5 posts tagged “qotd”

When was the last time you drove out of town?

Renee and I went to the lake to fish last Sunday after I got off work. I first drove to Mosquito, but it was too crowded. I then drove out to Pymatuning instead and went to the Poplar Grove. There were only a couple other people there. We found ourselves a spot without too many trees to get tangled in and we set up.

After a little while, a little girl came over to us. "Excuse me" she said. "My dad and sisters and I are leaving and we want to know if you'd like to have our worms". It was adorable, and I couldn't say no to a little girl, so I took the worms and graciously thanked her.

I don't have a problem with baiting a hook. It's not the ew-factor. I hooked one and cast my line out but when I brought the line back in I found out that I lost it. As I went to put another worm on my hook, I pressed the hook against one of the worms and saw it writhe around and I just felt terrible. I couldn't hook him. He didn't do anything to me.

I apologized to him about his friend. He was still. Then I asked him to wiggle if he wanted me to set him and his buddies free. He wiggled. I talked to him a little longer before I got up to dump him by a tree. I told him about the time in grade school when I had to make an educational board game on the earth worm.

All this while, Renee is staring at me as though I should be institutionalized.

After I dumped them, I stood up and was straightening myself out when I saw a man whom I assumed was the father of the girl who gave me the worms. He totally caught me dumping his worms out, and I instantly felt bad.

I thought they were gone!!

Oh well. I'm glad I set them free. When we left I checked on them, and they had all successfully burrowed themselves back into the earth.

Poor little guys...

What was the last great epiphany you had?
Submitted by Ross.

In the past several months I've had a lot of mini-epiphanies that I expect will come together in the end as one great epiphany. Every day I continue down these fluid paths of thought that change direction in a moments notice. So many things influence it. Peoples actions and words, the way I feel at the end of the day. The way I feel after something happens, especially if I feel differently than I would normally expect to in regards to a situation.

I just feel like I'm catching on. I've known these things for what seems like forever, but now that so much of it is happening to me in the present, I finally get it.

It's a bittersweet thing. The disappointments aren't as earth shattering. The fractured heart can mend. I feel removed enough from things to see them as they really are, and I'm grateful for that.

I still have to remind myself to take things slowly. One day at a time, it's never as bad as you initially think it is.

I see people for who they really are, I'm not as naive to their true intentions. I always will be somewhat naive to an extent, because it's just my nature to be open and accepting. I trust people too easily and I let them in too far, too fast. 

But I'm beginning to learn where to cut them off. I'm beginning to realize that if you have to think about it, I'm better off without you.

Here's one for the ladies:  What's in your handbag right now? 
Submitted by Kadeeae.

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What are you most grateful for in your life right now?
Submitted by Becca-Pink.

My friends. My family. My health. Jews. Penguins.

Just kidding about those last two, sort of.

What work of art (film, book, record, whatever) changed your life?
Submitted by bodhibound.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

Elizabeth Gilbert

 This book did more for me than I care to explain at the moment