D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Elephants In The Hydrangias
Wed May 04 2005

Are we having a little trouble with notifies?

Or is it just a slow day at Dear Diary?

I have been very DOMESTIC today.

It is one of my therapies.

Aromatherapy
Psychotherapy
Physiotherapy
Chocolatetherapy
Domestictherapy


Simple

I will have photos of the latest bag, made special order for a special family member in her own personal favorite colors. But it is still damp and is being shaped with my high tech shaping equipment. (A 2 pound bag of pinto beans, and a big wad of plastic bags)

Writing Group tonight. I'm all prepared. We had to take our essay from last time and re-write it using another point of view. I had the dickens of a time with it too.

We were supposed to write in the immediate.... thusly: I walk to the door. I look out the window. I watch elephants eat my hydrangias.

I have never felt this kind of writing was at all "natural". I intend to hear a lively discussion about it.


8 Comments
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    Write about your bags.. You do that really fine.. and in the immediate.. as it dries.. the stuffing. etc
    See?
    Elephants eating your hydrangias
    Hope they don't get sick!
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    And I'm sure part of the liveliness will come from Yetzirah.

    I agree. I don't like the present tense writing. Unless you're writing dialogue for a play, or somesuch like that.

    Shalom
  • From:
    InStitches (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    Only one therapy? I was certain your day had been far more entertaining.

    Your morning begain innocently enough. You lit a vanilla candle for a little Aromatherapy to rid yourself of the chocolate craving that has plagued you for days. You would have tried the vanilla on a bandaid trick, but the candle was far more aesthetically pleasing. Unfortunately, vanilla did not do the trick and now you were hungry so you whipped up a pan of brownies for some much needed Chocolatetherapy.

    While the brownies were baking you were feeling a bit restless so you engaged in a little Domestictherapy by tidying up the kitchen and perhaps a few other places. The brownies now being perfectly baked and ready to eat set the stage for a perfect afternoon to engage in some combined Chocolatetherapy and Physiotherapy so you sat down to finish the newest felted bag.

    Once the newest creation was shaped and sat drying you realized you were still in need of a little more therapy to make it through the day so you ran a nice bubble bath so you could get in a Psychotherapy session with Dr. Rubber Ducky.

    Relaxed and refreshed you headed out to your writing group confident that the elephants you were watching eat your hydrangias would soon move on the the neighbor's snowball bush and leave you in peace once again.

    Am I close?
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    I like the sound of the Chocolatetherapy! I may have to get me some of that!
    Alli
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    Have fun tonight. ;-)
  • From:
    Kedar (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    hey there cutie all those therapies I am truly floating away just reading about them
    love
    kedar
    ps I think elephants eating hydrangias is the most natural thing in the world
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu May 05 2005
    Yes, ma'am, they are indeed hollow. If you encounter them again, I highly suggest picking them. Once home, cut them in two and soak them over night in salt water (to kill the little critters, ya know ;)). To prepare them batter them in egg, milk and saltine crackers crumbled up just as fine as you can get them, then brown them in butter. Buen Apetito!
  • From:
    ImNotLisa (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri May 06 2005
    mmmmm chocolatetherapy. I'm in need of that myself. Though I did just indulge in some sockyarntherapy which is nearly as good and not quite as fattening. Plus, I can still have the chocolate. :o)