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Some interesting quotes from George Bernard Shaw on the Interesting Literature blog. My favorite is a quote from Major Barbara. You’ll have to read the post to find it :)
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him. – Preface to Pygmalion
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. – The Wordsworth Book of Humorous Quotations
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. – Maxims for Revolutionists
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. – Major Barbara
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. – Saturday Review, 1895
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get…
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Alone (double cinquain)
Alone
So incomplete
Gazing at the moonlight
Wondering just when you’ll be here
Nearby
With me
To start our lives
Never to leave again
Becoming whole and not just half
As onePamela has written a second collection of love poems. Poetry is an expression from deep within the soul. It can be therapeutic and healing. It can bring out all the best or the worst in life. Her poetry comes from the heart, not the head. It is an outpouring of emotion and she exposes it to the reader in the pages. Love: Lost and Found contains over 90 poems representing over a dozen different forms of poetry. The poems span the angst and despair of love lost to the exhilaration and ecstasy of a deep abiding love.
Love: Lost and Found has already received a five star review that says
“Pamela Beckford writes with her heart as much as her mind. She makes me feel things when I read her work that usually stay buried beneath the surface. Her way of expressing emotions that usually aren’t captured for later evaluation is amazing.
I also enjoy that she uses a lot of different styles and forms of poetry in her collections, making the book varied and interesting. Some are shorter and some longer, but all of them carefully constructed. Her ability to say so much in so few words is a indication of her talent as a writer.
If you are looking for an excellent poetry book, look no further.”
Pamela’s other books have also garnered some great reviews and both are available on Kindle or paperback as well.
Season of Love (tanka)
First there is summer,
Followed by fall, winter, spring
But lest we forget
The season of love appears
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Jump on over to John Howell’s Fiction Favorites and enjoy this week’s top ten list!
Here is the 55th installment of Ten Top Lists of What Not to Do. I decided to publish this list in case anyone wants to do a Top Ten you will at least know some thought has been put in how to behave. Of course, the person who needs to behave is ME. If you would like to guest post a list of your own, contact me at johnhowell.wave@gmail.com
Top Ten Things Not to Do While Trying to Lure Attract Other Authors to do a Top Ten List
10. If you are trying to attract other authors for a top ten-guest appearance, do not make them believe they will become rich and famous. If you do, at best they will overlook the one “like” and still speak to you. At worst, they could find a way to troll your blog for the rest of your life.
9. If you…
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Yesterday (Wednesday, July 16, 2014, to be exact and to be ever etched on my mind), I made a mistake. And not just one mistake. Actually, I made several. And all of them in public. Vis a vis my blog.
Mistake #1: Multitasking. I’ve never ever been good at multitasking. In fact, I hate multitasking (my hatred of it in direct proportion to the current societal expectations that I will engage in it). Yet, at work I do it all the time. If I’m looking up, say, ICD-9 diagnosis codes on the internet, well, hell, I’ll just pop over to my personal email account for a quick look.
Mistake #2: Checking my personal email at work, regardless of device. At best, checking my email will distract me even more than I already am because I might find a message from a friend and so respond, and in the process of responding forget about the task I was supposed to be working on. At worst, all I see is “junk” email and I get depressed.
Mistake #3: Not paying attention (due to multitasking) to which email account I was logging into. I was in the middle of writing a SQL query when a thought about my blog popped into my head and so, of course, I decided to take a quick look at my email. Apparently, I logged into my email account with my blog name, forgetting that I actually have an email account with my blog name. One that I have not checked in over a year. Do you see where I am going with this?
Mistake #4: Having a meltdown. I can choose whether or not to have a meltdown. It doesn’t always feel like I can choose, but I can. When I saw the strange organization of my email account, lists of subscription emails that I thought I had turned off months ago, nothing in my Trash folder and everything on my Primary tab and Gmail acting like it’s a brand-new day in email management … I yielded to the usual anger and angst that I experience whenever I think technology is failing me. Hence, the meltdown.
Mistake #5: Making my meltdown public. As I wrote in yesterday’s blog post (thank god I used my WP app on my iPad so I kept it (relatively) short), a little voice in the back of my head warned, “Don’t publish. Don’t publish.” I’ve written blog posts before that I’ve left in draft and either published much later or just deleted. I could have done the same here. I should have done the same.
If you’ve gotten this far, then you understand that my primary Gmail account (marieannbailey) is really okay. Yes, it has those annoying tabs that really don’t help me in organizing (especially since sometimes Gmail forgets which tab a message should go to), but I had adapted. And that change was a year ago. What I saw yesterday was a different email account that I had forgotten about and so it was not yet organized.
