I love California! It’s not too hot (sorry, Florida), and it’s full of fun things to see — we went to Yosemite on Saturday, but sadly, only got a hazy view of El Capitan (and not because we’d been in the car for 3 hours with small children) because of the smoke from the first in NoCal (I’m talking like a local now). Went to Pier 39 on Tuesday – tried to get IN to Alcatraz (In -get it?) but the tickets we all sold out. So, here’s a picture of me from the pier, looking from afar. I kept imagining…what must life have been like for those prisioners, seeing life so close, yet so far. Like a piece of chocolate you’ll never get to eat. Then, I headed […]
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I’ll Get You, My Pretty!
My husband and I were talking recently about addictions. Why, if we have the resurrection spirit of the Living God inside us do we have such a hard time overcoming addictions? It’s like, we look the addiction in the face and it seems so huge that we can’t slay it. It’s bigger than us, stronger than us, outthinks us and sabotages us. It crushes us into submission. An addiction is our own personal a villain. Think about it – when you consider taking it on, do you stumble, do you wonder how you’ll accomplish it? Does it feel undefeatable? Does it feel personal – especially when you look at other people who aren’t attacked by that addiction? But I’m not here today to talk about addictions. Or even the fact […]
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I had a grade school villain. Her name was Karla, and she, like most bullies, had been held back a year in school and seemed as if they came out of the womb fully grown. She had a gang – her little brother and a few other cling-ons who were fed by her power, and she owned the swings. I loved to swing. Especially the old kind of swings that hang from chains. In our playground, we could tie one of the set of three to the side, and then play a game with the other two – the one in the middle would swing in a circle, gathering momentum and at the exact right moment, the other “swinger” would position themselves in the middle and the two […]
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Who are some of the villains that have stood out as scary to you? For me, it would have to be, hands down, Alan Rickman, all the way across the board. Remember him? Die Hard – Hans Gruber (the mastermind thief), Robin Hood – the Sheriff of Nottingham (Ewww!), Harry Potter series – Severus Snape. I know he’s played a few good guys but the guy embodies BAD so well, I just love to watch him. Why? Because he makes you BELIEVE he’s bad. We know he’s out of his mind and crazy, and we don’t know what to expect except….Badness. We’re going to be talking this week about what makes a great villain – 4 key components (and there are others, also, so we’ll be starting a thread […]
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