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Influence

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It has been a long while since I have posted anything here. I have been busy completing three years toward my B.A. in English and my senior year is underway. My current class (Creative Writing) has finally given me the space to take off the tight harness of academic writing rules, and it feels SO GOOD!! After reading my first assignment, Mom and Daddy gave it their thumbs up and suggested I make it a blog post, so here it is. It is my story and their story. It's a little longer than my usual posts, but as with everything I have ever posted here, I pray it encourages you to run "up the sunbeam to the sun" (C. S. Lewis). "Follow my example,  as I follow the example of Christ." 1 Corinthians 11:1 NIV I sat above them on the stairs. Looking down through the window-like openings in the partition between the living room and the stairway, I listened to the basketball players, football players, baseball players, wrestlers, track athletes, both the lettermen ...
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For When Time Moves Too Fast

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-- Great philosopher, Ferris Bueller once quipped, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Blurring . . . whirring . . . jumbled colors . . . sight and sound . . . Does life ever feel to you like a scene in the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie? You know, the one where Willie Wonka puts them on his whimsical boat and they sail off into a tunnel filled with disjointed and terrifying images projected all around them while he screams bizarre and disturbing poetry into the strange glow? Everyone is so relieved when he yells, "Stop the boat!" Life does move fast. Life is filled with change and challenge, the unexpected, the unwanted and the uncalled-for. But life is also filled with joy and laughter, dreams and fulfillments, pursuits and triumphs, the tried and true, the glorious, the counted-upon. It IS a bit of a jumble, priceless treasures thrown in the same blender with hideous gargoyles ...
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If I Had Been a Mother Before I Was a Child

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-- I think this was about 1966 in Iowa getting my first riding lesson from my Mommy! ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ If I had been a mother before I was a child    Oh what a different child I would have been. I would have gone to sleep at bedtime, no fighting    I would have only called “Mommy,” when I had something to say And I would have limited the number of consecutive “Why’s”    To three instead of three hundred I would have done the dishes without groaning    And I would have cleaned up my room without being asked I would have appreciated you so much more, and    Recognized your sacrifices, and your amazing patience. If I had been a mother before I was a child    I wouldn’t have been the child I was. I wouldn’t have missed the bus so you had to    Walk with me the two miles to school and back I wouldn’t have put off doing my term paper    Until the night before it was due I wouldn’t have tur...
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Time Speeds

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-- Great philosopher,  Ferris   Bueller once quipped, "Life  moves pretty fast. If you  d on't stop and look around once in a w hil e, you could miss it." " Blurring . . . Whirring . . . jumbled colors . . . sight and sound . . . does life ever feel to you like a scene in the old Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie? You know, the one where Willie Wonka puts them on his whimsical boat and they sail off into a tunnel filled with disjointed and terrifying images projected all around them while he screams bizarre and disturbing poetry into the strange glow? Everyone is so relieved when he yells, "Stop the boat!" Life does move fast. Life is filled with change and challenge, the unexpected, the unwanted and t he uncalled-for. But life is also filled with joy and laughter, dreams and fulfillments, pursuits and triumphs, the tried and true, the glorious, the counted-upon. It IS a bit of a jumble, priceless treasures thrown in the same blender with hid...
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