Kudos to my husband, Ken, for redesigning the look of my blog(s), making them smoother, sleeker, and kitchier (don'tcha think?)! I am even more inspired now to write each day....let's hope the motivation keeps up. Days have a way of filling your time before you want it to be filled....but certain things must be prioritized. For me, those things include daily time with God, family time, and writing. If those three things exist in my 24-hour-day, everything else fits so seamlessly into place.
I'm currently smack dab in the middle of a Southern fiction work recommended to me by my fellow home group girls, entitled "The Secret Life of Bees." Upon hearing that the author, Sue Monk Kidd, has ties to Anderson (and South Carolina as a whole), I delved right in to find it at my local library, and then delved into its pages. Though I am only 110 pages into it, I have found thus far that I am hooked, helplessly hooked. Overlooking the bad language and cruelty that flashes up now and then, I am taken aback at the lush, emotion-evoking word pictures that this lady paints in her pages. I mean, the scenes seem to drip with life off of the pages and into my brain. It is an easy read....by that, I mean it doesn't require as much concentration and brain power as some other books do....but it is still a notable read due to the graphic intensity with which Kidd writes. Though I was not an abused or abandoned child, and though I never ran away from my home, I still see ...
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