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oceans
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all animals in general
animal rights
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Your Icecream Flavour is... French Vanilla!
You're a smooth and silky suave type! You exude class and you believe in tradition. A classical taste who doesn't like things to be too flashy or showy. Climb the Eiffel tower of taste with a spoonfull of you! Oui Oui!
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I just love it when people leave mean comments without first reading the article they commented on!
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My opposing Sessho followers have found me on Squidoo, niiice.
I embroidery everything I see. I love embroidery! I also chatter about embroidery on Squidoo. Check out my new embroidery lens!
Music
Genres:
80's Glam
80's Metal
Classical
Fave Musician:
C*C*DeVille
Other Musicians:
Alice Copper
David Bowie
Liberace..
Fave Groups:
Samantha 7
Poison
Tin Machine
Other Groups:
Cinderella
Bon Jovi
Def Leopard
Movies
Genres:
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Classic Horror
Disney Animation
Fave Movies: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Phantom of the Opera (1989)
Phantom of the Opera (2005)
House on Haunted Hill
The Pit and the Pendulum
Labyrinth
The Dark Crystal
Theater of Blood
The Princess Bride
Sleepy Hollow
Secret Window
Pirates of the Caribean I & II & III
Harry Potter all
Fave Actor:
Vincent Price
Other Actors:
Johnny Depp
Tom Baker
Alan Rickman
Desi Arnaz
Al Lewis
DeForest Kelly
Peter Lorre
Jeremy Brett
Cary Grant
Bela Lugosi
Anthony Hopkins
Jim Carrey
Christpher Llyod
Harrison Ford
Musicals:
Scrooge
Oliver!
Brigadoon
White Christmas
The Music Man
The Sound of Music
Television
I do love the old stuff.
Genres:
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Classic Horror
Murder Mystery
Classic TV:
I Love Lucy
The Munsters
The Addams Family
Columbo
X-Files
Xena
Star Trek the original series
Dukes of Hazzard
Murder She Wrote
The BBC:
Dr. Who esp. Tom Baker & David Tennant
Bargin Hunters
Changing Rooms
Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares
Sherlock Holmes staring Jeremy Brett
Keeping Up Apperances
Local Shows:
The Red Green Show
TV Mini Series:
Horatio Hornblower
Merlin
Thorn Birds
10th Kingdom
I love cartoons. Give me lots and lots of cartoons! 80's cartoons were the best. 60's and 70's cartoons rocked. 90's Disney Afternoons rank my all time faves. Darkwing Duck is the best show ever made!
Cartoons:
Darkwing Duck
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo
Scooby Doo
Smurfs
Speed Buggy
Sonic the Hedghog
Beetlejuice
DuckTales
Donald Duck Shorts
Jem*
Looney Tunes
Laufolimpics
He-Man
She-Ra
Transformers
Rose Petal Place
Herself the Elf
Underdog
Mighty Mouse
Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends
Giligan's Planet
Books
Genres:
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Classic Horror
Murder Mystery
Little Golden Books
Books:
Retief series
Faeries
Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy
Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
The Three Investigators series
Harry Potter series
Bunnicula series
My Teacher is an Alien series
Choose Your Own Adventure series
Tailypoe
Treasure Island
Sherlock Holmes series
Assy Mayo Mysteries
Nancy Drew
Little Golden Books
Ender's Game
Star Trek books
Where's Waldo
I love classic fairy tales, fairy tale princesses, folktales, ancient mythology stories, pirates stories, children's picture books, and ALL books with faeries in them.
I esp love books with water faeries (sirens, mermaids, kelpies, silkies, etc.) in them, both children's and adult's books. Mermaids & Sirens are my fave fearie-type creatures.
I read mostly children's and young adult's books; when I read books written for adults, they are usually sci-fi
Comics:
Uncle Scrooge
Super Picsu Geant
Sailor Moon
Uncle Scrooge Adventures
Uncle Scrooge & Donald Duck
Donald Duck
Donald Duck Adventures
Walt Disney Comic & Stories
Darkwing Duck
Disney Afternoon
DuckTales
Batman
WonderWoman
Terry Toons
Andy Panda
Uncle Wiggly
Garfield
and a whole host of other to many to list. I own one of the world's largest and most complete collections of Disney Duck comic books ever compiled, with comics dated back to the 1930's.
