Inspiration point (IP)
This Week's Inspiration Point is to take any proverb and let it inspire a story or poem. Expecting cats killed by curiosity, chickens that have been counted prior to hatching, hands that feed you getting bitten, stitches in time and hot irons striking. I suspect it may have been an Inspiration Point in the past, but repetition is the mother of skill, as they say.
Inspiration point
To wash or not to wash …
See that car so sparkling bright? passers-by enjoy the sight, standing there at number 10, washed and polished yet again. Here am I at number 8 in a...
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Beauty awakens the soul to act
“I will finally tell you my big secret,” her mother said. Without emotion, without any embarrassment. As if she were telling her daughter what...
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The Spice of Life
The musings of an elderly observer of what can be seen in other people’s shopping trolleys.
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Guilt washed away
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] One of those thieves crucified acknowledged his guilt and his shame. He’d even reviled, mocking Jesus, but...
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I Am A Sinner
An old poem revamped and re-submitted.
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