Morning Magic.
Apr 12, 2008 Photography & Digital Art
During most early Florida mornings, dew forms on the sleepy shapes all around us. Our chilli pepper red Saturn and the two-tone gray rocks of our front garden, on the door and across still blades of vibrant green grass.
Most often at this early, you’ve no doubt just left your sheets for bed, showered and are readied for work. The linens on your bed still warm from deep sleep, the pillows still indented with your slumber-filled head. It’s when you’re in between your front door and car door, maybe your coffee is in hand or your keys and you’re still forcing bleary eyes open–the zinging of bustling cars hurrying off to work the grind behind you–that you notice it.
Despite all the jangling noise of car horns, engines revved, brakes squealing? There’s this invisible blanket that still remains over the earth this early in the morning, a covering for a world still half-dreaming, and perhaps that blanket is the very dew you see shivering on the hood of your car.
Getting into your car in these dewy Florida mornings can be like stepping into another world. When you shut the door, you leave the harsh cadence of sunrise rush hour traffic behind you. It becomes muted, background static to the mini-world of the inside of your car. All the windows have been covered by condensation. Little droplets splattered all over glass which reflect to you the glorious colors of the sun behind miniature palm trees. Maybe you press your brow to the glass for a split second just to watch all the hundreds of small mirror worlds reflected to you in the morning dew.
Maybe, for just a moment, magic exists for you before the hustle of everyday muscles through.
Tags: life, reflection, Writing
Triond: getting paid for my content, the virgin attempt.
Mar 30, 2008 Computers and Internet
We all know I’m not the world’s finest writer. I sentence fragment and splice as well as forget punctuation all the time but I can tell you what drives me nuts and keeps me from reading a blog and becoming one of those rare loyal readers we bloggers keep hearing about.
So I wrote an article about Five Reasons Why You Can’t Keep me as a Reader and submitted it to a website called Triond.
I’d recently discovered Triond via a random Stumble. Triond is a website for all kinds, genres and skills of writers to submit their writing and get paid 50% of the revenue generated. Of course, that depends on how popular the article becomes and how many people read it. So far, I’ve already one curmudgeonly response! I’m moving on up, baby!
It’s been fun writing until my face falls off, again. I haven’t spent this much time hammering away at the ol’ ivories in a very long time. Maybe it won’t make me perfect, it probably won’t make me amazing or breath taking either, but it’ll certainly help me grow and find my voice. That’s always a good step in the right direction!
Tags: baby steps, Writing
