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just gonna try to spit this entry out... quickly

 So you know when you read a novel, the preface is full of gratitude the author expresses to all the people that helped them write and complete their books, helping them along the way with inspiration, encouragement, assistance with research, and editing, and all the other difficult and menial tasks that it takes to get a book successfully accepted by a publisher? Sometimes there are pages of names listed, depending on how many people the author could recruit to help them do this monumental task of writing a book.  Wouldn't you just love to have your own name listed in the preface of a book written by someone you know and love? Well, maybe this is your lucky day! Because I have the draft of a novel that I've written that needs a lot of work done to help it become ready to send to a publisher, and I'm looking for helpers! I'm literally at the point where this story has sitten on my computer, unopened and unthought-of for years now, and I'm almost to the stage where i...

new year, but my only resolution is...

 to be as attuned to pursuing the attainment of my life's purpose as much as humanly and divinely possible each and every day. I'm setting no concrete goals that I want to attain because these usually end up turning into limitations for me. Usually, I set too high of a goal, and when I find it unattainable my hopes crumble. By waking up to a clean slate every day I'll be free to discover new inspirations I may have never imagined before if I had given myself too many simpler goals to chase. I dunno, maybe this sounds like a copout of some sort. But it's just the way that I've gravitated towards living and behaving over this past year. Here's an example. I've always kept the dream alive of wanting to travel. But due to economical constraints, I've never really been able to do much. The last trip I made was Labor Day weekend 2019 to bury mom's ashes in Ohio. Coming up with the money for that trip felt ultra-miraculous. Prior to that, the last trip I ma...