How many of you out there have ever been rejected by someone you really cared about?
I think that everyone has either rejected someone or has been rejected at some point in their lives. Perhaps, multiple times. Don’t you agree?
Hi again!
The Season of Gratitude is upon us. This whole month, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, always prompts me to think more about what I’m grateful for.
But it’s really important to me to be grateful every moment of the year and find ways to give.
Scanners like to learn, discover and create. (At least, this scanner does.)
One day I decided I’d like to make my own CD, to include a front and back cover, the words, and the song. I had just written a song and that inspired me to make my own jacket for it.
All the other times I wrote a song, I would just put it on paper, enjoy it for a few days and then tuck it away in my song folder. But not this time.
My second post was about Lizz Wright and her genius. At the bottom of the post I said, “Somehow you have hit a nerve in me. I love the essence of who I think you to be.”
When I read it back to myself, I immediately thought it should be a line in a song that I wanted to write about Lizz. That was my “cue”! That was about three weeks ago.
I was living in South Korea at the time and I worked as a Korean translator. To get better at the language, I immersed myself in the culture and customs.
I also made many trips to the Korean bookstores looking for dictionaries, books with short stories, magazines similar to Reader’s Digest, music books, and bilingually published books. The English was on the left side and the Korean on the facing page. So I could quickly see how they would say things.