Mike O'Hare's Blog – March 2011 Archive (9)

PLACES THAT INSPIRE US

After a recent discussion and the sharing of a few photographs with a friend regarding how our natural and local habitat can inspire us so much, I thought I'd ask the members here to post places that have given them the most inspiration, especially when it comes to writing.

Unless you are living in dense…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 27, 2011 at 3:30pm — 8 Comments

The Meadow Theme

I'm fortunate to have an associate who is an amazing musician, a classical composer and arranger. I don't really have any regrets in my life, but when I look back at how I rebelled against my mother when she 'forced' me to take piano lessons, I could cringe. Psychology would have been the best method whereby my…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 25, 2011 at 1:25pm — 1 Comment

PROMOTING OUR WARES -- The Story of The Meadow Book

Recently I've had some nice encouragement from a WRDF member, Gary Val Tenuta, telling me that I should be exploiting more of the promotional material that I have for The Meadow novel. In particular he was talking about the video which is titled "The Story of The Meadow Book."

Normally, I make most of the videos myself and Elfreda, the co-writer to…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 22, 2011 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

PUTTING INACTIVE MEMBERS ON THE SPOT

I’ve never missed a Formula One race in all the years that I care to remember. And that’s a lot, believe me. F1 is my passion. However, if someone asked me a specific question regarding a certain race on a particular date of any year I’d be hard pushed to answer. My problem is that I can’t hold the stats and I’d fail any sports quiz as a consequence.

Statistics do interest me, but for some reason my psyche won’t facilitate the retention of clutter. This leads me in nicely…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 21, 2011 at 12:04pm — 24 Comments

THE HEALING BOOK GROUP

I’m reckoning that some, even most members here, will be keeping their distance when they observe me proposing a group that could possibly reek of dogma or creed or both lol. I’m on many Ning networks and one of the groups that is common in all, created by me, is The Healing Book…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 19, 2011 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

A MAN AND HIS HORSE

The above title is the heading to one of the chapters in "The Meadow" novel. There has been quite a few articles and blogs written about this story but none, so far, appear to have concentrated on the animal which accompanies our two protagonists throughout the centuries as they return to the earth plane to…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 15, 2011 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

REINCARNATION

You either love or hate the subject concerning reincarnation. To others it's a taboo topic which should never be approached or suffer the consequences. The conventional idea behind reincarnation is that after dying we return to the Earth plane to live another life. However, when up-to-date theories are…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 10, 2011 at 12:55pm — 1 Comment

HOLD ON TO YOUR COMICS AND MAGS -- The future's only round the corner

I’m pretty sure there are many like me who have a predisposition to hoard. The Aladdin’s Cave of any home is the attic or loft where all the unwanted stuff gets piled away and is forgotten — out of sight, out of mind. My attic is the home to many of my kids’ (now grown up) old toys and comics, lovingly preserved and…

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Added by Mike O'Hare on March 9, 2011 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

THE COLOUR OF MUSIC

"The Colour of Music" is a rather bizarre combination of words used as the title to an article which attempts to help us understand the workings of the Universe from our perspective as human beings. We consider 'hearing' and 'sight' as two of the five natural senses which, combined with the other three, feed…