Shiloh Rose Archive

Somehow this question irritates me, maybe because I am already feeling emotional. The weight of heartbreak heavy in my stomach, how can you spend ten years loving a person to then go to silence?! Well back to the main focus that’s a post for another day.

1. MUSIC: I definitely live and breathe for music, it just touches my soul in ways I can’t explain. I am the type of person that will repeat one song over and over. If it speaks to me in that moment, then that’s what I do. I like to give fully into the music, and let the rhythm and melodies take me into another realm. I would probably be a musical artist if I was a tad bit more confident. I am just now working up to singing more publicly! That is a hard skill I often wonder how people do it, but I guess that’s where the music comes in, it just takes over you! I am currently listening to LOVE: by Keyshia Cole.
2. READING: I love to read, and can sit and read all day if I am uninterrupted. However, as a busy mom that rarely happens anymore! I have always loved books and my mom influenced my love for reading because I loved how she would read to me. She always bought me wonderful books. Since my mother and I have a rocky relationship, that was one way she made me feel special and unique because my sister doesn’t love it like I do and my sister was her favorite child. I am currently reading Invisible: by Danielle Steele. I have always loved her books, they are sad but usually has a happy ending or the person evolving into who they should be. I can always get behind a character that has growth. The greatest thing about reading for me, is that I can live inside of those pages and that is so comforting to me.
3. WRITING: I love to write and always have since a young girl. I used to write romance stories in high school and many of my classmates would hear about them and would ask me in between classes to read them! I have never published anything yet, other than these blogs. I’m not sure why considering I love it so much. I think it’s a confidence thing. Then also for many years I have lived for everyone else and that’s because of my trauma and sensitive nature. I’m learning though, and I recently sent in a manuscript for a children’s book that I wrote a couple of years ago. I haven’t heard back anything yet, WISH me luck! I have so many journals that I have kept over the years full of stories, dreams, devotional, poems, etc. I am really enjoying blogging and sharing my thoughts with the world. It’s a wonderful feeling to publish each one! I lost my high school books, I wish I had those! They were quite inappropriate so maybe, this version of me wouldn’t like them anyway LOL. I was a hot mess teenager.
4. WALKING/HIKING: I really enjoy taking a good long walk or hike. It’s just a wonderful feeling to explore nature and breathe the fresh air. I grew up outside a lot because my dad loves gardening and animals. My mom also used to take my sister and I to the park almost everyday. We would take walks around the pond at one particular park, and I would make up stories for them. My mom always loved my stories and vivid imagination. I love hiking but I get scared sometimes of snakes!!! I am so afraid of them! I think the best feeling is to find a new spot to walk or hike, with all of the new sights. Then I usually go to that one several times, because I love familiar things. It’s like going home after a long day. You can walk the path with your eyes closed and yet each time it is different than the last. My current park has a really nice, long, paved trail through the woods.
5. PRAYER: Sometimes I can get lost in the presence of God. I like to sit and talk to him about everything and process life. I have argued with him like Job, and cried at his feet like David. He always meets me there and though he can be silent, I know he is there. He allows me space to learn and grown on my own. He gently nudges me to what is best. I love ABBA!!!
6. SHOPPING: I love to wander through the isles of a store and look and touch everything. I don’t enjoy grocery shopping, but I love clothes shopping. I hate to be rushed in a store though, I think shopping trips are best without kids or husbands!

Well I think that is about it, I hope you are having a great weekend! Happy Reading!

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