Pulling Deep Down from the Pensive

This week began the segmented essay for English 226 and I had writers block, I just could not think of anything to talk about.  So, I just started writing, not knowing where I would go.  I started writing about my grandparents and my family working at my grandparents farm.  Ended up bringing back memories that really took a toll on me emotionally.  Assignment draft finished on time, but  I’m still hurting over what I guess I had buried for awhile that being how much I miss my grandmother.  She died eight years ago the three days after my Dad passed away.  Grief is a funny thing, for I know now that my grief for my Dad, I worked through, but not for my Granny.  Next week during Thanksgiving, I plan on visiting her grave and take some flowers.  She loved daisies the most.  They are a common flower for such a remarkable women, she never had fancy clothes, she sewed her own, nor any jewelry other than a plain wedding band, it wasn’t her style.  The family bought her a circlet broach with all the grandchildren's birth stones that she wore on special holidays.  She was proud of it not for its monetary value, but because of what it represented, her accomplishment for bringing us, her grandchildren, into the world.

I apologize for being so melancholy, but my grandmother told me many times, when we were alone working together on the farm that I  wore my feelings on my sleeve for everyone to see.  Thank you, Granny for helping me, be me.

Not the Last Pensive

This blog is the last for my English 226 creative writing class hoorah; however, I have enjoyed doing it so much that I plan to continue.  Before creating this blog I thought it would be difficult, but turned out to be simple.  I am thinking I might learn how to tweet, and create a MySpace page…Oh my! 

In another class I had to create a sonnet about LSUS, so here it is:

At LSU Shreveport I doth attend
A devotion to reading, writing, and thought
Sweaty brow furrowed to comprehend
Seeking better employment to pay for that bought
Comparing dates, long past, to present in history
Hoping one day to teach and fill young minds
Finding turning points by others a mystery
To paddle not misbehaved teenage behinds
Spending my time at LSU Shreveport
To endeavor to learn more each day
Seeking knowledge and things of import
In hopes of earning a higher pay
My goal to graduate at LSUS
To earn my degree will make my success

I wish everyone that has followed my blog best wishes and may God bless you in all your endeavors……….

Pulling from the Pensive

This week started with me having 18 shots in my mid-to-lower part of my back.  The lumbar in my back have degenerated over the years, and the shots are part of a procedure to see if the nerves that come from my spine can be burned (severed) to alleviate my pain for 4 to 6 months.  This weeks test was unsuccessful and I will have another next week. I have  been on heavy pain relievers, and still am.  Please forgive me if my writing goes wild!

I am not trying to make this weeks blog so negative, but it seems that I am headed in that direction.  My wife and I went to see “The Fourth Kind,” which was somewhat entertaining.  I you liked “The Blair Witch,” and the new “Paranormal Activity,” you will probably enjoy seeing it. I am a SyFy buff, I watch “Sanctuary” and “Star gate Universe”.

My yard has a bunch of leaves that have fallen and I plan to rack them and put them in my compost pill.  I love today’s weather especially after getting so much rain in the past week.  I have some pecans that have fallen, but not many.  The rain prevents them from drying in the shell and makes them hard to pick out and the taste not as robust as I like.  Ben, my son, lost there game last night, so he is down in the dumps.  Until next week…