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May 16, 2008

A Fascination With Flowers

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.  It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.  ~Jean Giraudoux

I find much inspiration in taking closeup photos of flowers.  Sometimes I feel like I'm channeling Georgia O'Keefe, the famous artist who was known for her paintings of flowers.  I think it started when I did an interpretation of one of O'Keefe's paintings for a drawing class in college. 

Another reason why I'm so fascinated with flowers is because they have so many things to teach us about life.  For instance, every flower is unique in its own way - as we are - and yet they are all beautiful...every single one of them.  There is no such thing as the "perfect" flower because in essence, they are all perfect. 

Pictured here are just a few of my latest additions to my flower photo collection...

 

The Budding Yellow RoseTwo Pink Roses

 

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May 05, 2008

A Day In the Life of a Blogger

People are very surprised when I tell them that I have all these blogs and the first question out of their mouth is, "How do you manage it all?"  One of the reasons I get so much done compared to many people is that I don't have any kids, so that leaves a great deal of open time for me!

Well, I decided to take one day out of my life and keep track of everything I do just to see how I spend most of my time.  This is just one day out of my life...

8:00 am - Wakeup, meditate, have breakfast, and watch about 10 minutes of the Today show.  I normally don't watch the show, but I heard that James Ray was going to be on. 

8:57 am - Work on my book

9:35 am - Check email, moderate comments, and read article, "A Miracle Set in Stone". It inspired me to write about overcoming beliefs, so I started writing down notes for a future post at The Good Life

10:38 am - Checked "Customer Service" folder in my Google feedreader to see what everyone is talking about and to find any inspiration for articles on my customer service blog. Start writing...

11:42 am - Took a break from writing customer service article to Twitter.  Find out about Singapore Airlines' A380 cabins

12:00 pm - Go back to writing customer service article.  Revised it and looked for picture to include in post...Published! Thai-Tea.jpg12:35 - Eat lunch and go talk to my neighbor.  She makes a Thai tea for me which I've never tried before.  Mmmmm....

1:08 - Work on book review for Sound Wealth, Sound Health

2:15 - Check mail, take dogs for a walk, and chat again with the neighbor

3:03 - Check Twitter for any replies to my "tweets"

3:12 - Continue writing the book review

4:00 - Eat a snack, watch Oprah while finalizing the book review and adding images

4:34 - Check email, respond to blog comments, and visit other blogs

5:15 - Work out, do laundry, eat dinner, and run errands

8:00 - Watch Deal or No Deal while reading tweets at Twitter and sorting through email

9:00 - Watch American Idol while browsing organic beauty websites, taking notes, and developing them into a post for Beauty Is Within.

10:50 - Work on post for The Runway ScoopCheck Twitter again...

11:53 - Write goals for next day and check out what's going on at Facebook

12:34 - Meditate and go to bed...

Overall I was pretty happy with what I accomplished this day.  I realized that perhaps I spend too much time on Twitter and that I should spend no more than half an hour a day "hanging out" there.  I do love the connections that I'm making though.  I'm pretty new to Twitter so I'm still in that "honeymoon" phase. 

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