Gratitude Monday -- Peas

Garden Goodness

The peas are ready.
They are tasty.
We prefer them raw.
For this, and other garden goodness, I am grateful.

Photo-Finish Friday -- Lake Sunset

Premier Lake, B.C. at sunset.

Two Sentence Tuesday -- Rewrite Rewritten

Wyoming. The Virginian is set there.

I finished rewriting BloodLovers Friday night. My husband had been away on a job for a few days so I spent a few nights all alone up late writing about vampires.

It was okay while I was doing the writing, but I did have the occasional anxious moment while getting ready for bed.

Said manuscript isn't really scary, but it sets one's thoughts on a particular path enhanced by a dark and lonely house.

I finished. His job was cut short due to rain and he was home Saturday. It all worked out.

Two sentences from BloodLovers:

" 'But those moments when the ache dancing inside me is about to be met… I take my prize, my blood lover in my arms… my body cries with need as I sink into the warm flesh. I feel the throbbing vein in my mouth as I hold the quivering body to me.' "

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I've been reading The Virginian.

I vaguely remember the television show that was loosely based on the novel and I'd always meant to read the book.

It's been on my TBR pile for a few months now. I am glad I finally got to it last week. The characters are interesting, the setting intrigues me, and it is well-written.

Author Owen Wister started western fiction. From what I've read so far I am glad he did.

Two from The Virginian, A Horseman of the Plains by Owen Wister  (Penguin Books, 1988):

" 'I wasn't right convinced till I kicked him off and you gave that shut to your eyes again,' said the Virginian.

Once more the door opened.' "

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Gratitude Monday - Thinking

I am grateful that I can think.

Specifically, directed thinking such as meditation and hypnosis. For readers who don't know this I am a certified transpersonal hypnotherapist.

I meditate or do self-hypnosis often. If nothing else the quiet time is great. It is a time of rest and shutting away the world.

This is good.

Often I'll do a hybrid, that is I listen to my taped self-hypnosis relaxation and then let my mind have at it. I like to see it will come up with as on occasion it has been useful.

About a week ago I was letting my mind out to wander and it brought back something useful. It formed a picture, a manifestation of all those miserable nagging voices that make fun of me and remind me that I'm not good at certain things like playing guitar.

The manifestation's name was Montgomery and he was dressed like a fancy 17^th  Century French fellow: moustache, hat with feather, blue clothing, and sword.

One of my guides told me to start telling him off and he'd get smaller.

I did. It was fun.

Montgomery shrank until he made Tom Thumb look like a giant. He ran away screaming.

Now when I strum my guitar and the reminders start I see Montgomery fleeing and I laugh.

I am grateful that I know how to use hypnosis and meditation, that I practice it often, and that if given the freedom, my mind will construct the darnedest things.

Photo -Finish Friday -- Carved in Stone

Sorry I can't recall for sure, but I believe this in in the ruined citadel of Kasr Ibrim, Egypt.

Two Sentence Tuesday -- A Few Extra Words

The last week or so has been good for rewriting.  I've managed to get quite a lot done and am currently happy with the results.
What more could one ask?
I'll cheat a wee bit and offer up a bit more than two from BloodLovers:

"A sound came from her grandfather that Eury could only think was a sigh. His voice lowered. It was almost sad.

'You hate me so much son, that when you married you took your wife's name.' "

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I don't recall why as I write this, but I've felt the need to crack open the apocrypha and read about Enoch.
It's been interesting to read his trip through the levels of Heaven and what he found there including the creation of the zodiac.
Here's a bit:

"I have put every man's work in writing and none born on earth can remain hidden nor his works remain concealed.
2 I see all things."
(Chapter L. verses 1&2, Secrets of Enoch, The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden. A Meridian Book, New American Library, 1974)
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Gratitude Monday - Computer

I'm happy to have a computer.
I write with it and store my photos on it.
With it and an internet connection I can visit instantly, see what's going on in the world, and walk away when I want without being impolite.
For all of this I am grateful.

A computer screen and a disembodied hand on a mouse. That's all it takes to keep in touch. And a herd of overworked hamsters somewhere making it all happen.