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You’ve created so many things out of nothing.
What is one of your favorites?
It can be anything,
like a friendship,
a piece of music,
a new perspective…
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This was an interesting prompt! I have a whole list of somethings-from-nothings I’m proud of…
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<– Crossstitch
Projects
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Tatted Doilies –>
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The Written Word
Tethered
Life is hard
when your spirit
longs to take to the sky
and be free
but your heart
is tethered
to the earth. The
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tension on the chain
is enough to
break your soul
into two bloody parts.
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Has broken.
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One part
lies bleeding
on the ground,
the other drips drops
of deep red
as it’s dragged along
through the sky on
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the end of the chain
so that everywhere you go
you are only reminded
of how your life is
slowly bleeding to death.
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2/28/15
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Some really horrible meals!!!
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But the most important thing I think I ever made from nothing is…
…my two kids, Stefanie and Brandon!
While Brandon was born under my heart in the good old fashioned way,
Stefanie Kavitha was born in my heart to fill up a hole that longed for another child.
They are the very best of my creations!
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Picture Sources:
Quote — anewloom.org
Crappy Meal — Alamy
Embarrassed Smiley — https://promptlings.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/embarrassed-smiley.jpg
Impromptu Promptlings 
There are so many nice things I’d like to say about this post, but that song has left me crying like a fool…
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We used one of their other songs for our Marriage Renewal service. It talked about how God had blessed us with a son and a daughter. They stood up with us for that ceremony. It was way cool. I love Steve and Annie Chapman.
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I had never heard of them until now. I don’t suppose they reached the UK.
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I love all of this, Cheryl. Your creativity is an inspiration. But your beautiful children! That is the ultimate. Well done, my friend! 💚
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Thanks, Martha. 🙂 But I’d say they turned out pretty cool in spite of me! LOL They’d probably say that, too! 😉
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You have created some very beautiful things from nothing … not the least of which are those beautiful grown-up kids!
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Yeah, they’re good kids. Actually all THREE of my “kids” graduated together from Weber State University a couple years after that. THAT was a long day!
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Sooo … is that third kid, the one on the far right, “His nibs”? A handsome bunch indeed!
Are you okay? I haven’t seen you about much and was getting concerned.
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I’m doing everything so slowly these days. I’ve put pert near all the blogs I follow in weekly update format, and for some reason it screwed my reader up. So I’m having to hunt them down and go back to the way it was before, which was daily updates. Add to that I’m teaching two classes at the moment and getting a curriculum put together for a third that will start in September, and it seems like I am overwhelmed. Yet I spend an inordinate amount of time playing solitaire! Go figure. I guess I need the escape? Used to be I could do this with my hands tied behind my back and blind-folded. Guess I still have some “coming to terms” to deal with, eh? Thanks for checking, Jill.
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Lovely blog, very sad poem, and powerful. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this prompts. Your doilies and cross-stitch are really beautiful and your kids especially so. I like how you put that, one born under my heart, and one in it. ♥.
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We actually used that phrase in our announcements we sent out when Stef finally got here. 🙂 Seems like so long ago! 1989…
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Very powerful post here. Well done!
For me, I couldn’t have human children physically. But my kitties were my babies, and I can’t remember not having one, or three, to cuddle, and feed, and love through the years. But I also had other ‘children’ as Ruth Loomis (from “First Monday in October”) put so eloquently, (paraphrasing) “You’re wrong that I don’t children. I have thousands of children. My ideas are my children…”
So, I do know that I made stories out of ideas, which were nothing before they came into my mind.
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That is a GREAT one, Fim! I never thought about “birthing” sentences! 😀 I know you’re talking ideas, but OML! How many sentences were in those ideas???
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Whole universes
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Yes! One could really say that you have turned into the Creator of your own universe! 😀 How many scifi books now, Opher?
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