Your Sonnet

In my high school English class, we are finishing our study of British sonnets with an application of writing a personal sonnet.  I always try to write an example for the students, and this one seemed to flow easily from my heart.

Your Sonnet
January 2012

A dream created many years ago,

Seems like forever, always on my mind.

My thoughts alone are never to be known,

Far hidden in my heart no one to find.

Still haunted by his eyes, his smile, his voice.

A mem’ry held so dear inside my heart.

He seemed so fixed to stay with love’s young choice,

While years went by the embers they did spark.

Secrets and shared and suddn'ly with one word,
Our lives unite and both imagine love.
His whispers now are all I ever heart,
Could God be hearing prayers I sent above?

This trance awakened now, body and soul.

To be with you, alive, fulfilled, and whole.

Week 3

Dreamed a Dream was difficult for me to interpret, plus I am too giddy about my upcoming photography retreat, Top Secret in Texas with Lara from Modern Prarie Girl, to think too deeply about an application for my life.  I "stole" a picture from Spring Break 2011 because one day it is my dream to live by the beach and have a photography business.  

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Week 2

Made with Love

My son was made with love 15 years ago, and my daughter was made with love 5 years ago.  They are the two things in my life that I couldn't help but think of for this week's photography project.  This picture was simply capturing the moment of a typical Tuesday evening in our house.  Because the colors on the kids were in complete contrast, I decided to try a little editing and came up with a color fade version.

Made with Love #2

Color Fade

My 3 Boybarians

Project 52 Photo Challenge

Week 1

My resolution for 2012 is to

BLOOM.

I'm linking up with My 3 Boybarians and her Project 52 Photo Challenge.

How to Bloom

In order to bloom, I need to be planted and well grounded....first in my relationship with the Lord, then in my personal life in terms of where I am headed.  One of my favorite quotes from Seneca says that if a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

I need to seek harbors for:
-my relationship with the Lord through reading and prayer
-building relationships with my kids by spending family and individual time together
-developing my gift of teaching through insightful lesson plans
-writing
-photography

I am also working on two 52 projects.
One is to take a photo a week for 52 weeks.
Two is about doing pushups for 52 weeks in order to work up to 52 pushups.

Do you have any other suggestions for 52 Projects?

One Little Word

What will be the theme to my year?
What word will keep me focused?
What do I need to remember in all that I do?
It didn't take me long to realize my word for 2012...  BLOOM!

I want to bloom as a 

• woman of God, 
• a mother, 
• a teacher, 
• a writer, 
• and a photographer.  

I have been but a bud,

With the desire to flourish.

This is my time,

To embrace newness and change,

And most of all.....

bloom.

The Three Little Pigs

Another adventure begins, and this one involves raising hogs.  Well, I'm not tending to them, but I drive the teenage son to the barn in order to feed them and develop a relationship with them.  Yes...I said it.  They need to get to know their handler so they will follow along, so powdered sugar donuts are involved in this phase. Ours is named Boss, the other one owned by a sweet teenage girl (who happens to be teenage son's girlfriend) is named Gus, and the shared pig is named Wiggles.  This is sure to inspire many photo shoots!  What is the best way to photograph hogs? :-)