Authors:
Kieth Laumer
Brian Froud
Don Rosa
Carl Barks
Edgar Allan Poe
The Brothers Grimm
J.K.Rowlings
Dr. Suess
James Howe
Bruce Coville
Phobee Atwood Taylor
Stephen King love his house!
Seeking writers of short genre fiction, all genres up to 13,000 words.(Stories rated PG-13 or less: No erotica, hate, suicide, or vulgar language please).
Seeking writers of short genre fiction, all genres up to 13,000 words. (Stories rated PG-13 or less: no sex, hate, porn, or vulgar language please).
Wendy C. Allen (EelKat) 's Companies
Twighlight Manor Press Old Orchard Beach & Biddeford, ME US owner & editor publishing house
est. 1978
Cooper Cockeral Cards & Gifts Old Orchard Beach & Biddeford, Maine US owner & art director Retail sales of cards, t-shirts, & gift items. A division of The Twighlight Manor Press.
est. 2004
A Writer's Desk online, world-wide-web US creator, owner & moderator Online writers group. A division of The Twighlight Manor Press.
Dear friends, casual acquaintances, total strangers, and people who will deny they know me:
My name is Wendy C. Allen.
I am a writer.
I write fiction.
What is my genre? I really don’t know. I do not stick to just one. It depends on my mood I suppose.
Some of my work reads like horror. A lot of it in fact actually looks like horror, feels like horror, and bleeds like horror. Haunted houses. A serial killer. Cannibals. Freaks. Vampires. An insane asylum. Yep, on the surface it looks an awful lot like horror. Gothic maybe?
But than there is the heart of the story. The romance. The lovers. The affairs. The heartaches. It may look like horror but it leans heavy toward romance as well.
Of course lets not forget the star ships. The aliens. The laser weapons. The portal through solid matter. The intergalactic space wars. The planet made of ice. Another planet made of fire. The mad scientist bent on eternal life. The theme seems to just scream science fiction and space opera.
But wait, I’m overlooking the faeries, namely the Phookas and Sireans, those mischievous creatures from Fae. And the evil sorcerer bent on global intergalactic domination. The ice dragon. The talking cats. A pink frog and his blue zebra. The mushroom forest. Eight foot tall humanoid birds. And blue skinned creatures with formidable “magic” powers. It’s starting to sound like fantasy now.
What is my genre? I have no idea and quite frankly, I really don’t care. I write the Twighlight Manor series and it is a genre unto itself, I just follow its story to wherever it may lead. Why should I pigeonhole it into a one size fits all genre?
If I were a month, I would be August.
If I were a day of the week, I would be Friday the 13th.
If I were a time of day, I would be twilight.
If I were a planet, I would be Jupiter.
If I were a sea animal, I would be a giant moray eel.
If I were a direction, I would be East.
If I were a historical figure, I would be … ?
If I were a liquid, I would be Moxie.
If I were a bird I would be a turkey vulture.
If I were a cat I would be black.
If I were a dog I would be a Cocker Spainel.
If I were a tree, I would be a great white pine.
If I were a tool, I would be … ?
If I were a flower, I would be a blue flag.
If I were a type of weather, I would be a warm spring day.
If I were an animal, I would be a bobcat.
If I were a season I would be Autumn.
If I were a holiday I would be Halloween.
If I were a color, I would be orange.
If I were an emotion, I would be love.
If I were a sound, I would be laughter.
If I were an element, I would be the water.
If I were a car, I would be a Cadillac.
If I were a food, I would be macaroni and cheese.
If I were a place, I would be Otter Cove.
If I were a body of water I would be the North Atlantic Ocean.
If I were a song I would be “Come Hell or High Water” by Poison.
If I were a book I would be Jane Eyre.
If I were a gemstone I would be a pigeon blood star.
If I were a metal I would be platinum.
If I were a word, I would be unforgettable.
