Drifting through life

  The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over by a moveable feast of participants when Delores had computer troubles. Sadly, Delores has now closed her blog forever due to other problems. The aim of the words is to encourage us to write. A story, a poem, whatever comes to mind. If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please let us know so we can come along and read it. This month the words/prompts are supplied by Lissa and can be found here This week's words/prompts are: 1. belong 2. miserable 3. memory 4. quiver 5. ghost and/or: 1. woven 2. shiver 3. maybe 4. sunshine 5. beneath Here is my story: I stood uncertainly in the gloomy shop, searching the shelves for something I didn’t know yet.  A voice from behind said, “it’s on the second shelf from the top, right beneath the handwoven dreamcatcher.”  I spotted it right away, even as my own voice replied, “but it doesn’t belong there.”  “It knows,” said the voice from behind ...

Following on again with Toni's A-Z, "a...is for" , meme, this week's letter is Y. Y...is for  YODA! "A trial of being old is this: remembering which thing one has said into which young ears" - Yoda Very little is known about Yoda's early life. He was from a remote planet, but which one remains a mystery. According to one legend, Yoda originally did not know that he was Force-sensitive at all. His path towards the Jedi began when he left his home planet with a Human friend, (who was also Force-sensitive, but did not know it), on an old barely space-worthy ship en-route to the Core Worlds to seek employment. The Grand Master of the Jedi council, Yoda was one of the most renowned and powerful Jedi Masters in galactic history and has trained Jedi for over 800 years.  He is wise and powerful in the ways of the force, though his small size causes many to underestimate him. Yoda prefers meditation and reflection, spending much time ponde...