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My dearest darlingest wife is a reading specialist in a high school, and she told me about an interesting exercise I thought I’d share with all of you.

What words can you think of to describe a hot day?

Sweaty
Sultry
Sauna
Simmering
Searing
Humid
Heat
Burn
Blaze
Fire

What other ones can you think of?  Plenty, right?

Now, can you describe a hot day without using any of those words?

Perhaps you’ll describe a group of kids playing in the street as a fire hydrant sprays them with water.  Or a dog lying outside, panting tongue dragging across the high grass.  What about a boy leaning in to lick an ice cream cone and finding that his treat has melted almost instantly?

Would you create the idea of an image shimmering over black concrete, or have the very blackness of that tar seeming to bubble off and evaporate?  

What would you do?  You would paint a picture, you would invent a scene, you would create that all important tone: atmosphere.     

You could write, “the day was hot.”  Or you could create a whole world for your reader.

Why don’t you do that now?  In as many words as you want, craft a scene of a hot day, without using any synonyms for the word hot.  Post it as a comment. Leave your name if you’d like.  And your age.  And anything else you want to tell us about yourself.  Create your ideal hot world, and let’s see how inventive you can be.  

I can’t wait to discover what you can do.  I bet it’ll be hot.  

"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."

-- Samuel McChord Crothers

Nature's Imperfections

 

Like a tree, is a relationship

It starts out small, and builds as you go along

it doesn't just appear

it needs help to grow

there's always imperfections

little knots along the way

they seem big, when you focus on them,

when they're up close

as they resolve, you move on

and they seem smaller,

they only make the realtion stronger

as it grows, it may die a little,

lose some bad leaves

but they grow back, or are replaced by new,

better ones

It never stops growing, and can only get stronger,

unless it dies

if there becomes so many imperfections,

so much stress upon it

it cannot survive...

when you've tried all you can

there's nothing left to do

but let it be

but for the tree that dies,

remember to plant a new seed...

nature's creatures only die to make room

nature has imperfections,

but they only make everything in it,

all the more perfect.

You will never accomplish anything if you don’t try .
Sounds simple huh ?
Well not really … it is kind of hard to try when you are afraid of failure.
And for a long time in my life I would always not try .
I knew what I wanted ….yet I was to afraid to give it my best shot.

Well those days are over I have to try  .
I have to give it my all…and if I fall on my ass well at least I know I did so  going for what I want .
Life is to damn short to sit back and watch all my dreams pass me by.
I am better than that  hell we all are better than that .

We just need to realize it .
We need to realize that we are worth  our dreams and go for it .
Yes we might fail ….but trying is  an accomplishment in itself  if you ask me.

So from now on when I see something I want I am going for it .
Yes I know I kind of sound like some  hyped up motivational  speaker right now.
However I am tired of being afraid to fail …..