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January 13, 2022
January 12, 2022
Hope
It’s the one thing we all need and sometimes it is so hard to find.
January 11, 2022
New Year, New Newsletter — Let’s Go!
OK, after a couple weeks off, we’re back. And we’re back with some changes.
Actually, there aren’t multiple changes, just one big change. We’ll be changing the name of our newsletter to Writers Are Superstars. Why, you ask? Let me tell you.
CRY Magazine, the actual stories written by contributors, is all about vulnerability and creativity. We allow writers to bare their souls and we share and engage in that process.
For our newsletter, we want to offer you something different. We want to take a more educational approach that delivers content to help you better understand the publishing/literary industry and hopefully make you a better writer. But we don’t want to do this in a boring, “how to” kinda way. That wouldn’t be CRY.
Instead, we’ll explore and compare the ways writing and publishing are similar to other industries, in particular the entertainment industry, and provide insights that educate readers and elevate the status of writers. We’ll be talking music and film and other parts of culture that resonate with us and hopefully feels relatable to you, our readers.
In short, we’re gonna make talking about writing and publishing cool and still informative.
So this is the last email you’ll see from SCREAM. Writers Are Superstars will start next week with a brand new scope of content.
And just to be clear, we’ll still be doing our weekly Call For Submissions. That’s not going anywhere. Look out for that next Monday, also.
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The New Year — seen differently
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https://unsplash.com/photos/ATlRqTCbvV4
At the dawn of this New Year, Numerology (a.k.a. the knowledge of numbers) can strengthen our confidence and hope, for 2022 is a year with special numerological significance. Namely, three twos 2–2–2 symbolize a new beginning; thus, the newness of the New Year is enhanced by the meaning of the numbers.
2–2–2 is a sign of positivity, joy and happiness,
so this year is an encouragement
Underneath this sweet message, however, I see an invitation to use our free will wisely and maybe try a new outlook on Life. For example, in my view, true positivity does not imply that the negative is rejected or ignored. Rather, it means equanimity — a state of balance in which we celebrate Life with all its aspects, the desirable and the less attractive.
In the same line, joy does not mean just getting what we want, but rather resilience no matter what. Sensing that perhaps when we don’t get what we want, we are guided by Life on the secret tracks of our specific paths. Such an openness brings a relaxation with which comes the ability to also want what we have, rather than just longing for what we want.
https://breakbrunch.com/you-always-want-what-you-dont-have/happiness is not only having what you want,
but equally or more important: it is wanting what you have
Therefore, my wish for all of us in 2022 is freedom from attachments and aversions. Freedom to stop and take a break from the pressures we have placed upon ourselves, with a focus on acceptance and forgiveness.
Allow yourself to feel what you’re feeling, albeit they are not nice feelings. Even guilt and regret (two of the most tricky emotions) get disarmed when you acknowledge that this is what you are feeling without judging yourself.
Humble acceptance of what is will set you free.And that’s how 2022 becomes a source of positive energy that releases you from the cage of expectations and allows you to enjoy inner peace and tranquillity. It might as well get your deepest self to blossom.
So, I propose making the New Year’s resolution of offering ourselves the kindness and the reassurance that we may be just the way we are, and we have the right to be, so we don’t have to justify our existence. Let this gift to ourselves empower us to accept others’ otherness and oddness too.
Life manifests through us in all its richness and variety. We can celebrate the diversity of all that makes us different from each other, the unique individuality of each and every one of us. Ultimately that’s the testimony of how creative Life is. But at the same time, we ought to recognize how we all are also one: consciousness in human form. In the end, we all just long for love and acceptance, and we all just try to live this human life according to our respective levels of consciousness.
As my mantra and motto for this New Year, I chose the legendary song by the legendary Beetles “Let it be”. It says it all:
Picture credit:
https://songlyricprints.co.uk/the-beatles-let-it-be-song-lyric-quote-print/
To all my readers and in particular to the lovely Janina Underwood my warmest wishes for a happy New Year 🥂
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Do Not Compare Your Love to Mine
A poem
Photo by Brett Ritchie on UnsplashDo not compare your love to mine
For what you saw were glittered rays
I saw the cosmos, shooting stars
The beginning and the end of days
Do not compare your love to mine
For mine is sonnets, poetry
Whilst your love’s essence lacks a theme
And grace, and poise, and symmetry
Do not compare your love to mine
Unless you want to be disgraced
The difference being, if I might
That mine could never be erased
Ross Lynn
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