Day: June 17, 2019

Promote Yourself Monday, June 17th, 2019

~ thereluctantpoet

Come join in the fun at The Go Dog Go Cafe’s Free Event – Promote Yourself Monday!! Give over 4,900 patrons a chance to read the poem/post you’ve written!! Come toot your own horn with other authors/poets. Please be sure and reblog the Cafe’s event page on your blog so your followers can also take advantage of this opportunity!!

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Promote yourself Mon

Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe readers, guest writers, and baristas are invited to post one link to one specific post (600 words or less please!) from your blog into the comments section below.

If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.

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Love And Trust

~ thereluctantpoet

Sarah Doughty

“I fell for you without knowing I was
falling at all. And you were waiting
at the bottom to catch me.”

You see, darling, trust means everything to me. If I didn’t trust you, I would have kept you at arm’s length. I would have guarded my past tragedies. My heart’s desires. My dreams. My hopes for the future. But you see, somewhere in there, in the beginning, you knocked all my walls down without me even realizing I was surrounded by rubble. I trusted you without realizing it. I fell for you without knowing I was falling at all. And the best part, you were waiting at the bottom to catch me, and somehow I knew, I was safe with you the whole time.

© Sarah Doughty

How did I get so lucky?

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“…the hope is that change can happen”

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Art of Quotation

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“There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive – in fact, each can fuel the other. As a filmmaker, I want to entertain people first and foremost. If out of that comes a greater awareness and understanding of a time or a circumstance, then the hope is that change can happen.”

– Edward Zwick, American, film maker, film, cinema, producer, director

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“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that…”

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Art of Quotation

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“Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.” – Luis Bunuel, Spanish, 1900-1983, filmmaker, cinema, director, surrealist

More on Luis Buñuel

Six of Buñuel’s films are included in Sight & Sound‘s 2012 critic’s poll of the top 250 films of all time. 15 of his films are included in They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They? list of the 1,000 greatest films of all time, which is tied with John Ford for second most, and he ranks number 14 on their list of the top 250 directors.

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And perhaps what made her beautiful was not her appearance…..

~ thereluctantpoet

Purplerays

And perhaps what made her beautiful was not her appearance or what she achieved , but in her love and in her courage, and her audacity to believe: no matter the darkness around her, light ran bright within her, and that was the way she came alive, and it showed up in everything. ❤️☀

Text & image source: Mitra Shahidi https://www.facebook.com/mitra.shahidi.3

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