Chris' Christian Blog

September 30, 2019

"September 30, 2019" 

"Prompt: Use these words in your blog entry: hollowness, bliss, favorable, sweat, lime, and passenger."

The hollowness of this prompt is alarming. I wasn't sure what I could do with it at first. Then to my bliss I came up with something. I think I am more favorable to the prompts that don't make me think real hard because I usually complete my blog at 0dark30 when most people are still asleep. A little sweat never hurt anybody though. Life can't be all sweet. You have to have a little lime as well. After all I am only a passenger on this plane. I'd get bored otherwise. I don't really have time to get bored though. I write for https://www.allpoetry.com as well as https://www.thestarlitecafe.com and https://www.poetrysoup.com and that keeps me busy. I am also a peer support specialist working for the Salvation Army Huntington Corps in Huntington WV where we are preparing to launch Pathways of Hope. It is a program aimed at ending generational poverty. We work with homeless people, addicts, and other threatened populations. Along with all of that I am a part time student finishing my Regents Bachelor of Arts degree at Marshall University. I really do not slow down long enough to get bored!

"Prompt: Do you think, in some restaurants, choosing what to eat from an intricate menu can resemble an odyssey? If you had such an experience, how did you handle it?

I don't have that problem because I don't go to enough restaurants to say I go to them. I will go if somebody else is paying, but I really do not have the money to eat in them. I'm a student after all. The few times I have gone to a fancy restaurant I allow somebody else to order and then tell the waiter I will have what they are having. If it is a menu in a foreign language or names some foods that I have never heard of, I will usually look at the ingredients and try to figure it out.