Today’s #CleanWIP theme and collaborative article is Mend. [More info]
Photo courtesy of Erzetich Audio and Design
Use #CleanWIP with on-theme lines from a work-in-progress and your tweet might be included in a https://t.co/yUHUbxZp23 collaborative article for authors who lean clean and readers who love them. The #CleanWIP theme for Wednesday, December 16, 2020 is MEND. pic.twitter.com/MhHvgRkCSy
— CleanWIP Magazine (@cleanwip) December 16, 2020
Rose looked aside. “I can’t fix the past, and I have no right to ask your forgiveness. But if I could make it right, I would.”
— Maddie Evans (@TheMaddieEvans) December 16, 2020
-from Faking the Harmony#CleanWIP #MEND pic.twitter.com/HpMy3hmvgR
Blair rubbed her tingling fingers together, thinking back to how he’d helped her to the bench. He was just being friendly. Right?
— Lea Carter (@LeaCarterWrites) December 17, 2020
“If you’re up to it,” he amended, mistaking her hand movement… He’d already forgotten her ‘invisible’ condition…#cleanWIP
~ Earl Chinnici ~
Thanks for your interest in this magazine and the creative people who often join in the CleanWIP fun. I founded CleanWIP Magazine in 2019, but I’ve been in the business of repairing Windows-based computers for more than fifteen years now. I only started writing in any serious fashion in 2011 as I quit smoking Tobacco Cigarettes gradually. That’s what they call that product anyway; it was stamped across the front of nearly every pack. The reality of what’s in most cigarettes won’t easily fit on the label, but I’ll return to the point at hand. I eventually published a memoir about my journey to quit smoking and become an author and today I share from my debut book a short tidbit about mending my home.
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I became obsessed with removing the “nicotine yellow” from my home. If there was a film of cigarette residue coating something that I could do without, and I was unable to wipe it clean or run it through the washing machine a few times, it was history. Off to the curb it went where it patiently waited for a prepaid ride to the county landfill. I even tossed a few things I could have easily wiped clean, simply because they were almond in color and that color reminded me all too well of the nicotine. To the extent possible, I wanted to repair the damage I had caused to the interior of my home and remove all of the signs of my severe addiction to cigarettes. I did not need these things to ensure I would never forget how horrific this addiction was for me. There were plenty of other handy reminders.
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor, not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer…
— Caitlin M. Smith (@caitsmithwriter) December 16, 2020
Romans 12:10-12