Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage not weakness.
— Katherine Henson
Art by Rafal Olbiński.
Courage
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Monthly Archives: January 2019
BASILIKE PAPPA SHARES HER FAVORITE INDIE BOOKS OF 2018
Basilike Pappa lives in Greece. She likes her coffee black, her walls painted green and blue, her books old or new. She despises yellow curtains and red tape. She can’t live without chocolate, flowers and her dog. Places she can be found are: kitchen, office, living room. If she’s not at home, I don’t know where she is. You can find Basilike up late with a notebook in the Silent Hour.
Title: Anthology Volume I – Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
Where it can be purchased: Amazon
Title: Composition of a Woman
Author: Christine Ray
Where it can be purchased: Amazon
Title: For You, Rowena
Author: Kindra Marie Austin
Where it can be purchased: Amazon
Title: Leonard the Liar
Author: Nicholas Gagnier
Where it can be purchased: Amazon
https://indieblu.net/2019/01/02/basilike-pappa-shares-her-favorite-indie-books-of-2018/
I am delighted that five of my poems were included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I. The anthology is now available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.
The hardest questions
What is the hardest question you would ask your Business lecturer?
What business path would you pursue thirty years from now?
Art by Tatiana Kazakova.
We write
We tell each other stories in order to survive and sur-thrive.
Storytelling is a magic realm. We are lucky to spend here a large chunk of our time.
What kind of letters do we write from the land of storytelling?
Life stories strangled in magnanimous stanzas build on love, fear, equanimity, and on the wizardry of sundowns and sunups.
Cover letters that tell stories of passion, dedication, failure and success, web content and presentations about a world of our own choosing built around something that we ourselves have created.
“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the treasure of our lives.” – Toni Morrison
Art by Franz von Stuck.
‘The Myths Of Girlhood’ – Christine Ray
Invincible artistry in Christine’s second book of poetry, ‘The Myths Of Girlhood’
The Myths of Girlhood – Christine Ray
“we were spoiled
for reality
by milk chocolate-coated fairy tales
force fed us as girls
made to swallow
not spit
myths about beauty
love…
drink a brief taste of the pink champagne dream
before the clock struck midnight
and we turned back
into pumpkins…”
Christine E. Ray is an indie author and freelance editor who lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. You can read more of her work on her blog Brave and Reckless. Her first book of poetry, Composition of a Woman, is available through Amazon and other major online book retailers.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s birthday tribute
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Art – The Forest of Lothlorien in Spring by J.R.R. Tolkien.
This year ride a bike
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.”
–Neil Gaiman
Photography art – Ralph Steiner, This Year Ride a Bicycle, 1924
