A-Z Blogging Challenge: KISS Gratitude

Let’s KISS away this  4th A-Z blogging challenge with a little gratitude.

New Orleans: Thank you message in the grotto of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church; added by those for whom prayer or miracles were granted (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

First up we have the letter A – and Arlee Bird, founder of the A-Z Blogging Challenge.

Thank you Arlee.  I stumbled upon your A-Z just after I’d started blogging again.  It seemed like a good idea to participate, to give me an incentive to write every day and you were a dedicated visitor, reader and commenter.  There have been times when I’ve felt you were the ONLY reader – other than my mother.   So thank you Arlee.

I’ll post a little gratitude everyday except Sunday – following the letters of the alphabet sequentially.  There’s nothing like a little gratitude to make you feel better deep inside.   You know the place I mean…it’s the same place where you feel the smile.   Try it – smiling that is – and see if you can locate the place inside your being where you feel that smile, and feel the powerful, happy energy radiate outward from there into the world.

Yeah, I like gratitude and smiling.  Thanks Arlee.

Here’s an audio track for you to listen to while you travel the A-Z

 

 

A-Z Challenge: Places I’ve Lived

I must be nuts, I’m doing it again!  And I’m moving again.  In the middle of the challenge.  It makes me think I should blog about moving.  I could also blog my poems.  As I write this I’m really not sure what I’ll blog – but for some insane reason, I’m doing it again! As if I haven’t got enough to do.

Thing is, I think I may have learned a thing or two about writing a blog post in the last year, and doing the A-Z was a great kick start.  My goal for this challenge is to keep it under 500 words.

For some people that’s easy – but for me, as my 11th grade English teacher wrote on an essay I wrote about town planning (!!!): “You have mastered the extended form, now work on brevity.”

North America and Pelican Nebulae (narrowband) (Photo credit: DJMcCrady)

So folks that’s the only goal I have for now in this A-Z.  Under 500 words.  I’d like to even keep it under 300.  See you in the A-Z.

And I just got an idea – I’m going to blog about the places I’ve lived – and if I think I can handle it, I’ll do 2 blogs (now I know I am nuts!)  I might just get brave enough to blog A-Z poems on my other blog…let’s see if I can pull it off! No no no no – one is ENUF ALREADY!  A-Z Places I’ve Lived!  Could get interesting!

Related articles

• The A to Z Challenge Begins April 1st! (theartistrycollective.wordpress.com)
• Blogging from A-Z (wifelyperfection.wordpress.com)
• The Challenge is ON! (penguininthedesert.wordpress.com)