Tumbled Words

UPDATE: Total of 720 cans donated via comments on Shelly’s blog and mine, that does not count all the ones donated by other bloggers!

Donating can of food for every comment received on RV Poetry today and tomorrow (12/12/08) - I know, I’m late starting this, BUT, if you go there to comment with even a word, you will see that I am also donating a can for every comment Shelly has received for the Cans for Comments. AND, our son and daughter-in-law are donating a can to our local food banks for every can I donate for both comments on my blog and Shelly’s.

Please comment at RV Poetry, we all need a push to donate more than we normally would, and this is the push I need to help more than I do.

Now, why would I ask that?

You don’t really think I can’t see your charm either by your written words, actions, or the sparkle in your eyes, do you? I can. But the charm I’m asking about is the little trinket that is special to you, or brings you good luck, or the one you are going to find or make and send to Shelly so she can put three each (from different people) in 140 medicine bags for the children that attend Camp Sanguinity. (Shelly has a link to info on Camp Sanguinity!!!)

Now, her other project was craft intensive, but this time if you aren’t a crafter you can still help! You come up with a small non-fragile item that you feel represents something wonderful. (Shelly came up with examples like miniature harmonicas that really play, a shark’s tooth, etc.)

Now, if you are a knitter, sewer, or crocheter, by all means, please, make a little medicine bag! There will be 140 kids….

All the details are here:

And if you are new here and wonder if those cute little charms will be palmed and not get to the kids, you definitely need to rush right over to Share A Square and see all the afghans that went to Camp Sanguinity this past summer because Shelly railroaded* us all into helping her make them with love in our hearts.

*Railroaded in this context is an awesome thing!

Tags: Good Medicine Project, Share A Square

I love change even though I am normally content to just do the same thing repeatedly. Too much of the same old same old in the past 9 months or so has me not just wanting change, but needing change. I tried changing apartments, and we all know where that got me, so it is time for change of a simpler kind - and less expensive.

Blog change seems to be the easiest, most promising - and least expensive change I can make. And, as I say that, I know that when I get my new glasses in the coming weeks, one of the obstacles I face to blogging more, needing new glasses, will be solved and I will want to go back to blogging too much, rather than less than before. But, I, also, know that once my glasses are a done deal, I really need to focus on the business paperwork instead of going back to my old habits of compulsive blog writing/reading.

That is fine. I’m bored with my writing: I am not taking the time to think it out, and while I prefer writing my poems instinctively, my regular posts, including this one, could certainly use a bit more time spent on them.

So:

Tumbled Words will no longer capture the tumble of new words, though it isn’t going anywhere for awhile.

MeeAugraphie will follow suit.

Shh? No! Speak Up will probably remain for occasional rant or raves, if only because I love the template. It is different. Though, the real reason is to have a place for future rants and raves.

RV Poetry was intended to be our blog when we RVed, but when I asked Leon to title it, as we were driving down the interstate near Seattle, he misunderstood its purpose and came up with that title. I loved it and my instincts took over when I wrote the description; it was more in line with who Marcia is than with just RVing and it fits much of my poetry. I know in my heart it is and will be the blog I dreamed of creating, much more so than Tumbled Words or even MeeAugraphie, though that one is a close second.

For now, McLeesBogaert will wait in the wings, most likely to chronicle our travels once we get our RV - or the day Leon has time to write along side me. For now I “broke” it when I upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.

That’s it. RV Poetry is my now and my future. It is NOT all about poetry or even RVing. It is about life lived and the recreational vehicles we choose to enhance our lives, be they RVs, hobbies, or just immersing ourselves in nature or family. It is to quote it’s tagl:…A state of mind: ReVisit, ReValue, ReVise our lives….

So, now to research a new camera so I can post photos for y’all, more like these.

Speaking of change, Hanna appears to want to bypass us (Leon just described her as “a Friday night female looking in her closet for a dress for her date”.) (I don’t make this stuff up.)

Ike, however, already more vicious, seems to have his mind made up and is heading right for us.

On one satellite view it appeared he was trying to catch up with Hanna. I sure hope they aren’t planning a date together in Palm Beach.

Tags: blogging, change