Ingredient 14 - Forever
Note: If you are new to this blog, pls start at the bottom (blog #1 is on a previous page) or use the 'archives' section on the right of the page to navigate to the oldest blog first, and work your way...
View ArticleTwo-Take Exchange - Swap 3
Hello Basement visitors: Jenn again...back with the third Blog-Swap. I chose the image this week, and my "take" on it is posted below. Aubree (creator and author of Akashic Aisles: The Basement View)...
View ArticleIngredient 15 - Children
Now, there is little doubt that I was thinking of that damned Whitney Houston song when I decided to add "children" to my LONG-ass "List." But, quite frankly, I'm in the sort of mood today that has me...
View ArticleIngredient 16 - Angels of Sin
If I am being completely honest (and why be anything else unless screaming with delight upon hearing Milli Vanilli's Girl, You Know It's True), I have absolutely no idea what was on my mind when...
View ArticleIngredient 17- Mother
During the month of April this year, I interrupted the flow of my listed ingredients to participate in the A to Z Blog Challenge, which was a gosh darn hoot. However, try as I did not to duplicate any...
View ArticleIngredient 18 - Mountains
Ah, yes...Mountains. The sight of them has always quickened my pulse and opened my heart. It was, in fact, nothing but my love for the majesty of a mountain that earned it a place on The List of my...
View ArticleIngredient 19 - "Obsessing again..."
"Dreams and rivers and haunting addictionsLovers and hypocrites and dwindling prescriptionsTurmoil and sunsets and purpose and painOceans and graveyards and secrets and rainForever and children and...
View ArticleIngredient 20 - "Failing"
Twenty ingredients in, and we have "failing." It's gotta come up somewhere on The List. No way around it.Failing is an interesting plot line, and by "interesting" I mean: a totally necessary...
View ArticleGod lust, Blood lust
I interrupt this blog to express the following sentiment inspired by God Wars, as most recently depicted by 9-11-01 and its aftermath....Concrete cocoons break;They shatter,but the spirit within...
View ArticleIngredient 21 - Wanting
Next ingredient: Wanting. Right. Let us get started, then...Rather than launching into a pseudo-philosophical rant about the nature of "wanting," I have decided instead to write a post about things...
View ArticleIngredient 22 - Truth
Oh my! I have to wonder how many people will recognize how Cosmically appropriate it is that "truth" should be number 22 (this, btw, was not by design. When I composed what is now referred to - by...
View ArticleBlog Award (Liebster) Acceptance Speech
I am honored to have been nominated twice for the most prestigious blog award ever, The Liebster Blogger Award. Thanks so much to http://badwordmama.blogspot.com/ AND http://www.pullmyfunnybone.com/...
View ArticleIngredient 23 - Forgiving
Oh boy.This "ingredient" drudges up a lot of...drudgery, both past and present. However, in keeping with my usual expressive stylistic ponderings, I will try to withhold as much of my anger and...
View ArticleIngredient 24 - Bibles
Great. Just after having to face "Forgiving," I now get slapped in my third-eye with Ingredient 24..."Bibles." Peeeeeerfect.So, what I have decided to do with this List item is write it up in prose....
View ArticleIngredient 25 - Waste
Wow..."waste." The implications of this word - sans any cradling descriptive language - are ENDLESS. In trying to go back a decade to breach the high security network that is my brain, I found myself...
View ArticleAnother Blog Award that verifies my Awesomeness!
Firstly, A BIG shout out to Menopausal Mother for recognizing how awesome I am (seriously, if you guys have not already checked out her blog, you must do so THIS INSTANT - after you're done reading...
View ArticleBlog, interrupted - LRRH
Right now I don't feel like dealing with "The List." Right now, "The List" can suck it. It's been interesting to take on a written inventory of skeletal parts that I believe make up so much of the...
View ArticleThe 26th Ingredient - Torture
Note: If you are new to this blog, you may want to first try Cooking without a Spoon (the List referenced can be found here ). You will likely find the flow of descriptive language and metaphorical...
View ArticleI am Epic and Awesome: Part Duex
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Not only did I just get another blog award, but word on the street is that it was named after me! See for yourself...In case you don't know, my Native American name translates to...
View ArticleIngredient 27 - Living
This post has been interesting to write...an unintended experiment, if you will (and even if you won't). As it happens, the "ingredient"Living showed up at a time in my life when every day has been...
View ArticleIngredient 10...OCEANS
Testimony. Glorious and true. Reflecting every image of God, attesting to lunar scripture and solar urges, made as one and likened unto a kaleidoscope I dreamed of in my infancy. I walk along, my...
View ArticleIngredient 11 - graveyards
Before I delve into this somewhat personal tale, I want to preface it with a wee bit of information that will be relevant a little later on, as the story unfolds. I love dandelions. I have an eye for...
View ArticleThe Two-Take Exchange: Take Two
Welcome to Aubree's "Basement." It's a pretty cool hangout, which is why I, Jenn - fellow blogger and very good friend of the magnificent Aubree, happily engage in a weekly blog swap with her. She...
View ArticleIngredient 12 - Secrets
Secrets. We tell them, we keep them, we seek them, we ignore them, we let them down. We all have our own secrets that we entrust to no one (unless you are lucky enough to have someone in your life...
View Article"Ingredient" (Lucky Number) 13 - RAIN
It is actually incredibly appropriate that "rain" should show itself as the 13th "ingredient" on The List, because what I am getting ready to share with the world (well, like .0000000000000001 % of the...
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