by jamesbondly | Dec 28, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
The Digital Abyss Plenty to do, but not enough time Everything, including casual conversations, lectures, presentations, job interviews, books, movies, sermons, and the parables of the Bible, is artful storytelling—some creative non-fiction, some fiction, and...
by jamesbondly | Dec 19, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual
The Christmas Carol “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Two feet of snow blows into six-foot drifts. A minus fifteen degrees make the snow crunch as we walk. I heard...
by jamesbondly | Apr 10, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Uncategorized
Simplicity is the highest level of Sophistication. Less is More I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong....
by jamesbondly | Mar 10, 2022 | About Life, About Writing, Spiritual
The demonstrator handed me a folded piece of paper and instructed me to read what he wrote on the note he passed me, then whisper what I read to the person sitting next to me. Then the audience would do the same, each, in turn, turning to the person next to them and...
by jamesbondly | Feb 21, 2022 | About Life, About Writing, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks The Journey to Humility Begins I can hear the weather moaning outside; our deck cracks, moans, and groans as it contracts; I throw a log into the stove and pour a steaming cup of coffee; at five in the morning, the darkness hides the...
by jamesbondly | Oct 29, 2021 | About Life, About Writing, Storytelling-Tall Tales
REAL-LIFE MONOLOGS Autobiographical Storytelling Want to write a good story? Write about what you don’t want others to know about you. Want to write a great story? Write about what you don’t want to know about yourself. Mark W. Travis Write what you know ~...