Another Thought...

The difference between a business and a charity, a ministry, a rescue or anything of that sort is often over looked... A business finds or creates a need or a want and then fulfills that need or want while making a profit and sometimes (more often than not) fanning the flames of the need or want through clever and witty marketing. A charity's main goal should be to eliminate the need for itself.

Think about that. Just think about it...

*Note*
I will probably be adding more to this in the near future... This is just part of my thought.

30,000

What a beautiful number. Especially when it's actually less than the number of words you have written! :)

Procrastination

I am very good at avoiding productivity so, here's my procrastination list. These are the things I do instead of whatever (usually writing) I'm supposed to be doing.

1) Facebook. This is probably my biggest time waster. I check it constantly. I stalk people (not really), post pictures, talk to friends, look at stuff for sale in all of the horse groups I'm a part of, etc.

2) I read. A lot. Doesn't matter what genre as long as it's good.

3) I blog. Either here, on my personal blog, or on my business blog.

4)  I watch the "Fall Off" videos on Judge My Ride's website and laugh at other people falling of their horses as long as they aren't hurt. I can laugh because I've been bruised there, felt that, and lived to tell the tales.

5) I watch Mythbusters episodes. Hey, at least it's partly educational. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!

6) I go to the barn and chill with the horses.

7) I stare at a blank computer screen. This happens way too often.

8) I watch TV and movies.

Well, there you have it! Those are my biggest time wasters. Enjoy!

Poetry

As you can tell I sometimes get the urge to try my hand at poetry and so I do. I ply away and see what comes and usually I fail--miserably. I think this adds to my appreciatiation of good poetry because I know that I can never inspire the way others do. I love all the greats, Poe, Frost, and Longfellow, but a poem that has always inspired me with such sweet sorrow, such strong emotion is a poem by one of my favorite actors, James Stewart. The poem is simply titled, Beau. This is what poetry is meant to do. It is meant to make you feel--feel deeply whatever it is the writer is trying to convey and it's only really a success in my book if it makes me feel. I don't want to be told what it is like to be sad or to yearn or to love or to dream, I want to feel it, experience it. Somehow, with his simple, honest prose Stewart never fails to make me cry when I read or hear him read Beau. This is what makes poetry so importent--it's ability to make us feel emotion using the written word. So, I will continue to write poetry--rather badly--in an effort to make others feel the way I do.

This is a video of Jimmy Stewart reading his poem on the Tonight Show:

The Beginnings of a Story

Before a story is a story it is just a random thought.

What if...

I have long been thinking that it would be interesting to write a book or screen play full of anticipation that points to one thing, but then when it all reaches the climax and you are expecting some big thing *BAM* nothing exciting happens. Imagine...

"Forest Halls" A Poem

The trees of the forest conceal great halls
Their trunks and branches form the walls

Leafy limbs reach over head
Lush green moss makes the bed

Delightful dances here commence
The dancers are creatures no one can place in a fence

The air, perfumed by petals so sweet
Intensifies with the mid day heat

As tempting as this place might be
My destination is calling me

And as I trek away from here
I promise to return some other year