GREATNESS

How do you measure greatness? How do you draw greatness? My husband woke me up the night the moon was on fire. It wasn’t really on fire, but it just looked like it, to me anyway. It was some sort of red moon. However, to me, that spectacular site signified greatness.

This fiery moon was drawn early in my “sketch a day” challenge. I can’t draw from my head… or at least my drawing is better when I have something to look at.

food for thought:   “The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.”—A. Smith

COMPENSATION

This is the 30^th word I’ve been using since I opened the old thesaurus.

It be interesting to see what it’d be like if compensation were given to stay-home Moms.

food for thought: There are some jobs that don’t require payment because the sheer joy of doing it is enough.

Well Versed Literary Works 2014

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Sibling Day

Every year since 1995, when my older sister, Sue invited her siblings to the St. Louis Baseball Cardinal's game, we've been doing "Sibling Day." We all had so much fun at the game, we decided we'd get together once a year,  just the four of us and spend the entire day together... and Sibling Day was born. I'm not sure where we're headed this year (as I write this ahead of time), but today's the day--our 20th Sibling Day!

One year we decided to wear matching t-shirts that said 'Sibling Day' and some indication of our birth order, and since that year, matching t-shirts have been worn. Last year, all black with white letters (THING 1, THING 2, THING 3, THING 4) drew the most attention from passerbys. (I drew the shirts below in different colors.)

If you'd like to hear about one specific Sibling Day, then be sure to come to the book launch and signing where you can check out the book, Not Your Mother's Book on Family (co-edited by my writing critique pal, Linda O'Connell). Details to come soon about the date and place!

As far as Sibling Day goes, we never know what's in store for us, but a good hearty laugh always seems to be part of the equation.

MEAN

I guess the English language has changed since 1946 when this thesaurus was published, or I’m really stupid. I never heard of this meaning for the word mean (as a verb: average; as a noun: medium, happy medium, average, balance, normal). But then I looked in The Synonym Finder, and there’s happy medium in there too!

And here I thought if you weren’t nice, you were mean. Or what I mean to say is if you’re not nice, you’re kind of a bully. Or they don’t have any means to go by in order to change.

food for thought: I don’t know why people are mean. I’m not sure what they have to gain by being so. But did you know that mean is a happy medium?

INEQUALITY

When you have dealt with inequality, you see things differently.

food for thought: “When people have to obey other people’s orders, equality is out of the question.”—Gilbert

EQUALITY

 

 

My girls are all about equality and to prove it, they had identical tattoos tattooed on their shoulders… and it looks pretty much like this:

food for thought: “All mankind are equalized by death.”—Hood