Writing Inspired by a Photo

Blinking her eyes open, blurry lines.  Darkness again, blurry lines, then darkness.  Her breathing deepens and she feels the icy air weave tendrils of frost down into her lungs.  The blurry lines begin to take shape, vaguely familiar, forming into a solid image like ice freezing on the surface of puddles.

Trees.  Her eyes dart as she slowly tries to raise her head.  Her body, previously forgotten, slams itself into her consciousness by being surprisingly absent.  Her hands, her feet, her legs, all gone.  Well, at least as far as her control over them is concerned.  Nothing moves, even when she screams it in her mind.  Screaming, even that won't come.  A small mouse of a noise scuttles from her lips, but that is all.

She is enveloped in a blanket of tiredness, all this effort peels  life further from her body.  Trees blur into oil slicks as she closes her eyes, one final time.  Her chest lowers and the frost creeps out of her lungs to rest on her lips, looking down over the body that once belonged to her, but now is his alone.

Writing

Well, it is a new month and so a new creative outlet.  In February I will focus on writing.  It is something I enjoy and something I can pretend that I am half-way decent at, but I've already hit a stumbling block.  What kind of writing?  Poetry? Stories? Blogging about life?  Rants?  I'm good at those.  It's been decided that I will do whatever I feel like that day.  Sometimes I will write directly as a post, sometimes it will be on the computer, but not as a post.  Other days it will be in whatever book, journal, or scrap piece of paper I have handy.  Feel free to skip this stuff, you may get bored.

Last Day for Photography

Double Vision

Jan 30

It always feels like, somebody's watching me

Jan 29

Wrestling Weasels

Retro Viewing

Jan. 26

Night Pools

Jan. 25

Tickles

Qi of light

Jan. 23

Domestic living

Jan. 22

Eye of the beholder

Hopeless Antelopes Instigate Riots

ODG!!  And this is the "good" side!

"May it be a light for you in dark places"

Jan18

Up close and personal

Reason I haven't been posting

Jan 16

Das Boots

Jan 15

Mmmm...Ms. Temple

Ferrets at Play

Jan 12

Sushi Time

Jan 11

Morte

Jan 10

Hayden's Art

Jan 9

Alex's Art

Sausage

Morning moon

Backyard at dinner

Bad Weasel, Plants are for People.

Massey Drive

Jan. 3

Mountain Ash

Jan 2

Lace Box

Jan 1

Jelly

New Year, New Resolutions

I am one of those people.  Every year I make resolutions, and every year by the end of the first week I've forgotten all about them.  This year I thought I would try something different.  My resolution this year is to try to make time for creativity.  It is something that I am interested in both professionally (I'm a teacher) and also personally.  But you know how it is, life, it has a habit of getting in the way.

For me personally, I find that I set these giant (or at least not small) goals that I have no hope of achieving because if you are going to make resolutions it is go big or go home.  Again this year I have set a pretty lofty goal, "make time for creativity."  It would be so easy to be overwhelmed and give up by Monday, which is when school starts and things get busy for me.  So I chunked it out.  Each month I will focus on one creative outlet.  That's it. Just one.  And I only have to work on said creative project for a minimum of 10 minutes a day.  I figured if I can't spare 10 minutes then I really need to re-evaluate my life.

I have planned all the months out and marked the creative focus on my calendar.  I've enlisted the help, by means of encouraging reminders, of my guy.  And, as an added incentive, I thought I ought to create a blog and post the results of my work on that day.  That doesn't necessarily mean that everyday I will have a posting, even though every day I will have to do something creative.  For example, one month is sewing.  So unless I finish a project I likely will not post a picture of the work in progress every day.  You won't see much difference in a project that is part way through and only has 10 minutes of added work on it.  But I will post the beginning and end of the project.  Maybe one post of the middle work too.  Oh, and the month where I focus on singing, there will maybe just be short written updates.  I think that is the best for everyone involved.  I don't want to subject you to that, nor do you want to be subjected to that.  You may think you do, but trust me, you don't.

Well, I guess that's it for this post.  Other than to let you know that January is photography.  So for the next 31 days, I will have to post a picture that I take.

Wish me luck!