Gratitude

This is "30 Words Thursday" and to honour Thanksgiving, I created a poem about gratitude and created some collage quote pages.

Gratitude

Giving thanks

Should be a way of life

Not just at Thanksgiving

But daily.

Cultivating an attitude of gratitude

Improves health.

So,

Count your blessings

Keep a journal.

Say thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving!

30 Words Thursdays

This huge pile of snow across the  is typical on our street. It inspired this poem:

 
                                              Too Much Snow!

Too much snow
No where to go
Snow piled higher and higher
Six feet in places
Narrower streets
Wiarton Willie says six more weeks
Please spring! Come back soon!

The premise of 30 Words Thursdays is simple...

Take an image (preferably one you shot, or have permission to use).

Write 30 Words about it. No more. No less.

Post it each Thursday.

Add your link to the InLinkz on my 30 Words Thursday post.
(InLinkz code will be open for one week.)
Enjoy seeing what others have captured by visiting them and leaving a comment.

30 Words Thursday /WOYWW

After several weeks of no gelli printing, I was able to indulge yesterday. There is something almost magical about creating gelli papers. Fingers covered in paint, beautiful patterned papers and my worktable covered in drying papers, ready for the next stage of creating.
The papers inspired this poem for 30 Words Thursday:

                                                 Painted Papers

                                                 Painted papers
                                                   Like magic
                                          They create themselves
                                             Patterns emerging        
                                             Colours blending    
                                        Flashes of blue and orange
                                      Green, yellow, pink and purple
                                         Covering the worktable
                                           Ready for more art.


Also linking with:

WOYWW

Gelli Party for January at A Colorfyl Journey

30 Word Thursday

                                                            Wedding Day

                                                           Young love
                                                          Frozen in time
                                                      Their lives together
                                                         Ahead of them
                                             Children, moves, change, suffering.

                                                     My parents in 1950
                                                 United on their wedding day
                                                Smiling, hoping, dreaming
                                                    Of their marriage ahead.



This photo is one of my favourites of my parents. They look so young. My mom was 21 and my father 27. He was a widower with a young son and my mom would take him on as her won and then have 4 more children. She was only 43 when my dad died and raised her children on her own, never remarrying.



At Treasures Found, a new challenge has been issued:  30 Word Thursdays

The premise of 30 Words Thursdays is simple...

Take an image.

Write 30 Words about it. No more. No less.

Post it each Thursday.