Happy Sunday to you. I have to admit, I didn’t think I’d find the time to write much this week. Work proved to be a bear…with digging out from the snow to hosting out of town guests for hours of meetings, requiring me to schedule, compose notes, cater lunches and dinners, etc, etc. It pays the bills, my day job, but some weeks it can be quite a challenge to keep my head afloat.
Enter this week’s challenges and verse! Wisdom led me to start the week off cooking a warm pot of soup. It sustained me for several days. Then we launched into a variety of lovely poetry and fiction challenges. Past weeks have presented darker prompts that left me no choice but to tell tales of sadness or to pen poetry deep in melancholia. But this week presented sunflowers and words like sleep (ah lovely sleep), tales of celebrations, and triumph. Oh there were a few less uplifting headers, but I managed through these balanced by the incredible upbeat other verses and prose.
I suppose that this week could best be summarized by the word balance. Or if you want to take a really broad view…LIFE. 🙂 Life has ups and downs, celebrations as well as mourning and choices…always choices. We can choose to be happy no matter where we find ourselves on the journey. And there is something to be said as well for allowing ourselves to be wrapped in exquisite sorry…to give ourselves fully to it. It is so cleansing for the soul!
Because the truth is, every moment, the full piercing emotions of each, are fleeting. There is always another chance at happiness, peace, goodness and grief. The trick is not lingering too long. Life is best lived when we are moving. 🙂
Sunday’s Week in Re-Verse – 31 January 2016
And oh my, it was-a mighty good-a!
It was her moment!
as if it’s a thing one finds
They wait in obscurity
To sleep anywhere…
fits of hysteria,
Maybe I’ll just stick with butterflies.
she closed her eyes and imagined him listening.
All tucked in for another night!
Wishing you sunflowers!
Best viewed from afar.
The track doesn’t end at the bottom.
enlightened pilgrims understand
‘Tis heaven on earth…like a soft morning kiss!
Triumph!
Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. Whatever makes you happy!
kat ~ 31 January 2016
If you’re new to this blog, a bit of background to explain the verse above. It is a line from each poem or prose from the previous week. Lifted and placed in the order written. A snapshot review of the week. It helps me to prepare for the upcoming week with a clean slate.
January 31st, 2016 at 8:56 am
I enjoy your writing.
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January 31st, 2016 at 9:25 am
Thank you Meredith. It has become a passion for me. I enjoy words. It is an extra bonus that people like to read what I write. 🙂
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January 31st, 2016 at 9:56 am
I still love this adorable pictures! Nice wrap up for this week. Wow sounds like you were very busy this week! I agree with you keep on moving and living! xoxo
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January 31st, 2016 at 10:05 am
It was a busy week, but very productive. I am so glad I was able to carve out time to write! 🙂
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January 31st, 2016 at 10:14 am
yes I am surprised that you were!
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January 31st, 2016 at 10:17 am
My sleep often suffers…and there is a bit of dust lingering on the shelves, and laundry still to be folded, but it is SOOOO worth it. 🙂
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January 31st, 2016 at 10:21 am
When I read your post, I felt as if I was listening to a philosopher and poet, well congrats to you. Thanks for sharing your wisdom. 🙂
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January 31st, 2016 at 12:07 pm
Thank you so much Ranu! What a lovely compliment! 😊
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January 31st, 2016 at 11:29 am
I enjoy these “week in reverse.” They always seem to come out amazing!
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January 31st, 2016 at 1:11 pm
It’s weird how that works!
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January 31st, 2016 at 1:12 pm
It is but it is really cool.
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January 31st, 2016 at 1:16 pm
😊
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January 31st, 2016 at 2:21 pm
What a whirlwind of a week for you! This week in reverse is splendid and tidily sums up life’s ups and downs.
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January 31st, 2016 at 3:24 pm
I think so too! I’m looking forward to a quieter week ahead! 😊
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