Tuesday February 23 2016  DON’T GIVE UP

Today is another one of those days that have caught me shorthanded in the hour department.  There just aren’t enough hours to finish all I would like to do so I must compromise as to what will be finished.  Today I have no alternative except to inform you that I do not have time to sit, think, and compose a blog.  So this will be very short.  But please DON’T GIVE UP ON ME!  I plan to write more in the future.

I just walked in the door and it is almost 4:00 p.m.  We have a commitment to be at our son’s home by 5:00 p.m. and it is about 40 minutes away if traffic is good.  Between 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. is commute time here in Madison. 

I do have one important matter to let you know about.  I am a “real” blogger now.  I have graduated from a free website to a domain website.  What that means, is now I must pay for my domain name, and I can take the word “wordpress” out of my URL address.  It will also be more easily accessed by the general public.  IMPORTANT NOTE HOWEVER:  Whichever address you use will take you to my site.  

Since I am committing to writing my blog for at least another year I would appreciate if you would share my site if you know others who might enjoy it.  It was about three years ago that I felt God prompting me to start a blog.  I told him I would and then it took me about two years before I really fulfilled my commitment.  I originally began writing it so I would be able to log information about my travels and allow Dave to follow my daily course.  Through God’s intervention I connected with a very knowledgeable man that manages about 10 or more of his own blogs.  Just so you know, it’s more difficult for an old dog to learn new tricks.  It was so confusing for me at first.  I still don’t keep it up like I should, nor do I feed all the information into the right categories.  But, I did get the hang of it before I left.  I met with Len for many weeks on Sunday afternoons until I was adept to pretty much take care of it myself.  A few times on the road he had to bail me out of sticky situations.  I sure am grateful for Len.

When we go to Monday night movie nights it is at Len and his wife’s home.  We always have such a great time.  And the good part is that I can ask him questions if I am stuck somewhere in the blog and need some help.  Last week I was informed by another friend, that because I used the free website from WORDPRESS, that WordPress actually had content rights of what I write as long as I used their site.  I  have hope of publishing some of what has already been written and did not want to ask for permission to use my own compositions.  Once I no longer am under their free site I hold my own rights of everything that has been, and will be written.  So, I said that to say this: my new web address is the same, except it no longer has “WORDPRESS” in it.  Now it is:

www.visionsofpoetry.com

You are welcome to share it with your friends and I ask that you please do so if you think someone else will enjoy it or may benefit by some of what I write.

Visions of Poetry

By Kathleen Martens

February 23, 2016

My new little address

Is now all my own.

And I write to tell you,

So it is known.

Now what I write

All belongs to me.

So if it gets published,

To do it I’m free.

Please tell your friends

So they will tell more.

And I hope that their hearts

Will walk through new doors.

And I pray God will bless

The words that I say,

As well as the poem

I write each day.

And thanks to you all

Who faithfully read.

May what I have written

Plant new seeds.

My hope is to give

Others a smile.

And to fill them with joy

As they walk their miles.

And I pray God will bless

Each and every one,

As they read when they can,

And hopefully have fun.

And for another year

Now I must write.

So invite new readers

At least one each night.

For it would surely be

Such a great shame,

If others don’t know

About God’s great fame,

For that is my message

That I desire to share,

To let others know

That God for them cares.

Good night and God bless you.