Barter Instead of Buy What You Need

Written by Barbara Di Renzo


There is so much going on these days. Runningrepparttar business, takingrepparttar 136041 kids to school, birthday parties and keeping them entertained. Then of course there are things to do aroundrepparttar 136042 house like repairs, grocery shopping, dropping offrepparttar 136043 dry cleaning and making some phone calls. Phew! No wonder we don't have much time for ourselves.

When we do have some precious quiet time to relax, we start thinking of those things that we need or would like to do for ourselves. It's not that we've never thought of these things before. These thoughts briefly pop in and out of our minds at work or while driving, but seem to leave as quickly as they come.

It could be a warm and sunny vacation, sipping tropical drinks and doing absolutely nothing. It could be those things aroundrepparttar 136044 house like repairingrepparttar 136045 sink , paintingrepparttar 136046 kitchen and bathroom, sprucing uprepparttar 136047 family room with some comfy furniture or thatrepparttar 136048 kids may have outgrown their bikes. Not to mention all those things we don't use, lying aroundrepparttar 136049 house that we need to sort and figure out what to do with.

You'll tend to these nagging thoughts sooner or later right? It all comes down to time or money which you may not have to spare right now. Of course there are priorities andrepparttar 136050 "That's not important right now" butrepparttar 136051 way I see it is, if it didn't hold any importance, then we wouldn't think of it as often as we do.

Write A Poem In Ten Minutes

Written by Steve Gillman


Have you ever sat there staring atrepparttar paper, ready to write, but unsure where to begin? Want a solution that will overcome evenrepparttar 136029 worst writer's block? Anyone can start writing poetry today using a few simple techniques.

One, two, ...?

Did you say or think three when you sawrepparttar 136030 above? If not, you certainly would when I asked you to fill inrepparttar 136031 blank. Your mind is a powerful machine that recognises or creates patterns. To make this work for you as a poet, you simply have to lay outrepparttar 136032 materials in an implied pattern, and let your mind do its thing.

The "materials," in this case, of course, are words or ideas. So let's round up some materials for an example. If you want to write a poem about thunderstorms, you might start by writing down relevant words, and then chooserepparttar 136033 more evocative ones: flash, blowing, rumble, night, deadly and rain, perhaps.

Now you setrepparttar 136034 pattern. In this case, we'll write a four-line poem, using one of our words in each line. We'll only decide if we want a ryming poem after we start. This is what I came up with after five minutes:

Rain stands still inrepparttar 136035 sky

Trees dance as in a painting

In a flash it is here and gone

And night grumbles at being revealed

It doesn't matter if most aren't good poems. You just have to write a lot of them, and then work on re-writingrepparttar 136036 ones with potential. With a little practice, you can write a dozen poems in an hour, then pick outrepparttar 136037 gems. My wife has had poetry published using Deal-a-Poem, a game we created based on this technique, so we know that it works, and it's fun as well.

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