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A to Z Challenge: G

Ggrammar-folk

noun
Educated people.

GOLDEN SLUMBERS

“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
―Alexander Theroux

Sleeping is nice, isn’t it Dear Reader?

Lying there all wrapped up in your warm comfy blankets, wrapped up in yourself and your own world, wrapped up in your dreams and thoughts as you drift in and out of slumber. The sounds of the world is filtered through your subconscious – distant and hazy, not mattering. Not relevantr. I love sleeping, don’t you?

But it is time to wake up.

Nothing can be accomplished when you are asleep; dreams will remain just that as long as you allow yourself to slumber. Only when we are awake and aware can we make things happen, take control, create change in the world. And trust me:

The world needs changing.

The time for complacency and contentment is at an end, at least for me. We all have different starting points, different qualifications, different opportunities – what we make of them is up to us.

And every one of us has the power to change the world.

 But we have to be awake to do it. The question is, will we remain asleep and let others shape the world for us or will we step up and change it ourselves?

So wake up, get out of bed, go outside.

Use your dreams and your skills and your abilities to change something for the better – for one person or for many, even if it is just in your local neighborhood.

Even if it is just for yourself.

A to Z Challenge: D

Ddog-latin

noun
Barbarous latin, as was formerly used by lawyers in their pleadings; bastardized medical latin.

As promised, I will continue my (ir-)regular posts even through the challenge.

(with the exception of my ‘Word of the Week’ because, well, all of the challenge posts are such words of the week…or day, rather)
So here you have my sketch of the Week:
“Dirt Road”
(to fit the theme-letter)

Dirt RoadSharpies on rough paper, as usual.

See you tomorrow, Dear Reader!

One of These Things First

It’s been a while Dear Reader.

Time marches ever on and as always I get caught up in the day to day. This time around I have tried to be at least somewhat productive amidst it all, with mixed results.

Pain, preparation and procrastination are the main reasons for my absence.

Preparations for what, you may wonder? Well, several things actually; everything from life changes to the upcoming blogging challenge. My ’30 Days to a Clean and Organized House’ degenerated into ’28 Days Later’, my daily writing routine became a nightly ‘why-didn’t-I’ and my art projects are still safely contained in their tubes, crayons and pencil tips – unreleased and unrealized. All of it is waiting for me as deadlines and other tasks approach rapidly.

But first thing’s first!

Tomorrow sees the first day of April and the first of my A to Z blog posts.

I’ve tried to keep the format simple – a hand drawn letter and an obscure or archaic word for each day – with a loose theme of language and writing. In accordance with the challenge I will be posting Monday through Saturday, and instead of adding my regular posts to an already full schedule I aim to add to the above format and will try to stick to whatever the letter of the day is. My main focus will be fulfilling the second part of the challenge, though: visiting the other participating blogs.

So tune in tomorrow, Dear Reader – no April Fools here. Well…except myself, of course.