The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 5,700 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 10 years to get that many views.
A sheep on a break
Taking a break from blogging is nice sometimes, just to give your brain a rest for a few days. But coming back from the blog break is hard. That first blog back…what to say, what picture to use, how to be somewhat witty again. It’s like my brain got stuffed with turkey along with the rest of me. So this is what you have….the official first blog back from the break is a blog about coming back from a break. Brilliant. 🙂
Hope all of you are recovering nicely from your Thanksgiving holidays, and getting back into the day-to-day with as much ease as possible. Or maybe just kick back in your chair like this sheep here and try again tomorrow. 🙂 Slainte, Lisa
“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet, but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” – Victor Robinson
I’m reflective this morning. (uh-oh) Writing all that stuff yesterday in the blogathon has done that to me, and now to you. Blogging has an amazing side effect that is wonderful…it helps all of us to see that we’re not so different as we think we are. We are all created humans that are loved by an amazing God, and we all think and move and breathe and dream and hope. So this post is just a thank you, to all of you whose blogs inspire me and challenge me and help me to see that we can try to understand each other, because we’re all in this ship together. And if we cling onto the Captain, we can try to love each other just a fraction of how much He loves us. And that would be a whole lot. Slainte, Lisa
“Is it time for reason, is it time for trust? Well there’s no them, only us….is it time for reason, has your heart had enough? Is it time to let go and rise above?” – (Rise Above, Spiderman Musical, Bono & Edge)
“Ready for the Climb”
Ready….ready for many things, but mostly for the music
Love, love, love…both the base and the goal
Rocks, barriers, turned ankles, hurting knees
Continuing nevertheless, knowing the worth of the top
Holding onto the hand of the only One who can get me there
Clinging with all my love, and knowing He will never let me go.
(Lisa Lyons, c2012)
Keep climbing this week, and don’t forget to look around and enjoy the view as you go. 🙂 Slainte, Lisa
Some of you know that I’m re-reading “The Hobbit” by Tolkien. Bilbo and company have just left Rivendell, and are heading out past the Edge of the Wild. A description of Elrond, the chief elf at Rivendell, struck me. Tolkien said he was “as kind as summer.” Sometimes words just hit you, and the way that they are ordered and phrased play around in your mind.
As kind as summer:
cooling breeze on a sweltering day
running outside without shoes and coats
splashing in an obliging ocean or pool
sipping a cool drink on a shady porch in a rocking chair
holding hands outside gazing at the stars
having time to lay back and just relax
greens and blues and yellow sun, white puffy clouds
picnics on blankets and looking for four-leaf clovers afterwards
a break from normal
As autumn is here, it’s kind of nice to look fondly back at the summer we had, and the summer we will look forward to returning. Meanwhile, I’ll enjoy the changing colors, and kicking the leaves, and sipping on a warm tea. Slainte, Lisa
….If you have any words to share about “kind summer”, please do. 🙂
Think About These Things 