Puzzle Pleasure

Last week while I was suffering through that wretched cold I decided I had to do something other than vegetate in bed or watch tv or just sip tea, so I determined to complete my New Years puzzle. I started it the first week of 2010, but for the past couple weeks it has been sitting uncompleted, cluttering up my house and begging for some attention. What a great activity for when I'm afflicted with a bug! I love 1000 piece puzzles. There's something fulfilling about knowing that I have touched and positioned 1000 individual puzzle pieces. The other thing I cherish about this puzzle is the Jonathan Green image. I admit, I'm a little obsessed with Jonathan Green's art. It is bright, colorful, cheerful and oh so Southern! Doesn't it just make you want to break out into Gullah?

Of course you want to break out into Gullah! So here you go:

De Lawd, 'E duh my sheppud. Uh een gwoi' want. 'E meck me fuh lay down een dem green passuh. 'E Khah me deh side dah stagnant wahtuh. 'E sto' muh soul; 'E lead me een de pat' ob right-juss-niss fuh 'E name sake. Aae doh Ie wark shru' de whalley ob dem grayb yaad Ie een gwoi' skayed uh dem dead people, fuh Ie know de Lawd, 'E duh deh wid me; 'E stick wha' 'E khah een 'E han' 'n de staff een de udduh han' gwoi' cumpit me' 'E fix up uh table fuh me fuh grease muh mout' 'n muh enemies een gwoi' git none. 'E 'noint muh head wid uhl. Muh cup obbuh flo.' Sho' nuff all 'E goodnes,' 'n 'E muhcy gwoi' be wid me all de day ob muh life 'n Ie gwoi' lib deh een de house ob de Lawd fuh ebbuh 'n ebbuh. Amen

If that's a little much, you can just listen to some Gullah:

http://www.gullahtours.com/psalm23.mp3

Enjoy!