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Field Journal: Week 47

I want to live an honest life. Writing helps me neutralize my shame and face my failures so they don’t control me. I need to write to be healed, one word, one post at a time.

Kurt Vonnegut said, “Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world your story will get pneumonia.”

I need to write to make sense of the hell. I need to write as I live. I awake every morning and no matter what, I kiss the day like I was blind, but now I see. I am so grateful to be alive, so glad I’m not dead.


Some 50 years after Christ walked the earth, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to a church in Galatia, a Roman province.  This letter forms the ninth book of the New Testament. This letter means so much to me. Paul believed we should carry each other’s burdens. This advice is applicable to all faiths. Take a look at what else he wrote:

If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else, for each one should carry their own load.

Nevertheless, the one who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor.

A man reaps what he sows.

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people…

When we bear witness to the tales of survival we honor life as a gift and we bear the burdens of people we don’t even know.


Check in the Lost and Found

I continue to work on my art project about missing and lost things. I have a long way to go on it. In the meantime, I continue to see pictures of people and pets on posts. How people we love end up on flyers nailed or taped to light poles and windows is beyond me.

I saw this flyer on Sunday in the window of the old Rainbow Records store. JaRay Wilson, 16, missing from Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Missing Girl from Weatherford, Oklahoma

Missing Girl from Weatherford, Oklahoma


Raking Fall Colors

Raking Leaves

Raking Leaves

On Sunday, I took down the lights than hung over our bed of leaves. Why do the best days go so fast? Our giant leaf pile has been crushed beneath the weight of our children. They jumped in and out of it 1,000 times reducing it to a small mound. Yesterday’s freeze didn’t help matters, and with it, we have officially entered winter.

People who don’t live in the Heartland don’t know how long that can be. These are the days I glory in stoplights, the only color around.

Downtown OKC | Green Stoplights

Downtown OKC | Green Stoplights

When I arrived at the office at 10:30 a.m all was clear. When I left at 2:30 p.m. this is what my Jeep looked like.

Frozen Ice on Jeep

Jeep

Pressed Coffee

Coffee in a French Press at Beatnix | With Mari

I have no idea what’s going on here, but I thought I better take a picture and tell you about it.

Honkytonk Stepchild written on truck

Honkytonk Stepchild

Here is some amazing fall color from around Heritage Hills, Oklahoma City. Enjoy!

Red Leaves Autumn

Red Leaves Autumn

 

Weeping Willow in Autumn

Weeping Willow

 

Yellow Autumn Leaves

Yellow Autumn Leaves

 

Orange Autumn Leaves

Orange Autumn Leaves

Orange Autumn Leaves

Orange Autumn Leaves

Here’s me having lunch with my younger two children during the annual Thanksgiving Lunch at their school. We take pictures every year on this occasion!

My new camera is coming in handy during Juliette’s dance and Glee Club performances. We attended Fine Arts night at her school this past week. She did an amazing job with her dancing and singing. I’m so proud of her!

Dance Recital

Dance Recital

 

 

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2 Comments

  1. HonkyTonk StepChild

    Hello! I see you were intrigued by my red truck. We are musicians. Blog on!!
    Love,
    HonkyTonk StepChild

  2. Andi

    Catching up on my blog reading, as usual in 2013 I am terribly behind. Your post was just what I needed to soothe me. I lost my way along the blogging path this year and I am not happy. I am trying to right the rails and get back to what I want it to be but it is definitely a journey. Seeing you uncertain about your own journey, but having the confidence to know it will all work out in the end, makes me feel good. Thanks my friend.

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