Struggling To Find Ourselves

Time machine….that’s a GOOD subject for me!!!  I even started writing a story that actually was turning into a series of stories a few years ago, that involved time travel.  It wasn’t exactly by time machine, though.  I made the “hero’s” time travel more of a mystery of nature.  Maybe I’ll have to post one of those stories one of these days?

Passion…that’s a BROAD subject for this week!!

Some people have passion about other people…their significant other…their children.  Other people have passion for a particular school subject….I would HAVE to say that mine, if I HAD to pick one, would be American history…or math…or spelling.  Other people have a passion for art or music or beautiful clothing, or even beautiful houses.  Some people have a passion for travelling.

Yep, a VERY broad subject!!!

Okay, so I’m a couple of days late on this Sunday Scribblings, but at least I’m doing it!!!

This is a GOOD prompt for me, ’cause I can talk about a subject that is almost ALWAYS in the back of my mind, probably because I don’t normally get a whole lot.  There are days when I think sleep is over-rated.  I mean, other than necessity of course, why do we spend a third of our lives doing….nothing?  There are nights when I get very little, if any….but then I normally make up for it somewhere along the line.  What causes sleeplessness anyway?  There are times I wish I knew the answer to that question!!

Maybe I’ll come back some other time and tell you what I do when I can’t sleep….maybe I’ll do that during one of my sleepless nights?

The word “miscellaneous” encompasses a wide variety of things for me. I don’t really think of one thing, when thinking of this word, I think of the miscellaneous projects that I have going. I think of the miscellaneous books that I want to read. I think of the miscellaneous appointments that I have in the upcoming months. I think of the wide array of  miscellaneous things going on in the world around me.

Hmmmm…such a broad subject with so many writing possibilities…”the dance”!!!  I guess I’ll start with what those words make me think of when I hear them.  There are a couple of songs out there that those words make me think of…One is by Garth Brooks…I like that song, but not enough to go buy the CD for.  Also, there is a newer one out that I believe says something about dancing like nobody’s watching.  I can’t tell you who does it or any more of the words, but I LIKE that line in it.  Another song it reminds me of is the “Tennessee Waltz” which was done ALOT of years ago, by several people.  *sings*…I was dancin’ with my darlin’ to the Tennessee waltz,
When an old friend I happened to see.
I introduced him to my darlin’,
and while they were dancin’,
my friend stole my sweetheart from me.

*stops singing*….Oh, for such classics to be played more these days!!!

Personal opinion says dances are a lost art.  There’s not near enough of them…and why is it that about the only place that hosts a dance is the Senior Center?

Anyway, thanks for the great prompt this week, Sunday Scribblers!!!

Competition is not always a bad thing, though it CAN be.  I used to LOVE watching football when I was younger.  Anybody else remember Joe Montana and Jerry Rice?  And I loved to watch horse racing!!!  I know…WHAT a combination!!!  What can I say?

Competition between two people can be bad, though…if it’s between siblings, or co-workers vying for that promotion.  Sometimes, competition drives people to do things that they wouldn’t do otherwise…and that’s when competition can turn into a bad thing.

Okay, so this entry isn’t the best for Sunday Scribblings, but we’re not in competition, are we?….*L*

Walking….Hmmmmmm…that’s a BROAD subject in my life. There was a time when I walked anywhere and everywhere possible because we lived in a town where just about everything was within 4 miles, which is walking distance to me. There was a time or two when I was upset, or just wanted to go for a “good stretch of the legs” and ended up walking 10 miles or so. When I was pregnant, I walked more than some people thought I should. Walking is a stress relief mechanism for me, in certain cases. I LOVE walking in the rain, but haven’t done that since before my son was born. Walking in the rain is SUCH a stress relief for me too!!! Feeling to rain pound my back, soaking through my shirt and/or my coat…feels ALMOST like a massage sometimes!!! I LOVE to walk out in the hills, even if it’s climbing a steep hill…smelling the pine trees, and the fresh, crisp air…pausing to catch your breath and looking out over the land you just climbed up out of!!! Yep, GOTTA love that!!! Some of the stories that I have written have had walking as a main mode of transportation too!!! Even now, my son and I will go for walks around this little town we live in. Not much to see, and not much changes, but it’s ALMOST perfect for a measured mile and there’s VERY little traffic!!! Yep, I’d have to say that walking is an important part of our lives, and it gives you so much time to pray…and to think….and to praise God for the little things that most people pass by and don’t even notice. You have time to notice the little purple flowers that you can’t see from inside your car…you have time to notice the differences in the grass in everybody’s yards….you have time to smell the scents on the air as the breeze blows by you. It can be VERY relaxing for me!!!  It reminds me of the way things used to be…things I’m not quite old enough to have experienced, but think I would have LOVED too….things when life was simpler, and a little slower!!!  And it reminds me that life does not have to be have every minute tied up…it doesn’t have to have everyone rushing from one appointment to the next…and that it IS good to slow down and smell the roses occassionally.

A few days late, but here it is.

A mis-spent youth reminds me of a story that I had started writing a few years ago.  I believe it was right at the start that a boy threw a rock at a cafe’s window and shattered it, and the hero of the story (if you could call her that) jumped out the window and took off in a running pursuit of the boy, with cops following her.  One of the cops got trigger happy just about the time our hero was about to catch the boy, and shot the kid in the back, thus killing him.  Of course, our hero of the story wasn’t too happy, and made it VERY apparent to the police officer.

I would have to agree that that would have been a mis-spent youth, don’t you?  I’ll have to try to find that story one of these days.  I THINK it’s still on one of our older computers that’s sitting here in the livingroom.  I MIGHT just have to fire that computer up one of these days and see just what’s still on there!!!

Thanks to the folks of Sunday Scribblings for another GREAT thought provoker!!!

When I think of hospitals, I think about spending the majority of a couple of days in the waiting room of the ICU unit with my then Mother-In-Law when her Mom went into the hospital unexpectedly a few years ago.  As it turns out, things happened, and we didn’t get to bring her Mom home for Christmas like we were hoping, but I have to say that I was glad to be there for my friend because she REALLY needed someone who had “been there, done that” before.

I also think of when we took Dad to the hospital to have back surgery and my 3 year old son and I waited in the waiting room ALL day!!!  My son was playing “cowboys and Indians” with ANYBODY who walked up and down the hall by shooting at them with his finger.  You’d be surprised at how many people shot back….*LOL*

Okay, so it’s NOT Sunday, but I needed something to post and ran across this website, and they happen to have their newest post up for this week….so here goes…

My first act as Queen of the world will be….

Hmmmmm….Queen of the world, huh?  That’s a thought!!!  I’m not sure I’d WANT to be Queen, but if I HAD to be, I suppose I would take a stroll around my castle.  (Queen’s live in castles, don’t they?)  And then maybe take my son and go for a horseback ride on our property.  Spend the warm, Summer day with my son, my horse, and a picnic lunch, maybe.  And I would delegate the responsibility of “politics” off on someone else….*L*

Thanks to those folks that put together the Sunday Scribbles site!!!  And forgive me for NOT posting it on Sunday!!!