Laveda D. Rockford

  Mitten According To Mr. Kinder PART THREE: Short story by Laveda D. Rockford   Mr. Kinder watched them through his upstairs bedroom window. A smile, a laugh, and even a tear slipped from his eye watching this little boy with his mother enjoying the sunny late afternoon. Laughter when clods of earth flew once freed from the lawn to hit Mitt’s mother on the top of her head bouncing off and rolling to hide among the grass mounds around her. A tear slipped from his eye when Mitt’s mother decided to join him instead of the scolding that Mr. Kinder was sure to come.   Mr. Kinder decided to ask them over for dinner, thinking that Mitt’s mother had not had time to make it.   They arrived for dinner and Mitt told Mr. Kinder about his own story of finding treasure. Someone had lost a bottle cap from a soda. What a treasure it was for Mitt to have found the pop-bottle-cap.   It was a wonderful first meeting between Mr. Kinder and Mitt’s mother. Mr. Kin...

Laveda D. Rockford oil on canvas painting unfinished work in progress Mitten According to Mr. Kinder  PART TWO short story by Laveda D, Rockford continued: Mr. Kinder contacted a private investigator and asked him if he could find out how much his neighbors had saved for their future. Because of Mitt’s medical issues and special needs, his mother had not been able to save much. Mitt, on the other hand, thought that they were saving enough to buy a house very soon. There was one thing that made him sad. What if they found a house and it was far away from his one and only friend Mr. Kinder? Mr. Kinder was the glue that held his otherwise solitary life together. No friends to play with, no dad, just his mother. He loved his mother very much, but he needed Mr. Kinder, the male figure he so longed for in his life. Mitt could talk to Mr. Kinder about boy things and the concern that he had for his mother. And the adventurous stories that Mr. Kinder told him about allowed him to expe...

  Mitten According To Mr. Kinder Mitt shoveled snow off Mr. Kinder’s front porch, being mindful of the noise the shovel made while crossing the old plank boards. Mitt was not his given name, one day when he was outside, he lost one of his mittens and wore a single mitten all day and Mr. Kinder had called him Mitt ever since. Mr. Kinder was Mitt’s best friend. Mitt, knowing that his disability made him unable to play the same games as the other children in the neighborhood, spent his late afternoons alone until Mr. Kinder started talking to him across the fence last summer. The nice afternoon visits turned into having a soda while sitting on Mr. Kinder’s front porch listening to Bach or some other classical music drift quietly through the window to tickle, and at times, to frighten Mitt. Mr. Kinder sometimes would tell him the story behind the musical piece if it was not too scary, to ease the discomfort that Mitt felt when the resounding loud base filled the air. But most of ...

Laveda D. Rockford Author, Writer, Poet, Artist   CAPTIVE DELIVERANCE | YAHREH Screenplay The first in this series of books and screenplays is Captive Deliverance (Yahreh) which leads FBI Agent Wade Hamilton into an investigation that changes his life. While working on a complicated case, he learns how to see beyond his own understanding. Combined with the help of his team the criminals are rounded up and he closes the case that brought Gina into his life.              Motto: There is a reason for everything and everything has a purpose.   THE CASE OF THE BLACK PEARL RING | THE CASE OF THE BLACK PEARL RING Screenplay In the second book, Gina and Wade find out that the battle surges even though they are living according to the rules. After they open their own private investigation company, they contact their first client. Wade travels across the country only to find the answer that he is looking for in his own backyard...

Jesus Christ as a Baby, portion of oil on glass painting by Laveda D. Rockford   One Star Outshone Them All This is a painting of the baby Jesus Christ; the night Jesus Christ was born. I have been working on three paintings that I want to introduce you to. All three of these paintings have meaning. The first painting I will show you is the baby Jesus Christ on the night Jesus Christ was born. The evening sky was clear. Stars shone above, twinkling in the sight of those who were awake to see them. One star outshone them all. Shepherds in the nearby fields of Bethlehem were given the news of a baby having been born in one of their own lambing caves. The shepherds used these lambing caves to care for the Temple lambs used in the sacrifice. Bethlehem is approximately five miles from Jerusalem, perfect for gathering the sheep needed according to the law of Moses, which, in turn, was God’s law. Jesus Christ would be the sacrificial lamb many years later. Jesus Christ, known ...

Some things are so beautiful that you cannot forget it, Some things are so awful that you cannot forget, Time stands still for a split second, While the mind records it all, When tears doth fall, The curse of it all, Began with the first sin of all, (Adam & Eve) Then a baby in a manger or feeding trough, Covered in cloth, swaddling cloth, The same they used on newborn sheep, These might have been already dappled, covered, To protect the little lamb, From times before, Beginnings of lore, Free, freedom, forever more, A little respite from satan’s snare, A lot of hope wafting through the air, A child of God, He did dare, To take the keys from the gates of hell, The Son of God, He is well, He lives in my heart, my mind, and body.  What can man do to my soul? *** Through all the tragedies that have been going on, we do have a redeemer. And His name is Jesus Christ. Praying for anyone who is in need of this kind of healing.  Love Always, Laveda D. Rockford