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Beauty is Where You Find It

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. – Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s a beautiful Tuesday here in New Jersey. The grass is growing and the birds are chirping. It’s a great day to sit outside on the porch, on the grass, or on your deck and simply enjoy this early June sunshiney weather. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran So I don’t really have too much to say today except that we should find beauty in the small things. We should find beauty and everyday occurrences. There is beauty in every aspect of our lives. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

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Free Banners

My contribution for Random Acts of Kindness is this: For the first five authors that send your cover, your blurb and the name of your cover artist (I like to give credit) to dahliadewinters @ gmail.com I will make you a banner (720 x 360) with your blurb and your cover for free. I may edit your blurb if it is too long. I will respond right away and turn around time will be about a week.

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Cover Songs More Famous than the Original

What is it about a song that captures your attention? Is it the melody? The bass line? Or is it the way the vocalist takes the lyrics and melody and makes it their own? Here are some songs where someone other than the original vocalist/band took the song and made it their own. You might be surprised at some of them. I know I was. “Blinded by the Light” – Manford Mann’s Earth Band Original Artist – Bruce Springsteen I’d heard Manford’s version many times before Springsteen’s and well, while Springteen’s has that certain “Bruce something”, eh, I prefer Mann’s version. “I Love Rock and Roll” – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Original Artist – The Arrows “Me and Bobby McGee” – Janis Joplin Original Artist – Kris Kristofferson “Blue Suede Shoes” – Elvis Presley Original Artist – Carl Perkins “I Heard it through the Grapevine” – Marvin Gaye Original

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Save Everything, Everywhere

Ever get that feeling of cold fear in your heart when you’ve typed out the best chapter ever, putting the cap on 5k words, clicking save and having your computer crap out on you? Or worse, going to turn on the computer to start your morning work and seeing a black screen? As authors, we should do things to protect ourselves and our work. If we lose wordage, that sets us back, steals our time and our creativity. Yes, we can type it over, but we’ll never get those hours nor the the unique quality of our words again. That can drape a wet blanket over the next chapters that we try to write. I know we’ve seen the posts about the hard drive that failed, the thumb drive that failed, the CD that failed and I truly sympathize. It’s a terrible, terrible feeling. Never fear, there are cures for

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Train Your Brain

Train your brain and live longer.* “A body at rest tends to remain at rest”,the old saying goes. The same can be said for the brain. When you do the same thing over and over again, it affects you. Falling in to a disliked or boring routine can render you brain-dead, an automaton who lives for Fridays and hates Mondays. What kind of existence is that? I don’t buy into that psychology. Every day is a gift, to be heralded, valued and used. I keep my brain active by being on the lookout for learning something new. “Oh, Dahlia,” you might say, “as a woman of a certain age, with children and a husband, you’re much too old and busy to learn something new.” Oh, but dear reader, how I disagree. It’s a pleasure to wake up in the morning with a new skill under your belt. Knitting, crocheting, bracelet-making,