Brummet's Conscious Blog

-- Quote of the Day --  " My future starts When I wake up every morning... Every day I find something  Creative to do with my life ." ~ Miles Davis  Poetry For Significant Other... July is Buy Poetry for Your Lover Month (or significant other)... This is the time to purchase a book or chapbook of poetry for someone you love - it can be anyone, your secretary, your parent or child, your lover, your friend.  This day is set aside in an effort to support writers in the poetry genre. Feel free to drop by my site to check out Towards Understanding , my book of poetry, and some excerpted poems on the site. Here's an opportunity for poets to get some exposure for this significant writers holiday, but it must be taken advantage of before July 1st: Jack Huber has offered to provide links via his social media networks for sites selling poetry and art in celebration of Buy Poetry for Your Lover Month. His efforts will be focusing on using FaceBook.com and GotP...

-- Quote of the Day --   “Face your worry and see it as an illusion. It cannot exist unless you give it power and give it life.”  ~ Robert Anthony -- Authors Read Radio -- It is an honor to feature author/illustrator Jeremy McGuire and his intrepid leprechaun today on Authors Read , While his first critically acclaimed book, A Boy and His Leprechaun , focused on seven-year-old Bobby Mahoney's adventures with O'Shaughnessey, the second book is for an older audience and involves the adult Bobby's daughter, twelve-year-old Margaret McNeill Mahoney. Bobby, however, has lost the ability to see leprechauns and is only faintly aware of ever having had it. Join us while we hear Jeremy introduce us to O’Shaughnessey – The Faerie Circle . Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio shows and free resources and more at: www.brummet.ca

-- Quote of the Day -- "To freely bloom - that is my definition of success."   ~ Gerry Spence -- Chatter -- As many of you are already aware, I have two blogs... this one, and another that I maintain weekly over at MySpace - the later is where I post our schedule so that people can see who's coming on the show that week, guest articles or interviews coming up on this blog, places where Dave or I will be participating in events or appearing in the media and so on. There's a link to this MySpace blog of mine, but to make things easier I'll include one below as well: http://blog.myspace.com/canadianauthor  Yesterday, after slaving away mowing our lawn which had grown to momentous sizes after a week of wet weather, I spontaneously invited a neighbor over for a break. It was quite nice really - and is totally out of character for me to do. I usually stick to myself and our close circle of friends, and with neighbors one doesn't always wa...

-- Lillian's Referral Corner -- Carol Brown just wrote me an email recently to let me know about the recommended resource (an article for writers) below... I thought some of you might find it of interest: “52 Writing Tips & Techniques That Are Incredibly Therapeutic” http://www.onlinedegrees.net/blog/2010/52-writing-tips-techniques-that-are-incredibly-therapeutic -- Conscious Living Event -- Today, June 12th, is World Day Against Child Labor - A very important conscious living holiday.  According to the International Labor Organization (www.ilo.org), this year's holiday occurs  "just one month after a major Global Conference on Child Labour is to be held in the Netherlands, the first event of its kind for more than 10 years." The focus for this years events are: Renewed urgency to tackle the worst forms of child labor. Scaling up global, national and local level efforts by making action against all forms of child labor...

-- Quote of the Day --   " The more difficulties one encounters in life, within and without, the more signifcant and the higher in inspiration his life will be ." ~ Horace Bushnell      -- Our New Look... -- Well? How do you like the new look to our blog?    -- Event -- Canadian Association of Recycling Industries' 69th Annual Convention When: June 10-12, 2010 Where: Charlottetown, PEI - Delta Hotel; Canada -- Lillian's Referral Corner -- Lillian's Referral Corner (formerly referred to as Recommended Resources) appears on most Positive Eco-News and Sunday Gardening Segments (each airing once every two weeks) on the Conscious Discussions Radio show ( http://blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions ) - and on the Brummet's Conscious Blog ( http://consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com ). This is where Lillian will share recommended resources including non-profit organizations that she believes in. Here are today's recommend...

-- Lillian is Interviewed today !! -- North Carolina mystery writer, Susan Whitfield, interviews and showcases other writers from around the globe on the Susan Whitfield Blog - Today, I was invited to drop in to discuss books, writing, promoting, and offers inspiration for writers. http:// susanwhitfield.blogspot.com    - Please feel free to share this interview (or the one below) with your friends on social networking sites like Twitter and FaceBook !  -- Writer Interview # 20 -- I'd like to send a shout out to Brandi Drury of: Virtual Book Tour Cafe for suggesting today's guest on our blog: Ami Blackwelder - a forbidden romance writer within the paranormal and historical genres. Ami attributes her writing style to the unique experiences she has had that "allow me an original perspective and a plethora of ideas to entertain readers". Find Ami @:  http://amiblackwelder.com Q: What is your idea of happiness?  A: Some people think happine...

-- Apologies... -- Apologies to our blog readers - Thanks to all who wrote to let me know that the link on yesterday's post for the interview on Book Cubby was not working correctly. I have edited yesterday's post so it should be working now. And here's that link for the interview once again... (sorry about the error!) -  http://www.thebookcubby.com/authorinterviews.htm  -- Water  Awareness -- Today, June 8th, is World Oceans Day - and we are also in the middle of Rivers to Oceans Week . Appropriate - I suppose with what is going on in the oil industry... but they are far from the only polluters. Of course this last disaster is really beyond imagining and we might look at something like that, such as industries pouring pollutions or cities and boats pouring sewage into the ocean, and we might start feeling like the little things we are doing won't make a difference. But they really do.  Awareness celebrations for waterways are a great opportunity to increa...