Why Write Your Life Stories?

In my classes I meet women and men whose life stories are rich and deep with significance and insight. My students earned their wisdom through parenting, working in various careers, dealing with ups and downs of health issues, life and death, good and bad relationships, fighting wars, accepting honors, accepting defeats, saying goodby, saying hello, wanting to die, afraid to die, afraid to live, wanting to live, traveling, staying put, running away, staying another day, looking ahead, looking back, facing challenges, overcoming and remembering.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

If it is too hot for you, take a look at some cool pictures

A few months back, Dick and Sandy Mitchner of Haywood County, NC sent me some cool pictures of snow in their neighborhood and I thought with the hot weather of summer burning our necks, these
scenes might cool us off. I love the dog below who isn't sure she goes for all the cold wet stuff.The trees are glass scupltures, dainty and fragile like the tiny angels I've seen on counters of gift shops in tourist towns like Waynesville.



This pup is an adventurer, and he is barking furiously, begging his people to come on out in the snow and play with him. Who could resist this face?

In my mind, I'm going to Carolina in the winter time.
Come go with me.


1 comments:

Mokihana and Pete said...

I've just come for a visit. My first. The quote of the day is such perfect food for writing ... and at this point in living there's far less dictation because no one else quite gets the journey.

Thanks for the icy photos, they're even better than ice cubes on my head. I'll be back.

Mokihana

From Jayne Jaudon Ferrer, poet, author, speaker

"Life is going to pass whether you're making the most of it or not. We can spend our time on earth frustrated and miserable and disappointed, or we can milk it for all it's worth.


Stu's standup routine at the Punchline Comedy Club

Those fabulous Council Girls

Those fabulous Council Girls
Photos jog our memories for writing our life stories

Karen Beaty on left, Lisa Bruno on right

Karen Beaty on left, Lisa Bruno on right
Thanks Karen, for always making me feel welcome.

View from parking area of Orchard House

View from parking area of Orchard House
Peaceful and quiet in the early morning light

Cabin on the campus of the Folk School

Cabin on the campus of the Folk School
Across from Orchard House, looking west

Descendants of John Cecil Council at family reunion

Descendants of John Cecil Council at family reunion
1956 - '57 maybe. This is at home of Lawrence and Jo Council in Wakulla County FL. Many of my aunts and uncles written about in Profiles and Pedigrees are in this photo. I also see my father and my siblings. That's me in the dark dress right behind the little boy on the front row.