More from the study of Creative Call

I am behind in posting to this blog I have let the first two blogs go this one seems to b working. Perhaps that is because I’m working through a book. It started as part of a class which was supposed to have lessons posted at least weekly, the last post was a month ago so I’m going on alone.

I finally got the point, my answers were to grounded in reality on these questions I tried to remember back to my childhood. Lets start with a few questions from Exercise 4: Pg 62.

"When I was a child, I had a specific dream of what I wanted to become when I grew up. If this is true for you, what was that dream?"

.....As a child I pretended (dreamed a fantasy) that I was a fairy princess, like Snow White or Sleeping Beauty.

"I remember at least one teacher who encouraged me to be more or do more than I believe I could do or be."

.....For me that would be Miss Caudine D. O’Brien, she taught English and Latin. She was old enough she taught several of my other teachers when they were in School. She was nearing retirement an taught the way they did a generation ago. She looked at what I wrote not just the spelling. (Face it, spelling isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone, very few teachers are forgiving of that.) When Miss O’Brien gave a writing assignment she would correct it and give you a chance to correct your mistakes to improve your grade by one letter. I will always remember one paper she made me redo to eliminate an "and" in favor of a semicolon. She instilled a "can do" attitude and was the first person to tell me there was anything good in my writing.

"To some extent, I prusued my youthful vision into adulthood."

.....When spell checkers were indented I was no longer crippled by the bad spelling, and started to write. Whoever came up with spell checkers should be put in for sainthood.

There were other questions in this exercise but let’s skip ahead to chapter 5, Exercise 4 again, Pg 87. "If only..., I would..."

"If time & money were not an object, I would take myself for..."

.....I had several answers to this. Some were dealing with many others dealing with time.
1. Time: I’d go to Washington D. C. Ands visit the Smithsonian, the museums & historical sites.
2. Money: I’d go to a spa for the works
3. Both: Travel around the world to see, Paris, Rome, Venice, Athens, Egypt, Israel, the great wall of China, Australia, and a lot of points of interest in this nation.

"If time & money were not an object, I would learn how to..."
1. Fly a hot air balloon...
2. Ballroom dance with my husband...
3. Build custom made furniture like my dad did...

"If time & money were not an object, I would buy myself..."
1. A complete wardrobe to replace what I have now.
2. A new house with hardwood floors, lots of shelves and closets all new funature and drapes and carpets

"If time & money were not an object, I would give myself the gift of..."
1. A sub merged hot tub you enter by walking down steps into the water.
2. I would like to find and buy the large P. Buckley Moss painting of a stallion I saw at a craft show when I was in collage before anyone ever heard to consider them while she was unknown, I turned a corner and as looking into the face of a nearly life sized horse a fierce proud animal. I wanted it but it would have cost a full quarter’s tuition. It would cost well over twice as much now.