May 24, 2013
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Silk And Roses
I am watching the river swirls of evening, and the water is inviting me. It is the most beguiling and beautiful moment with the silk it swirls. There is the silver mirror lying across it reflecting you, and reflecting me from a past love affair. The waters are deep here below the city lights which watch for the sunset, and here it is — The time you hold me, so I take the darker silk from the forms of trees and life nearer the banks, and I gently pull it over us, for we wish to lie down now – In this shining moment of silver and of gray and when we are alone, we embrace each other as once we did so long ago — The stillness warms up and the touch of finest silk enfolds us, and we know that we wish to be no other place or time than this now.
The roses fill tiny garden place with pink and petals to give us the sweet scent of our youth, and we touch them to one another faces — Perfume for you my love, Holy, sweet, and pure, and we begin to see our future, to share our past just as the night sky opens up leaving pink on the clouds where we lie. It is pink, then purple, and night is falling, so catch this moment, and sail with me, for my sweet and beloved we have it all, more beauty than we can stand, more love.
Take these roses I have gathered from their first bloom, for only once this year will we know this hour. We look around before the night to breathe in the perfect scent, to enfold ourselves in the shades of deep water only a river can bestow, and we ask; “Is this magic?” “Is this what God wanted us to know all along?” — That this silk, these roses all are an abiding heaven, and our place in them is one simple and reflective drop on morning’s dew.****************************************************
Barbara Everett Heintz, Author of, “Pinkhoneysuckle,” the book, to be featured on the next production of B464 with Kathryn Raaker, Memorial Day Weekend — Expected national and international broadcast of this show with Kathryn’s interview with me is apt to appear on one of your local Time Warner broadcast, so if you are interested in this hour long interview — Please check your local cable listings, and I would love to hear from you after the broadcast… I will endeavor to answer all personal messages posted on Xanga regarding this program. Kathryn Raaker is a beautiful soul, and is known in many television markets from New York City to the coast — Even China and European programing are all included. It will also be broadcast on Hulu as well as U Tube. Thank you Xangans for supporting me all the way, through my ill health and to this dream come true of a moment.
God Bless You All As Well As All Branches of service to America — Both soldiers and civilians — Our living and our own loses. Let us remember all who have sacrificed for us, and those who remain unknown. Thanks, Barb
Comments (4)
Seems Xanga is likely to close down. Thank you for sharing your blogs with me. Even at times when I did not comment. I wish you the best should we loose contact. I am not giving through alternatives. I do not know where I will migrate my blogging. But I want to say thank you for being part of the Xanga community.
@Zeal4living - Hello my friend, and I thank you for the generosity of your note. I have been less than gracious about keeping up with all of my friends, and I feel negligent that in these years, I really allowed myself to bring in more people than I could keep check on. I may be following you to a new blog community, for I cannot stand Facebook, for daily I go through endeavoring to be kind to answer all that pops up from that leaving no time to read Xanga like I had wanted to.
I hated the way good friends seemed to just disappear from Xanga as well, for they would either leave the blogging world behind, or Xanga would introduce pages with newer people to follow. The sentimental value is that it is where I found the will to write my book as a blog, most of which is now erased. “Pinkhoneysuckle,” after receiving a 1st place in Hollywood’s Book Festival in my division with JM Northern as well as an Honorable Mention in San Francisco started me toward awards, recognition, and within the past week end, I have done a Time Warner show — B4 64 with Kathryn Raaker, a known persona for the many kinds of shows which she does — This show airs nationally and internationally, and it is about to change my life again, This wonderful woman loved my book, so I have been doing radio shows here locally for the tri-state of southwest Ohio. It was my own work and not Xanga which opened the door.
I learned that Xanga is useless for book promotion, and I can advise you never to do a book as a blog, for it complicated everything to have done it that way. I could probably set up a web site on what not to purchase if you are going to self publish, for several thousand dollars were wasted. Living in Cincinnati and San Francisco, I know all of these Californians who, “Want to save you money through their books and classes.” All people need to know is that they need to make certain that whomever they sign with — Make certain that company has no complaints with the BBB or law suits against them pending, for some writers have committed suicide when they learn they have signed their product away for up to 7 years.
Amazon is the easy choice, but for the others, I would get a lawyer to look over what I was signing on to.
I wondered why I was having so much problem with Xanga, so many hits, rarely a word, though now and again, I would get a personal note. If you find a nice blog spot, please let me know, for Xanga was the only one of its kind which I knew about. For now, I have been given a grace, and I wish that I could tell every writer this will happen to them, but they are in a one in a million, and only because of the network of radio and television will I get any notice. People are publishing their life stories, pouring money and time, anguish, and hoping for a break. My break came only because I worked day and night when I was well, and the only way to make real money now is to be the one in a million, NYT best seller of known public figures. I long to beg people to understand that it has to go beyond them, and mine was the untold story of mid century southern Appalachians forced out of their homes and farms to the filth of the Rust Belt.
It has taken me two years, and for free, I wish that I could tell most people to publish only if they can afford it and love their story to death, for a lot of hurt people are going to come out of this book writing surge angry and feeling ill used, and worse, they are!
Thank you, and blessings. Again let me know if you find another blog spot. Wishing you great joy, I am lovingly,
Barbara Everett Heintz, (Barb) to my friends.
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I will certainly let you know if I find anything of value in the next few weeks. Thank you for the publishing advise. I hope still to write a book and your guidance is relevant and at the right time.
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