Gone With the Wind never goes out of style. Whether you are sixteen or sixty there is no excuse for not reading this amazing saga. Heart break and wonder is what you find in Margaret Mitchell’s novel.
A Southern belle, Scarlett may not be beautiful in the southern sense of the belle but she has men surrounding her admiring her charm and special attraction. She is spoilt and wonderful.
I remember reading this book growing up in Egypt. I was 16 years old and devoured the novel within days. My joy but disappointment when it was over was beyond measure. An incredible story with love, romance, war, survival, slavery and life in the United States during the civil war.
A glorious book to enjoy at any time and any age. A must read for all women who love romance and strong women.
Wonderful!
Write Your Passion Out
An interesting question came my way this week. I was asked how I decide on blog idea writing. Easy, I write about whatever my passion is for the day.
So, my advice for the day: Write on whatever you feel passionate about on the whole.
If your passion lies with books, review and write about them. Share with your audience your love for pulp, share your views and your feelings. If your passion is beaches and swimming, share with your readers all the wonderful things that you experience on sand and water. If your passion is movies then watch the flicks and review them, telling your watchers what to expect and what you think.
In general write about whatever you like and what you love would be even better. Keep it simple, keep it short and sweet. Use beautiful words, the language is full of them.
Did I mention that passion is the key!?
Final Destination Love the Concept!
My husband and I decided to watch all four movies of The Final Destination Saga. Popcorn, diet soda and a comfortable couch and here we were watching the first one. A group of students are leaving for France and one of their friends sees the plane they will be on, crash and burn, seven people get off and die one after the other. Very cool and interesting how they crush, mush and break the bodies in this movie.
The second one, the girl who sees the whole highway explode and she stops in the middle of the exit and refuses to allow others to move and they see the whole thing before them. As before they start dying one after the other. I love these movies, they are sick and wonderful. But, this time they go and find the only survivor from the last movie who is in the looney bin.
The third one is on a roller coaster. You go baby! The wheels come off, people are flung off the cars and rails and again the few who refused to get on are alive to watch. They end up dying one after the other too. Even with a mail gun. Ewww!
The last one called The Final Destination is not the best movie in the world. Actually they kind of lost it with that one and got weak. The ending is great where the damage to the bodies is animated making it graphic and interestingly un-gory but descriptive. My least favorite.
Even though, I am not a horror lover per se, I still enjoy these movies very much. They had a new idea and went with it creating a following that seemed to enjoy and bask in the horror of the destruction and the unpredictability of the predictable deaths.
Some of the scenes unfortunately are downright funny which made me doubt my own sanity and balance. But hey, to each their own and I happen to love those four movies. This is an old review but they are out on video as a collection and worth watching.
Step Out In Faith
For you are our glory and our joy.
1 Thessalonians 2:20
When the Lord exhorts you to do a thing, do not waffle, do not shirk, and do not go about asking others if it is the right thing to do. Step out in faith and do it.
Nothing is more egregious to our walk than this need for constant confirmation that it is the will of God. Step out in faith. Make mistakes. Learn from your own mistakes. It is not the end of the world. If a child learning to walk stops with every step to find out if it is alright to step, he will never walk.
When you walk, fear nothing but the awe of God should fill you that His glory has covered you from head to toe. Step out in faith, with eyes wide open knowing full well that what you are about to do is crazy and impossible in the eyes of the world, then do it. Nothing worth doing was ever easy or normal. Faith is believing what we have not seen, not believing that it is safe so we do it.
Even if you are afraid, do it. Even if it will humiliate you, do it. What is the worst you can do, fail? So what? Do it again and again. Make this the day you take your life into your own hands and step out in faith wherever the Lord is leading. And His mercy and love will cover you mistakes and all, successes and failures. Nothing is worse than ending this life thinking of all the adventure in the Lord missed out on for fear of errors.
Today is the first day of your decision to make it a glorious, exciting life, living in the Lord.
Be A Poet Even In Prose
Always be a poet even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
“I am not a poet” is an unacceptable transgression in prose. If my writing is not poetry to my ears then it is a pile of dung also to others. If the purpose of writing is to elevate and impart ideas and some form of wisdom then it matters that the writing is well done with rhyme and reason.
Supposing that one cannot write meter and scale, it then matters even more to write with beauty and skill. Never assume that the reader is a moron, but that the reader wants entertainment worthy of their time and the money they spent on your pulp or download, as the case may be.
Beauty in words is not only a must but a responsibility of the writer. Choosing the right word in the right place intertwined with humor, situation and surrounding. Mulling over words, choosing them to use or discard is in itself a rhythm and a cadence, balancing the value of it in the scheme of sense, or lack thereof, that it will make.
Never say you are not a poet. If not then reevaluate and become one, choosing your prose with care and pulse. Modulate your words, adjust and modify till the only word that fits in your sentence is that one and nothing else will do. Do not dissect to where it becomes ostentatious and pretentious. Try to stay genuine and true to your writing but still pay attention and revise.
Be a poet even when you write prose. Good advice, good sense.