My favorite color is orange.
My second favorite color is blue.
I also like pink.
My favorite city is Old Orchard Beach.
My favorite place to walk is The Ross Forest.
My favorite view is the rocky coast of Maine.
My favorite Disney character is Scrooge McDuck.
My favorite super hero is Darkwing Duck.
My favorite Disney villain is NegaDuck.
My second favorite Disney villain is SteeleBeak.
My favorite super villain is the Joker.
My favorite Disney non-duck character is Tigger.
My favorite trees are white pines.
My favorite flowers are purple iris & blue roses.
My favorite animals are eels & bobcat & roosters.
My favorite flavor ice cream is French Vanilla.
My favorite food is veggie & rice stir fry.
My favorite pizza is black olive, mushroom, spinach, cheese, dill pickle, & lima bean, with no sauce.
My favorite book is Retief and the Warlords
My favorite series of books is The Retief Series by Keith Laumer.
I was just checking out Dalek vids on YouTube for my new Dalek Squidoo, and I ran across this one. Cool! Features clips from my fave Dr Who vs Dalek episode (9th doctor season finally). Check it out!
Your results: You are The Joker
The Joker
91%
Apocalypse
83%
Dr. Doom
83%
Dark Phoenix
83%
Magneto
81%
Lex Luthor
81%
Poison Ivy
72%
Juggernaut
72%
Riddler
71%
Mr. Freeze
70%
Venom
61%
Green Goblin
60%
Kingpin
60%
Catwoman
53%
Two-Face
52%
Mystique
48%
The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane. You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand.
For those not in the know already, I am an alien contactee, with multiple experiences since 1978. While I have found others online who were also contactees, I have yet to find any one who has come in contact with the same type of alien I have had contact with, however, I have not looked for other contacts for very long.
I grew up in a very religious family, church, and community, all of whom went to great extremes to try to convince me that "my alien" was nothing more than an imaginary friend. (I was 4 years old the first time I saw him.) I eventually saw his ship (at age 8) and the adults in my life continued to tell me I had not seen what I had seen.By the time I was 14, my bishop and one of my uncles came to the conclusion that I must have schizophrenia, seeing how as a teenager I still refused to "give up my imaginary friend" (as they put it).
By the time I was 16, three different doctors, had all said the same thing: That I did not have schizophrenia, nor any other mental illness, and that while they questioned that I had seen an alien, they said they believed I had seen something.Furious, the bishop, now set about to telling people that the doctors were right, it wasn't schizophrenia, it was demon possession.
At age 16, I stopped talking about "my alien" and in fact, just stopped talking all together. At age 21, a pastor (not the bishop) took it upon himself to "preform an exorcism" on me. I became deeply mistrustful of adults, and made no farther attempts to try to convince anyone that "my alien" was real and neither imaginary friend not possessive demon. My contacts with him continued, however, and still continue to this day.
Today, 30 years later, I decided that I can no longer let close minded people driven by religious hysteria, control my life any more, and so last week, (January 2009) I decided to do a Google search to see if there was any one else out there, who had had contact with aliens. I have spent the past 30 years under the belief that I was the only person who had ever had such an experience. I was stunned to find that Google brought back search results in the millions and I now know that I am not the only person who has had contact with aliens (and I now know that he is an alien; up until last week I was referring to "my alien" as "my faerie" because I had thought he was a faerie.)
Well, seeing how there are so many others like me out there, I feel that it is now safe for me to tell people what happened and that I no longer have to fear church leaders who would call him a demon.
LDS/Mormon UFO believers beware: I am being excommunicated for publishing the story of my alien encounter!!!!!
I was just told by my LDS bishop that if I did not remove the story of my alien encounter from the internet, that I'll be excommunicated from the church! I am so upset right now. I don't understand how they can do this.
