I know EXACTLY where everything is!!
T:)
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Sunshine and Manure?
I told a guy that I work with today that I was Sunshine and Rain and he was Dirt and Manure. It takes all of it combined to make things grow.
He said that he would wear his badge proudly.
I got to thinking about it in regards to life.
I don't know why there has to be a mixture of the fabulous and the wretched, but there just does! Growing hurts. Life hurts. Manure stinks. Sunshine is light! To me, it is common sense and not right or wrong. When bad things happen to me, that is the manure. When good things happen to me, that is the sunshine and rain. It all works together for growth and enrichment. It is not God's fault or the fault of any one person. Some people get more manure dumped on them than others. Does that mean that they will grow stronger?
It's life.
It's the way it is.
Once a person understands this, it changes the entire flow of things. I watch the animals behind our house. Many times since we have lived there, I have seen cardinals fly into our back window, fall to the ground, and die from a broken neck. It is brutal! Do you know what the other birds do?
They keep on eating the bird seed in the feeders and flying around from tree to tree and chirping and whistling and mating and living. Some cardinal just lost their husband or wife or child here! They don't even stop to have a funeral. The ants immediately start to feed on the carcass. It is LIFE! (well, not for the dead cardinal)
Pay attention to the sunshine and manure all around us. It'll make ya grow:)
T:)
He said that he would wear his badge proudly.
I got to thinking about it in regards to life.
I don't know why there has to be a mixture of the fabulous and the wretched, but there just does! Growing hurts. Life hurts. Manure stinks. Sunshine is light! To me, it is common sense and not right or wrong. When bad things happen to me, that is the manure. When good things happen to me, that is the sunshine and rain. It all works together for growth and enrichment. It is not God's fault or the fault of any one person. Some people get more manure dumped on them than others. Does that mean that they will grow stronger?
It's life.
It's the way it is.
Once a person understands this, it changes the entire flow of things. I watch the animals behind our house. Many times since we have lived there, I have seen cardinals fly into our back window, fall to the ground, and die from a broken neck. It is brutal! Do you know what the other birds do?
They keep on eating the bird seed in the feeders and flying around from tree to tree and chirping and whistling and mating and living. Some cardinal just lost their husband or wife or child here! They don't even stop to have a funeral. The ants immediately start to feed on the carcass. It is LIFE! (well, not for the dead cardinal)
Pay attention to the sunshine and manure all around us. It'll make ya grow:)
T:)
Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Happy New Year!!!
I keep wrestling with the idea of starting a new blog, but this one has a little history and I find it hard to let it go.
Happy NEW YEAR to my 15 a month readers! Hope you all are doing well. My new book: Enchanted, Poetry from the Woods is alive and well and selling nicely. You can purchase it on Amazon. Just put the title of the book and my name, Theresa Arnold, and it will come up. You click a button, pay the fee, and in a few short days, the book will arrive.
https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Poetry-Woods-Theresa-Arnold/dp/1729496113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546457538&sr=8-1&keywords=theresa+arnold+enchanted
That is a HUGE link there. Maybe it will take you directly to the site.
I have to run, but wanted to get something up for the new year. I will type more later.
2019 will be AWESOME!!!
T:)
Happy NEW YEAR to my 15 a month readers! Hope you all are doing well. My new book: Enchanted, Poetry from the Woods is alive and well and selling nicely. You can purchase it on Amazon. Just put the title of the book and my name, Theresa Arnold, and it will come up. You click a button, pay the fee, and in a few short days, the book will arrive.
https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Poetry-Woods-Theresa-Arnold/dp/1729496113/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1546457538&sr=8-1&keywords=theresa+arnold+enchanted
That is a HUGE link there. Maybe it will take you directly to the site.
I have to run, but wanted to get something up for the new year. I will type more later.
2019 will be AWESOME!!!
T:)
Friday, October 19, 2018
Is November Almost HErE??
October 19, 2018
This is an entry to my journal today.
Finished my "Native American Son" picture. I was scoping out pictures to draw one day on the WWW and I searched "native American children". This child came up, so I drew him. I am now going to start a collection of these kinds of drawings from my own hand (from pictures that other people have taken). All copyright laws cease to exist as soon as I enter my private domain creative room. Now, if I was going to try and sell these, then I would have to get permission from the creator of the picture to do so. I would and will never claim a picture as my own unless it WAS my own.
Here is the picture that I drew from a photo of the child I call Native American Son (he has to be SOMEONE'S son...)
Pretty nice looking son there! This morning I was looking up other sons to draw:
Hot Cops
Sexy Fireman
Cooks!!
Fun!! The human body is most AMAZING and absolutely the coolest thing to draw! This could become a habit! T:)
This is an entry to my journal today.
Finished my "Native American Son" picture. I was scoping out pictures to draw one day on the WWW and I searched "native American children". This child came up, so I drew him. I am now going to start a collection of these kinds of drawings from my own hand (from pictures that other people have taken). All copyright laws cease to exist as soon as I enter my private domain creative room. Now, if I was going to try and sell these, then I would have to get permission from the creator of the picture to do so. I would and will never claim a picture as my own unless it WAS my own.
Here is the picture that I drew from a photo of the child I call Native American Son (he has to be SOMEONE'S son...)
