A Place of Reflections

Photo Credit: Adobe Photo Shop Art Tutorial   Being able to express your grief ~  The Challenge of Grief at Holiday Time ~ I    was based around being able to 'talk' or 'share' about departed loved ones to help a person process their grief, their loss, their impact. Expression is vital ~ especially with young children. A few years back I saw this film clip of a young widow being interviewed. She had three small children. I think her husband had been killed in the war. At Christmas time, she asked her children if they'd would like to draw a message to Heaven for their daddy. She had a particular wall she would put the Christmas tree at, around that tree, placed on that wall would be her childrens' drawings ~ EXPRESSIONS for their daddy, Jesus Christ, Heaven.  They were in their third Christmas season of doing this. She said she was saving and preserving their messages, they were precious to her and if at some point when the ch...

OlCracker ~ My next lifetime hubby @OlCracker   on twitter, not just a 'twaffair'  ~  Yes, I saw this pic, a tall man with striking facial bones, strongly sculpted arms ( guns, they call arms like that guns ), wearing a cowboy hat, holding a fine looking chicken. What's not to love about that?   Not being a completely  'shallow woman' affixed to a person by 'looks' only, his bio said he was an ASCAP songwriter. That intrigued me.  I've been putting song poems together since I was a teenager. Many of them were what was then called 'novelty' songs.  In early adulthood the music would come to me for some of the songs poems I was writing. Though I couldn't write the music down, I could at least sing how it was supposed to go. It was a creative outlet, it was fun. In my early adulthood, I had a very good time and some success with originating and selling some advertising jingles and donating one of my produced...

Formerly known as " Short Takes " here is " This That The Other " for this past week. Rockin' The Star Spangled Banner ~ Ms. Janet Hansen ,  @Scout66com  on twitter, a music marketing specialist and publicist out of Nashville, Tennessee asked me if I'd be interested in giving Madison Rising and their rock version of The Star Spangled Banner a mention at my blog site. Now, even though Ms. Janet knows I pretty much adore her, I will not go 'outta my way' to be obliging unless I listen and make up my mind for myself.  I'm a hard headed woman that way. Ms. Janet would expect me to be just the way I am.  I enjoyed my listen and I enjoyed reading Ms. Janet's blog post.   The lead singer for Madison Rising is a U.S. Navy veteran. You can read more about them at Ms. Janet's Scout66com blog post Madison Rising: Rock 'n Reverence Like You've Never Seen  .  If you came here today with a limited amount of time, here with ...