A beautiful sunrise and inspirational post from Sue.
“I can’t remember ever actually watching a dawn,” said my son in a plaintive little voice. He had been looking at some of my dawn photos, taken that morning from my doorstep. He …
Source: Town and country sunrise… | Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo
Selfies seem to be so popular at the moment, especially with the young. Now I am not very photogenic and am not that keen on having my picture taken at the best of times. My daughter, however, is just the opposite!
She loves to take selfies whenever we go anywhere and very often tries to get me in on it as well. When one of my best friends got married last year Miss Hap took a load of selfies at our table. I ended up being in several of the shots, either stuffing myself with food and looking like Bessie Bunter, or having some sort of gormless expression on my face. (I know that might be normal for me but I don’t want her bandying the photos around her friends for their mocking pleasure)!
Now I don’t mind it when she uses one of the funny apps on the phone to scrunch up the face and twist it around a bit so that you end up resembling some evil pixie type of creature as that is really quite amusing. What I do hate though is the ‘Fatify’ app or whatever it is called!
You might have noticed that I am not the slimmest of people, but by the time this app has finished with me, I have gained yet another three chins! Likewise the ‘Oldify’ app, that is hideous as well. Having said that they are all in good fun and thank goodness she sees them as that way too.
In my day, ‘the camera never lied’ but of course now that is far from the truth. We have all heard of these ‘celebrities’ that have photoshopped their already slender bodies in order to shave off a few inches here and there, plus erase some ‘unsightly’ wrinkle, or mark. The end result is a far from realistic image of a supposedly ‘perfect’ person.
Luckily for me, Mr Grump likes a woman with ‘a bit of meat on her bones.’ I am aware that I may have a little too much to be healthy and for that reason need to lose some weight. I do not make a big thing out of it though as I don’t want to make weight an issue which might start influencing my daughter.
My daughter is extremely active and spends loads of time running around, The fact that she is only 14 years old as well, I do not think she should be overly worried at this point about her weight, and thank goodness she doesn’t seem to be. I do try to encourage her to be a little healthier though.
I love this ‘selfie’ of myself and my daughter, it is my favourite picture, despite being a couple of years old now. She has done something to it with an app, but it only alters the colour, it doesn’t add or take anything away. I hope she continues to be body confident, enjoys her youth and natural beauty.
Ron is in charge of the prompt word this week for the Writer’s Quote Challenge that he and Colleen host, and has given us ‘beauty’ to work with. I already had an idea of how I was going to go with this, and the following quote matches it perfectly:
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
– Confucius
When you think of beauty
What is it you see?
The woman with a six-inch scar
From where her breast used to be
The old man at the graveside
Of where his wife now rests
The charity serving dinner
For their homeless special guests
The brightly coloured birthday card
Your children made for you
The moment at a wedding
When the couple say, “I do”
A song heard on the radio
That has blown away the years
The birth of a newborn baby
As it cries its first real tears
The bashed and battered teddy bear
You’ve had since you were a child
The home that you grew up in
The garden now overgrown and wild
When you think of beauty
What is it you see?
The world is full of beauty
Or at least, it is to me.
Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
― Roald Dahl
This week for Colleen and Ron’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday challenge we have been given ‘magic’ as our prompt. I feel that there are many wondrous and magical things around us , if only we take the time to see it.
Magic is all around us
If only we choose to see.
The first cry of a baby
Delicious honey from a bee
The beauty of the countryside
In the flowers and the trees
The secret little kingdoms
That dwell beneath our seas
The sunrise and the sunset
Fluffy clouds that float on by
The aurora borealis-
That lightshow in the sky
The scientific breakthroughs
That helps us cure our sick
Magicians that keeps us guessing
At how they do their tricks
The glistening snowy landscape
Sparkling stars at night
Yes, magic is all around us
It makes our world so bright.
Majestically it stands there
Surveying all it sees
The winter branches barren
Devoid of lush green leaves.
Yet life is still within it
Just waiting for the spring
When its buds start blooming
And the birds begin to sing
In summer comes its glory
When it wears a party dress
Of several different colours
Its beauty outshines the rest
Then autumn comes a-calling
And it starts a slow striptease
The leaves are changing colour
And are dropping in the breeze
This is the work of nature
Of death and then rebirth
The barren and the beautiful
The treasures from the earth.
In the dark night sky,
silver-blue moonlight peeks through
Ethereal glow
We have had a bit of an Indian summer over here in the UK, and it is still pretty warm. In fact, Miss Hap and I went for a walk about an hour ago and came back roasting!
It is wonderful to see some roses in full bloom in the garden, and there are still some to follow.
I thought they deserved a Haiku in their honour.
October roses
beautiful and delicate
bring joy to my heart.
Majestically it stands there
Surveying all it sees
The winter branches barren
Devoid of lush green leaves.
****
Yet life is still within it
Just waiting for the spring
When its buds start blooming
And the birds begin to sing
****
In summer comes its glory
When it wears a party dress
Of several different colours
Its beauty outshines the rest
****
Then autumn comes a-calling
And it starts a slow striptease
The leaves are changing colour
And are dropping in the breeze
****
This is the work of nature
Of death and then re-birth
The barren and the beautiful
The treasures from the earth.
This is a poem I wrote some time ago, that I thought would fit the bill perfectly for my understanding of a vignette, the task for today’s Writing 101 course.
Thanks to the wonderful Ronovan for this week’s prompt words of ‘rise’ and ‘save.’ Mr Grump also contributed by giving me the subject as I was going to write this Haiku first:
“I need a pay rise”
“Forget it, you are fired!”
One way to save cash.
Instead, I have gone with this:
See I am not negative all the time!
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