Pretty nice looking son there! This morning I was looking up other sons to draw:
Hot Cops
Sexy Fireman
Cooks!!
Fun!! The human body is most AMAZING and absolutely the coolest thing to draw! This could become a habit! T:)
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Well Well Well....
SO much has been going on the last few months! What am I saying? I mean the last YEAR!
I finally submitted my book of poetry with illustrations to my publisher to get it going and it should be out by the first part of November. I was hoping by October 17th, and that MAY still happen. I won't hold my breath on that though.
I rarely get on this blog anymore and my publisher (I say "my publisher" like that's such a big deal. Actually, I am self publishing and the people helping me are HELPING me by doing all the set up work and the cover) thought that I should look into getting my own website like Theresa Arnold dot something.... I could blog from there and put my CD's and my books and my artwork out there for sale or amusement. Question, what is the exact number of people that have done that and have put their art online? Just wondering. HOW do people FIND such things? Still kicking around the idea though as I plan on writing more books and starting a series of brainless ramblings about life and death and flowers and animals and inanimate objects talking and horribly gross stuff. I really flock to the gross stuff of life. Not sure why. One time, I was going to take a series of pictures (yes, I dabble in photography a little) of dead animals that I found on the road. I took a picture of a squashed squirrel that was petrified flat to the road and thought 'agin it as it was pretty gross. I thought people might think I was weird for doing that. Is that weird? Taking pictures of dead animals on the road? What if it were tastefully done? Not sure how, but what if it were?
Anyway, I am proud to announce that after almost 3 years of working on and off on this poetry project, I am seeing the light at the end of the literary tunnel. YEAH!! The next project can't be this long to write. I have learned a lot in my writing, storing info, illustrating, and communicating with other folks about this project. God is GOOD! Some people say that Jesus was a good teacher. I say he was the best. I asked him about 3 years ago to not only be my Savior but also my teacher and to please give me an assignment to do. I wrote down a list of three books that needed writing. This first one was one of them. THREE YEARS LATER....it looks like it may be finished. When I turned in this book to what I call "my publisher", I felt relief, and discouragement. What do I do now? I have been worrying and working, slaving and sweating over this project and I felt emptiness. WEIRD! NOW, my imagination is starting to come back and I would like to say "THANK YOU JESUS!!" I would have never finished this project if my imagination button was not pushed off for a while. He knows me and He knows my problem with starting projects, I mean FINISHING projects. I am a master at starting them. I am a novice at finishing them. I like the way it feels when things are finished. Perhaps this will be the start of an entire new way of being!! Wow, finishing things could become a habit or something. That would be nice. I want to be Queen of the Finishers!! Majesty of the Wrap-Up! Princess of Accomplishments! This will be a magnificent road to travel down in my second half of life:)
Excited to see the fruit of my labor starting to bud!!
Later,
T:)
I finally submitted my book of poetry with illustrations to my publisher to get it going and it should be out by the first part of November. I was hoping by October 17th, and that MAY still happen. I won't hold my breath on that though.
I rarely get on this blog anymore and my publisher (I say "my publisher" like that's such a big deal. Actually, I am self publishing and the people helping me are HELPING me by doing all the set up work and the cover) thought that I should look into getting my own website like Theresa Arnold dot something.... I could blog from there and put my CD's and my books and my artwork out there for sale or amusement. Question, what is the exact number of people that have done that and have put their art online? Just wondering. HOW do people FIND such things? Still kicking around the idea though as I plan on writing more books and starting a series of brainless ramblings about life and death and flowers and animals and inanimate objects talking and horribly gross stuff. I really flock to the gross stuff of life. Not sure why. One time, I was going to take a series of pictures (yes, I dabble in photography a little) of dead animals that I found on the road. I took a picture of a squashed squirrel that was petrified flat to the road and thought 'agin it as it was pretty gross. I thought people might think I was weird for doing that. Is that weird? Taking pictures of dead animals on the road? What if it were tastefully done? Not sure how, but what if it were?
Anyway, I am proud to announce that after almost 3 years of working on and off on this poetry project, I am seeing the light at the end of the literary tunnel. YEAH!! The next project can't be this long to write. I have learned a lot in my writing, storing info, illustrating, and communicating with other folks about this project. God is GOOD! Some people say that Jesus was a good teacher. I say he was the best. I asked him about 3 years ago to not only be my Savior but also my teacher and to please give me an assignment to do. I wrote down a list of three books that needed writing. This first one was one of them. THREE YEARS LATER....it looks like it may be finished. When I turned in this book to what I call "my publisher", I felt relief, and discouragement. What do I do now? I have been worrying and working, slaving and sweating over this project and I felt emptiness. WEIRD! NOW, my imagination is starting to come back and I would like to say "THANK YOU JESUS!!" I would have never finished this project if my imagination button was not pushed off for a while. He knows me and He knows my problem with starting projects, I mean FINISHING projects. I am a master at starting them. I am a novice at finishing them. I like the way it feels when things are finished. Perhaps this will be the start of an entire new way of being!! Wow, finishing things could become a habit or something. That would be nice. I want to be Queen of the Finishers!! Majesty of the Wrap-Up! Princess of Accomplishments! This will be a magnificent road to travel down in my second half of life:)
Excited to see the fruit of my labor starting to bud!!
Later,
T:)
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