Tag: Christian fiction

My friend told me this story and with her permission I get to share it with you.

The DAY Adrienne died (a Friday), she was in Ceramics class with this kid, a friend of hers, and asked him when he was going to do a full-figure sculpture because he had yet to do one.

Those were her last words to him.

He found out the following Monday that she had passed away, so he knew he had to do that piece in her honor.

He went to his professors and told them what he wanted to do, and they sort of laughed at him, told him it could only be done in a reasonable amount of time in clay. He said no way, Adrienne was worth marble.

They told him it would take at least a year.

The kid scouted out a few marble sculptors and mentors across St. Louis and outside of the area and took private lessons. He had never worked with marble before or even done full-figure sculpting. He sacrificed sleep and put it all into his art, much like Adrienne, he said.

He finished the piece in eight weeks. He wrote some incredible things about her and the way she lived her life and dedicated it to her art, to her friends and family, and to Johnny (her beloved). He talked more about his own work put into the sculpture, and then he made an amazing dedication to Adrienne, telling her again that she was the best art student in the program and that she was worth marble… and telling her to rest. It was a tremendously moving story. And the president of the school purchased the piece in Adrienne’s memory.

posted by Diana Lesire Brandmeyer

Our local newspaper has shrunk in size and sections in the last year. I was thinking what if they used texting abbreviations to communicate to their readers? They could save costs on paper and ink!

According to Kim Hart, Washington Post Staff Writer, Monday, April 2, 2007  (may be younger now!)  children are being handed a cell phone by the age of eight. By the time they are ready to buy magazines and newspapers they’ll be pros at communicating with fewer vowels and consonants. 
  
Imagine the newspaper returned to it’s full glory days all because of technology changing our written language. Forget the existence of the kindle, nook and ipad for a minute, think about Sunday afternoons and newspapers spread across the floor, table and dad’s recliner. It’s a piece of Amerciana that’s disappearing. With the new texting language the paper can be saved!

Don’t we owe it to the birds who need their cages lined, the cats who read the paper from their litter boxes, the fireplaces that need the paper to jump start their fire?

I say embrace texting and save the print.

Of course we’ll have to give up some things LIT (lost in translation). It will be difficult to read for detailed settings and  real emotions because MBS (mom behind shoulder) and LOL (laughing out loud) don’t tell you how old mom is and what is making her laugh. 

Need some help in learning the new language?Here’s a link to text message abbreviations.

YSIC,
 (your sister in Christ)