My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
Daily Cascade
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas " became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one.
Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.
It's great that gardening does so much to refresh and sustain your spirit. For me, it's classical music (mostly); a 'black thumb' barely begins to describe my "skill" with plants.
The narrator considers that all Fridays are unlucky because of religious beliefs related to Jesus' crucifixion and links to witchcraft. The superstition of Friday the 13th relates to Judas as the 13th guest at the Last Supper and the Knights Templar's downfall. The author prefers Sundays for fewer scam calls and hopes for better regulation.
I enjoyed reading the history of Friday the 13th. I'm always impressed by the day when I think of it, but then I tend to forget and carry on as usual. I don't think anything unforeseen has ever happened to me on Friday the 13th. Unless something happens today.....
Prompt:
"If writing is about sharing the stories that matter then designing a home is about shaping where those stories unfold."
Write about this quote in your Blog entry today.
---------- This quote made me think for a while, if only because I've never really designed a home. When we moved to any new home, we just put our already owned things in it and added whatever else was needed afterwards. Our homes were never for show, but for convenience. So, combining this home design thing with writing is new to me, but I'll try to find the similarities between the two.
Let's take writing first. A writer listens closely and tries to notice moments and ideas that may slip by others more easily. Then, writers choose which stories to tell and which ideas they can explore more deeply. For example, those things may be something like a glance held too long, a goodbye said too quickly, a truth discovered late, etc. Still, what I write usually matters to me, although I do believe that a good-enough writer should be able to write something, good or bad, on any subject. In other words, to me, to write is to preserve experiences and to say this event or thing matters enough to be remembered and to be written about.
Alternately, as clueless as I am on the subject, designing a home may also need intention. Only, its language in physical. Home is where I want ease, relaxation, happier feelings, and laughter to be. For that reason, home is more than a shelter or a container for my things. It is a setting for my most ordinary or extraordinary moments. It's where happiness can suddenly arrive when I carry a certain grief or problem from room to room. My kitchen counters become my mixing food stuffs as if I am loading them with confessions and thoughts, the same as I do while writing into a notebook.
After all, both home design and writing can ask the same questions: What matters here? What is it that I want to linger or to stay? Who or what is this setting or seating for? In the same vein, a story offers a sense of belonging, just like a home does with its space. Both hold me, reflect me, and quietly support the life I'm living. One gives voice to meaning. The other gives it a place to sit, to rest, and to grow and learn.
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