep locked away is the money of the poor; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices you commit.

                                                        St. Basil (329-379)

                                             

Problems: What to do with the regular everyday kind...

When there is a problem, there is not something to do but something to learn.

                                                                                                        anonymous
     

Writing Prompt: Static

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Grooming: This Behavior Has a Name

"Grooming" is designed to keep a child from disclosing sexual abuse and keep the molestation a secret.
"Grooming" includes but is not limited to giving a child gifts, amounts of money or maybe whatever else they want. Perhaps he selects the clothing he desires for the mother and daughter to wear, shares private secrets, talks about the other parent to the child, is inappropriate in speech, lies or grossly exaggerates. Do you know people who do this?
 I encourage daughters to keep open the line of communication with your mothers...and mothers with their daughters and sons. Talk. Talk. Talk.

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When you buy this book you are starting the conversation.

Blogging:

I sometimes think blogging is like talking to myself
It's okay if you talk to yourself
It's even okay if you answer yourself
But it's NOT okay to ask yourself to repeat it!

What??? Would you say that again...

Oh, What Do YOU See...

A blind person asked St. Anthony,
"Can there be anything worse than losing eyesight?"
He replied, "Yes, losing your vision."

Mothers: Random Thoughts

This popped into my mind this morning. I often heard my mother say that in order to have a friend you must first, be a friend. I've always liked that and know it is difficult for those who are shy. Do we ever really forget what our mothers tell us and/or do they realize their powerful impact?  I'd like to know what you think.

Ann Landers: Sound Advice for a Generation

Don't accept your dogs admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

                                                                             Ann Landers

Favorites: Right and Wrong

 If a thousand people have a dumb idea, it's still a dumb idea!

                                                                               Ann Landers

 "Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it."
                                                           - St. Augustine

Dreams:

Once in a dream, while looking into the mirror, I noticed in amazement that  my eyes were closed in my reflection!

Dreams are illustrations...from the book your soul is writing about you                                                                                                        Marsha Norman 

Journey: What's around the bend?

Why Now:

 Why am I telling this story?  As George VI says in The King’s Speech, “...Because, I have a voice.”

  

GRACE:

This special prayer is said before meals at our family gatherings:

We thank thee God for food we eat
For families and friends we meet
For books we read and songs we sing
We thank thee God for everything.

      Taught to my son in Kindergarten 1976 by Eloise Halvorson

Friends:The Special People in Our Lives

You never need ice breakers with a true friend. In fact, sometimes it's possible to start off in the middle of a sentence right where you left off, no matter how long it's been. There is none of the you owe me... you did me wrong... Good friends have a way of balancing themselves. There is communication, love and forgiveness. Keep your friends. They matter.

Yesterday: At the Stop Light on 41st

The tall thin beggar man sat slumped to the side with his long covered arm touching the ground. His Help Me Please sign turned upside down in his lap, his cane on the ground.

“Hey man,” I yelled out my window, “are you all right?” 

He didn't respond. I laid on my horn and guess what...

In a split second he came alive and two-stepped across an empty lane to reach my car.

“I thought you were dead!" My voice raised an octave.

“Nooo, I was only deep in thought,” he said with a tobacco stained smile. 

Then we both  broke into laughter.

I reached into my pocket and dumped a hefty handful of change into outstretched palms. 

He touched my hand, patted it while his blue eyes danced and said, 

“Thank you. God bless you,” and limped back to his overturned paint bucket throne.

Jaycee Dugard's Mother:

Jaycee's mother is hope personified. She never gave up. She carried guilt because on that morning she
didn't kiss her kids goodbye. Isn't this a wake up call?

Memoir: You have one too...

We gain more by letting our real selves to be seen, than  by pretending to be what we are not.

                                                                   Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Just say it:

Has anyone told you... you're terrific today??
Well, YOU are terrific!

Stop Violence: Give Mothers a voice...or a pen!

It's easy to make a buck; it's tougher to make a difference.

                                                                 Tom Brokaw at Notre Dame

1956: The Power Mower by Emalou King

It’s a white house    with green shutters    on a corner lot

A pine tree in the front   a plum tree in the back    a hedge on the side

The white picket fence painted every three years   the lawn mowed every week. 

The long orange cord trails behind my father   hangs across the kitchen windowsill

Plugs into the outlet   I am afraid   what if he runs over the cord

Will it hurt him    so   I watch out my bedroom window    just in case 

Perfectly straight    row after row   around the trees and under the hammock

Dad stops    empties the bag   lights his Camel     spits tobacco off his tongue

He lifts his foot  wipes the damp blades of grass from his shoe on the back of his pants

Mother brings a glass of pink lemonade   stands in adoration    while he tips his head 

He wipes his mouth with the back of his hand    says aaaaaahhhh   and    thanks her

Then he plows down 19 peony bushes  shooting stems and blossoms  onto the sidewalk.

      

Louis L'Amour: hear hear...

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.

                                                                         Louis L'Amour

Writers: a suggestion on how to get started

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know. 

                                                         Ernest Hemingway

Happy July 4th: God Bless America

Do You Dare Tell?

To dare is to lose ones footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose one-self.

                                                                                            Soren Kirgegaard

Safety: First

Fireworks blasted last night after 11 pm in my neighborhood. Frightened,  Herbie, my blind Shih Tzu ran into my closet, met the vacuum cleaner and made a u-turn. Please remember the pets.

It is easier for parents to have children than for children to have parents.

                                                                                                     John XXIII