1. It is hard to keep creative energy flowing in January.
2. Especially when all four of your kids come down with the stomach bug at the same time.
3. I found joy in tending them but I will be so happy when we are all well again… if this is really going to happen, which in the darkish hours I tend to doubt…
4. Is there anything in the world more tasty than a fresh homemade donut? I’d never made one before, so my friend Yvonne invited us all over for a lesson and a party. When the first bite sparkled on my tongue I was smitten. Hard.
5. The world is full of good news and bad news. And many, many words. How do you choose what you listen to?
6. My husband just listened to Jayber Crow on audio and found it stirring and powerful. Now it’s on the top of my to-read list.
7. Especially since the last book I read was a real lemon. What is it with that stripe of classic English literature? The author creates the perfect woman (gorgeous, cultured, spunky, refined) and the perfect man (handsome, muscular, aggressive, and [oh-by-the-way] filthy rich), and places them into extremely compromising situations, from which—having saved each other—they escape with their morality intact but their lives irrevocably one. No one in the world could possibly think of so many exquisitely romantic things to say. Or say them while hanging by one hand off a cliff.
8. (Except, apparently, the novelist, who probably never touched a cliff in his life.)
9. My brother’s T-shirt slogan comes to mind: “Great story, babe. Now go make me a sandwich.”
10. This does not mean I don’t believe in romance.
11. But I prefer the real-life variety.
The random words of Shari are ended, for now. And the sarcastic and weary part of me is fiendishly pleased to see I have eleven observations. This seems to fit.
1. I like this list approach to random thoughts.
2. Each one gets its own significance.
3. Like this. 🙂
Good for you in finding joy tending to sick kiddos 🙂 That’s hard to do! And I’m now wanting a donut 🙂
Your comment about real life romance reminds me of what my Grandma told me once when I was courting my now-husband. “Butterflies in the stomach are exciting and wonderful, but the settled feeling that comes with a long-time marriage is very comfortable.” 😉
I am pretty much just at the beginning of a relationship, and I must say that romance sometimes looks different than I thought it would. Sometimes it just looks like being friends. And I like it like that. It is very comfortable. “Romance” (the way some books portray it) would make me feel awkward and very pressured to always respond in a perfectly romantic way that somehow encapsulates and communicates the true depth of my admiration and affection. And sometimes… a girl just doesn’t have the energy for that. Sometimes she just wants to do a puzzle. Or tell a joke about a camel with no humps. (His name is Humphrey, if you’re wondering.) I like it the “real life” way.
How come the donuts cooking in oil look like they’re already glazed? That is one party I wouldn’t have missed! Yummmm