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the most active years of my ed the basic feelings are still there you will be happy to know that i have a copy of the body image workbook an 8 step program you will perhaps be less happy to hear that i m still stuck on step 2 when the critical words have been sounding for so long and so loud it s really hard to fight them even with years of therapy and a workbook at any rate enjoy the poem and as always thoughts and suggestions are welcome https www amazon ca body image workbook eight step learning dp 1572245468 ref asc_df_1572245468 tag googlemobshop 20 linkcode df0 hvadid 292878870607 hvpos hvnetw g hvrand 9722736123658970086 hvpone hvptwo hvqmt hvdev m hvdvcmdl hvlocint hvlocphy 9001194 hvtargid pla 439226669252 psc 1 ref_ d6k_applink_bb_dls share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading judy judy with thanks and apologies to bill martin jr and eric carle april 17 2022 april 17 2022 judy amy 1 comment judy judy what do you see i see a fat girl looking at me fat girl fat girl what do you see i see an overbite looking at me overbite overbite what do you see i see tired eyes looking at me tired eyes tired eyes what do you see i see an ugly face looking at me ugly face ugly face what do you see i see judy looking at me judy judy what do you see i see a woman who barely believes in her need to be yes this is what i see how can i break free from this vision that i see judy judy time may set you free time may set you free judy photo credit capturalosaccidentes i m not even sure what day of the intro to poetry writing course it is all i know is that i am behind this is day 6 the prompt is screen i know that a mirror may not be considered a screen but i figure it s close enough plus every time i have to teach my students online i see my face staring back at me the entire time and it s not a pleasant feeling so maybe a poem about my reflection is just fine since the zoom world of the last two years has only made me focus on my flaws even more than i did before sigh the poem is patterned after the classic children s board book by bill martin jr with illustrations by the late great eric carle not sure if my new thing is to just try to imitate other writers within my own writing since i m just getting back into things and can t seem to find my rhythm yet but this seems to be what i m posting lately i remember stephen king writing in his book on writing a memoir of the craft that writers learned by imitating other writers and that it was good practice of course i can t for the life of me find the book at the moment to pull out the exact quote and i cannot find the quote online but i swear he said this as always thanks for reading and feel free to comment below or email me just even if it s just to say hello it is always appreciated https www amazon ca lift tab brown bear anniversary dp 1627797238 ref sr_1_1 crid 3h4fit3zekmpa keywords brown bear qid 1650154366 s books sprefix brown bear 2cstripbooks 2c86 sr 1 1 https www amazon ca writing memoir craft stephen king dp 1982159375 ref sr_1_2 crid 2e3bxyszn2u1h keywords on writing stephen king qid 1650154593 sprefix on writing stephen king 2caps 2c95 sr 8 2 share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading intro to poetry day 4 imperfect april 15 2022 april 15 2022 judy amy 2 comments there once was a poet named judy whose writing was really quite moody she strove for perfection photo by ivabalk http www pixabay com as i get further into wordpress intro to poetry course th e less motivated i am to complete it take day 4 the topic is imperfect and the challenge was to write a limerick rhyming poems have never been my thing but i decided to try anyway and not surprisingly i have failed and am left with a half written limerick however this might just be a brilliant move on my part to embrace the theme for what is more imperfect than an unfinished poem yeah that s what i m going to stick with this imperfection was intentional and now dear readers will you help me finish what i started all suggestions welcome share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading i m so lonesome i could cry with thanks and apologies to hank williams april 14 2022 april 14 2022 judy amy leave a comment see that lonesome lonely girl she looks too weak to try the sixty bus is late again i m so lonesome i could cry i ve never seen a class like this i sit and wonder why i ever thought it was for me i go home and start to cry did you ever meet a girl like me who let you say goodbye when i loved you more than you could know i m so lonesome i could cry the tired sun sinks to the earth lights up the prairie sky and as i wonder who i am i hang my head and cry j amy 2016 today s wordpress prompt was journey technically it was the prompt from two days ago but i m a bit behind i wrote this a few years ago about my university days and i figured that fit the theme and since i don t think i ve posted it before i thought why not a dear friend recorded my version for me but unfortunately my wordpress plan doesn t include audio so you will have to sing it on your own i can probably recite at least some of the lyrics to most of hank williams songs i don t usually listen to music when i m writing but when i do it s almost always hank williams i can listen to hank williams for hours hank williams was my father s favourite singer songwriter and i was introduced to his music at a young age on our long summer road trips we heard a lot of hank williams at first my sister and i made fun of the yodelling that made hank stand out from the other musicians our parents subjected us too but after a while we settled back into our seats and just listened and after about five summers my sister and i didn t even feign dislike we just listened and sometimes we even sang along as teenagers we had already intimately experienced the heartache hank was singing about bob dylan said of williams that the sound of his voice went through me like an electric rod i suspect that my father felt the same way after my dad died i tried to figure out why hank williams had such meaning for him i played his music over and over trying to find a definitive connection only to find that the connection i was looking for wasn t between my father and myself or between hank williams and my father the connection was between the darkness and the light that hank sang about through deceptively simple melodies in the film i saw the light 2016 there s a line where hank williams says everybody has a little darkness in them i show it to them and they don t have to take it home the light and darkness of which hank sang connected everybody and by god if hank williams could see the light amidst all of his darkness there should be a chance for the rest of us one of hank williams most famous songs is i m so lonesome i could cry i have always loved this song and the beautiful way the lyrics and melody go together i rewrote this song for my master s thesis project creating my own personal version although nothing can compare to the haunting sounds of the original sometimes it s nice to hear something that is written just for you by you https pixabay