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“Never in a million years!”

Food For Thought? Resistance: Have you ever been asked, by an authority figure, to take on an unwanted task; you did it and it turned out great?   I simply would NEVER have taken on the task I was ‘invited’ to accept, never in a million years! There I was, in a courtroom, being asked to […]

Harvest Moon

  Harvest Moon Dappled cloud, pinkish gray, dress the afternoon’s dull day. Breathlessly the sun arrives, peeking shyly through the gray. “Much too late to warm the day,” seems to say a tender doe. “The day,” mimics, from Madrona tree, a raven black. An eagle soaring, salmon dinner in her clutch –agrees. We too accede, […]

Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay Blanket fog muffled sound. Thick and cold. Suffocating. Cheating eye and ear As my love and I sail silently, Each eye straining to pierce the shroud Which hung beneath the unseen sky. Graveyard silence, smothering In its leaden-gray intensity. Abruptly Nature’s curtain rose, Started, stupefied and stunned were we By the sight which […]

Enthusiasm

Flash of Silver…the leap that changed my world Question #46 Rite of Passage Seventeen –The Helpmate– 1961-1962 I am twenty-eight years old Enthusiasm: Is this form of enjoyment in one’s occupation actually “entertaining”? Can it wear thin…eventually? Back in the very early days of New Zealand television, in the 1960’s, there were several programs imported […]

Imposter Syndrome

Flash of Silver…the leap that changed my world Question #45 Rite of Passage Seventeen –The Helpmate– 1961-1962 I am twenty-eight years old Q. Success due to “luck” not talent or skill? Have you ever felt this unsettling response? How did you deal with it…or did you also become “boring”? The classic example of the imposter […]

Georgia Straits

Georgia Straits Moody and deceptive, Flow the seas of Georgia Straits. Today, the sea is flat and gray Reflecting washed out sun. It’s peaceful, as this moment, The sea appears quite calm. Yet, the wily wind can kick-up Like a stalking predator, Crouched, carefully waiting, Like a wild beast for his kill. The unsuspecting prey […]

Humble Beginnings

Flash of Silver…the leap that changed my world Question #43 Rite of Passage Sixteen –A Little Larger Than Life– 1960 I am twenty-six years old Q. Do you think that you were helped by having to do a job in very humble circumstances? To be on television nowadays is still a relatively exceptional experience that […]

The Vase

The Vase Close beside a wooden cross, stood a vase upon a shelf; A chronicled alliance – God’s creation – symbolized. The alabaster urn, a Virgin vase of beauty, created to encompass and to ever love her Rose. She tenderly enfolded this bloom of love within her; her perfumed prayers ascending gave pleasure to the […]

Potentate

Potentate With breathless joy, a babe, a boy, a son, to early manhood grew, to rule, and reign for all eternity. No earthly king but a carpenter – (which still confounds humanity!) The world had waited long for this Savior’s awesome love, yet, when it saw the depth of it, it scoffed at Him and […]

Dressing for the Part

Flash of Silver…the leap that changed my world Question #43 Rite of Passage Sixteen –A Little Larger Than Life– 1960 I am twenty-six years old Q. Does “fashion” matter? What is the best use of wearing clothes “suited” for the occasion? For those of you who have followed this blog since its beginning or who […]