Sticky notes from my desk and LDSPMA takeaways.
Betterment
Some things are good for a time. And only a time.
I should be as good at keeping an experience account as I am
at keeping an expenditure account. The former will foster gratitude and joy.
The latter may make me wiser.
To singles who want to be married: “Do not give up hope. And
do not give up trying. But do give up being obsessed with it . . . if you forget
about it and become anxiously engaged in other activities, the prospects will brighten
immeasurably.” – President Hinkley (Women of the Church)
We have all been powerfully affected by women.
I can love imperfect things. I can create imperfect things. I am an imperfect being of great worth.
Current Events
MyEducator just wants to be in the room where it happens
with WGU.
First day back at the office and I remembered my computer
password on the first try. #success
There is enough and to spare in the earth. We don’t often
treat it like that, though.
Musings
I can’t keep my happiness to myself—I must talk about and
share it if I can.
Was Nick Fury a good project manager and did he do a good
job assembling the Avengers?
The Earth experience is a fraction of your eternity. It is second
grade, if you will. You are not expected to make every ordinance or become
perfect here. But be good and serve others and participate and progress as you
can.
Do we live our lives as Hallmark Christmas movies? We let
Christmas be the setting but leave it out of the actual story and all of the
important plot.
No one really knows when to quit.
"Ready" isn't always what you think it looks like.
They should seek the Lord,…though he be not far from every one
of us. For in him we live and move, and have our being; as certain also of your
own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (Acts 17:28)
Let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and
in truth. (John 3:18)
"Light attracts people." But we must be more than moths to a flame.
Media Connections
Technically, Charles Dickens partially self-published A
Christmas Carol.
“Taking coals to Newcastle” a Britishism for wholly unnecessary
actions.
“The malevolent ivy—always an enemy to grace—” Well, agree to disagree, Rebecca.
“Panacea to pain.” And “Grist to our hungry mill.”
“Nothing so shaming, so degrading, as a marriage that had
failed.” (Rebecca) So people try to hide the shame from their friends
and family, committing to long lies. Not me. I never want to live a lie.
“Chewing gum and bailing wire” is an idiom for stringing
something together unexpectedly.
In "The School of Athens" Fresco by Raphael, there's a person waving in the background, and I've found my portrait kindred spirit.
It is not in the interest of the ruling class to preach a preexistance—if you are all children of a God, the justification of slavery is invalidated. Humans corrupt correct doctrines with their self interests.
Why do we love the Regency era? It's living aspects of "the dream"—you have people doing things for you.
All animators can come together to hate on The Good Dinosaur.
I've always wondered: Do you know when you're working on a flop? And the animator panel said that yes, you do. But you do your best anyway. (On the flipside, you don't know that something is going to be a runaway success.)
Quips and Quotes
Every day’s a holiday when I’m with you.
—seriously, how do you keep track of them all?
She loved him, which was a greater credit to her heart than
to his merit, for he never acted as he ought.
“I always want to write poetry after talking with you.” –
Aspen
"If your own work bores you, you can't imagine someone else liking it." - Christ Crow
"I have not yet written my best book." – Tracey Hickman
"The nice thing about being an author is you can recreate your childhood nightmares as novels." – Janette Rallison
"Being a light can mean naming the shape of the darkness." – James Goldberg
Know Thyself
Comparison is the thief of joy.
I tend to believe I can do anything—and I try not to prove
myself wrong.
My SOUL is well suited for this season of the world. I will
not just endure the current moment—I can embrace the future with faith.
What do you want? Love and joy. How great is the joy of the
soul that repenteth.
I am equally verbose in philosophy and frivolity.
I’m on a path, not a pedestal.
Who clipped the wings of my dreams? And why was it mostly .
. . me? Maybe that’s why I vehemently support creativity in others—there are
enough dream killers out there: we need more believers and wing healers.
My time is too precious to waste on someone who doesn’t want
me.
Do I have assumed relationship trauma? My reaction to a
Facebook post to a friend who posted about a guy who “makes me so happy” and “treats
me so well” and “loves me for who I am unconditionally” and “is the best thing
that ever happened to me” is it’s a trap.
I’m a lover not a fighter and a writer.
I will accept and address criticism that I deserve. I will not
accept criticism that I do not deserve—even if it would be easier just to let
it go (and I will address its misapplication).
"You're not a bad editor." True. But what if you could be good at something else?
Sometimes I just need to put my money where my mouth is and my mouth where my heart is.
What is it that you want to say? With my Marley story: God's mercy is great.
Ideas
“Singled Out”: Musings on being marginalized by marital status
“Paired Off”: the opposite
Symposium topic: The Death of Charlotte Lucas: An Essay on
Opportunities for Women Outside of Marriage
Recommendations
BYU Personal Finance.
Todd B. Parker “True Doctrine Understood,
Changes Attitudes and Behavior.”
“Christ is the teacher, the universe is His classroom, and His atonement is the
curriculum.” The universe was designed to testify of Christ.
Eve by Susan Easton black
Death Coming Up the Hill Chris Crow
Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Start Making Chips (Maxwell Article)
6 Rules of Great Storytelling (Brian G. Peters article)
All That Makes Life Bright: The Life and Love of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Josi S. Kilpack
The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman
Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain
Publishing stuff:
https://thebookbreak.com/
https://press.barnesandnoble.com/ (e-books)
https://greenleafbookgroup.com/
http://www.brighamdistributing.com/ (necessary to get into LDS bookstores)
https://www.draft2digital.com/ (ebook distributor)
Poetry helper:
http://www.searchleaf.com/ (creating interesting word combos)
The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi
