Today there is received
The Word of Words
The clouds of the blue
The Fern Flower
The treasure lost
in the deep of the seven mountains…
Your letter makes me
Fly
above the moon
Dream
throngs of dreams
See
billion stars
Guide
million birds
to summer lands
Taking me away…
© Iulia Halatz
Art by Jackie Morris. Source: Pinterest
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.” – Bruce Lee
In the whirlwinds of our existence we don’t look at Things… We are petrified in the rat race. When was the last time you saw the stars? A flower, the blossoming trees? Felt the wind on your face?… I have read that only 80 people on earth can remember every single day of their lives. So why should you be so angry or miserable today, when you won’t even remember Today? We probably remember the best of days that trampled upon our souls in shimmering happiness.
Be like water! Change color and flow…
There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners. – Antoni Gaudi
Maybe the rumors are right, maybe Gaudi was counselled by a fairy about his high-end innovative, dream-like “curved” architecture. In this respect I am relieved and resolved to keep on talking with the fairies that at times whisper soft and pleasurable words into my ears.
Also a fairy has told me that in Love, space is curved, not straight… As Love is the most natural thing of things to feel and to flow in as if in water, smoothly and naturally spreading walls of scented charm like innocently does a plum tree. Amend the curves, give valor to them and expect nothing.
Do you think the moon expects applause when it shines above dense darkness and blinking eyes in the murky forests?
Art – Vladimir Kush
Source – Facebook
From my Substack newsletter The Stripes: https://iulia.substack.com/p/be-like-water
Stories are our meat and our magic
“Everyone always assumes that content creation is a massive task to tackle – and yes, it is. There is no shortcut to content creation.
You either do it yourself, internally hire a team to do it, or hire an agency to do it for you. This is our best advice, create content in chunks. Perhaps every first of the month, create an inventory of blogs, blurbs, newsletters, photo shoots and spread the content out in one 1, 3, or 6 month period.”
Yes, content creation is a massive task… We start with the story at the core of your business. It might be the simple story of how you get the idea, or how your idea came into being. With our words we show the unique, problem-solving magic of your business and what it will empower to do.
From my Substack newsletter The Stripes:
https://iulia.substack.com/p/content-creation
In photo – Kimono Forest – Source – Facebook
I teach a Creative (business) Writing course online, so, when I started, my first step was to build a website and adorn it with all the details with a view to my courses. Nevertheless, I first started writing on my blog in 2014, which prompted me to start teaching about it, along with my other business, finance, and legal courses.
But building up a website, optimizing it, networking, and writing blog posts every day takes a lot of time and tremendous amounts of work, also because search engine optimization is a lifestyle for a website, as one can never say, “I have just finished optimizing your website, my work is done.”
Other tips (borrowed from the great Seth Godin) are concerned with developing your reputation, your Body of work, and your cohort.
I do hope these have been helpful for you, and I wish you an enduring and wonderful career in teaching.
Art – Henrik Nordenberg. Source: Pinterest
From my Substack newsletter
https://iulia.substack.com/p/develop-your-body-of-work-and-your
I have started a newsletter on Substack. https://iulia.substack.com/
I will be writing about politics, education and creative writing.
Politics because I am a fresher local councillor, Education because I have been teaching for almost 25 years now, and Creative Writing because I (must) write… Every day.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
My humble world at Substack is called The Stripes, because I write in many colours. You are invited to join…
Whatever I consider important
The trees don’t care.
Wherever I shed my tears
The flowers don’t know.
Some days have the glitter of butterflies’ wings
Some glint like the fires of Mordor.
Some have the clear shine of truth
Drifting away…
Some the warmth of
a broken heart
Who died
And became Art.
© Iulia Halatz
Art – Wolfgang Harms. Source: Pinterest
Wolfgang Harms
Featured at Medium.com.
“You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
–Ray Bradbury
Art by Anton Pieck.
Yesterday I encountered the most beautiful magnolia. It looked unreal.
I once wrote that, when looking at the magnolia flowers, I understand why in fairytales, the princess asks for a twig with flowers… in midwinter.
Now, in midspring, they are surely flawless.
Thank you to all the writers, the readers, the followers, and to all our angel bees who are helping us to spread the contributions outside of Medium within different Facebook and Quora groups.
Blue Insights Medium Publication Editors
(Ivette Cruz, Gurpreet Dhariwal, Iulia Halatz, Maii, MDSHall, Isaiah McCall, Victoria Ponte)
https://medium.com/blueinsight/grateful-for-our-team-of-angel-bees-56f046b2fb37
Photo by George Hiles on Unsplash
Writing is
quieting the burns
from people’s thoughts and deeds
And dissolving
all knowledge
that this will
ever happen…
© Iulia Halatz
In response to to the Medium/Blue Insights Cultural Prompt for April 2021 “Being Human”
Art by Andrea Kowch.
SOURCE – Facebook
