Category: Abundance
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Quote of the Week…
“Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 – 1882
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Quote of the Week…
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.” Mel Brooks, 1926 – Happy Birthday to this comedic genius who turned 100 on Sunday!
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Quote of the Week…
“Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.” Henry David Thoreau, 1817 – 1862
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Quote of the Week…
“Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 – 1968
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Quote of the Week…
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” Marcus Aurelius, 121 – 180
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Top Ten Reasons to Switch to my ConfessionsOfACreative Substack Site…
10. I’ll be phasing out this WordPress site. 9. You will continue to receive my essays about Writing, Wandering and Wondering. It’s easy, click here. 8. Subscribers will have free access to THE ART COLONY, my first novel, about a young artist who is struggling to make her way in 1970s Galveston where it is not…
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Quote of the Week…
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” Zig Ziglar, 1926 – 2012
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Quote of the Week…
“Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.” Maya Angelou, 1928 – 2014
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Friday…
I recently read Friday, by Michel Tournier, translated from French by Norman Denny. It is a retelling of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, in part seen through the lens of Friday. It was a fun read, at times disastrous or shocking yet leaning to the philosophical. According to Tournier, Crusoe was desperate for a way to log…
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