Six little words...

Learning to be authentic not emphatic.



Molly tagged me with a challenge to compose my memoir using just six words and a picture.
(I've always thought the ratio was 1 picture = 1,000 words.)
The words were easy, they came to me in a recent conversation with my friend Carol -- though I used a few more than six words in that conversation. The picture was harder -- for instance, I thought about an exclamation point, but, well, that's really the opposite of the image I'm going for. So, I wanted a photo of me. The closest thing I've come in seminary to being my authentic self in relation to God and creation WITHOUT being emphatic was in our play Noah's Flood, a recreation of a medieval mystery drama. (You can read about it here.) I've spent most of seminary learning to be authentically myself, but I've also spent most of it being emphatic. That's the rough edge I'm working on now.

I tag my Mom, who will likely just need to email me her six words and photo. I tag Jeri and Courtney, my only bloggin' friends left who Molly or Orangeblossoms didn't tag. And, I tag my friend Carol who doesn't have a blog yet but will soon cuz I promised to help her set one up. And I'll think of one more and tag 'em here in a bit. UPDATE: I tag Ryan who volunteered!!! (That's "big" Ryan from "little church", not my son Ryan, who, come to think of it, maybe I should tag, too.)

Here's what you do:


1) Write your own six word memoir.

2) Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration.

3) Link to the person who tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4) Tag at least five more blogs with links. (THIS FEELS A BIT TOO MUCH LIKE A CHAIN LETTER TO ME, AND, I ALWAYS BREAK THOSE, SO, JUST FEEL FREE TO PLAY WHETHER OR NOT YOU INVITE OTHERS.)

5) Don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

6) Have fun.