The New Visions Blog!⏳

Hey, y'all 👋 Happy 🌞 Sunday!

Hi again! Hope you're doing good 👍. It's been over a week since I last here. Wow, peeps so much has happened in that time!

I was pretty much wiped out after the endoscopy and the news that came with it. I thought about writing here about it but it was enough to get some emails out and try to be in touch on our wall!
I shared some news that was a big deal 😄 for me and some others, like winning 3rd in the Vagrant Vignettes contest!
That was pretty awesome 😎.
Out of 43 entries blew me away.

It gave me a lot of confidence in my ability to write and take a chance! Sometimes I see myself as a " newbie" in the sense that so many people here are doing contests and some have books on Amazon and other places.

Yet I've been getting great feedback and support from some honest people who me to succeed as well 🙏.

In life and beyond. You can't put a price on that...

So I always wanted to enter the Dear Me contest. It was a WDC contest and decided after writing it that no matter what happened, I had a realistic plan for this year!

It took courage to finally do it! Now I'm not standing still but moving forward ⏩.
Usually, after a big something my mode was to enjoy it and didn't think about the next thing.
Three's a charm 🧿 they say and now I'm digging in my Edit folder 📁.
The Quiet room
Holding on to hope, was a little green notebook I had bought in 2001. I was trying to cope with my health and life then and my secret dream of wanting to write a self-help or self-healing type of book.
Part of it became how I was learning about things like PTSD and the reality it applied to me.

Part was how to accept and even thrive despite it!
Lastly how I could use this all to help others who were also dealing with it. Finding out I wasn't alone in dealing with it.

Whew looking back at this, I know the Lord was with me every step 🙏🪜 of the way. Even if I couldn't always see it.

I always believed that even though my life has been a challenge to say the least. That there's a reason for it.
People who knew me or even strangers who talked to me, like at the park, taking my granddaughter when she was younger, would say " you should write a book about your life".

It was harder than I thought and life was busy but now I'm at the age where I have the time!

I almost lost my motivation but here I am!
Taking a chance and believing that somehow I will figure it out.

My sister doesn't understand what the book is for or why I'm writing it. She wished me luck. She would never read a book on that topic because she doesn't need it or understand what a spiritual book of encouragement would do for anyone.
She laughed because I have believed in God G-d, through different faiths through the years.
But I said " I always come back to believe."
She didn't understand when I tried to explain a blog I read yesterday, about someone who had a lousy experience with a publishing company and the advice he gave me in an email.

She didn't understand about " early AI" and how primitive it was in art ( talking about the cover art they wanted to use instead of what he had done professionally!)
She came in as I was writing this to tell me that President Trump got everyone out of tents in North Carolina and into furnished rooms. After they had been living in the snow all this time. I'm happy to hear that. No matter how people may view it.
( I tried to find info on this. It's late but I wanted to know if the above was true but didn't see anything so don't know where she read it. I wish it was because those people have been neglected. Private citizens came to help like the Amish,who built little wood dwellings to keep them from the cold and snow. People filled up their hotel free with as many could fit. Many more did what Fema didn't. )


So almost time to take the yuk medicine! Tonight I'm cooking!
Making breaded pork chops 😁 and apple sauce.
Time to feed the kitty's and clean the kitchen.

Have a blessed rest of your day 🙏.