Forgive me for being MIA … life has been pretty much a blur this past week (Can you spell hectic?).
But it’s all good. Because at the end of the day, the simple fact remains: a busy life and an exponentially-growing To-Do list might be overwhelming sometimes, but no one can deny it’s great proof of how wonderful it is to be alive and kicking.
So fitting, then, that the Wordpress Photo of the Week Challenge was: SIMPLE.
Here’s my take on it:
And just to add to the fun: here’s an old and awesome song from more than a decade ago:
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
I dream of a world where peace reigns forever.
And a world where all children (who possess a quiet wisdom that often surpasses ours as adults), born and unborn, are treasured for the gifts that they are.
Some blogs have Wordless Wednesdays (or other weekdays), where images speak instead of words. I have Songs for Sundays (because, really, isn’t music the universal language? )
This isn’t a new song; in fact, it’s been around for years — but I love it on several levels, all of which speak volumes about the culture of my people: the way faith plays a huge part in our lives, the penchant for song and dance, and the celebratory, joyful spirit that pervades our 700+ islands no matter what trials and tribulations come our way.
I hope you enjoy this as much as I do… and have a wonderful Sunday, my friends!
I’m wide awake! I’m not sleeping! After what seems like forever, I’m back on my blogporch! YAY!
So I just had the time to skip around netland and discovered (or re-discovered, or more fully discovered, since I’m pretty sure I got the email about this at the start of the year) WordPress’ Post A Day / Post a Week challenges for 2011. And I’ll kid you not, I spent a couple more days thinking to myself, “Really now, do you need to add one more to your already more-than-full plate of things to do in a day?” Now that’s precisely the kind of thinking that got me from January (when I first received the email informing me of a way to ensure consistent blog posts) to half a year after… still in the same place.
But the fact is, I do realize I have been pathetic at sitting on my blogporch with you for so long. Not for lack of desire, no, definitely not. It’s simply a matter of not yet finding that elusive 24-more-hours-to-add-to-the-day that has kept me from indulging in all that I would really love to do (and yes, sitting with you here is pretty high on that list).
And the other fact is, realization should give way to some kind of resolution, some kind of movement towards a better point. And I figured perhaps this is the just push I need!
So (taking a deep breath) here it is, folks. A desire, a plan, and hopefully a successful adventure: I will attempt to do Post a Week 2011! I promise to show up here at least once a week (dare I say, perhaps even more?) and excite, bore, tease, delight, et cetera you with my company. Never mind if it’s halfway through 2011; today is as good a day as any to start, right?
Because you know what they say: better late than… later!
PS. If you’d like to join me on this journey, HERE’s where you can learn more about the whole adventure!
Been buried under multiple projects and a crazy hectic life of deadlines, but just wanted to say I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth and will be with you real soon (with lots of exciting news too)!
… over this, for the past 36 hours (thank you to my dear friend from the land of quilts, my classmate of many years and my soul-sister–you know what that means, right, M?–for telling me all about it!)
Here ya go, my friends… hope you have as much fun swooning along with me!
And discovered this one too:
Jon Schmidt totatlly rocks. Absolutely love his U2 meets Pachelbel too!
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