epiphany

I am writing another blog entry this week cause I missed one last week and I have something else to say.

A college friend sent me her handouts from a writing workshop she attended and I received the sweet gesture in the mail today. This combined with a Buddhist healer recently encouraging me to share my life's story to help others has given me pause.

So, since the beginning of this blog series had an entry about finally writing a book, a childhood and recent actual dream of mine, I have come full circle and know now what I am to do. I am to create a book relating my experiences since that is what I know best, and writing is what I love most in my work life.

I probably will begin another blog by the end of this year, so you can journey with me. I am off to a new adventure, after exploring this past year what avenues to take with my creativity.

Like Minds

Recently I learned that a friend of mine had met a local poet. My friend is a caregiver in a facility which houses those whom have suffered strokes and the like. This friend told me she had told the local poet about my work as a poet and that the local poet wanted to meet me.

Imagine my surprise and humility when I met someone who is well-known and published. We exchanged books wherein we had our works. Mine were simply in an anthology; hers was one of many which contained works only by her. She even signed it to me and encouraged me to continue writing poetry and offered me assistance if I needed it. I couldn't believe my fortune in having met such a kind and sensitive creator, so unaffected by her fame.

In addition, it was revealed that the local poet who was temporarily laid up with the results of the stroke, was close friends with another poet whom I have befriended. It is amazing how poets communicate with the same soul language and how we gravitate towards like minds.

Getting a web site

This week I met with a young man who designs websites for a living. I learned that if I wanted a really classy website which included audio, video, and search engine optimization, I would need to pay.

In order to create my own web page, I could use wordpress.com There I could register for a domain name, which is the actual address with which I could be reached. Then, I would need a host for my link.

Search engine optimization is created by having key words included in the copy on the site, to make the search for your site easy and to allow for more "hits" or readers of your link.

It was recommended that both my blog and my web page be at the same site, also to maximize the number of hits. For MAC users, creating a web site might be more straightforward, though

the site might be a very basic one if using the tools on me.com.