Tag: dailyprompt-2097

How bout them cookies…

Wiwohka4 Comments
Daily writing prompt
What are you most proud of in your life?
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There are many different emotions I’ve experienced over the years, and to be honest, pride hasn’t been one of them.

I’ve felt humbled, exhausted, grieved, and abandoned, on numerous occasions, but pride… sorry.

I suppose that if I’ve felt any pride at all, it’s in my children. Through all my selfishness, mistakes, and missteps, my prodigy make me very proud. They’ve survived and thrived, despite all the things I did wrong.

Now, before you start thinking that I’m doin the “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I think I’ll eat some worms” song and dance, I’m not! I’m simply saying that parents aren’t perfect, and most of us had no idea what we were doing when they handed us our first baby.

The fact that my offspring are breathing air, have all their extremities still attached, and know not to drink the acid out of a car battery… I should be very, very proud… just sayin!

Don’t forget your cookie…

My Ship Still Sails…

Wiwohka5 Comments
Daily writing prompt
What are you most proud of in your life?
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In the words of Captain Jack Sparrow,

“It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that’s what a ship needs but what a ship is… what the Black Pearl really is… is freedom.”

Now, I bet you’re trying to figure out what on earth I’m talking about, as far as answering the prompt. Lucky for you, I plan on breakin it down for ya! As Castle says, “It’s what I do!”

If we assume that my ship is a metaphor for my heart, or spirit if you want to call it, then the quote might look something like this:

It’s not just flesh, blood and oxygen that sustains this vessel, that’s what the human body needs but what a heart is… what Wiwohka’s heart is really filled with… is freedom!

Now it should make more sense to everyone reading this blog response. I’m proud to say that I’m still alive and breathing, singing His praises, sailing in freedom through life’s many storms, and dangers!

Here, have a cookie…

Getting back up…

Wiwohka12 Comments

Daily writing prompt
What are you most proud of in your life?
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Looking back at the place from which I began, I want to answer honestly and without any comedic fashion this morning. This isn’t a question to just toss a witty retort at, in my humble opinion. I believe that every human heart desires to leave something good behind, something they feel proud to have contributed to those that follow. Even if we know that we may never be an Elon Musk or an Einstein, we still want better for our future generations and have many life experiences that bear remembering, for wisdoms sake.

Personally, I’ve had enough life experiences that don’t bear remembering, for wisdoms sake. It was ugly, dark, and sad… fostering a life that had to play the game with a crooked rule book! Even after all the fallout of my beginnings, after all the train wreck mistakes I made… trying to bring some form of usefulness and purpose out of my history, still holds value within my heart and mind.

My hope and prayer is that whomever looks at my life, or reads about it, takes away one small and important truth of me… I always get back up! God has given me the strength to carry on, to wipe off life’s dirt and debri… some of which I picked up and rubbed in my own face.

There may not be much worth writing about in the annals of History, regarding the valiant deeds of Wiwohka, but it will say that she refused to quit… she just would NOT stop getting back up!

My belief in the One who created me has given wings to a spirit once pinned to the ground by fear, doubt, self loathing, anger and shame. No longer does it matter who did what to whom and why… for me, what matters is the getting back up…

Here, have a flower to brighten your Monday… hugs

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