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Q is for Quiet...
Definition...
1. making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound
2.free, or comparatively free, from noise
The need to quiet the mind is essential in recharging one's "batteries" of the body, mind and soul. Have you ever taken the time out to relish the quiet? No buzzing technology, no music and tv blaring. Just quiet. How delightful is that.
By quieting our surroundings from time to time, we may just hear the lovely chirping of birds in the distance and the scamper of wildlife as they ponder their surroundings. And best of all, if you quiet your mind, you may just hear the soft giggles of young children enjoying the splendor of the outdoors!
I dare you, quiet your mind and see what you may hear!
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Thanks for talking to Boomerang Books, Davina Bell. My pleasure! What’s your background in books? I was the type of kid who read all night by the hallway light that peeked through the cracks of my bedroom door and wrote endless stories on old computer paper – the type with the holes in the side […]
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I've tucked away the porcelain creamer, little orange flowers and cascading drapery, replacing the objects with photo references for a project I'm really excited about doing. The inspiration was a photograph of my oldest daughter taken about a year ago at El Capitan State Beach. However, I'm changing the location from a rocky beach to a rocky riverbed with some trees in the background.
I'm looking forward to playing with some colors that have not been on the palette for other projects - mainly Phthalo blue and green. I'm also excited about exploring colors and patterns of stones in water - I've always been drawn to that in nature. But, most of all, I'm delighted to be working with a specific concept - trying to capture the moment of quiet contemplation or listening in prayer.
I have flashes of what I think the end product might look like, but I've learned not to get hung up in those fleeting visions. They give me a direction, but the journey will likely take me down any number of possible paths. But, this is merely a study for the sake of exploration. Ultimately, I see this as a fairly large painting - large for my space, anyway, requiring more than a little tabletop. By the time I'm ready to move on to canvas, the weather should be comfortable enough to work in the garage again.
This isn’t a review as much as it is a brief exhortation to read Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain regardless of whether you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert.
For all the fascinating information and insights, what mattered more, as I read the book, was the sense of validation it gave me. Maybe it says something about me as a person (or should that be, as an introverted reader?), but reading a magazine article or hearing a random speaker *say* that there are advantages associated with being an introvert didn’t have quite the same impact or authority as reading a full-length book packed with personal anecdotes, summaries of studies, and interviews with professors of psychology. This is one of those books I wish had been around when I was younger, because so much of what Cain writes about rang true.
Cain points out that in today’s world—and especially in American culture—shyness and introversion are seen negatively, that these are traits we often think we need to be cured of, while being outgoing and extroverted is prized and admired. Instead, we need to acknowledge not only that the traits associated with being introverted can be beneficial, but also that introverts and extroverts are different, without automatically valuing one over the other.
Book source: public library.
Blogging/reading time: 2 hours 44 minutes (I’d started the book a couple days ago, and finished reading it this morning)
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As I peered out my kitchen window this morning this is what I saw.
Light grey skies peering through snow-covered trees.
The only indication this isn't a black and white photo is the blown glass piece on my windowsill.
Let's go see other Skywatch Friday pics to see what the fist day of the year looked like around the world! The happiest of New Years to all of my dear friends in blogland!
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Fallen pine needles on the forest floor, crispy and crunchy under your feet.
The fresh, falling snow might muffle the sounds of the next passers-by.
I've always been a sucker for these Charlie Brown trees. They warm my heart.
One sepia pen, one white pencil, one brown paper envelope and five minutes.
For Illustration Friday's prompt: crunchy
Perhaps because it has been raining. Perhaps because the trees keep losing their leaves at a rapid, unstoppable clip. Perhaps because I have allowed myself back inside a novel I have trembled about for months.
Perhaps I don't know why, but the house is a different sort of quiet.
Yesterday, running outside with my camera between rain showers, I stopped and glanced toward the kitchen, so unpeopled just then, so still. No stacks of my son's homework on the table, my mother not there with her cup of tea.
This quiet is a new quiet. I'm learning to bend it toward me, finally.
Geeky, geeky, geeky! And I love it.
I thought I would save my "oh so important 'cause I use 'em to type with" fingers some work. I didn't really want to cut up 44* squares of paper and write names on them in order to "draw a name out of the hat" for my Poetry Friday giveaway. Besides, I was sure there was a handy little computer thingy on the Internet that would do all the cutting and folding and writing and random selection parts for me.
Wrong. Did you know that as a "rational" machine, computers are incapable of "true randomness" without added hardware? The best one can do is generate "pseudo-random" numbers. See here for some almost-not-geeky further discussion. (UPDATE: Really, go read it if you have any interest---it's very well written, in a non-technical way, and includes a link to another interactive article called "Can you Behave Randomly?" And it discusses the Big Question: is everything in the universe pre-determined? Which I've now discovered the answer to is YES, because when I used the random number generator, it gave me the SAME number as when I drew one out of a paper bag below. Is that FREAKY, or what????)
So, here, chosen pseudo-randomly, from a pseudo-hat, by a pseudo-math geek is the winner of my Poetry Friday giveaway: #7 hipwritermama! (Please email me off-list so I can send it to you by absolutely real, and please! no randomness! U.S. mail.)
And for all of you: thank you so much for participating in Poetry Friday. You led me to stunning poems---modern, classic, original, complicated, simple, angry, sad, funny, wistful, joyful, blunt---and even a few posts that let me try writing a poem on the spot. Thank you all. It was a pleasure to be your hostess. For the roundup, see the post below.
*Two bloggers submitted two poetry posts each; I only put each name in once.
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Okay, people around the kidlitosphere are reading this book… maaaaaybe I need to, too. Go, Trisha, go! Keep up the good reading!
You should definitely read it if you get the chance! Many of the anecdotes concern people in business or law or big companies, but Cain also writes about how the “extrovert ideal” influences education and parenting. Even if we’re not parents (or introverts) ourselves as librarians, I think there are insights we can take from the book and apply to our jobs.
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