As I turned onto my street Saturday afternoon I looked up and saw a bunch of balloons snagged in the branches of a giant tree. I thought it was a sad fate they got caught so close to the top, just out of reach of floating away untethered. I started filling in the back story as I drove past; maybe some busy lady hurrying into the mansion earlier that afternoon with her arms full of cupcakes and other packages for a birthday party had accidentally let them slip through her fingers as she juggled everything inside...
I find myself caught up in the middle of stories like this all the time, explaining the scenes that fly by my window that I'll never have the ending for. Not that I want to know the real story anyway. I read in a book somewhere once that our reality is made by how we tell our story. Isn't that so true? I like mine with lots of surprise twists. In the end I think some daring squirrels will unleash those balloons and go for a joy ride.
Very fitting then that my Market Monday feature is an Etsy shop aptly named,
Between the Lines, selling sweet bookmarks with lots of charm 'for books and their lovers'. I first came across her shop after reading her blog,
a serenade for solitude, mistaking an image of one of her bookmarks for jewelry because it was so delicately detailed. You should definitely go check them out!
Cassie has been kind enough to give one of you a
bookmark today. To enter to win, leave me a comment by midnight tonight with the title of your favorite book {It can be an all time favorite, or your right now favorite.} I'll announce a winner tomorrow morning.
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! xoxo
Happy Valentine's Day, SushiCat!! I just saw your post and thought I was too late to enter because it's past midnight, but then I realized that YOU posted this after midnight tonight too and the contest is on valentines. So I'm not too late after all. :-)
ReplyDeleteSo then for my entry, my favorite book is 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! xoxo
Wow, RC1, don't think I have heard of that book before. Sounds totally dude-like.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book is "The Black Rose" by Thomas B. Costain, a great British writer. I know...totally dudette!
I have lots of favorite books, they each inspire me in different ways. I like The Chronicles of Narnia for religious symbolism, Anne of Green Gables for romance, Harry Potter for laughs, Fablehaven for adventure, and Lord of the Rings for heroism. But if I really had to nail it down, I'd say my favorite book is "No David". It's a picture book for kids, but it's genius!
ReplyDeletei had a comment all typed out and just as i hit "post comment" my internet failed. gah! but the gist was, that i'm just like you. i love to think up all sorts of stories and i never want to know "the truth." it fits with my world view too, in that i believe everything is relative, it all depends on how you look at it. in therapy, i work with helping people learn to view things in new ways. it's amazing how just a slight shift of the mind makes massive differences in their level of happiness.
ReplyDeleteso anyway, here's wishing you lots of dreamy stories this week!
random.org generated winner for me because I would never want to have to pick - The winner is....{drum roll}.... Kimbirdy! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Kimberdy!!
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