I love Pinterest and anyone that has read my blog and visited my page https://www.pinterest.com/cleckleymedia/ knows this. This is where I get inspired and I am able to create an online scrapbook. Well, much to my daughter’s chagrin, I came across a list of high school must-reads to revisit. Of course, as I was combing through the list, I became giddy with joy at the thought of reading these books again with my daughter; we would have our own mommy/daughter book club. I am sure that she will not read them all during her four years in high school (she is currently in 8th grade). So, why not get a head start on them now together. When I shared the “good news” she sighed. The truth is that she always huffs and puffs at my suggestion for reading material but, then she becomes enthralled and starts to ask me questions. I never let her abandon a book unless I can tell that it is completely over her head. Right now she is wrapping up “Of Mice and Men”. Then we can start on the list! Yippee!
Tag: sharing
Eat Your Words
Our brains are so smart
But sometimes not smart enough
To stop the verbal vomit
That ran across our minds
And escaped over our tongues
Bitter to taste
They linger
And the air becomes thick with them
Pollution of the elusive kind
Because it may not just be our words
That made a break from the back of our throats
But others’ words have become stagnant in the air
And silence is longed for
But no amount of it
Can take back, repair, mend what was broken by our words
Silence cherished, after the fact
And the lava still boils
In the souls of the receiver
And the words which erupted
From the volcano of our mouths
Spill out into the already intense atmospheric pressure
And all any of us would like to do
Is retrieve them, eat them.
* I originally wrote this on 9-24-2014
Incognito
It has been a few months and I have a very good reason for not posting. Wait for it…. I completed my MBA in marketing and wrapped up the end of another middle school year. Oh yeah, I also planned a christening for my youngest. I have so much to share because although I wasn’t posting, it doesn’t mean that I wasn’t writing. I’ve come up with a list of blog topics that can carry me through the remainder of the year and maybe into the beginning of next year. I also, wrote up a post and will edit that tomorrow before posting it tomorrow night. In the midst of all my “happenings”, I’ve been dealing with breaking soul ties (meant for a later discussion) with my children’s father. You know they always tend to pop back up. So, I plan on being transparent about that situation and maybe providing someone else some insight into their own circumstances.
Although, this is not a real post and I plan on posting tomorrow, I just could not resist communicating with my followers and the blog itself. So I will chat with you later.
Let me share…
I thought that I would share a poem that wrote in 2009. This is my first time sharing anything like this on the internet if it wasn’t for a competition. So here goes! (photo not mine)
Doubt
6-17-09
It’s a funny thing
How your reality of
My reality is not
The reality of
The situation
Your good humor
And passive aggressive conversation
Sets my imagination
And then my
Actual destination
To higher heights
Than when first conceived
Birth of a stronger substance
Than the putty
That your doubt
Tried to create
Therefore, I
Am not sure
Why your eyes
Hold lies and low expectations
When there has always been
A strong me,
A fierce competition
A determined sista
Albeit doubt.
Living Life Creatively 