http://www.breathofblue.com Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:29:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I missed the pomegranates.   For weeks I watched the fruit on the tree, watching it grow, seeing it ripen, and drooling over its promise.  I even picked one early, putting it in a brown paper bag with an apple in the hopes it would ripen.   But pomegranates only ripen on ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=103 I read an interesting concept today, that your life purpose can be summed up in one word.   It is a different word for each individual and no one can tell you your word, you must discover it for yourself, but that one word defines your calling, defines what your purpose ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=102 Sitting on the deck, book in my lap; I heard a tapping beyond the trees.  It seemed too loud to be a woodpecker, more like a ball peen hammer striking a piece of wood, short, small and swift.  But I am alone out here, except for the trees, the mountain ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=101 It’s coming.  The clouds are low and I can smell the rain.   For me, a Midwesterner, the smell of rain reminds me of earthworms.  After a good rain, the sidewalk would be littered with dozens upon dozens of worms, their long brownish grey bodies weary from the trek to escape ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=100 The tip was cut, the gun loaded, my finger light on the trigger.   Sweat trickled from my temple along my cheek.  I brushed a stray hair out of my eye the better to stare down my target.  Taking a deep breath, I sat down on the edge of the tub, ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=99 I am shaking.  I slipped on the boulders lining the creek bank and landed on my back.  Since it was a good 45 degree angle down to the creek and I was stooped over as I navigated down, I didn’t have far to fall.  In fact I fell in slow ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=98 I need to take my own advice.   Carry a notebook and write things down when they hit me.   That’s what I tell the people in my writing group.   I used to do it but then I downsized to this itty bitty leather wallet size bag.  It’s convenient, lightweight and holds ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=97 The Arizona summer has me craving the dark. I walk from tree to tree, seeking the comfort of shade, The dark cool a relief from the unrelenting light. We aspire to the light, we reach for it Bathe in it, desire to fill heart and soul with it To dispel the darkness of our emotions.   And ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=96 That damn C word again.  Cancer.   I hate that word.   I want to grab an eraser and scrub it permanently from the English language, banish it to hell, stomp on it and grind it to nothingness, never to fall from my lips again, never to assault my ears again.  My ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=95 Lately it seems to me that people are tossing that word around casually as if it were the equivalent of hello and good-bye. It feels like a fad of sorts, like the latest slang. It makes me wonder do they know what they are saying?  Do they understand how profound ... http://www.breathofblue.com/?p=93