I'll backlog a bit for those of you who don't know about the events that lead up to this:
Well, as some of you may know from reading my blog posts, and FaceBook comments, the 9 years of vandalism that lead to my becoming homeless, came to a sudden end after a huge fire swept through our town and killed several people in February of 2008. For the rest of the year, I finally and at last had a few months of peace and quiet without rocks and paintballs and death threats or people setting fire to my house. However, the rumors that I was a witch with a poltergeist demon, started growing worse - people were just too terrified after the fire to do any more vandalism, because as they have told me on countless occasion, they believed I had sent a demon to curse them and that's how the fire got started. (I think it may be safe to say I live in a town full of superstitious redneck hicks!)
So I had a rare year without violence being done to my family, until February of 2009, when things started up again, and the outspoken talk of my "demon" went on an all out rampage, driving me once again, back into my agoraphobic state due to the threat of violence every time I leave the house. Well, I mentioned this online and oe of my newer FB friends who did not know the situation but was seeing the nasty comments local church members were leaving all over my profile, and asked me what these people were talking about, and what this so-called demon it was that they kept accusing me of sending after them. To answer their questions I wrote, what has become undoubtedly my most controversial, flamed, blasted, and outragougously hated Squidoo lens ever: ( http://www.squidoo.com/amphibious-aliens ) which told the story of my encounter with a strange creature I met when I was 4 years old, and due to my refusal to deny what I had seen, would result in years of accusations of witchcraft, demon possession, violence, and vandalism, which reached it's height in 2006 when these people decided to set fire to my home and kill my pets as a desperate attempt to "drive out my demon". (The fire was supposed to be an exorcism of sorts, though I never quite understood how that was exactly.)
Well in any case, this lens just reached it's 5th month birthday, and the traffic and comments and emails and IMs have been coming at ever increasing levels, with church members now crying out in one accord, demanding that I delete my lens and beg forgiveness of God. Last night, this ongoing saga reached a strange and unexpected new level which totally took me by surprise. Some of you may be aware of a "battle" that ensured on FaceBook about 2 weeks ago, when 2 church members died suddenly, and the whole kit and kaboodle of the rest of the members within hours of the deaths, landed on my FaceBook profile with accusation after accusation, all accusing me of being a witch and putting a curse on these 2 men causing their deaths. I told them all exactly what I thought of their accusations, which I found appualing and laughable. With in 2 hours I lost more than 200 friends off my FaceBook account as one by one they took to writing on each others walls and telling each other to "punish" me by deleting me off their friends list. I told them I was better off without them and I didn't care if they left or not. In the end, only 2 members of the church are still on my friends list. The rest now shun me . . . hey, shunning is better than vandalism at least!
Well, than last night, my dad, received a phone call (I don't have a phone) from the bishop asking me to meet him at his office. And I spent the next half hour being told by the bishop that I was a witch, an apostate, an evil caster of spells, and than he throew the ultimatum on me: delete my "wicked website of lies or be excommunicated". I now have 2 weeks to delete my "evil" Squidoo lens, after which time, if it has not been deleted, he will be bringing in the church council and start excomunication procedures!
Well, if in 30 years, I have stood up against them never refusing to deny the existence of this strange creature, why would I suddenly do so now? I'm not denying what I saw, I'm not deleting my lens, and so, I have one new experience to add to my Squidoo experience - in 2 weeks I'll be excommunicated, and I can say it was Squidoo that did it! :) LOL! :) UGH! These people are so crazy, and this, is just proving it even more. I've been a member of the LDS Church for 34 years! I can't believe they would tell me to not tell people about my encounter like this. Well, I'd just like to say that I am NOT going to be deleting my website about my encounter. Oh well, I guess I can always find a new church to attend, right?
And now I ask you, can you see any reason why I should delete my lens? What exactly is it that they find so wrong with it anyways? I really don't understand what all the fuss is about! I think they are being waaaay to over sensitive here. I mean, what exactly is it that they find wrong with it? I have to ask here: What would Jesus do? Would Jesus attack, harass, vandalize, condemn, and hate? I don't think so!
Well, I just needed to get that off my chest, thank you for listening.
What color is your Mermaid Tail?
You have a green tail! You love all aquatic plant life and you aren't too partial to humans. Take this quiz!
You are the friendly mermaid. Your mates are the most important things in your life, and you waste no time in making as many as possible. Your mermaid is like you because you both share a social quality that makes you are easy to talk to and friendly. Take this quiz!
