tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41265469592576601172024-03-04T23:14:32.822-08:00Austin WashingtonAustin Washingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13437393912416943833noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4126546959257660117.post-34272624231211530282017-02-21T21:01:00.000-08:002018-07-31T12:29:17.782-07:00George Washington on "Greatness", Trump, and Hair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1">What will a lack of intention do for this blog post? That is to say, it has no direction as I set out. Something about Marilyn Monroe, I think. But what? </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Yet it <i>is</i> backed by something fundamentally good – the values I sharpened and deepened by writing <a href="http://www.austinwashington.com/George" target="_blank">my first book</a>. Also, I hope, it’s guided by the Providence that George Washington, and others, trust to guide them in the right direction. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">It all sounds a bit effete, though, doesn't it. (Well, I <i>am </i>talking about Marylin Monroe...) Hmm....</span><br>
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<span class="s1">“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – <b><i>Thomas Edison</i></b></span></div>
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<span class="s1">Stephen Hawking has something to do with a new hundred million dollar effort to find life out there, somewhere. A writer from The Washington Post wrote a banal, and dare I say it, silly (I dared! I dared!) essay about life elsewhere. Well, at least he was trying. He failed, but tried, which is more than I expect from the media's mass manipulators of mendacity, </span> these days. (Coffee makes me alliterative. Sorry. I’ll try to hold back.)<br>
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you’ll find there are six seasons, no matter what the solstices and equinoxes
and all those things I’m not quite clear on say. He’s close to right. I’m here
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had nothing to do with the sort of education Obama mentions. It became
an economic power house in the 19th century, led largely by people with
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It does seem a bit of a waste of time to write a blog. You can even see how it might be counter-productive.<br>
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I, personally, see writing as something like diamond mining. (Which means I get half-enslaved demi-serfs to risk their lives...? Well, it's a metaphor, not a comparison.)<br>
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The point is, you write (and write) and write (and write) and occasionally find a diamond. But, of course, then the diamond needs to be polished, and then set.<br>
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Well, I've got to update my Goodreads Author Profile, in anticipation of my new book.<br>
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Is this the work of a madman? A highly caffeinated human being?<br>
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I learned a heckuva lot from making my first book.</div>
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But not enough to be serious in the business arena. (Arena?)</div>
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I want to put out the first third of my new book, myself. I can, because my contract with my publisher....well, without going into the details, I can (!)</div>
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But this means I've got to find someone to edit it.</div>
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I wonder if I'll have success with this collective of editors I found online, whose form I just filled out...like this:<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div>
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