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My Feature Black History Presentation This Sunday

I will be one of the featured presenters/poets at  the Black History event in celebration of Black Poetry: Call (Volume II):  A Literary Celebration, at Cellar Door Books, 5225 Canyon Crest Dr, Ste 30A/B, Riverside , CA..  I will read poems from my published collection of poems, "Confessions" (lnevitable Press) and my poems published in the anthology, "2012 Writing From Inlandia".  I will also discuss my latest publication in the soon to be released, "Street Lit: Popularity, and Analysis" (Scarecrow Press).  I will also discuss iconic African Americans within my family and whom I have had the pleasure to meet.  For more information about my latest projects and upcoming projects, I invite you to view my google+ profile which will give you links to my social media and webpages.  There are many things going right in the world today.  I invite everyone to help me to celebrate and show others how much beauty and creativity there is in the world that we are blessed to witness.

Cupped Love

 This pic really resonated within me.  It speaks to me of the love that we hold within our hands that we nurtured and nourish so that it will grow and flourish.  Sometimes pics say everything you wish you can say in words.  Sometimes pics help you to find the words you  thought you had lost.



Pic borrowed from FB page "Only Love and Its Failure Can Throw You Inside".

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Powering Up With A Light Supper

Light salad with Granny Smith apple, Red Bell Pepper, Roast Turkey & Ken's Bleu Cheese Salad Dressing. Accompanied with a hunk of French Bread, a cup of fresh Orange Juice & a cup of my Super Smoothe Chicken Broth.
A light supper to get me powered up to work on a few projects tonight.

 

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Positivity Challenge

I am going to challenge myself to take a picture a day and write a (positive content) haiku a day for the rest of the year starting 01Feb2013

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Fear of Being Alone

The fear of being alone can be devastating if you don't learn to love your own company. Even people in relationships can feel alone with a person lying in bed next to them. Stop expecting someone to come into your life and fulfill it, that's your job. They should be there to enhance it, not to be the reason you're alive! ~ Michael Baisden

Often times fear of being alone causes us to compromise our goals and values just to keep someone (anyone) near.  Discovering that you enjoy your own company is more empowering than most people can imagine.  Once you have learned to enjoy being in your own company, you will find yourself seeking the company of others who enhance your life and vice versa.  Self-fulfillment begins with building your own self-esteem and perspective of self-worth.

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Homage to Breasts a beautiful artist image

This artist has a beautiful homage to breasts.  I really like this image.  I collect art and literature that pays homage to breasts.

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Ontario Arts Walk! Wow! What A Great Evening!

Home from the Ontario Arts Walk about an one hour now. I'm exhausted. Wow! I have a lot to share about my sensational evening meeting and making friends with so many astonishingly creative people. Please connect with me so that I can tag you in my next posts on this successful evening of artistic collaboration. I want to thank Erns Valdez for inviting me and the hosts and coordinators Liset Banks, Lebec Deweese, Jessica Hardy, and Lisa Kennedy.  I will post more when I am more coherent. For now its chicken broth and coma time. Night night. CelenaDiana.

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What's Going Right

What's Going Right
Tonight, I attended "Arts Connection", an event hosted by the Arts Council of San Bernardino County, California, and to sum up the event in one word.  "Wow!!!" 7 hours after leaving the 5 hour event, I am still imagining all the ways art can help bring economy back into this region. I had the most wonderful and beautiful experiences discussing and sharing artistic life and passions.  I will post more positive information about yesterday evening on both my blog sites and on my FB pages Expressionist's Oasis, Perceptions:  Breast Cancer Support and Health, and Islands for Writers. 
These are really exciting times and I am really looking forward to being a positive, motivational, educational, and  nurturing support to our community's foundations. and long term vision.
It was truly an hour to attend the event and share creative thoughts with other people from the art as a whole to specific niches that foster creative innovations.
Celena Diana Bumpus

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