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I just love it when people leave mean comments without first reading the article they commented on!
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My opposing Sessho followers have found me on Squidoo, niiice.
I was just reminded by my ex, why he's my ex...
...so I updated this lens and added a section to answer the question: "So, of the men you have known, what would you say was the one thing you hated the most?" So now the world can find out what the one thing I hate most about men is.
Well, since I write my NaNoNovels a chapter a day and the contest runs for 30 days, that means I'll have 30 mini-chapters, which in turn means that if I'm going to use this dare, I need to come up with 30 characters to kill off and 30 different ways to kill them off!
HELP! I need ideas for unique ways to kill off my characters!
One of the most commonly asked question a writer hears is: "Where do you get your ideas?" This question seems to baffle and mystify people who don't write and people who want to write but don't know where to start. So, today I am going to take a look at this question and it's answer.
There are now 22,695 words in my NaNoNovel outline. That means I have written nearly 25,000 words about how I'm going to write a 75,000 word novel.
Who I'd like to meet:
http://www.nanowrimo.org
WHO I WOULD LIKE TO MEET:
I love making new friends. Always look forward to meeting new people in cyberspace. I'm looking to network with the following types of people, so if you come under this list, go ahead and send me a friend request:
Other authors, writers, readers, libraries, book stores, editors, artists, illustrators, publishers, magazines, agents, reviewers, book collectors, and other people in the publishing industry who like to read/write/create gothic, horror, fantasy, science fiction, adventure, mystery, gothic romance, children's books, comic books, and most other type books too.
People in the "haunted house business", be it theme parks and amusements or filmmaking and movies, ghost hunters, or the haunted houses themselves (both real and fictional).
People who love faeries, phookas, sirens, alien worlds, mermaids, unicorns, fairy tale princesses, wizards, furries, sci-fi, fantasy, ufos, paranormal, vampires, and dark fantasy.
Anyone who is creative: writers, artists, fashion designers, doll makers, and other such people, etc.
People involved in saving/rescueing animals. Others who like me are vegan animal-rights activists. Members of PETA, WWF, Greenpeace, and all other such groups. People who love birds, roosters, bantams, cats, and eels. Anyone who devotes their life to making this world a better place. EVERYONE who loves poultry, cats, bobcats, or eels and well stop at nothing to protect them. All those who love the ocean and it's wonderful creatures.
People who like me, love the ocean, love sand and surf, and beaches and waves, and the salt air, and smell of seaweed after a storm, and pier-fries with vinager... and oh yeah, if you live anywhere along Maine's amazing, beautiful, wonderful coast, and if you think that the coast of Maine is Heaven on Earth, than send me a request.
People who love all ocean life, both real and fictional: from eels and stingrays to mermaids and sirens, and all who will do anything to protect our wounderful oceans.
I love books with faeries in them. I esp love books with water faeries (sirens, mermaids, kelpies, silkies, etc.) in them, both children's and adult's books. Mermaids & Sirens are my fave fearie-type creatures. If you are a writer of such books, send me a request and also post a comment telling me about your book, I'd love to read it.
Brian Froud is the god of fearie authors and faerie artists... if you are a fellow fan of his books, his art, or his 2 movies (Labyrinth & The Dark Crystal), or if you write books or paint art like his, than I'd love to add you to my friends list, as well.
If you drive a Peugeot 505, send me a friend request (and an IM telling me so)... it is so hard to find fellow fans of the Peugeot 505 these days.
Send me a friend request if you are a member of The American Bantam Ass'n or other such poultry or avian group or club:
Oh yeah, and one more thing...
Who Are You, Anyway? I love adding new folks to my friends list, but I'd love it more if I hear from you as well. If you're on or want to be on my friends list, send me a comment and tell me about yourself and why you asked to be my friend. I love picture and glitter graphic comments, so feel free to send me a new one every day! (I do send comments back in responce to comments I get.) Added note: While I love comments and read them daily, it may be several weeks before I read my inbox messages; like email, I only check my messages once a month.)
