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January 17, 2018
January 16, 2018
Dark Matter
I just got my KDP newsletter letting me know that I can now run KDP giveaways on Goodreads. A giveaway sounds like a great way to kickstart 2018. Apparently, those giveaways aren’t free, but I remembered that Smashwords allows free giveaways via coupon, so, dear readers, here’s a coupon for 100% off the price of “Dark Matter!”
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January 15, 2018
Beautiful Jesus
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Beautiful Jesus
I love you Lord
In quiet moments
I praise you Lord
(I want to spend) All of my days (are spent)
Singing your praise
I love you
(Beautiful) Jesus
The light of your face
Guides my feet
Lights up my path
In your glory and grace
Beautiful
Beautiful Jesus
My all in all
Beautiful Jesus
In quiet moments
Lord, I hear you call
My heart cries out, Jesus
My pain and my sorrow
My soul
To you, Lord, I bring
My beautiful, beautiful Jesus
My saviour and king
My beautiful Jesus
Come quickly, Lord, bring
Your glorious kingdom
(My beautiful king) My beautiful, beautiful Lord
Angels sing to me
(Sweet songs in the night)
Of beautiful Jesus
My beautiful Lord
I want to be with you
I need to be near you
My all in all
Beautiful Jesus
(Poem/lyrics composed January 7, 2018)
January 9, 2018
Eyes on the Sky
Happy 2018!
Hope you’re all having a wonderful year so far and many good wishes for the rest of 2018.
I haven’t posted much because my laptop is somewhat broken, yet again. All things do work together for good, so I’ve been focusing on my photography and tonight, oddly enough, songwriting.
I’m actually quite pleased with how this little experiment turned out and thought I’d share it here as my inspiration for composing all of two songs today came from scrolling through my Writing 201 posts and reading poems I wrote back in 2015. Here’s the song I literally just finished jamming. Yeah!
May 18, 2017
The Journey, The Destination
Hello!
It’s been a year since my last post. How time flies. My laptop went down about a year ago and I switched to a smartphone. I suddenly had no great need for a replacement laptop, but, alas, this blog doesn’t play nice with smartphone posts, so it was just silence on my end.
I’m back. I caved in and splurged on a replacement, mainly because I want to finish the revisions on my novel, “Nothing,” and get the creative juices flowing again. I’m working on the novel, so keep an eye out for updates.
I’ve done some amount of photography while I’ve been away, and even posted my first photography course online. I’m planning to do a few more courses, so keep an eye out for those too! The featured photo is one I took during the downtime and I’ll be sharing others as I go along.
What have you been up to?
Blessings!
April 1, 2016
Triumph & Contrast
God only knows what a day it’s been, but I have a policy of finding a single good thing from each day to celebrate as my “little victory” aka a triumph. No day lacks one.
We’ve been without running water for days, with no end to this plight in sight. After spending literally the whole day seeking water, carrying jugs and jugs of water and generally obsessing about water, my triumph for today is quite simply that I was able to take a photo at all. I’m dead tired, but I don’t want to miss the last day of Photo 101. I dropped some very thirsty (read: wilted) flowers into my hard won water, took a photo, twiddled the settings a bit, et voila, “Triumph & Contrast!” Hallelujah!
(I’ll post a different photo when I’ve had some rest, D.V.).
Photo 101, Day 20: Triumph & Contrast
March 31, 2016
Seeing Double
Isaiah 61:7
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Photo 101, Day 19: Double & Rotation
March 30, 2016
The Edge, Where Cross Meets Sky
Lowe River United Church, Trelawny, JamaicaThis is the tower that flanks the entrance of the Lowe River United Church. The crosses atop the church immediately caught my eye as we made the sharp turn leading up to the church grounds and I knew I was going to have to photograph them, even if it meant crashing a wedding and contorting myself on a dangerously slippery slope.
Mission accomplished, and well worth the effort, if I do say so myself.
The church sits atop what seems to be a very high hill, but which I suspect to be a mountain peak, in the dizzying heights of the Cockpit Country. The crosses don’t just appear to touch the sky. The clouds do indeed cover the top of the building during the afternoon rains.
The churchyard contains several graves with very elaborate gravestones, clearly the work of at least one very gifted artisan. There was also one grave with a rusted metal cross on it that just totally creeped me out, so I took no pictures of those.
I found no information on the history of the church or its architecture. I’m guessing from the concrete slab design that the building itself isn’t particularly old, but the crumbling gravestones do make me wonder. The crosses also piqued my curiosity. The most I could come up with is that they seem to be of Celtic design, but again, don’t seem very old. How odd.
Photo 101, Day 18: Edge & Alignment
Vanilla & The Looking Glass
Vanilla worked surprisingly hard yesterday posing up a storm for my “Glass, Squared” photos for Photo 101. I hadn’t realized that the cats, including the kittens, seem to understand the concept of the camera and actually seem to desire to model and have their pictures taken.
Unfortunately for Vanilla, the juried selection panel vetoed her photos as “too much cat” and picked a more complex photo for publication. As a consolation prize, here are some of her top photos for the day. Isn’t she gorgeous?
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