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Inspiration Monday: Patti Smith

Charlotte Hamrick

“We might ask ourselves, what tools do we have? What can we count on? You can count on yourself. Believe me, your self is your best ally. You know who you are, even when sometimes it becomes a little blurry and you make mistakes or seem to be veering off, just go deeper. You know who you are. You know the right thing to do. And when you make a mistake, it’s alright — just as the song goes, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, and start all over again.” — Patti Smith Continue reading Inspiration Monday: Patti Smith

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The Inspiring and the Inspired

Charlotte Hamrick

Recently a sister blogger nominated me for a Very Inspiring Blogger Award. It’s been a long time since someone did that and it came at a time when I needed it, too. I needed it because, let’s face it, it’s nice to hear from someone who reads your blog and thinks enough of your writing to take it a step further to let you know, especially when you’re not feeling very inspired. MarinaSofia blogs at Finding Time To Write and I’ve been reading her blog for about a year where she posts her original poetry, book reviews, and generally things … Continue reading The Inspiring and the Inspired

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Literary Orphans: The Lennon Issue

Charlotte Hamrick

This is a phenomenal journal and I’m so excited to be included in it. Mike Joyce & Co. put together a visually beautiful and stimulating journal with each issue that other journals would do well to emulate. It’s evident from its high art style to the diverse contributors to the personal Editors Note that this is a labor of love – everything about it is meant to please the eyes of the reader and it does. Do yourself a favor: CLICK! Now! WWW.LITERARYORPHANS.ORG ISSUE11: Lost Prophet (John Lennon) We’re a digital writing and art magazine based in Chicago, and we’re … Continue reading Literary Orphans: The Lennon Issue

NaBloPoMo 20122 Comments
Charlotte Hamrick

“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can’t come to know by hearsay…” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge” ____________________________________________ I reblogged this from … Continue reading