EXTRA NOTE ABOUT COMMENTS:
Yes, I love to get them. Yes I love to read books. Yes, I love to hear that you have just released a new book. Yes, by all means, send me a comment with info about your book. I'm always looking for new books to read, who knows, yours just might be the next one I pick. I always love to promote books, so writers are more than welcomed to use my comment box to promote their books with.
Oh yeah... and one last thing you should know: I am a long time active bycotter and protestor of vivisection, Draize, P&G, battery farms, etc. and I post a lot of bulletins of that nature... if getting bulletins like that bothers you, than don't send a friend request to me.
I Do Not Want to Meet:
hmmmm.... the strange friend requests I've been getting requires me to add this final notice to my profile:
I check the profiles of the requests I get, and while most everyone who requsets to be added to my list gets approved, I do have a few guidelines that well get your profile denied from my friends list:
1) No Porn... any profiles with porn get zapped quicker than anything else (and reported, because porn is not allowed on MySpace.) If your profile is set to private due to mature/adult content (yes, MySpace sends a message with your request, telling me that that is the reason it is set to private), it'll be denied.
2) No spam... this meaning "take this survy and make millions!" type of profiles. (these are also reported as these are also not allowed on MySpace)
3) If you are linking back to porn or spam, I won't report you, but I will deny you.
4.) If you are on my friends list and than suddenly you aren't anymore, ask yourself this: how many comments/IMs/emails did you send me asking me to take a survy to make millions? If the answer was more than one, than, yep, I blocked you and reported you. One such comment from you is ok, but 5 or 6 each and every day is getting pretty annoying, esp when 10 or 20 people are each sending 4 or 5 a day. Not smart on your part. :(
5.) I'm an animal rights activist, if your profile promoted hunting, trapping, or otherwise harming and maiming animals, than that's why you were denied.
EXTRA NOTE ABOUT COMMENTS:
I've had to delete several comments because of there "porn graphics" nature; I also delete all the ringtone, survy, refinance, MLM, get-rich-quick, are-you-tired-of-being-single, check-out-my-adult-photos, and other spammy type posts.
In responce to all those and future comments like them I have this to say:
Nope, I don't care to have a sexy afternoon, a normal one will do just fine, thank you. Besides, didn't you read my profile? You're sending your porn star girly pics to a straight female! What would I want with those? You really want to wish me a sexy weelend? Send me pictures of C*C*DeVille.
I do not own a phone, nor do I own a cellphone. I have no phonenumber, no one calls me, because there is no phone to call me on, and I'm not likely to ever own a phone at any time in the future either, as I really do not see the need to have one. So no I have no need for a thousand and one free ringtones.
When I first started useing the internet in 1997, I took about 40 suries a day, I did that for several months... I never saw a single penny for my trouble. Taking survies for money is a scam... send me links to them only if you want me to delete you off my friend's list.
Only a fool would jepodizes his home by refinancing it. Have no debt and you will have no worries.
If you want me to join a Multi-Level-Marketing program, you had better be offering me an exectutive office with a view of the ocean, full medical, and a salary of at least $45 per hour, to be one of the CEO of the corperation. I only want to be on the top level of MLM, so if you are offering one of the lower levels, than you can take your offer and jump off a cliff, cause I don't want it.
Sure, I'd love to get rich quick! Who wouldn't? But I want to get rich by work a 100% real live career, not by spamming people to death, so, nope, sorry, no deals.
Nope, I'm not tired of being single. I have yet to see one single happy couple, so nope, I'll just stick to writing books about fictional guys and wait to meet one of them in the next life, preferibly Etiole.
My, my, my...did you not know that adult photos are not alowed on mySpace... well, I guess I'll just have to forward your comment to Tom!
Well, that should cover all responces to spam comments, so now you don't have to send me them, cause you already know the answer I well send back to your comment box.
Many have heard the saying “No man is an island”, but some have a hard time grasping the concept that it teaches.
What does it mean?
I think that it is meant for the overly independent among us. It reminds us that we are social creatures. It reminds us that we need the help and support of others, and that we need to be there to help and support the people around us when they need it.
