The Journey to 21 Days

Tuesday, August 24th marks my first day without TV...20 days to go...Why watch people live out their dreams...when I could be jump starting my own?

....But Of Course

On Friday, May 15, 2009 the girls and I had the funniest conversation. We were stopped in front of a school bus waiting for a little boy cross the street after getting off of the bus. Once the little boy got across the street and was safely on the side walk…he dropped down on all fours…stomach up….and started walking on his hands and feet. I said “What is that little boy doing” and my oldest daughter replied in a matter of fact manner… “He’s doing the crab walk.” My younger daughter had a few clarifying questions as to if the crab walk was stomach up or stomach down…they both agreed that it was stomach up and I replied… “Yes he is.”

This dialogue was so funny to me because neither of them found anything odd about the little boy randomly crab walking down the sidewalk…it was as normal to them as it was odd to me!

We Wear the Mask

WE wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

The Word of the Day for March 29, 2009 is:

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/distend

Distend

• \dih-STEND\ • verb
1 : extend
2 : to enlarge from internal pressure : swell
*3 : to become expanded

How does a person stretch and grow? I have found comfort in being who I am...it is difficult to try to be more; or perhaps less. I have tired many times only to disappoint myself and become the beginning yet again. I have promised the world and delivered only a pebble. How does one truly distend the being from which they are made; to be more like that which created all beings?

nICOLE