com photos desperate sad depressed feet hands 2293377 picture by anemone123 share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading why i support wearing masks ad infinitum april 12 2022 april 12 2022 judy amy 2 comments they keep people warm in windy winnipeg winters they prevent greek salad breath from escaping and infecting others they hide the luxurious handlebar moustaches that many men and women have grown over the past two years neither of which need to be seen they stop people seeing the snot running down my nose when i m cold or when i m crying they conceal my failed attempts at using bronzer they hide my resting bitch face and no man tells me to smile they prevent people from impulsively kissing someone they shouldn t which is okay because invariably people s faces are more disappointing when they remove their masks like cicero said ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi j amy 2022 the poet hiding her luxurious handlebar moustache behind a mask earlier this year 2022 this is a rush job i fully admit this i am behind in my marking my planning and everything else that comes with being a good teacher and which prevents me from taking the time to dwell in the words and figure out just what it is that i want to say nonetheless i m not unhappy with the poem i m just not satisfied but am i ever today s wordpress challenge was faces something i haven t seen very many of in the past two some years so i decided to look at the benefits of wearing masks hit me up with some more preferably silly reasons why continuing to wear masks is a good thing cheers share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading water a tanka april 10 2022 april 14 2022 judy amy 2 comments tears run down my face mingling with the shower spray and into the drain my sadness remains my own no one else will ever know photo by semevent https pixabay com photos drain bathroom sink sanitary water 2454608 can this actually be a return to writing and possibly even blogging i don t want to get my hopes up but hopefully it is a new beginning of sorts i ve been away for so long that i decided to get help from a wordpress course but to my surprise they are re using the same prompts from the last time i took the course oh well hopefully after my long hiatus i will have some fresh ideas although when i look at my old water poem it looks like not much has changed thoughts i am unsure of whether to use and or then in the third line and am wondering if the tears should run down my face or spill down my cheeks i m also struggling to figure out the formatting on my ipad so the visual is not ideal i would appreciate any feedback and as always thanks for reading share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading morning makeup november 14 2018 judy amy 4 comments i put on my eyeliner my hand trembles and the straight line is no more i have failed i wipe it off and begin again i put on my blush i look closer and see that the colour is unbalanced i have failed i wipe it off and begin again i put on my lipgloss the lustrous pink sheen is tarnished by my overbite i have failed i wipe it off and begin again i continue placing layers upon layers on my face hoping to hide how i feel my time is up i walk out into the world at the first place i stop i am told i look lovely happy by implication i have succeeded one more day and the tears remain hidden behind skillfully applied black eyeliner i have succeeded j amy amy 2018 photo by shyla86 http www pixabay com notes as with everything i write this poem is a rough draft and a work in progress although with my schedule i doubt it will progress any time soon question for readers yea or nay to the last paragraph is it overkill nb thanks to those of you who continue to wonder where i went and whether i will write again i wonder these things as well if you d like to contact me about this post or about anything else you ve read please tweet me judyamy74 share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading signs and inspiration for l m may 18 2018 judy amy leave a comment inspiration shows up in the strangest of places at the strangest of times a while ago i met a lovely person through a colleague today this woman and i found out that we were linked in other ways through other people then this woman told me that she followed my blog a couple of years ago i would have been thrilled to hear this now i m just embarrassed because i am one of those failed bloggers who keeps promising to write more post more and then doesn t i could go into several reasons why i haven t written but then i d be even more embarrassed so instead i ll take her acknowledgement of being a follower as a sign i won t promise to write more often because every time i make such a promise i break it today i will see the sign and be inspired to try again to take time to allow myself to be creative to play with language and form to write freely without harsh self criticism with no strings attached here s to today s new beginning l etting go of something without really being a ware of the fact is often more u psetting than r ecognizing that you are leaving it behind until e ventually someone reminds you of who you once were and you realize that n othing is forever and that you can start over again at any time if you d like to contact me about this post or about anything else you ve read please email me judyamy74 at gmail com or tweet me judyamy74 share this share on x opens in new window x email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading book advent calendar 2017 day 10 the little drummer boy december 11 2017 december 11 2017 judy amy leave a comment one theme ends and another continues here s the second in a row of an illustrated christmas song although this one is not revised or reworked we re not a religious family but my kids love love love this song and this book i m not sure about the song but i totally agree with them on the book if you know ezra jack keats the caldecott medal award winning artist and writer of the snowy day you ll know that his illustrations are simple imaginative and vivid all of these elements are evident in the little drummer boy music for the song appears at the back of the book as well and if for some reason you don t know the story here s a quick recap the little drummer boy doesn t know what to bring as a gift for the baby jesus until he learns that a gift from the heart is the best gift of all photo j amy amy i m both happy and sad to say that i bought this book from a bunch of discarded books at my local library i m happy because we have a lovely hardcover copy with a protective library cover but sad because the library is now without another christmas classic if you re unable to get a copy of the little drummer boy and or you don t know e j k take a moment to get to know him with the snowy day while not a holiday book it s a really important piece of 20th century children s literature that s an entirely different post though while i m not going to write about it at the moment i would encourage you to peruse the ezra jack keats foundation website it s a rabbit hole well 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