It is comfortable to know only the familiar outer layer.
Yet if we press through the underlying crimson shield of emotion, feelings and thoughts we find the warm inner core where self lies.
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The Weekend Challenge....
On to the weekend challenge. As you'll recall from your elementary science class days, the structure of the earth can be divided most simply into three sections: core, mantle, crust. Here's a diagram.
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Give us 33 words from it. Interpret the prompt however you wish--literal, metaphorical, or somewhere in between. If you would like to use the image on your own blog, you must properly credit it.
This is absolutly beautiful. I also really like the picture.
ReplyDeleteSo very true...all of it! Well done!
ReplyDeleteThe picture is beautiful - and your words are infinite.
ReplyDeleteSo true...the outer layer is comfortable and so easy to not look any deeper.
ReplyDeleteWow, love the photo! Did you take that yourself?
ReplyDeleteGreat play on words & a hauntingly powerful graphic to complement it!
ReplyDeleteNice take on the prompt, and I agree that the pic is superb. Good job.
ReplyDeletelove this, Lucy.
ReplyDeleteVery true! (: Great piece!
ReplyDeleteYes. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteYes, that makes a lot of sense. I love the picture. I think he could use a little moisturizer though.
ReplyDeleteA truism, for sure, and so beautifully written.
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