GO ASK ALICE... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's "A" IS FOR ALICE CHALLENGE...

 

One pill makes you larger 

And one pill makes you small 

And the ones that mother gives you 

Don't do anything at all.

Go ask Alice when she's 10 feet tall.

~

Jefferson Airplane

GUITAR MAN... OMM's GUITAR CHALLENGE...

 Who draws the crowd and plays so loud, 

baby it's the guitar man 

Who's gonna steal the show, 

you know baby it's the guitar man 

He can make you love, he can make you cry 

He will bring you down then he'll get you high

 ~ 

Bread

LIFE ON WHEELS... DIGITTAL WHISPER's ROLLER SKATE CHALLENGE...

Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates 

You got a brand new key 

I think that we should get together 

and try them out, you see

~

Melanie

TOOL MAN... SPA's TOOLS CHALLENGE...

 "To the man who only has a hammer, 

everything he encounters 

begins to look like a nail." 

~

 Abraham H. Maslow

AWAY I'LL FLY... OMM's & DIGITAL WHISPER's BUTTERFLY CHALLENGE...

 "There is nothing in a caterpillar 

that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

~

 R. Buckminster Fuller

EYE ON WASHINGTON... MY SOULS DARK IMAGINATION's WHAT's THAT STRANGE LOOKING BUILDING CHALLENGE...

 I always feel like somebody's watchin' me 

And I have no privacy 

 I always feel like somebody's watchin' me 

I can't enjoy my tea 

(Who's watching me?) 

~

Rockwell

LONG HOT SUMMER... SPA's SUMMER CHALLENGE...

 "What good is the warmth of summer, 

without the cold of winter 

 give it sweetness." 

~

 John Steinbeck

A MAN'S GOTTA DO... OMM's COWBOY CHALLENGE...

 Mamas don't let your babies 

grow up to be cowboys. 

Cause they'll never stay home 

and they're always alone. 

Even with someone they love.

~

Waylon Jennings

CHILDHOOD FRIENDS... DIGITAL WHISPER's RAGGEDY ANN CHALLENGE...

"How simple things had been, 

once upon a time. 

In the era when children 

still played with Raggedy Ann, 

life had been so uncomplicated. 

Or at least it seemed that way." 

 ~

 Christopher Golden

BUBBLE FASCINATION... SPA's BUBBLE CHALLENGE...

 "Life is mostly froth and bubble, 

Two things stand like stone. 

Kindness in another's trouble, 

Courage in your own." 

~

 Adam Lindsay Gordon

BIRD HUNTER... OMM's BLUE & BROWN CHALLENGE...

 "I know you think this world is too dark 

to even dream in color, 

but I’ve seen flowers bloom at midnight. 

I’ve seen kites fly in gray skies 

and they were real close to looking like the sunrise,

 and sometime it takes the most wounded wings

 the most broken things 

to notice how strong the breeze is, 

how precious the flight." 

~

 Andrea Gibson

FRIENDLY FIRE... SPA's CIRCUS CHALLENGE...

 "I am a collection of oddities, 

a circus of neurons and electrons: 

my heart is the ringmaster, 

my soul is the trapeze artist, 

and the world is my audience. 

It sounds strange because it is, 

and it is, because I am strange." 

~ 

David Arnold

ALL THAT JAZZ... DIGITAL WHISPER's JAZZ CHALLENGE...

 "If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, 

Folk is the Wilderness, 

Rock is the Road, 

Classical is a Temple." 

~

 Vera Nazarian

A KINDRED SPIRIT... OMM's REFLECTION CHALLENGE...

 "It is an absolute human certainty 

that no one can know his own beauty 

or perceive a sense of his own worth 

until it has been reflected back to him 

in the mirror of another loving, 

caring human being." 

~

 John Joseph Powell

EXTREME BALANCE... SPA's KEEP THE BALANCE CHALLENGE...

 "To put everything in balance is good, 

to put everything in harmony is better." 

~

 Victor Hugo

CAT WITH AN ATTITUDE... DIGITAL WHISPER's HERE KITTY, KITTY CHALLENGE...

"Women and cats will do as they please, 

and men and dogs should relax 

and get used to the idea." 

~

 Robert A. Heinlein

PERPETUAL BOREDOM... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's STONE ANGELS CHALLENGE...

 "My life is a perfect graveyard

 of buried hopes." 

~ 

L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables

BY THE SEA... OMM's IT's ALL HAPPENING BY THE SEA CHALLENGE...

 maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) 

 and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,

and milly befriended a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; 

 and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:

and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. 

 For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

~

E.E. Cummings

TEA FOR TWO... SPA's HEDGEHOG CHALLENGE...

 "If wits were pins, 

the man would be a veritable hedgehog." 

~

 Frances Hardinge

MERMAIDS ARE HARD TO FIND... DIGITAL WHISPER's UNDER THE SEA CHALLENGE...

 

Under the sea Under the sea 

Darling it's better  Down where it's wetter 

Take it from me 

Up on the shore they work all day 

Out in the sun they slave away 

While we devotin'  Full time to floatin' 

Under the sea

~

The Little Mermaid

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN... OMM's FLOWERS CHALLENGE...

 "The earth laughs in flowers." 

~

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

I FIXED MY SISTER... MY SOULS DARK IMAGINATION's PECULIAR CHILDREN CHALLENGE...

 … Lights will guide you home 

And ignite your bones 

And I will try to fix you

~

Coldplay

RESCUING THE FALLEN... SPA's LADDER CHALLENGE...

"May God bless and keep you always, 

May your wishes all come true, 

May you always do for others 

And let others do for you. 

May you build a ladder to the stars 

And climb on every rung, 

May you stay forever young," 

~

 Bob Dylan

OUT IN THE WILD WEST... DIGITAL WHISPER's COWGIRL MONA CHALLENGE...

 "Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots 

doesn’t make you country; 

Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass heels 

won’t make me Cinderella." 

~

 Kellie Elmore

WILD RIDE... OMM's CRAZY HATS CHALLENGE...

"It is always cruel to laugh at people, 

of course, 

although sometimes 

if they are wearing an ugly hat 

it is hard to control yourself." 

~

 Lemony Snicket