Each day I spend a good deal of time writing. My full-time job, my journal, my blog, and my personal writing all enable me to flex my writing muscles on a daily basis. Sometimes I even stretch a little further and use a website called WritingFix.com. This site gives you random writing prompts to get your creative juices flowing. You never know what they will ask you about. Here is my daily writing prompt that popped up when I went to their site:

"What was up there?  Think of an interesting ceiling you once stared at and thought about.  Write about you staring...and what it was that caused you to stare."

I immediately thought of some of the beautiful churches I have visited in my lifetime. First in my mind is Old Saint Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco. It is located on California Street in the heart of Chinatown. It was built in 1854. It survived the earthquake of 1906 but was gutted the next day in the fires that raged through the city. The church interior was rebuilt after that. The interior is beautiful and gothic. The ceiling is high about the pews. I have never taken a picture of the interior although I have attended mass there whenever I happen to be in San Francisco. This is a picture of the interior taken in 1927...it still looks much the same today.

Old Saint Mary's Cathedral website