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| Silva Shado's Notebook |
| At Charles de Gaule Airport in Paris, waiting for boarding. Less than 15hours until home. | |
| At Charles de Gaule Airport in Paris, waiting for boarding. Less than 15hours until home. | |
| Anyone who likes the Old West should check out this project for an Old Western Town made out of LEGO. Please visit this link and vote for it to become reality. It needs 10,000 supporters and it's close to getting there. http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/1787 | |
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| Very cool. I will vote for it from home. | ||
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Thanks! Appreciate the support.  | ||
| To celebrate my husband's birthday he's making the Kindle version of his book free all day on the 29th. If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the free app for your computer or other devices. Please let everyone you know about this promotion! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007EHUKLG | |
| Thanks Giselle! | |
| I also posted it on my author FB page. Good luck with the e-book. http://www.facebook.com/pages/J-A-Buxton/339955082702711?sk=wall | |
| Thanks Judity! | |
| Wow, today's my WDC Anniversary. It's been 3 years. I think my only regret is not being able to be more active here. I love WDC and I miss writing a lot, but my health and life in general has not allowed me much time or energy to pursue my muse. Here's hoping this next year improves. | |
| I deal with my limited time and energy by wearing a small pad and pen in my waist pouch so that when my muse turns herself on, I can take dictation wherever I am. The result is that I have dozens of little books jammed into my desk area, but the joy of finding one outweighs the mess of the numerous little books in my life! Best to you as you figure out how to make all of this fit, and still have time to sleep and eat too! | |
| Thanks Giselle and Jenny for the words of encouragement. It feels like my muse has ditched me, but I do keep my laptop with me all the time so I keep hoping that something will spark my brain. | |
If anyone hasn't checked out my husband's newly published book yet, he's posted the prologue and first chapter in his portfolio. Also includes buying info for both print and ebook. "An intro to The Cleric"  | |
| So excited! My husband's book, The Cleric, is now a Kindle Ebook! Only $2.99. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007EHUKLG | |
| Very excited! My husband's book is one of the 1,000 entries to move on to the second round of Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Award contest. March 20th they'll announce who goes on to the third round - only 250 will. If you haven't checked out his novel, here's the link to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1470009811 Amazon just revised the page with the Look Inside feature so you can see the cover, acknowledgments, prologue, first 9 pages of chapter 1 and the back cover. | |
| People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar | |
| If anyone is interest, my husband has posted the first chapter for review. | |
| My husband's book The Cleric is now available from Amazon for $8. It's eligible for Prime & the buy 4 for 3 promotion: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1470009811 | |
| Just had to share this quote: Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso | |
| My husband's first book is now published! Currently, it's only available on CreateSpace. In 5-7 business days it will be available on Amazon. Here's the link to CreateSpace: https://www.createspace.com/3787311 | |
| Very excited! Got the proof copy of Will's book today! It looks so nice! Now we gotta look it over and if everything is okay, we can start selling it on CreateSpace.com and Amazon.com. So excited!! | |
| Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman | |
| The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world Mary Anne Radmacher | |
| Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
| Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein | |
| Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. - Steve Jobs | |
| Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs | |
| Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. - Steve Jobs | |
| Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition - they somehow already know what you truly want to become. - Steve Jobs | |
| Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. - Mark Twain | |
| Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. - Leonardo da Vinci | |
| It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare. Life is difficult because we do not dare. - Seneca | |
| Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. - Epictetus | |
| Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind, than on outward circumstances. - Benjamin Franklin | |
| Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt | |
| You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get. - Theodore H. White | |
| Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin | |
| Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - James Dewar | |
| The full measure of a man is not to be found in the man himself, but in the colors and textures that come alive in others because of him. - Albert Schweitzer | |
| Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either - Golda Meir | |
| Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. - Steve Jobs | |
| Just stop it. Seriously. Whatever it is. Just stop it. If only for an hour, a day, a week. Stop doing it long enough to get a glimpse of what the change would actually look like. - Mary Anne Radmacher | |
| The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi | |
| Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. - Franklin D. Roosevelt | |
| If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative. - Anonymous | |
| That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation. - Talmud (Jewish Wisdom) | |
| Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself. - Confucius (Ancient Chinese) | |
| You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi | |
| There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; | |
| CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor | |
| We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams. - Bob Proctor | |
| Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. - Bob Proctor | |
| Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi | |
