Of Cruise Ships, Planes, Ocean and Sky…
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Traveling by ship, or cruising, starts with the point or process of embarkation, going onto the ship and finding our room. Your bags arrive soon after that. And within an hour or so the ship sets sail.
Unlike with an airplane, where matters move at a faster pac
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Transformation: Making the Ordinary into the Extraordinary
Posted by Anjuelle Floyd | Filed under Articles and Essays, Musings
Just as all good stories contain aspects of redemption, and death, so too transformation forms the engine propelling the narrative.
A major character or protagonist is like the Prophet Ezekiel in the Old Testament. God used Ezekiel to teach the Children of Israel how to suffer. Protagonists of our stories show readers, in much the same [...]
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