I hope that you have a great week. Please don’t be an island.
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These pictures were taken on a cloud day right after a rain storm. Even on the dreariest of days, I find some beauty to photograph.
We also need to find some beauty in every day of our lives. We may be going through some tough times, but as long as we are able to find the flower in the midst of the rainstorm, we know that we can get through any situation.
Most of us are capable of flying to great heights in our lives. But, like this bird, we do not fly very far off the ground. Why do some of us not fly high into the sky and reach our full potential?
I know that the biggest reason that I do not fly high is FEAR! FEAR OF MAKING MISTAKES, FEAR OF NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH, FEAR OF NOT BEING WORTHY, AND FEAR OF FAILING.
Fear is limiting, and crippling and it hold you back from reaching your goals. When you feel fear that you know is holding you back from accomplishing your goals there is only one thing you need to do.
Stand against the fear and shout in you mind: “I AM NOT AFRAID!” If you do this often enough, one day you will be bigger than your fear and it will no longer be your master.
Many of you are probably wondering where my thought and photo postings have been. My 5 year old computer that I use to post my photos finally needed replacing. It took a while to load all my software and get back to an operational status. Here is the thought and photo that I planned to post before my unfortunate hardware failure. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes we decide to stray off the path that has been set before us. Most of the time we realize that leaving the path was a bad decision. Eventually we get so deep into the “woods” that it’s hard to find the path again.
There is hope however! We all come with a built in “compass”. If we close our eyes and just listen to this “compass”, the direction that we need to go to get back on our path will be made clear.
I hope that you have a great weekend and a great week to come.
Be sure to visit my website at http://www.geekingoutnow.com/ for more great thoughts and photos, and other interesting content.
Hey guys Michael Jackoson would want you to know tickets are now on sale for the This Is It movie starring Michael Jackson himself!
This Is It will have a global premmiere in 25 cities across the world but it only runs for a limited 2 week run. The movie shows Michael Jackson preparing and rehearsing for the incredible This Is It concerts he never got to give London and the world. This Is It shows the magician, showman and extrodonary genius that was Michael Joe Jackson.
To get tickets go to the This Is It webist at http* :// www .thisisit-movie. com/ (without the spaces and *) or just ask at your local movie theatre See you there!
Thank you for being a friend. I look forward to getting to know you.
During this month, I have my usual monthly contest. You can win 3 books but you have to enter before the end of September. I’ve listed some of the contests I have found on the websites of this month’s authors at the end of my contest so even if you don’t win mine, you might win something from one of them. Just follow the links for more details. Plus, I’ll keep you informed of when authors are doing a blog or book signing. I usually tell you about them in my status unless it is a busy day then I will post a bulletin. And, as a bonus, Blythe Gifford shared some of her knowledge of 14th century frat boys with me, so be sure to check out the blog for the fun facts!
Hi Wendy Just thought you might want to know that The Last Church is finally available: http://is.gd/2W62x Published by Black Bed Sheet Press. Heaps of reviews already in my site: http://thestoryteller.co.nz
Our Lives are usually as stressful and chaotic as we allow them to be. Sometimes we get stuck in a rut and just do things a certain way. We never realize that there may be a better and less stressful way of doing things.
Sometimes just doing something relaxing will allow us to clear our head. That way, when we enter the stressful situation again; we may be more open to a better way of handling things.
I hope that you have a great weekend, and a great week to come.
Be sure to visit my new website at http://www.geekingoutnow.com/ for more great thoughts and photos, and other interesting content.
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All too often we stretch ourselves too thin. Some of us, like me, tend to have way too many things going on in our lives at any one time. If we try to concentrate our efforts on too many different things at once the result could be disastrous.
Confucius once said “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape”.
I hope that you have a great weekend. I also hope that in the coming week that you do not end up “chasing too many rabbits”.
You're a smooth and silky suave type! You exude class and you believe in tradition. A classical taste who doesn't like things to be too flashy or showy. Climb the Eiffel tower of taste with a spoonfull of you! Oui Oui!
Would Sesshomaru have feelings for you,just be a follower,or would he kill you?
