Friday, March 21, 2008

Aphorism...

A brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words.
Ernest Hemingway was bet $10 that he couldn't sum up his life in six words. He won that bet when he wrote, "For sale, baby shoes, never worn."
The wonderfully talented Cookie of Curds-and-Whey and "sister" at The Humble Arts has tagged me to do this very thing about my life.
I wasn't too sure if I wanted to do this six word memoir, how on earth could I do this ..in six words...how could anyone? but the more I thought about it, the more I just new I had to do it. Maybe : Always a bridesmaid never a bride? ...nah! But pretty darn close! Slowly it came to me, very simply I am a...

FEMALE OFFSPRING,SOMEONES BELOVED,BLESSED GRANDMOTHER

To the point and precise, enough said.

Now the rules are:
1. Write your own six word memoir
2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like
3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible, so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere
4. Tag five more blogs with links
5.Remember to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play!

These are the taggies:
1) Annie-Chickadee Primitives
2) Lone-dddfavoritter
3) Sandra-Babycakes Designs
4) Rebecca-MillerCampbellDesigns
5) Deb-The Laughing Doll
What, I wonder, will they choose for their Aphorism?

Blessing and Have a Beautiful Easter,Flora

7 comments:

Sandra Caldwell said...

Ok Flora...that is a tough thing to do....Thanks so much for allowing me the chance to mess this up...LOL
Have a wonderful Easter sweetie....Sandra

Flora said...

Sandra you can't do any worse than I just did!.hahaha! Hope your Easter is a great one too!
Blessings,Flora

laughingdollstudio said...

Hey Flora ~ thanks for the tag! That was pretty fun (I think your Aphorism was great!).

Deb

PS - Love the baskets!

Cookie said...

Flora, I just KNEW you would come up with something totally perfect and totally YOU!

Love it :)

Flora said...

Cookie,
Let me tell you I thought long and hard..and got a headache!...lol
Thank you sweetie, have a happy Easter!
Blessings,Flora

Flora said...

Deb,
Thanks, but looks like yours is the real winner here!!!Have a great Easter!
Blessings,Flora

Lone Pierette said...

Thanks Flora - will do my best !
Have a Happy Easter !

hugs Lone