In taking a hard look at my blog, I enjoyed having a mixture of posts – recipes, poems, stories, articles…but I wanted more. I wanted artwork from children and adults filling up the blog, along with guest poems and articles. I wanted to have (and give my readers) it all! So the next question was: so where can I get all this additional writing? The answer came to me when I defined what my blog is.
I call this blog and its readership a community of people with the same goal and focus: finding the sunshine in your life in spite of sometimes negative circumstances. Hmmm….a community thrives on its citizens all contributing in their own special way. Oh! Oh! Oh! Our Sunshine community could do that – offer up their own kinds of sunshine to the community. We could be enriching each other’s lives! The extra photos, art, book reviews, stories, poems, articles would fit into that niche in a grand fashion!
If I could write for my blog two weeks out of the month, and write my various projects in the other two weeks, how fantastic would that be?! I had been having a conflict within myself about writing the blog so much I was neglecting the other part of my writing life. Here, my friends, was my answer. If I created a new website with a lot to read, enough to keep people busy for a month, I could do all my writing! AND get my friends involved in a great project, too! 🙂
Next up: Where Debb’s trail ends up and announcement of The Great Launch – coming soon to a computer near you!
As a writer for both children and adults, I often give human traits to plants and animals. My imagination seems to soar, turning things I see in my everyday life into a story or poem.
Instead of writing of series of “humanizing” posts, I will reserve each Wednesday for my humanizing writing. I have two ideas so far, and having a focus for Wednesdays will prompt me to keep on finding more stories.
My first “humanizing” post will be Wednesday, August 21st. I hope you will join me. 🙂
English: Surf at Clipperton Island in the Pacific Ocean (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
She was a lady of the ocean, the girl that the song phrases “Brandy, you’re a fine girl” and “green-eyed lady, ocean lady” were written about. Yes – she did work as a cocktail waitress at a seaside bar, and she had beautiful green eyes like that of the sea she loved. Her long hair of copper hue made her look like a princess.
This girl was named Delicate at birth, and indeed she lived up to her name. Her limbs were long, and she had a charming delicacy about her. She loved the ocean and birds and animals, often wishing she had a horse that she could ride up and down the coast. Delicate rented a room above her grandmother’s duplex, so her waitress salary was adequate. She spent her spare time at the ocean’s edge, frolicking in the surf or painting an oil picture of her favorite subject.
Delicate had many friends and was loved by all, young and old and anywhere in between. This is why a well-known fact was a mystery.
Delicate had only two great loves in her whole life.
Her first love was actually just a school-girl crush, and he wasn’t actually hers. She was a pretty although timid girl, so did not make moves on anyone.
Her second and last love was what all love stories are written about. They had the love of the century, and of course Delicate thought it would last forever, till the day he came to her and announced to her his intention of leaving.
He, the seaman, who had treated her so well and gave her a silver locket bearing his name, had resolved that he was ultimately more in love with the sea than with her.
Delicate understood this because she loved the ocean with the same passion and fervor too. But she didn’t understand why he couldn’t love both of them. How could the ocean, this fluid, wonderful friend of theirs, be her enemy and competitor?
Delicate was in an awful state of mind. She stopped eating and sleeping, lost her dreams and her passion of music and artwork. To be sure, she stopped swimming in the surf. She even said goodbye to her dolphin friends and to her grandmother.
Delicate unceremoniously quit her job at the bar and ran away to the forest, to where the sunlight only partially came beaming down on her. This was a pretty dark place, matching her mood exactly. She lived there for days with the beasts and birds of the forest and ate berries for sustenance.
Weaker and weaker this girl got, and she yearned for the ocean. The sound and sight of it had always calmed her down before…but this time, when in the forest she could hardly hear the ocean anymore, it provided no help.
Delicate decided that even though she was mad at the ocean for taking her love away, she needed to go to it. To lay at surfside and let the water wash over her and tickle her feet. To splash its water and maybe even frolic in it once again.
By this time, Delicate was fading fast. She was so weak, it took her a week to crawl back to the water. When the ocean saw her, it rejoiced. It celebrated with exploding waves that imparted happiness to Delicate. She got in the water, and then something incredible happened.
See you on Saturday with the conclusion of this tale
Hi, I’m Debbie Loesel Stanton. My friends call me Debb…
I am a: writer, small-time philosopher, small-time get out of debt and stay that way advisor, big-time lover of people/animals/nature/beautiful writing/beautiful poetry/beauty-period/peace/photography; a reader, cancer survivor, comforting and encouraging friend, bringer of sunshine to the soul and spirit, and appreciator of life.
I am for: peace, love, joy, and other such blessings; fairness, equality, and respect.
I am against: hatred, violence, abortion, abuse of people and animals, wasting the earth’s natural resources, and judging one another.
My political stance: I believe we each need to study the arguments and vote according to what our conscience states, and not what side we think we are supposed to be on. Suffice it to say, just make sure you get out and vote.
What my blog is for and about: a smile for your day, loving thoughts and encouragement, sometimes whimsy, sometimes a recipe or two, a movie review here and there, and always a love of life that I hope to pass on to others. I’ve been writing a lot of poems since being on this blog but I also write in other forms. I post daily because there is so much we can talk about. . . I welcome your comments.
Thank you for joining me on this adventure we call life.
Hi, I’m Debbie Loesel Stanton. My friends call me Debb…
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