An Invitation

A beauty is growing. 2004/2005, composite art

As some of you may know, I am writing my first book, which will be self published at the end of February ~

I am asking for submissions to the Post-It Note People Pages/Heart Classifieds which will be included in the back of the book
similar to "Classifieds" in newspapers ~

They can be devotions of lurve, events, births, marriages, late valentine's messages, silly notes just to get your name in my book, love notes to yourself, messages to friends, limericks about your dog, congratulations, awards, secret secrets, graduations, love notes to your partner or best friend, what you are proud of, ads for your own websites, birth of a litter of pups, impending births and welcome to the worlds, the amount of rain you had last week ~ ANYTHING that has touched your heart of late, or that you'd like to share with the world.

Cost is free ~ you just write what you'd like on a post-it note or similar size piece of paper ~
mail it to me... email me (leonie[at]gmail[dot]com) if you'd like to participate ~ I'll email you my address :D

I need it at my place by about the 21st of Feb ~ so send, send, send away.

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My beautiful friend Leigh has just released a compilation book of her poetry!!!!!!
Hurrah! Leigh ~ Phoenix Light is entirely divine... her words enunciate that language~less emotions of the heart... her simple poetry speaks BIG to me... words of journeying, of beauty, of life, of lessons. The best US$5.59 can buy!

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Check out Jeff Pitcher's sublime music. I've been reading his blog for yonks now, after miandering onto it... then realised just now I should check out the tunes! Booyah! They rock!

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Adored Dooce's Letter to her one year old daughter.

new creative lands a discovering!

vibrant flower painting commission, 2005.

"There are two types of people in the world:
those who want to break in,
and those who want to break out."
~ PK Shaw

So, I've been writing each day...
writing the words that will form my first book.
And you know what?
I wake up every morning with a smile on my face,
and throughout the day, I catch myself humming...
I'm going to have a book!
How deliriously silly and marvellous it all is...
How wonderful it is to fly on the seat of one's pants
to say "I'm not really sure" when people ask what my book is about...
just to be doing this for ME!
hurrah!
We should all do for ourselves delightfully wild and outrageous things ~
just FOR US!
Amanda was telling me today about how she was making little notes of love
and affirmations to send to her boyfriend overseas.
How I adore that sense of creative adventure!
We should all put on our explorer's hats
and adventure into new creative territory :)


From Rob Brezny's Astrology newsletter:
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): For the first time in thousands of years,
grass is now growing year-round in Antarctica. Winter temperatures have
risen nine degrees Fahrenheit in the last thirty years, allowing wild lawns
to spread where there were once ice sheets. I see a comparable
metamorphosis for you in the coming weeks, Scorpio. A once-barren or
frozen landscape in your psyche will show signs of vibrant life. A part of
your world that has been inhospitable will welcome you.

Gosh, I'm going to FROLIC IN THE GRASS peoples!
The ices are melting
and I am GROWING!


Loving these links...

~ am starting to learn esperanto ~ a constructed european language which has no home except for the hearts of those wanting to transcend language barriers.

~ an intriguing website chronicling postcard secrets.

~ sweet journals, funky designs here.

~ write your own book! self publish! www.lulu.com

~ rocking blog awards

finding that deep racing streak of creative daring and running with it

drawing of andy warhol. 2000.

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once,
but of stretching out to mend the part of the world
that is within our reach."
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes


I.
am.
writing.
a.
book.

By the end of February.
I.
will.
have.
a.
book.
published.