A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~Eudora Welty
I think I don’t have a thousand words, so how about these. This is the difference happiness makes: This is all I need to know.
Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.Galileo Galilei
Kat Mcnally asks that we describe our year in terms of our five senses. Project Reverb wants to know what kept us anchored Well…J and Em kept me anchored. They always do. They are the reason I wake up in the morning and why I kept trying to make a …
Be sincere, Be brief, Be seated.― Franklin D. Roosevelt
So Project Reverb wants to know what I ate , while Kat McNally asks what was my best decision I’m afraid I have a bit of catching up to do, so this unlike my usual long winded entries, will be brief. Best Meal? Either the night our dinner group went to …
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.Dorothy Day
My days are a bit jumbled up but I think that’s ok with Reverb. What I like about reverb is that there are guidelines but you can bend them. That helps. Too strict and it turns into a death march , too loose and you don’t continue. Or that is …
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher
And Project Reverb asks about  Failure while Kat McNally and Rachel Maddox  wonder: Today, identify something muddy that kept recurring for you throughout 2013, and then ask yourself this: What’s the clear truth underneath this damn mud if I finally wash myself clean?  And they are of course related. I …
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Inspiration and Auto pilot. Two diametrically opposed forces. If you are inspired you certainly aren’t on autopilot. I find people who are strongly themselves inspiring. My friend Beth someone I’ve known for quite sometime, because her brother is one of my longest and dearest friendships…is now someone I care about quite …
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.― Ursula K. Le Guin
I suppose if you look at things from a more optimistic point of view, they turn out to be adventures, not terrifying hurtles down the side of an icy mountain on a trashcan lid at a high rate of speed right? I hope in the years to come that this …
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ― May Sarton
Well then…I don’t take many selfies because I photograph quite badly. Always have. I never learned to gothgirl thing of posing for the camera. I think the back of my head might be my best side. There was a picture I liked of myself…it doesn’t just have me in it, …
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are? Satchel Paige
And in the middle of a very hard time in my life I got an amazing present from Mr. J. I got a birthday party. I love remembering people’s birthdays—more than Christmas because to me I am saying to them “I am glad you are here on this planet, you …
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T. S. Eliot
For Project Reverb it is Challenge , while Kat McNally asks us about taking risks. Which again are so closely related. Because a challenge is a risk and a risk is a challenge.  Mostly. I’m a bit tired… Mr. man has been away all week on business and I’m in my …
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
So today Kat Mcnally’s prompt concerns grieving and Project Reverb asks about hindsight. Funny how these seem to be working together from the beginning—one influencing another, informing another, enhancing another. I am grieving the loss of time. Time given to dead ends. Time spent trying to mend the twisted and burned …
If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
So I can find two sites—the project reverb site and Kat McNally’s site Could anyone tell me—is there an overarching site that collects all these prompts or are they ad hoc sites set up ? I guess I’m used to nablopomo and how that works, I think this is different. …
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.Leo Tolstoy
The prompts from both places are similar…what nourished your soul this year, what was your best moment. I would say we haven’t had many of them this year but we have had some… Halloween, our 13th anniversary and a houseful of kids and their families in our spooky house was …
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. Marcel Proust
I guess my word for 2013 would be …tribulation? adversity? The prompt for this first day of Reverb13 is …Where did you start 2013? Wow. It’s pretty horrible, but then 2013 has been a pretty horrible year. I can say some things are better. Em’s  school is SO much better. …
I’m not sure if this is right
I’ll change, then change again. Before your very eyes…I am sometimes this way, another time that way… I’ll figure it out eventually.. I just know I’m not in the darkest place that I was. I’m in a different place, not so dark, more chiaroscuro.. more confusing but not so …
Reading Poetry, because
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be. ~Rumi It just seems to fit right now. It is a poetry time of year. XXXV PROUD of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I …