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My first bingo!
Dreamwidth eats the Table every time I try to post it. See the original card.
Bingo down the “O” column:
Hope: First posted as Micah (to the Crowdfunding prompt “church,” also)
As a boy, Micah stared at the play of light in the stained glass windows, watching the colors creep over the shoulders and heads and stuffy white shawls as the Priest in his robe talked on and on. Later, he hated closing his eyes to pray. He dreaded-- loathed-- shutting out that colored light that made dust into faeries, or guardian angels, or terrible seraphim. But he learned, and he prayed, until one fearsomely unanswered prayer drove him from the church. As his heart began to heal, he learned to open his eyes again, and his heart became a church he carried with him.
Keeping warm: Story of the same title, part 1 of 7 is posted. (Part two went up yesterday
Charity: “Between the Pages” (This was written to help explain the concept of “demifiction” and may or may not reappear on the recipient's blog or in their writing with edits, specifically, to the name of the church I called “Children of Ruth”. Fine with me! I'm posting this draft here because it answers the fill for this card.)
Guest Lecture: Between the Pages
Begins: 7 p.m.
Location: The Nelson Mandela Lecture Hall
Tonight, Dr. Rolf Williams will compare the roots of the “Religions of the Book”. Dr. Williams will trace the roots of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the Children of Ruth. Directly after his discussion, which will last approximately forty minutes and which will be interpreted simultaneously in ASL. Recordings of the lecture will be available afterward in .mp4, and in WebBraille formats. For audience members who wish a transcript of questions and answers after the lecture, an email signup is provided.
Donations are welcome, and any funds generated will go to the Cady Teen Centers, which promote safe places for LGBTQ teens and their friends to socialize, and discuss their religious questions in a nondenominational, informed atmosphere with no recruitment allowed.
Word count 135
Experiment: Darja's Experiment
Holding one's ground: Photographer's Grounds for the Creative Jam on 14 June 2014
Photographer’s Grounds
The trick she’d found early in her career
for the best, most satisfying landscapes
was not in the way she crossed fearlessly
over the posted barriers, past warning signs,
and knelt to photograph a dizzying spill of rocks.
Or stretched supine along the concrete barrier
to catch sunlight as it bathed the scorched earth
marking a wreck tumbled and burned
down embankments pitted with hidden holes
and unpredictable gullies of fist-sized stone.
She’d learned to hold her breath
as she focused the lens and breathe
out into the image she wanted to capture
whole, enormous or tiny, a world created
in the flutter of a fingertip and snapping shutter.
And in each picture she had learned
the secret of capturing a place was
to love it first and give it a home
within her, alive and eternal, growing more
real the longer she held her ground.
14 June 2014
Dialecticdreamer
Sarah Williams
-o-o-
Bingo down the “O” column:
Hope: First posted as Micah (to the Crowdfunding prompt “church,” also)
As a boy, Micah stared at the play of light in the stained glass windows, watching the colors creep over the shoulders and heads and stuffy white shawls as the Priest in his robe talked on and on. Later, he hated closing his eyes to pray. He dreaded-- loathed-- shutting out that colored light that made dust into faeries, or guardian angels, or terrible seraphim. But he learned, and he prayed, until one fearsomely unanswered prayer drove him from the church. As his heart began to heal, he learned to open his eyes again, and his heart became a church he carried with him.
Keeping warm: Story of the same title, part 1 of 7 is posted. (Part two went up yesterday
Charity: “Between the Pages” (This was written to help explain the concept of “demifiction” and may or may not reappear on the recipient's blog or in their writing with edits, specifically, to the name of the church I called “Children of Ruth”. Fine with me! I'm posting this draft here because it answers the fill for this card.)
Guest Lecture: Between the Pages
Begins: 7 p.m.
Location: The Nelson Mandela Lecture Hall
Tonight, Dr. Rolf Williams will compare the roots of the “Religions of the Book”. Dr. Williams will trace the roots of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the Children of Ruth. Directly after his discussion, which will last approximately forty minutes and which will be interpreted simultaneously in ASL. Recordings of the lecture will be available afterward in .mp4, and in WebBraille formats. For audience members who wish a transcript of questions and answers after the lecture, an email signup is provided.
Donations are welcome, and any funds generated will go to the Cady Teen Centers, which promote safe places for LGBTQ teens and their friends to socialize, and discuss their religious questions in a nondenominational, informed atmosphere with no recruitment allowed.
Word count 135
Experiment: Darja's Experiment
Holding one's ground: Photographer's Grounds for the Creative Jam on 14 June 2014
Photographer’s Grounds
The trick she’d found early in her career
for the best, most satisfying landscapes
was not in the way she crossed fearlessly
over the posted barriers, past warning signs,
and knelt to photograph a dizzying spill of rocks.
Or stretched supine along the concrete barrier
to catch sunlight as it bathed the scorched earth
marking a wreck tumbled and burned
down embankments pitted with hidden holes
and unpredictable gullies of fist-sized stone.
She’d learned to hold her breath
as she focused the lens and breathe
out into the image she wanted to capture
whole, enormous or tiny, a world created
in the flutter of a fingertip and snapping shutter.
And in each picture she had learned
the secret of capturing a place was
to love it first and give it a home
within her, alive and eternal, growing more
real the longer she held her ground.
14 June 2014
Dialecticdreamer
Sarah Williams
-o-o-