MAKING NOISE PT. 1
#notesfromthevicarage
REMEMBRANCE DAYS
I have been thinking all week about my family that has passed on. It’s not unusual. We just passed Memorial Day. In church we remembered those who gave their lives for the cause of freedom. We pledged ourselves again to the flag and held a moment of silence.
It brought back memories of when I would spend time with my grandparents and we would travel on Memorial Day weekends to the graves of the Josephs who lived only in family memory. I know where all the Josephs are buried because of Memorial Day. I know where the Tandys and the Tennys are buried because of Memorial Day.
This week has brought back memories of my father. The time he cooked dry hung steak and I complained about how it smelled. The time Brenda and I knocked over the big bookcase in the old house on 360 Front St, became trapped under it and he rescued us.
This week has brought back memories of my mother. The time I got hives because I was so nervous about school and she called out of work to watch over me. Her last year when dementia was stealing her from us and improving her sense of humor all at once.
I remember my grandparents. Ice cream cones and Moxie soda. Walking on a frozen lake in the middle of winter and mowing the camp lawn with the electric mower.
So many memories that steel me for the life I am living now. Memories are powerful things, healing things. Even the traumatic memories when reframed in grace have their place in making us whole. We need to remember. We need our stories.
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MEMORIAL DAY SHENANIGANS
HERE IS THE STARTING POINT OF THE NEW CHICKEN COOP ON SATURDAY MORNING.
HERE IS HOW FAR I GOT. IT’S TIME TO WRAP THE COOP!
BRENDA SHOTS FROM LOGAN AIRPORT
BRENDA LANDS IN NEW ORLEANS
TRAVELLING COMPANIONS
ARRIVED IN TEXAS.
NEW MEXICO!
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BIT BY SLOW
I set myself a goal this year of writing more everyday. My goal was to write at least one blog for each of my WordPress channels everyday. I also wanted to get back to journaling everyday.
At the time I was not journaling at all and I wasn’t even getting a devotional video made everyday. I hadn’t written beyond devotional material connected to my weekly sermons for months; so the goal was definitely audacious.
I have not made the goal I set on January 1. In fact in January I did not make much headway at all. I may have had a few days during the month where I got two blogs done on the same day. I maybe journaled four times. February was much the same. March was a little better. April fell apart completely around Easter.
Now it is May. Something has changed….some things have changed. I am doing better. Several times a week I am spending time in writing sessions where I am completing multiple projects for the coming week. I am journaling once a week now.
My current goals have changed. I am no longer trying to write everyday. I write on Mondays (that has been my service writing day for years). Now I am just elongating the writing time and I am trying not to do other things on this main writing day beyond the obligatory house chores.
I am journaling once a week during my time at TWR on Monday evenings. I am having mini writing sessions before my Jesus 45 meetings at 6 A.M. on Tuesdays and Thursdays and I am trying to spend an hour a day writing on Thursdays and Fridays.
This is where I am for the moment. It’s not producing the results I want yet but it is a beginning and what I know about myself is that big audacious goals are best arrived at in steps. I should have been intentional about the step up process from the beginning.
HOW HAVE YOU GROWN YOUR WRITING PROCESS OVER THE YEARS?
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…privilege, authority, belief, obedience and glory pt. 6
…privilege authority belief obedience and glory pt. 5
Notes From the Vicarage 