Dictionary
Magazines aren't good enough, on the back of my toilet is a dictionary. A cloth covered hard back dictionary with faded fabric and worn edges, a composition notebook lay with it, a pen clipped on its cover, they go together, for when I sit for a spell, the heavy book is balanced on my bare legs and I read, if something of interest is found, it is penned into the composition notebook, so when I can't remember what I had just read, I can look in the notebook and find that crazy work that would fit so perfectly in a sentence.
Dictionaries were introduced to me at a young age. Eight, in third grade, for disciplinary purposes, I was told to copy pages of the dictionary when I could no longer sit still in class. I loved reading the clues to the history of a word. The single letter for it's place in the English language. Italicized was to describe its origin. Clues.
A road map holds the same interest for me, though it does not sit on the tank of the toilet, it sits on the table my husband and I read the daily news and emails, and paper mail. Rarely is a map closed and put into it's cabinet with my back pack gear. It's all there. Things to take road tripping when time can afford the urge. Small things that can be stuffed quickly into a back pack and taken traveling, bungee-ed to the back of Trooper. My latest BMW duel sport, with it's white plastic design it looks like a Storm trooper from a famous movie, origin for it's name. Clues. A map has a legend and I like to find those little logos on a map and check it out physically on Trooper. My favorite is the little green tent, especially if it is printed next to a blue body of water. Before a trip, I'll google each green tent that is in the direction I am going and camp at the best of them.
Except for last June. That wasn't the case. As an avid road tripper, I thought this time I would just wing it. I've a smart phone with great service coverage, shouldn't be a problem. Till it was dark, dark is early when your riding the Gulf of Mexico and not Great Lakes of Canada. Far north travel, I never worried about beating the dark to a camp ground. But southern rides becoming dark becomes part of the elements you account for when your riding. Rain being the other element. Rain and dark and a dead phone and not to a camp ground yet in this east bound journey to visit my son in Florida. None of those logos appear on a road map. On the weather map yes, but it doesn't matter what the weather map says if your under a bridge waiting out a down pour.
It's all good. It's all part of the adventure. Knowing the clues on a weather map or a road map, read the clues and you still won't be ready for the day, things change that quickly. A change of mind to the route taken, a change of weather in the route, a change of activity you want to partake it along the way like zip lining in Arkansas. The clues on a map give you hope to your journey.
Life has clues. The Bible gives warnings and highlights as to how to live exciting and healthy lives. Healthy as in relationships. Give it a read. Ten commandments; how to get along with God and other people (don't lie!). It's all there. Take an adventure.
Magazines aren't good enough, on the back of my toilet is a dictionary. A cloth covered hard back dictionary with faded fabric and worn edges, a composition notebook lay with it, a pen clipped on its cover, they go together, for when I sit for a spell, the heavy book is balanced on my bare legs and I read, if something of interest is found, it is penned into the composition notebook, so when I can't remember what I had just read, I can look in the notebook and find that crazy work that would fit so perfectly in a sentence.
Dictionaries were introduced to me at a young age. Eight, in third grade, for disciplinary purposes, I was told to copy pages of the dictionary when I could no longer sit still in class. I loved reading the clues to the history of a word. The single letter for it's place in the English language. Italicized was to describe its origin. Clues.
A road map holds the same interest for me, though it does not sit on the tank of the toilet, it sits on the table my husband and I read the daily news and emails, and paper mail. Rarely is a map closed and put into it's cabinet with my back pack gear. It's all there. Things to take road tripping when time can afford the urge. Small things that can be stuffed quickly into a back pack and taken traveling, bungee-ed to the back of Trooper. My latest BMW duel sport, with it's white plastic design it looks like a Storm trooper from a famous movie, origin for it's name. Clues. A map has a legend and I like to find those little logos on a map and check it out physically on Trooper. My favorite is the little green tent, especially if it is printed next to a blue body of water. Before a trip, I'll google each green tent that is in the direction I am going and camp at the best of them.
Except for last June. That wasn't the case. As an avid road tripper, I thought this time I would just wing it. I've a smart phone with great service coverage, shouldn't be a problem. Till it was dark, dark is early when your riding the Gulf of Mexico and not Great Lakes of Canada. Far north travel, I never worried about beating the dark to a camp ground. But southern rides becoming dark becomes part of the elements you account for when your riding. Rain being the other element. Rain and dark and a dead phone and not to a camp ground yet in this east bound journey to visit my son in Florida. None of those logos appear on a road map. On the weather map yes, but it doesn't matter what the weather map says if your under a bridge waiting out a down pour.
It's all good. It's all part of the adventure. Knowing the clues on a weather map or a road map, read the clues and you still won't be ready for the day, things change that quickly. A change of mind to the route taken, a change of weather in the route, a change of activity you want to partake it along the way like zip lining in Arkansas. The clues on a map give you hope to your journey.
Life has clues. The Bible gives warnings and highlights as to how to live exciting and healthy lives. Healthy as in relationships. Give it a read. Ten commandments; how to get along with God and other people (don't lie!). It's all there. Take an adventure.
