Live Simply Simply Live first anniversary!

18/3/2011

I'm celebrating,with flowers and a new painting, while reflecting on a year of blogging about trying to live more simply.

It's hard to be simple in a complex world, with so many things competing for one's attention.

I'm taking a little blog holiday while I decide just how I am going to navigate my painting path.

Tonight at dinner I will raise a glass to you all and thank you for listening.

Slangevar!

2 Comments

Lynne

18/3/2011 02:40:45 am

well done you!

365 ways to live simply

Liz (the other one!)

20/3/2011 04:35:01 pm

Congratulations, Freda! Happy anniversary, and thank you for your thoughts, ideas, experiences and wonderful photographs over the past year. Very much enjoyed and appreciated.

Here is a little poem I found in an old book which I hope you'll like and find appropriate for both the simplicity of living and the progress of the novel. It made me smile.....always the first advice given to writers!

ADVICE TO CONTRIBUTORS (Anon)

If you've got a thought that's happy -
Boil it down.
Make it short and make it snappy -
Boil it down.
When your brain its coin has minted,
Down the page your pen has sprinted,
If you wan your effort printed -
Boil it down.

Take out every surplus letter -
Boil it down.
Fewer syllables the better -
Boil it down.
Make your meaning plain.Express it.
So we'll know - not merely guess it;
Then my friend, ere you address it -
Boil it down.

Cut out all the extra trimmings -
Boil it down.
Skim it well - then skim the skimmings -
Boil it down.
When you're sure 'twould be a sin to
Cut another sentence into,
Send it on, and we'll begin to
BOIL IT DOWN!

Live Simply Simply Live first anniversary!

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