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Confession Tuesday: Unroll.me & Inboxpause.com - Life Just Got Better Again...

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Dear Reader,



I confess I still love writing letters and especially postcards.


There is something I love about sending notes out into the world.



Something that makes me sad is how we've filled our time with things we don't need to be doing and how we've forgotten of other ways we once spent our hours.


Like writing letters.

Or going for a walk.
Or looking at the moon.

Or driving to view with someone you love

     and sitting there

     and talking.



I confess I was feeling as I received too many emails so that any "down time" had to spent checking my emails so I could delete/archive them to "stay ahead."


This was how I thought.



A few weeks ago I went to www.unroll.me  (I swear, they are not paying me to say this, I happened to find out about this while watching Katie Couric's episode on decluttering - a topic near & dear to my heart).



I signed up.  Now all my reoccurring emails, subscriptions, etc. end up in one tidy package, one tidy email.  My life is so much simpler.

I had always thought I received a TON of email.  No, I received a TON of reoccurring emails about nothing that I was afraid I'd miss.



Life is manageable again.


And I am back to watching clouds.

To being with someone without even thinking about my phone.

To being a person in the world.



Oh, and I learned you can put a PAUSE feature on your gmail-- I do that too: INBOX PAUSE



I swear, fill my life with read letters and let the email fall to side.



Amen.



~ Kells



 

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What do you need to begin? . .

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~ Kells



 

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Click Here to Find Your Poet Name for National Poetry Month #NPM

Happy Poetry Month!






I'm Iolanthe Titwillow.

Um, actually, I think I'll stick with Kelli.







~ Kells



 

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Poem Writing Prompt to Kick off National Poetry Month Early!

The
Over-Achiever Muse--

Writing Exercise for Poets-

1.
Make a list of twenty words

2. Add a place, a proper noun, the name of person, a planet and a color

Now
look at your words and pair them up by sound the best you can (use half/slant
rhyme, for example: greed could go near underneath, and futility could go with
vanilla pie)

Being
writing in the form of a poem (use line and stanza breaks, not just a
"free write") and picking up your words in order so the words that
sound similar are near each other in the poem. 

Try to use as many sets of words
as possible and feel free to bring in new words with similar sounds to complete
your poem.




Revise, revise, revise. 




~ Kells



 
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I feel this way about poetry too...

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Art by Brian Andreas





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Thought for the Day

(take of it and yourself.)



~ Kells





 

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This is just the book to give your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." Dylan Thomas blurb for Flann O'Brien

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Blurb
of the Day




"This is just the book to give
your sister if she's a loud, dirty, boozy girl." --Dylan Thomas's blurb for Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds. 



(from J. D. McClatchy's notebook: The
Poet's Notebook: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Contemporary Poets)





~ Kells



 

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Today's Thought for the Day to Consider:

~ Kells



 
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Do More Than Exist:

~ Kells



 

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Postcard from Andy Warhol

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~ Kells







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