Five Minute Friday:: Ordinary

I'm linking up again to Lisa-Jo Baker's blog where she hosts a Five Minute Friday Party where she invites other bloggers to write freely for five minutes.  This week, the prompt is ordinary.

GO

Ordinary is slightly different than normal.  Right?  Normal is "the norm", what happens on a regular basis, the status quo, perhaps.  Ordinary is...just ordinary?  Reading at Chatting at the Sky yesterday, Emily discussed "just".  Just ordinary implies that it's not enough, whatever it is.  I have an ordinary life, I'm nothing special.  But yet, my normal is entirely different than yours, so what I think is normal or ordinary may be spectacular to you.

Think about it this way.  The Doctor in Doctor Who has a very different normal.  His normal everyday is time-travelling, fighting aliens and saving the world.  Fans watch him long for the beauty of the ordinary, of the grow old, go to work, things we often consider dull.

Ordinary is beautiful.  There's a beauty in the simplicity.  Yeshua looked toward the ordinary people when he looked for disciples.

and STOP

Funny how when I've been in the habit of writing daily now for ten days, topics link together and merge to make some beautiful connections.  I talked about normal yesterday, and Doctor Who the other day.  My brain doesn't disconnect with other ideas when I am given a prompt to write about.  Rather, it connects the ideas all together in a lovely collage of thought.

my normal

The Nester created the 31 day writing challenge.  I'm looking forward to joining in and pushing to the end of 31 days with a breath of fresh air of creativity. To get my writing flowing, I'm writing 31 Days of Being Me.

My normal is different than your normal is different than someone else's normal.  Granted, there are things that connect us all as people, but the things you do for your morning routine are different than mine.

Wacky Wednesday: random things, like TV

The Nester created the 31 day writing challenge.  I'm looking forward to joining in and pushing to the end of 31 days with a breath of fresh air of creativity. To get my writing flowing, I'm writing 31 Days of Being Me.

It's not that I judge a person by his or her tastes in reading or in television-viewing, but I will certainly think of a person a little differently if I know that said person understands where my imagination has been.  I grew up with many of my best friends that existed only in books, or as a TV show.  In sixth grade, I think I started to live in Narnia.  In high school, I roamed the Enterprise with Captain Picard and Data.

being me

The Nester created the 31 day writing challenge.  I'm looking forward to joining in and pushing to the end of 31 days with a breath of fresh air of creativity. To get my writing flowing, I'm writing 31 Days of Being Me.

This afternoon, I get to go to work.  I've mentioned before that I get to play the piano for a part-time job.  Making music is a part of me.  It is so much harder, though, to fit afternoon dance classes into a schedule with a family than it was before kids!  This morning, I've spent my time preparing dinners for the rest of the week.  I notice how nice it is the days I've been really prepared.  I throw the dish into the oven, and let the oven do it's heating magic.  Or, I'll have left something in the crock-pot, and we return home to a completely prepared meal that just needs to be dished out.  Thinking ahead and being prepared not only saves me from that crazy time in the evening, but it saves me from myself.

#31days blogs I'm reading

The Nester created the 31 day writing challenge.  I'm looking forward to joining in and pushing to the end of 31 days with a breath of fresh air of creativity. To get my writing flowing, I'm writing 31 Days of Being Me.

So I'm writing for 31 days, but I'm also reading what others are writing, too.  Here's some links to some of the blogs I started following for their series.  When I read as well as write, I feel connected to the greater community of blogging.

My friend the uke

The Nester created the 31 day writing challenge.  I'm looking forward to joining in and pushing to the end of 31 days with a breath of fresh air of creativity. To get my writing flowing, I'm writing 31 Days of Being Me.

At the end of June this year, I was inspired, no, driven, to buy a ukulele. I picked one out for an early birthday present for myself. I've been playing almost obsessively since.  Today, for instance, after Shabbat services, we came home, and I played. Then, we went to the playground with the kids, and I figured I'd bring my little instrument with me to practice while the kids played. What I didn't bargain for was the little audience I gathered. Within five minutes, a small group of kids gathered around me, really interested in what I was doing.

Five Minute Friday: Write

I'm linking up again to Lisa-Jo Baker's blog where she hosts a Five Minute Friday Party where she invites other bloggers to write freely for five minutes.  This week, the prompt is write.

Write.  Go ahead, write.  What do I care what others think?  But when I write for others' eyes, I do care, I want to please.  I want to know that what I write matters, that what I say is important or different.  I write to write, to tell a story.