STEVEN's STUPENDOUS AIRSHIP... OMM's STEAMPUNK CHALLENGE...

 Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun! 

~

 George Mann

HOLD ON TO AUTUMN... DIGITAL WHISPER's FALL CHALLENGE...

 Fall has always been my favorite season. 

The time when everything 

bursts with its last beauty, 

as if nature had been saving up all year 

for the grand finale. 

~

 Lauren DeStefano

KNITTING MOONBEAMS... SPA's KNITTING OR CROCHETING CHALLENGE...

 Properly practiced, 

               knitting soothes the troubled spirit, 

       and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either. 

                                         ~

                                                                                                            Elizabeth Zimmerman

SPIRIT ANIMAL's... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION CHALLENGE...

Whatever you do to the animals 

you do to yourself.

                                                                                                             Ben Mikaelsen                                                                                                                           

 

THE SACRED ROCKS... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATIONS INDIAN SACRED PLACES CHALLENGE...

 America is such a sacred place. 

Everywhere you go in this land, 

our people have been there and they have said,

 “This place is sacred.” 

~

 Charles Alexander Eastman, Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience

HANDLE WITH CARE... OMM's PUT A HANDLE ON IT SHALLENGE...

"Life is a bucket of $#!+ 

with a barbed wire handle." 

~

Jim Thompson

TIME ROLLS ON... DIGITAL WHISPER's SOMETHING OLD & SOMETHING NEW CHALLENGE...

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, 

but follows religiously the new." 

~

 Henry David Thoreau

MY MASTERPIECE... SPA's SCRIBBLE CHALLENGE...

 "A pen went scribbling along. 

When it tried to write love, it broke." 

~

 Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi

THE LION TAMER... DIGITAL WHISPER's CIRCUS CHALLENGE...

 "You can get the monkey off your back, 

but the circus never leaves town" 

~

 Anne Lamott

ME QUIRKEY?... OMM's SOMETHING QUIRKY CHALLENGE...

 "I've realized the quirky things 

that make you different 

are what make you beautiful" 

~

 Lily Collins

TOUCH OF HIS SPIRIT... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's...SPIRT GUIDES CHALLENGE...

 The most spiritual experience of my life

was sitting next to my Father 

holding his hand when he died.

I will never forget that feeling 

It wasn't sadness it was total peace.

It changed forever how I feel about death.

~

DSW

WISDOM OF GANESH... SPA's GANESH CHALLENGE...

 "Ganesh: Mortals refuse most divine offers….

But so few of you accept our gifts, 

even ones you have prayed for."

HIGH-O SILVER... DIGITAL WHISPER's ROCKING HORSE CHALLENGE...

 "Do not confuse motion and progress. 

                 A rocking horse keeps moving 

                but does not make any progress." 

                            ~                           

                                                                                                                   Alfred A.  Montapert

A GOTHIC TALE... OMM's GOTHIC CHALLENGE...

 "Here is another marvy glimpse 

into the gothic basement that I call my mind."

 ~ 

Louise Rennison

THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I SEW... SPA's SEWING CHALLENGE...

 "THIS ONLY HAPPENS WHEN I SEW."

~

DSW

SHELTER FROM THE STORM... DIGITAL WHISPER's STORMY WEATHER CHALLEGE...

 "Learn to dance in the storm 

so when life hands you a stormy weather, 

you just glide through it" 

~

 Ikechukwu Izuakor

MY FURRY FRIEND... OMM's DOGS CHALLENGE...

                                  "If there are no dogs in Heaven, 

then when I die I want to go where they went."  

~

Will Rogers

DON'T TOUCH THE REMOTE... & THE CHIMNEY SWEEP... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's THE QUEEN OF CREEP IS BACK CHALLENGE...

 HALLELUJAH !

The Queen of creep is back just in time! 

I was about to expire from boredom.

Here is my first part of the challenge.

#2      THE CHIMNEY SWEEP...

"Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, 

 Should he run against you, 

then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen 

that it is apt to be soiled." 

~

Anthony Trollope

Prime Minerter

TEA IN THE SEA... SPA's OCEAN CHALLENGE...

 "My life amounts to no more 

than one drop in a limitless ocean. 

Yet what is any ocean, 

but a multitude of drops?" 

~

 David Mitchell

THE WINDMILLS OF MY MIND... DIGITALWHISPER's WINDWILL CHALLENGE...

Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning on an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind

~

Sting

MUSIC LOVER... OMM's MUSIC CHALLENGE...

 "Music was my refuge. 

I could crawl into the space between the notes 

and curl my back to loneliness." 

~

 Maya Angelou

CRACKED... SPA's CRACKED CHALLENGE...

 "There is a crack in everything. 

That's how the light gets in." 

~

 Leonard Cohen

A TALE OF FORTUNE... DIGITAL WHISPERS GYPSY CHALLENGE...

 I love the feeling down inside me 

That says to run away 

To come and be a gypsy 

And laugh the gypsy way. 

~

 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

FOREVER FRIENDS... OMM's FRIENDS CHALLENGE...

 "When you're in jail,

 a good friend will be trying to bail you out. 

A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying,

 'Damn, that was fun'." 

~

 Groucho Marx

ITALIA... SPA ITALY CHALLENGE...

 

"Italians have a little joke, 

that the world is so hard 

a man must have two fathers to look after him, 

and that's why they have godfathers." 

~

 Mario Puzo