Slice of Life 2019: Day 16
Sometimes, getting a good footing can be challenging. That’s where I am today on the 16th of March. As I was sitting down to write, I wasn’t feeling very imaginative! I needed a shoe-string kind of lift.
So, I started to thumb through my phone’s photos for inspiration, as I often do. Then, this shoe showed up in my photo feed. A hi-top Converse, size four showed up. Hmmmm! Perhaps a half grown person at my house has snatched my phone to document his own slice of life!
“Why do you like hi-top Converses?” I ask my son.
“There’s not much to it,” he says. “I like the way they look on my feet.”
Right now, he’s got a Converse on one foot and an orthopedic boot on the other, so I get his attraction to the image of a regular looking shoe. He’s had to find his footing with a boot and a hi top. I’ve had to find my footing while trying to post slices daily and maintain all the other responsibilities in my life. It’s been challenging, but I like the way the posts feel on my blog. I like the footing I’m gaining by pushing through.
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I love this post. In my family, the Converse is back. My nine-year-old daughter wears turquoise color Converse (like I did when I was a kid:). My oldest daughter has white Converse. The sixth grader has red Converse, and my wife is wearing low top white Converse. My son and I are the only ones without Converse (and that’s all I wore when I was a kid). Awesome picture! Awesome post! Thank you for sharing!
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Converses are back here too. I even have a pair! Which means they are probably on there way out.
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I enjoyed this slice. At first, when I read your teaser on TWT, I thought you literally found your foot on a phone. I like how you play with the ideas and images of feet, shoes, photos and finding a footing. This sentence is my favorite: I like the way the posts feel on my blog.
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OH man, getting stuck mid-month is a real thing! I think mine came last week and it will be back later on this one too… Actually today I’m barely scraping my brain together to come up with something I feel like writing about. I think that’s the challenge sometimes for us. We have to balance so much at once and often our interests or me-time gets decreased to nearly nothing. We learn to just do, go, get done, rest – i.e. we learn to live vicariously through the people we support. You’ve tapped into that here. His shoe, his foot, his interest, and your internal monitoring of his happiness. I liked the slice, the photo, and the honesty you put into it.
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Thank you. Stretching the neurons to pull together a slice … can sometime be a hefty mental and physical exercise
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I get this….some days the words just don’t come easily. Love the idea of using a photo for inspiration. And I hope the boot comes off soon!
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Finding your footing for sure! Glad this photo popped up as you swiped, the interaction you had with your son, and the connections you made to your writing life. All good things.
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What a delightful slice. I’ll be sure to scroll through my photos for inspiration.
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