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How Do You Deal With Clutter?

clutter is delayed decisions

clutter better than idle neatnessToday I thought I’d clear one of the piles of books behind my desk. That one pile led to three more and now I have one corner cleared.

I had procrastinated. At least I knew what was in those piles. I rationalized that if organized, I might not be able to find anything because it would be in a new place.

clutter empty desk empty mindThe open area I created today, reduced claustrophobia, but there’s no danger of having an empty desk. I’ve cleared it before and in less than a couple days, it’s filled again. So, Albert Einstein, I will not have an empty space, but I don’t want a cluttered mind. I’m determined to finish this project.

 

clutter needs to goclutter clearing creates miracles

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m ready for miracles.

 

 

 

 

How are you doing with clutter?

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Written Across the Genres

Author Hada’s Fog

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Quotes About Photography

photography camera on booksPhotography like a typewriterPhotography like a character

 

 

 

 

 

Photography is the witness photography holds a moment Photo is good knowing where to stand

 

 

 

 

 

Photography can't be contained in wordsphotography bird behind him

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Streams of  lighted ribbons in Grace Cathedral

This photo I took a few years ago. It’s not my best, but I like it.

“Graced by Light,” Anne Patterson hung 20 miles of multi-colored ribbons from the ceiling of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and illuminated them,

To see more photos of this event click here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Steve Olsher’s What Is Your What?

choices to make better Steve Olsher’s book, What is your What? has the subtitle, Discover the ONE Amazing Thing You were Born to do.

I’m preparing an online course in which one topic is to discover your purpose (inspired by Vrinda Norman at her live event in San Francisco last weekend).

I bought the book What is Your What?  by Steve Olsher  a couple weeks ago, now I see  it will be a good reference for me to help people who want to live their purpose.

On page 79, Olsher started Chapter 7 with a quote from Robert F. Bennett:

“Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.”

Fork in the roadChoice you always haveChoices my book Jeff Goins quote

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olsher offers life-altering principles. In Chapter 9, he says “Do Things Aligned with Who You Want to Become”.  Operating with a positive attitude and strong sense of self as if you have become your goal, will bring amazing results. “The choices you make and the activities you undertake will be markedly different from the way you used to live, and people will pick up on your aura of success, increasing your chances of achieving genuine success.”

On the inside front cover, is an inspiring quote: “One person has the power to change the world, impact millions of lives, and leave a legacy for lifetimes to come. That person is . . . YOU!

Let’s go for it.

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Louisa May Alcott Author of Little Women

Louisa May Alcott at 25Louisa May Alcott was born on November 29, 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She wrote novels, young adult stories and poetry. Best known for Little Women, her sequels were Little Men and Jo’s Boys. She was raised by transcendentalist parents. The setting for Little Women was the Alcott family home and loosely based on Alcott’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. Alcott based her heroine “Jo” on herself. But whereas Jo marries at the end of the story, Alcott remained single throughout her life.

Alcott grew up among many of the well-known intellectuals of the day such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Her father died in March 1888, and she followed him just two days later.

Source for information and photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott and history.com.

Little Women book cover

Quotes by Louisa May Alcott:

“Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

 

“I resolved to take Fate by the throat and shake the living out of her.”

 

“Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystallized spirituality.”

 

“Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has passed through here since the Redcoats.”

 

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!”

 


Citation information:
Jone Johnson Lewis. “Louisa May Alcott Quotes.” About Women’s History. URL: http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/qu_lm_alcott.htm .

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Johnny Depp Quotes

johnny depp photoJohnny Depp is in a new movie called Black Mass. He is best known for playing Jack Sparrow, the pirate Captain. I became a fan when I saw the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands.

“I realized that Edward was all alone, and inside of all of us is this lonely little kid. Edward is a total outsider. I really know how that feels. And so, eventually I found him. And Edward – he just clicked.”
–Johnny Depp NY Times 1991

“I can remember when I finished Edward Scissorhands, looking in a mirror as the girl was doing my makeup for the last time, putting on the appliances and the prosthetics, and thinking, wow. This is it. I’m saying goodbye to this guy. I’m saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands. It was funny, I was kind of sad. But in fact, I think they’re all still in there.”
–Johnny Depp  CombustibleCelluloid.com

 

“The idea of dancing is only thing that scares me.” Johnny Depp.
“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.” Johnny Depp.

In Black Mass, Depp plays Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

 

 

Benedict Cumberbatch, another one of my favorite actors,  is Bill Bulger, brother of Depp’s character.

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What is your favorite Johnny Depp movie?

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