Brummet's Conscious Blog

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Just For Writers * Note :  The Just For Writers series celebrates one year of monthly posts on this blog. Yes, that's right, there's 12 of these here on this blog for you to browse and gain a huge amount of resources, skills and insight. You can locate archived posts via the calendar, simply choose a month and browse the posts from there.  Over the last year we highlighted articles, interviews, marketing resources, networking opportunities and helpful quotes in the world of writing. We will continue to offer this for another year... so keep dropping in to find amazing advice and resources :) We'll start today's installment of Just For Writers  with this list of networking resources: -- Groups to Check Out --  As promised, here is a continued list of 10 online groups for our writer friends to check out. I'll continue this list of groups for several upcoming JFW posts. These group titles  are not hyperlinked ... Copy the name and look each writer's group up on Fa...

A Little YouTube   All the way from India, Janjit asks: " What is your biggest achievement in life ?" Discover the answer in this 4 min. video. https://youtu.be/aTKItzB_Dkk ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Recommended Resources With these  Recommended Resources  series I have the pleasure of sharing some great resources which can include  - positive impact organizations and events, citizen science projects and links to helpful articles. Creston valley Community Housing works to provide affordable, low-income housing. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/CVCHousing/ --- Trails for Creston Valley is a nonprofit organization working to clear and maintain safe trails for those who like to take a walk in the woods or a hike in the mountains. Visit:  https://www.facebook.com/crestonvalleytrails --- The Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy is a non-profit literacy organization, providing literacy programs for people of all ages in 16 communities along the Kootenay River (BC, Canada). Visit:  https://www.facebook.com/Columbia-Basin-Alliance-for-Literacy-KasloBalfour-390241744337379/ --- ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbru...

A Little YouTube Fellow Canadian, Askra, wanted to know if we received any awards and how that affected us. Discover the answer in this 4.41 min. video:   https://youtu.be/ibbpqQsKLQ0 ~~~   Discover Our Books on Amazon :  https://amazon.com/author/lillianbrummet  Find us online via these landing pages:  https://taplink.cc/brummet  https://linktr.ee/LillianBrummet ~~~ 

Author Interview Jeff Rasley and I have networked for over a decade now. He was a guest on my former radio show ( Conscious Discussions Talk Radio ) that I ran for 15 years. He's been a guest on this blog several times in the past as well - and we are always thrilled to feature his interesting adventures and discussions. Today is no different - except that we will be celebrating Jeff's new book:  72 Wisdoms -  which is a collection of 72 short personal essays discussing each of the wise quotes shared in the book. Jeff is the author of fourteen books and the president of the Basa Village Foundatio n , secretary of the Scientech Foundation , board member of the Indianapolis Peace and Justice Center , a trustee of Earlham College , and co-founder of the Jeff and Alicia Rasley Internship Program for the ACLU of Indiana. What a busy guy!!  Thankfully he found the time to drop in to share his experiences with his new book today.  *  Jeff invites our readers to vis...

* Today's article was written by :  Galen Garwood, who's art involves painting, filmmaking, writing and photography. He currently lives in Northern Thailand. He invites you to share his thoughts on all aspects of the creative spirit and the human condition, our relationship to one another, to other creatures and to this planet we call home. You can visit him at http://www.galengarwood.com and his blog site at http://www.galengarwood.wordpress.com . Back in the early fifties, at the age of nine, I decided that, unquestionably, I'd become an artist, even though I didn't exactly know what that meant and the only painter I knew was my sweet grandmother. I clumsily professed my certainty to my mother one late afternoon. She smiled and nodded, and carried on with whatever she was doing. I had no idea that decision would reverberate with such polarity between anguish and elation throughout my life. But I've never regretted it. Not once in these sixty-four years. And as fa...