Fissure, cut bait
Already.
Edan Kai, 3-almost-4, and Jason, his Buddy, get Edan his first fishing pole, April 2009 in Denver. Grandma Beth just thinks everything that little guy does is remarkable. That’s my job.
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Ok, ok, if you want a little less tongue in cheek take on the prompt, fissure, here it is in image form. I love this image—not sure where it came from, so can’t appropriately accredit it. Seems appropriate to the season as well.
My apologies to any of the readers of OSI who are not from the USA and so may not get my pun on ‘fissure’. Basically, the phrase is, ‘fish or cut bait’ and is used when you are telling someone to get busy and do something and quit standing around or being indecisive.
Thanks to Sandra of If: La Palabra Diminuta for this week's prompt, fissures. Head over to One Single Impression for some fishin’ and cuttin’ bait on this fine prompt.
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 30 years in end of life care and child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.
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