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January 17, 2016
What Your First Fictional Crush From Literature Says About You | Bustle
Works for me! Mine is Holden Caulfield! And it’s all true, well, except the thing about the hats. No matter how many hats I buy, I never wear them. I neither like they way I look in them, nor do I feel comfortable in them! (They make my head sweat!) ;-)
Peace, love & great protagonists for all,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess
http://www.bustle.com/articles/134185-what-your-first-fictional-crush-from-literature-says-about-you
None of the above
Truth
There are those who say things so succinctly & so beautifully that there is no need to add to the thought. Thanks, Druidess, for sharing this, so that I could, in turn, share it. ;-)
Peace, love & making a good difference,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can find it on YouTube under the same title as the book.
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess
Life’s Lesson
I am learning the hard way to accept life “as is” & to stop trying to force things to happen my way & on my time table.
And it seems that Spirit’s timetable is much better than mine anyway! ;-)
Peace, love & letting things be,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
A Writer And His Thoughts, Meaning In Life
Perspective of time and distance alter substance
I want to express my sincerest condolences to the people of Great Britain for the early loss of some of their most innately beautiful people, esp. John Lennon & David Bowie. And to thank that great nation for sharing their heroes with us.
We are better because they were here with us, showing us how to grow, how to love (not just the person beside us, but those who live in other places that we will never know personally). They showed us how to be & how to die.
As I learn more about Lennon, I see how he had so much to share after so many losses: never knowing his father, his mother’s early death, and the death of his best friend, Stewart. I can’t help but wonder how he carried on.
Bowie, on the other hand, grew up in Brixton, a place I wandered around late one night, only to be told later, how “dangerous” it was. Those people had obviously never been to an American city. Bowie showed his strength as he tried to live for his daughter. He hung in there for a good, long time. If you look at his photos, it is obvious that it wasn’t easy those last few years.
It’s interesting how a melancholy child can spend years thinking she had the saddest childhood imaginable, then she revisits some of those places & has all these amazingly wonderful memories of loving parents, and brothers & sisters who she had adventures with. And even the walk to school suddenly looks like a wonderful walk down Memory Lane.
Justice says time & distance alter the past “somewhat.” For me, it is almost a totally different past. It has a lot to do with working with troubled kids for 30 years. Hearing horror stories about kids being used as money for the parents to get more drugs. (I won’t even go into it because it will make you cry too.)
If I could go back & be happy for all the times that I didn’t realize would mean so much to me now, I would. ;-)
Peace, love & the joy of having learned how precious life is,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can find it in YouTube under the same title as the book.
In the poems I have been thinking of and writing the last few years, I have grown aware that childhood is a subject somehow available to me all over again. The perspective of time and distance alter substance somewhat, and so it is possible to think freshly of things that were once familiar and ordinary, as if they had become strange again. I don’t know whether this is true of everybody’s experience, but at a certain point childhood seems mythical once more. It did to start with, and it does suddenly again.
~ Donald Justice, from an interview with The Missouri Review, quoted by Linda Pastan, “Yesterday’s Noise: The Poetry of Childhood Memory,” Writer (vol. 105, no. 10, 1992)
Credits: Art – Pascal Campion. Quote: Memory Landscape
5 Ways I’m Not Under Pressure
I have heard it said that Mother Teresa died of a broken heart. I believe my sister almost died of a broken heart after my mother’s untimely death. But she got heart surgery & is feeling much better.
As Ms. Parker says broken hearts can kill you, so what do you prefer? Carry on, with the lessons you learned from those we loved & admired, as a part of who we are now? Or die too, likely forgotten because we haven’t finished what we came for?
I choose the former.
Although my debut novel is out, I have much more to do. And David Bowie taught me more than I’ll ever know about being myself & embracing that person despite mistakes & losses & broken hearts.
Peace, love & carrying on the dream,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video and song for her novel. You can find it on YouTube under the same title as the novel.
Can your heart really be broken?Apparently it can.
