Daily Archives: June 28, 2009

Haiku! (Bless you.)

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Well, I know you’ve just been on the edge of your seats waiting to find out who the finalists are in the Diapers and Divinity Summer Poetry Contest.  I have selected four of my favorites.  (I have also altered them just a little bit so that I could fit them all into two succinct little stanzas more uniform for contest purposes.  This may seem a little dictatorial on my part, which really does not matter because it is my blog and everything you write on here actually belongs to me by copyright law…. I really don’t know if that’s true, but I figure that if I said it with authority, you would believe me.)

These poems are haikus about summer vacation with children.  Anyway, without further ado, the finalists are:

DeNae

denae

When the kids were small,
Camping fit the fam’ly funds,

Which were sparce and spare.

 

No more camps for me.
You can keep your tents and bugs.
Hotels come with pools!

 

 

Shoebox Princess

 

sara 

 

I made a chore chart
To teach the kids about work

I have learned to nag.

 

House shrinks in summer

Too much noise, not enough space.

We go to the beach.

 

Melanie J

melanie

 

A soft, fuzzy head
Whiffs of coconut sunblock

Gold skin and freckles

 

Cute little white bums

Peeking out of swimming trunks

I smile. It’s summer.

 

 

Charlotte

 (sorry, Charlotte I couldn’t find your actual profile picture on your blog.)

crazy face

 

Hot grilled hamburgers,
A slice of watermelon,

ice cream and snow cones.

 

I can taste summer.
Summer scents permeating-
Intoxicating.

 

 

 

Vote for your favorite one here by Friday night.  Winners will be announced next weekend and one haiku-ist will be featured on my sidebar for the remainder of the summer (and get some prize they will wonder if it was worth the postage to send).
Nice job, ladies.  Happy polls!
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General Conference Book Club Week 12: Elder Hales

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dnews halescesfiresideThis week’s talk is the first talk that was given in April 2009 Conference.  Elder Robert D. Hales of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles spoke about relying on the Lord and taking steps to overcome any addictions, excesses, or patterns that can harm our spirits and our relationships.  This was a great talk, and oh, so timely.

>> Click here to read “Becoming Provident Providers Both Temporally and Spiritually” by Elder Robert D. Hales<<

This talk was the topic of our Relief Society lesson at Church today.  Most of the talk appears to focus on finances and staying out of debt and such, but our teacher did an excellent job of encouraging us to look at all of that counsel and figure out what the spiritual application is.  The title, after all, suggests that message is there.

I think so many of us have some kind of addiction or excess that keeps us from greater success and happiness, even if it is negative patterns of thought or mood, so I loved reading the article in that light and realizing that we have been given tools to overcome those challenges.  Great article.  I’m anxious to hear your thoughts as well.

If this is your first visit to the General Conference Book Club, click here to learn more about it. You’re welcome to join us at any point along the way, and we’d love to welcome back many of you that we haven’t heard from in a while.