August 2023 Treasure Hunt
Heal + Create is having their second Fall Writing Retreat September 22-24! I’m listing it here in August because they are offering an Early Bird discount. I attended last year and enjoyed it immensely. I left with genuinely valuable notes, which doesn’t always happen. The Retreat is both in person in Santa Fe, NM, and virtual. (This is often a hard combo to pull off, making it hard on the virtual attendees, but I thought Jacob Nordby’s group did a stellar job last year.)
Silk and Sonder has posted its August Socials on Eventbrite.
Lauren Sapala is hosting her Silent Writing Sessions again this month. These can, of course, be used for anything! Some folks use for writing or other creative pursuits, but some do tasks they have to get done or have been procrastinating on.
Every month (twice each month), Eventbrite offers a FREE Virtual Writing Hour with the National Portrait Gallery event. This month’s sessions are on the 15th and 29th.
World Virtual Tours has free online walks through wonderful cities. This month’s walk is in Palermo!
Books out this month:
Books that aren’t newly released, but that I enjoyed reading this month:
Have I mentioned Thrift Books’ website here yet? I’m addicted. A lot of $2.00 books and other special discounts abound! I keep a list in my phone. I’ve found things that have been otherwise impossible to find.
A lot of Joshua Sprague’s latest book, Create First, Consume Second, is directed to people producing mass or social media content for passive income, BUT the principle and practice is something I’m trying. A 21-Day Create First Challenge with a writing buddy. I waited for an Amazon Kindle sale to purchase for 99 cents and it was worth every penny. I kid, of course. I admire his consistency and dedication. I purchased his 30-Day Book Writing Challenge a few years back and actually stuck with it for about twelve days until it got hard. : )
Hulu and I are in an abusive relationship again. I’ve watched too many things on the streamer that have caused it to bombard me with more. You know, wink at the bad egg and stalking can’t be too far off. So, like drinking water from a fire hose, I’ve rewatched things like The Full Monty, Bored to Death, Vice Principals, The Shield, No Country for Old Men (which I didn’t know was filmed in my beloved Las Vegas, NM where I sat in a car and cried because I knew I could never recreate a home and barn on a waving field on the Loneliest Highway (104) between LV and Tucamcari)…the list apparently will never end. And I signed up for a BritBox trial and month or two so I can watch Mum and As Time Goes By and The Last of the Summer Wine and Upstairs, Downstairs, and Miranda again!
Quotes
“So many books, so little time.” ~ Frank Zappa
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game." ~ Babe Ruth
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” ~ Frank Sinatra
My Christmas present feeling this month was finding just the right AirBnB for the month of all things fall in October.