When people started to comment on my blog and nobody complained of having the exact same problem, that’s when I slowly started to realize that I might have made a effing ass of myself. Well, we should learn from our mistakes, right? I thought about deleting yesterday’s post and just saying, “What? Who me? Meltdown in public? Never!” But if I could erase every mistake I’ve ever made, I’d never learn anything.
There is an upside to all this. I’ve found a few things to be thankful for. I have a friend who makes a point of being thankful for something, even when her day totally sucks. You should check out her blog. She’s a good example of how to find the positive in a world of negatives.
So, taking a cue from Pamela, here’s what I’m thankful for after making an effing ass of myself in public:
- Yoga: Wednesday night is Flow and Meditation class. 45 minutes of vigorous flow followed by 30 minutes of meditation. I started class feeling angry with myself and ended with acceptance of myself.
- Gmail: I still don’t care for their email management, but at least it wasn’t Gmail that messed up, it was me.
- My online friends: I am most thankful for the wonderful friends I have here, and all of you who rallied support, offering me suggestions and/or empathy. Because of you, I have some ideas for how to improve my email management. I also suspect that you all are more forgiving of me than I am of myself.
So, false alarm. Gmail is not challenging my sanity. I’m perfectly capable of doing that to myself without any technological assistance.
Cheers and TGI(almost)F!
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Usually I don’t like to get too personal on my blog. I try to avoid writing in the heat of the moment. But here’s the thing: I’m trying to get organized. I’m trying to find a balance between my online and offline life. I am, in fact, trying to spend less time wasting time online. I want to make every minute I spend online to be at least a good quality minute, if not a great one.
So when I logged into my Gmail account a few minutes ago to quickly check my email, I found my inbox totally turned upside down. All my messages have been sorted by Category, not by date, which is what I am used to. I almost cried because unless I can quickly figure out how to reorganize my messages, it’s going to take a long, long time for me to sort through the mess.
Thank you, Gmail, for thinking I’m too stupid to know how best to organize my inbox!
It might be faster for me to just dump Gmail altogether. We’ll see.
Thanks for reading. I feel a little bit better now :)
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For those of you who haven’t yet gotten Dreams of Love, it will be FREE starting tomorrow, July 17 (Thursday) and running through July 19 (Saturday). It’s your chance to read some heartfelt love poetry. There are several FIVE STAR reviews of Dreams of Love.
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You can also get Love: Lost and Found for $.99
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The tea kettle began to whistle, it’s high-pitched steamy hiss making Lucy wince. She was in charge tonight. She was the one to hold forth, to represent all young women everywhere, as the Widows’ Book Club met again. She wondered if they would find it amusing or impertinent, maybe even juvenile, calling their book club The Widows’ Book Club. But they were all widows, she argued with herself. Well, three of them. (more…)
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The is the best Top Ten List ever! Join John in the “fun” and consider trying your hand at writing a top ten list.
Here is the 54th installment of Ten Top Lists of What Not to Do. I decided to publish this list in case anyone wants to do a Top Ten. If so, contact me at johnhowell.wave@gmail.com
Top Ten Things Not To Do While Creating Top Ten Lists
10. If you are creating a top ten list, do not wait until the last-minute before publication. If you do, at best you may have to go with nine. At worst, you might get stuck after two items which will lead to severe writer’s block which might transfer to your latest novel.
9. If you are creating a top ten list, do not ask your significant other how they like it. If you do, at best you might get an honest answer. At worst, you may find out your significant other and you have nothing what so ever in common and finally decide to…
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If you like to swim (or not) and if you think there may be something in common between writing and swimming, check out Cinthia Ritchie’s post here.
It was dark, and there was no sound, no smell. When I opened my eyes all I could see were silver bubbles escaping from my mouth.
It was about 9 p.m. and I was swimming across DeLong Lake on a windy evening, the sky still light but overcast, the temperature, which had been close to 80 degrees earlier, cooling off so that the few people on shore wore jackets and baseball caps.
My goggles had fogged over and I could see nothing but the grey and choppy water, and my partner’s bright blue inflatable pack raft/boat. The waves were high enough that water splashed on my face and in my mouth. It was difficult to breathe and soon I lost all sense of where I was. I simply swam, my arms and legs moving through that cold water.
Yet when I opened my eyes on the underwater strokes, it was…
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