| The key to happiness is not to have what you want but to want what you have. - Anonymous | |
| The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity. - Rollo May | |
| Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | |
| If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan | |
| People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing. - Dale Carnegie | |
| If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying. - Dale Carnegie | |
| If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward | |
| How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most - Stephen R. Covey | |
| Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are. - Marianne Williamson | |
| Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Henri de Lubac | |
| Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Anonymous | |
| A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together becomes reality. - John Lennon | |
| Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean. - Ryunosuke Satoro | |
| If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. - Henry Ford | |
| We must be the change we wish to see. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi | |
| Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. - Benjamin Franklin | |
| Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. ~ Anaïs Nin | |
| The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. - Bob Proctor | |
| Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer | |
| Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning. We give our own meaning to time as to life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie | |
| A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher | |
| What we think, we become. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. - The Buddha | |
| Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can't are both right. - Henry Ford | |
| "The power of imagination makes us infinite." - John Muir | |
| There IS a light at the end of the tunnel. Oh, wait. No... It's just another lost soul's flashlight. | |
| I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. | |
C'mon... you know you wanna... "NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon"  | |
| lol! I'll see about sponsoring someone, but I don't have time to write in NaNo this year. I may have my own kind of NaNo at work with a grant I may have to write in 30 days. That's going to give me enough of a headache. | |
| The grass is always greener on the other side because it is fertilized with B.S.! | |
    Happy Birthday Writing.Com . . . Balloons compliments of: "WDC's 'PINK' and 'Blue' Party - Closed" | |
| Thanks for stopping by Ruwth! Happy WDC Birthday to you too! | |
Hi Silva! Just thought I would stop by to say hi! I just found out about your raffle for the duckies and it is an awesome activity!  I think it is almost noble that you mention your husband in your bio...shows where your heart is! Oh, and happy 10th WDC anniversary to you!!! / | |
| Thanks for stopping by! I'm so happy you like my ducky raffle! I'll be processing orders on Friday. My husband definitely has most of my heart. WDC has the rest of it. lol! Happy WDC birthday to you too! | |
Hello, my wonderful "Work In Progress" buddy. Just want to say how much your Keep Writing and Keep Revising Challenges helped me over the past year.  Happy WDC Anniversary! | |
I'm so glad I was able to help you with those activities.  It's wonderful that you stopped by. Have some  before you go. Take care! | |
| Thank you for reminding me about the 10th anniversary. Regretfully, I've been so busy lately that I haven't had time to participate in the celebration. Maybe next year! This morning I began writing chapter 11 of my new story, "The Veils of Gallia." Starting a new novel, or even a novella, always is a lot of fun as I wait to see what adventures my characters will take me on. | |
| Aw, I'm sorry to hear that. I haven't done many of the activities, but it was fun to post balloons in people's notebooks. Good luck with your new novel!! Starting something new is always fun. It's the revising that always so hard. Thanks for stopping by and take care! | |
Happy 10th to you, too, Silva, and thanks for the visit.   | |
You're welcome, Joy! Thanks for stopping by here. Don't you just love a good party?  | |
| I'm only human and I do my best, but in the end, I can only do what I can do. | |
| Hey! Haven't bought a ducky lately. Waiting for it to begun again. Hope you are doing great, Sarah! Happy WDC Birthday | |
| It should be up and running now! Thanks for the scribble and reminding me to get my act in gear. lol! | |
| God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference. | |
| "The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." ~ Unknown | |
Senators always say the funniest things, but this one I actually liked and it can be applied to almost anything you think is stupid. Just replace XXX with the thing of your choice: XXX had "a high coefficient of asininity."  | |
| Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. | |
| According to one of my friends, if you're going to suck, make sure someone else sucks more. | |
| Sometimes, good enough is perfect. | |
| Write with abandon and without fear. | |
| Love doesn't make the world go around. Love makes the ride worthwhile. | |
| We share our troubles with others, not to make them miserable too, but to know that we are not alone. | |
| Thank you lord for creating stupid people. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't have such great examples of what not to do. | |
| A trip down memory lane should be made with no carry-ons and no return baggage. Enjoy, remember, but leave all the junk where it belongs - in the past. | |
| All it takes is a moment, a smile, a hello, a wish of wellness to brighten someone's day. How many moments will you take today? | |
| If everyone did unto others as they would have done to themselves then we would have a much easier time with criminals and a much smaller population in prisons. | |
| It's easier to think the worst of the world, but more rewarding to believe the best. | |
| Remember, things only have the power that you give them. Do not give others power over you. | |
| Learning from the past is important, but equally important is forgiving ourselves of our mistakes, regrets, actions, inactions. We must not punish ourselves by living in the past. Live in the present, facing the future. | |
| I write so other people can hear the voices in my head. | |
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