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kerry johnson skip to content kerry johnson menu about me a thousand miles cole s corner reviews for kids dead possums are fair game johnny tremain operation tree roper an eye above the nest unbroken young adult version lifted up april 26 2019 april 27 2019 by candidkerry posted in musings family walks are a way of life in our house a few times a week when our boys aren t at jui jitsu we walk a couple of miles around our neighborhood since our boys were in diapers they ve dealt with walks not always pleasantly first they rode in strollers then they toddled beside us eventually graduating to walking all on their own i grew up taking walks on the steep connecticut hills and it was both exercise and family time during my childhood my parents held hands as we traversed bradley lane and called out hellos to neighbors through the trees and rocks during one of our recent evening walks we noticed a small form in the road and the traffic was light enough for us to investigate is that a bird one of us asked i surely wasn t leaving a helpless animal in the middle of the road so i dashed over my imagination already running through wildlife scenarios my boys followed and my husband trailed behind probably worried the animal would end up returning home with us a young mockingbird trembled in the center of the street its feathers half adult half baby fluff its large eyes appeared unfocused the tiny bird dazed in the deepening twilight what do we do a discussion ensued with the main question looming leave the bird or pick up the bird it wasn t a baby but we weren t sure if it could fly yet none of the nearby oak trees arched over the street and it wasn t a windy night so it seemed unlikely the bird had fallen from a nest high in the branches we decided to scoop it up and place it near a tree in a neighbor s yard my older son volunteered his large steady hands cole dropped beside the bird still dazed the tiny creature blinked when cole gently set his palms beneath it like a human scoop he held the mockingbird for mere moments before it suddenly shot off toward a bougainvillea bush surrounding a tall oak in an instant the fledgling was gone lifted up just enough to revive and fly to safety we strained to see where he d gone and i heaved out relief that he was okay safe this fleeting family moment stayed with me much longer than the bird stayed in cole s hands and god s word came to mind let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering for he who promised is faithful and let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works hebrews 10 23 24 one of the ways i see god s grace in my life is when he stretches me to think of others i don t naturally want to do that me first me first is too often the mantra in my head but i m realizing that good things happening to me feels hollow good things happening to a dear friend i ve been praying for someone i ve cupped my hands under and lifted in prayer or with holy spirit inspired encouragement then i stop thinking of myself and the joy sinks deep if you re struggling with the me firsts which plagues me often lift someone else up it ll refocus your gaze and provide joy you didn t expect now may the lord direct your hearts into the love of god and into the patience of christ 2 thess 3 5 5 comments hang on july 23 2018 by candidkerry posted in musings my older son was born with a desire to get off the ground from toddlerhood on cole has climbed and climbed and climbed higher when he was two we transitioned him out of his crib in order to pass it on to his younger brother chase who spent the first couple months of his life sleeping in the pack n play the boys are twenty one months apart so sharing furniture beds and toys was is a way of life the first night we moved the crib into chase s room we put a gate in cole s bedroom doorway to block cole in his room my memories of that first night aren t clear probably wiped away from a lack of sleep but i do remember that one gate wasn t enough to restrain our first born determined to teach cole to stay in his new bed we used two gates in his bedroom doorway the second night we left a couple inches between them and six eight inches of daylight above the doubled up gates either way the gate wall was at least six feet high trev and i breathed a sigh of relief and settled in for a movie or maybe an exciting evening of laundry and quiet it didn t last the distinct pitter patter clunk clunk clunk then pitter patter pitter patter of small feet carried from the hallway seconds later a grinning toddler rushed out of the hall and into our great room cole had conquered his first warped gate wall at the age of 2 leaving both gates intact he just turned fourteen and still loves climbing in fact we discovered a local gym that offers parkour for kids and adults and we go often especially in the summer i don t understand my son s passion for climbing playground equipment trees gazebos and buildings but it s probably the same thing that drives me to create characters and write stories during our last visit to the parkour place cole struggled to get up the biggest warped wall we hadn t made it to the parkour place often during the school year instead he d been doing different types of workouts at home but he set his mind to conquer the fourteen foot six inch black wall and after four tries cole finally made it once his fingers found and gripped the top he hung there for a couple of seconds relief loosening his taut frame once his grip was secure the climb up proved easier than the journey to the top all the desire in the world will only get him so far up that daunting obstacle cole must prepare beforehand to experience success on the big wall had he not been working out and rope and tree climbing in our backyard he never would ve made it writing world parallels to reach the top multi book publication readers who beg for more stories years of preparation are necessary a burning desire to climb higher with stories is a great foundation but it takes words lots of words i m currently writing my seventh manuscript while a couple of those aren t fully edited clean stories they re written birthed during nanowrimo once i learned the basic foundation of story pov entered a few contests exchanged chapters with critique partners attended writing conferences pitched poorly to agents and heard positive feedback from other respected writers i then needed to study the market and learn it not only takes a unique story with strong clean writing but also a great hook what s the heart of your story one of the hardest things to grasp and create is a gripping hook what is a hook it s the tempting morsel of your story you hand out to readers that hopefully draws them closer for more readers are like fish smart fish fish who know authors are out to get them reel them in and capture them for the rest of their seagoing lives but like any self respecting fish readers aren t caught easily they aren t about to surrender themselves to the lure of your story unless you ve presented them with an irresistible hook k m weiland 4 i used to wish this journey to publication was shorter easier less traumatizing and skin thickening and rejection gathering but the long period of preparation is the exact foundation we need to climb up the publishing wall and hit that red button of victory writers hang on keep practicing don t give up tagged acfw children climbing kmweiland learning to write nanowrimo parkour writing writing books writing life 12 comments posts navigation older posts let s connect facebook x instagram blog stats 199 480 hits follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 217 other subscribers twitter updates tweets by candidkerry previous posts previous posts select month april 2019 1 july 2018 1 april 2018 1 march 2018 1 february 2018 1 january 2018 2 december 2017 1 november 2017 1 october 2017 2 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