 For Authors: May 27, 2020 Issue [#10195] |
This week: Grand Openings - RE Edited by: Fyn  
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ~~Henry David Thoreau
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ~~Mark Twain
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. ~~Lao Tzu
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ~~Marie Curie
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. ~~John Henry Newman
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. ~~Eleanor Roosevelt
Into each life some rain must fall. ~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The more things change; the more they stay the same.~~Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr
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Where some of you live, the 'world' has reopened for business. For some of us, we are still in lockdown. For each comes the question of when to abandon the 'mask.' Is it 'safe' when the powers that be say it is? Will it be safe when there are no 'new cases' for X amount of time? Or can then someone from 'elsewhere' come, cough and here we go again? What is our general definition of safe; and how does that correspond with our personal definition of the word, the concept, the feeling?
For everyone I've asked, the meaning of the word differs. The 'Chicken Littles' take one stance, the 'I'm impervious' take another, the 'Dad' a third, the young feel immortal. My daughter fears to see me as she might harbor a germ although the test said not. I don't know when she will feel 'safe' regarding that. Those, wandering the grocery store without their mask, clearly fear nothing. Those giving them wide avoidance, think otherwise. We've been careful. We will continue to be cautious. But I don't feel fear. Fear for me is linked to different dangers from the past that still affect me at odd moments.
Life, although moving inexorably onward, as it always does, will change. Yet again. As writers, poets, authors - we will interpret these changes in our writing and accommodate them as we go forward. In various news of late, I've read that libraries will be changing, leaning more towards audiobooks and e-books. Book stores may vanish as the point of a book is to pick it up, hold it, read the back cover or inside the flap of a dustjacket. There are concerns about germ transferal with this. So too, ever trying on clothes at a store, not being able to return something that is the wrong size.
Marketing books will rely more on first impressions; that cover and the few words will become even more important. Getting readers to take a chance on the new author will cause strategic changes. Money has become more of an issue as disposable income may not exist in our current economy of jobs on hold or perhaps vanishing. Choices become nonexistent if the choice is between buying a book or dinner.
We writers write. It is what we do. Must do. Life will settle into its new normal, we shall all adapt and the past months will become the stuff of stories passed down to the next few generations. |
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Quick-Quill  says: I keep telling myself each day to rewrite another chapter. I get sucked into watching crime episodes. The day passes by and I make lunch for 3 the more time and I make Dinner for 3. It’s been 7 weeks and I’m now in line at Taco Bell. I can’t make dinner again ...
Bikerider  writes: Your April 29th newsletter is full of positive promise, something everyone needs right now. And thank you for highlighting my story, Coming Home. Like you, it makes me crazy to see people who are acting as if nothing can happen to them. My son is a registered nurse in the Orlando area and I worry about him each day as he heads in to the hospital, because Orlando is the central Florida epicenter for the virus with over 1200 cases.
But it's important that the message of hope isn't drowned out by the panic the media is spreading, or the people who are trying to use the pandemic to gain some advantage; financial or otherwise. As Americans, we are an independent lot, but now we find ourselves ruled by total strangers like medical bureaucrats, telling us what we can and can't do, even though their 'models' have been off by over 2000 percent from the beginning; yup, you read that right, 2000 percent!
So, thank you for your positive message. We will indeed get through this, but what will be waiting for some on the other side. No jobs? A half ruined economy? Many will need all the help we can give. If possible, spend the $1200.00 we receive in our local communities. Go out to eat and tip the waitress who has been out of work well. Buy locally, the small stores where the money stays local; use the money as intended; to spur on the economy when this is over. It's one way to help those who are most need the help.
Keep the positive messages coming, Fyn.
Keep safe and stay well, Fyn, it's important that people like you can find the positive in this mess.
Thanks, A. Kind of a positive sort for the most part; only way I keep going, rising and surviving! :) |
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