Bluh.  Failure.

And no, I don't want to hear that it's not failure, it's just learning, because I had a goal and I didn't meet it and my first attempts at silk painting are ok but not in the least bit what I was trying for.  Now, if I had any idea what to do to correct it so I could eventually get what I was trying for, THAT would be learning.  But ( Read more... )

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Oh woodgrain fair, oh toenail paint!
The woolen itchies have struck with vile report.
My red papers have faded to sauerkraut,
And the tiny trout all cry boogly boogly.

Is there another poet in the house?  Come offer your rhymes, and go light on the reason, please...

I'm spending a lot of time contemplating the Voice these days.

There are few things I love more than the Voice.  There are few things that thrill me so deeply or fascinate me so much.  Sometimes the Voice surprises me by speaking that which I did not expect to hear at a time I did not expect to hear it.  Sometimes the Voice makes me laugh.  ( Read more... )

When we refuse to occupy a position that the grace of God has assigned to us because we don't feel worthy enough, we don't feel pure enough, we're going to end up doing great harm to ourselves and to the kingdom of God.  We need to understand that.  Our excuses and abdicating and saying "Send someone else" is gonna cost people their lives.  It's ( Read more... )

I sit and stare at the dye chart. Which of these colors would I really use? Which ones could I mix myself? Yellow and blue make green, but there are so many kinds of green. For that matter, there are so many kinds of yellows and blues. I think about how we define people by skin color. Black and white. It's silly, when you think of it, ( Read more... )

A few days ago Jen floated a hint that I had been rather negligent of my blogs. Oh sure, she said it much nicer than that, but that's what it boils down to and it's actually absolutely correct. I've been reading a lot. It's time to get back to writing more ( Read more... )

Only pride can be humiliated. -Jack FrostInteresting, isn't it, that the answer to avoiding humiliation is not to do stuff to keep yourself from being exposed as less than or not enough or defective or whatever. The way to avoid being humilated is to have no pride to be crushed to start with. This means that every time I find myself feeling the ( Read more... )

So tonight we're at Sam's Club and my dh finally does something I've been asking for some time now. He replaced the speakers on this computer. The old ones had loose wires. Sometimes one would work, sometimes both would work, sometimes I would have to wiggle the wires to get it to play. The sound was ok. Not horrible, not great, but what good does ( Read more... )

I got my hair cut today. Ok, I know that sounds trivial, but there is significance. I went not knowing what would happen to my hair in there. Old perm + old highlights + lots of blowdrying + no time to get trims this summer = fried hair. All I knew is that there would be a large scale removal of the old, and what was left would be much healthier ( Read more... )