Broken Heart Syndrome is a thing.
Also known as Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy (not to be confused with the Kobayashi Maru from Star Trek, totally different kind of heart-racing); this condition is most often stress-induced.
Wow, you really can die from a broken heart.
So, how can you mend a broken heart? I’m neither a doctor, nor a therapist, nor one of The BeeGees, but I wish I had the answer, because mine is Under Pressure.
People die.
David Bowie died.
As did Alan Rickman. And a bunch of other people.
We’ve all had family and friends who have died.
My point? Moments in time are just that. Big or small, once they’re gone, they’re gone. Life is for the living, even if you can now fulfill all your funeral needs (with drop dead prices) while buying vats of olive oil at…
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January 16, 2016
Saturday Morning
I saved this post for several days in order to post it this morning. Then I don’t bother to check the tabs so I finally see this at 12:19! Then my PC decides it’s on the warpath & I have to delete a bunch of other saved posts in order to be able to post here. That took 14 minutes.
Now I am finally posting this & all I can say is: It has to be Saturday morning somewhere, right?
Peace, love & time to recharge for all,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too. You can find it on YouTube under the same title as the book.
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. I am still pursued by a neurosis about work inherited from my father. A day where one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever. Tonight I do feel in a state of grace, limbered up, less strained.
~ May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude
Notes:
Image Daniel Grant’s Angles via Journal of a Nobody.
Related posts: May Sarton
Truth
So very try! And so very important to remember!
Peace,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess
Raising girls who are “includers” instead of “mean girls” | Lisa McCrohan
This is a very important post! Thank you, Druidess, for reposting so I could Reblog. And thank you, Lisa McChrohan, for taking the time to write this!
Peace, love & respect for all,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess
http://www.lisamccrohan.com/2014/09/raising-girls-who-are-includers-instead-of-mean-girls/
I Love Books
There are those who say that for every book we read, we are living another life. It seems to be true. There were books that were very hard to get through because they were so scary/sad. “Beloved” was one of those books for me. Every time I got to the woodshed scene, I stopped reading for months, years even.
Having written a novel myself, I guess that says something about my own life being interesting, no? ;-)
Peace, love & lots of reading time for all,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda's historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
A Writer And His Thoughts, Meaning In Life
January 15, 2016
David Bowie: Closet Occultist!
This death has affected me more than any other celebrity death since John Lennon. Which is interesting because Bowie was a huge fan of Lennon. I think Bowie showed us that you can jump off the deep end and come back from it. All these people are hiding their past, and there’s Bowie, now in his beige 3 piece suit, loving every chameleon-like change that he’s been through, but loving his last, that of being a father to a beautiful girl, the best.
We are forever changed because Bowie was among us. Thank you, Great Britain, once again, for sharing your cherished heroes with ALL of us! We will forever be indebted to your gratitude!
Peace, love & changes,
Sherrie
Sherrie Miranda’s historically based, coming of age, Adventure novel “Secrets & Lies in El Salvador” is about an American girl in war-torn El Salvador:
http://tinyurl.com/klxbt4y
Her husband made a video for her novel. He wrote the song too:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/P11Ch5chkAc?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent
Sol Ascendans - The Website of Alex Sumner
Q: “So were you involved in actual devil worship?”
A: “Not devil worship, no, it was pure straightforward, old-fashioned magic.”
Q: “The Aleister Crowley variety?”
A: “No, I always thought Crowley was a charlatan. But there was a guy called [Arthur] Edward Waite who was terribly important to me at the time. And another called Dion Fortune who wrote a book called ‘Psychic Self-Defense‘. You had to run around the room getting bits of string and old crayons and draw funny things on the wall, and I took it all most seriously, ha ha ha ! I drew gateways into different dimensions, and I’m quite sure that, for myself, I really walked into other worlds. I drew things on walls and just walked through them, and saw what was on the other side!”
David Bowie, interviewed in NME, 1997
So the news this week has been dominated by…
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