I found $10,000 in My desk Drawer

 

That title got my attention. Sorry, it isn’t my story. Another blogger wrote it.

His story is that he pulled out an old piece of writing, resold it, and made $10,000. Maybe it was hype, I don’t know. It doesn’t matter, what matters is that he motivated me.

“I have some old writing,” I said. "I have a book sitting in my drawer."  No, I have several small ebooks sitting on Amazon Kindle. There's The Frog's Song available as a real live book, published by Regal Publishing, or as a Kindle version. There's My Mother's Letters...and mine, Where Tiger's Belch, A Dog , God, & Me, and Take a Leap--all ebooks.  Hey, Ive been busy. No wonder I didn't rake leaves this fall.

They are small books, but it's time they pulled their own weight, instead of me hauling them around on my back.

 $10,000 sitting in a drawer--that's for me.

 

What say you? Are you a writer? I know you are a reader--because you're here. Good for you.. Steven King says "If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write." 

I don't have time to do the dishes.

 Shout outs on https://joycedavis.substack.com

 

 I'm excited to be back with The Tiger. The time, a few years ago, I was writing it felt lighter, and I want that again. It's fun here. I'm just talking to a friend--that's you.

Have you fount the spot where your tiger belches?

He belches exactly on the spot where you find your calling. (Until you find that spot you are wandering in the jungle as my lady does in Where The Tiger Belches.) 

When you find it, that spot will give meaning to your life.

Then as Ray Bradbury said, "You jump and build your winds on the way down."

That's a scary thought. 

However, you do the work, you practice, you persevere until you are strong enough to declare yourself whatever it is you have decided is it. 

I'm getting a Substack site going. It's a little ragged as I try to get the gist of it, but there I will post what's going on.

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P.S. I was born in the Chinese Year of the Tiger. I didn't think of it until just now. No wonder I came back.

Where Tigers Belch

 

Have you ever had one of those days where you felt off? You were out of sorts, irritable, thinking nothing was going right? You were mad at the world and mad that things weren't going according to plan. You were angry that you aren't further along on your enlightenment trail, wondering what enlightenment is anyway. 

 

You could search for years and never find that spot where the tiger belches, where you are calm and believe all's right with the world. It is the place where you feel invincible.  

 

I understand the gap. It's best to back off. Go into your hut, nap, pet that baby cheetah on your bed, and listen to it purr. (I've heard that they have a purr like a lawnmower, and if they lick you, your skin will feel like it's been sanded.) Decide at that moment that you will be fresh tomorrow and not push it today. 

 

Tomorrow, I'm taking action. I will take my backpack, a few bottles of water, a sandwich or two and set off to find my destiny.

 

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Hi, Come on Over Sit a spell

Where Tiger Belch:

That's the place where you find yourself.

If the phrase, “finding yourself" seems too airy fairy for you, hang in here, we'll go into it more later. But not today—my head will explode. For now, know that before you find yourself, you must wander in the jungle for a while.

I tend to bounce over many subjects—metaphysics, the spiritual path, life blog, travel, writing about writing, blogging, chickens, animals, horses, home life, family, story, Hawaii, Oregon, California, and God. I'll even throw in sea life if that strikes me. Then, I hear the voice of blogging gurus who tell you to find your niche and stick with it.

 I scream, "WHAT'S MY NICHE!" (All over the place.)

Auston Kleon (Steal Like an Artist) says, "You can cut off a couple of passions and only focus on one, but after a while, you'll start to feel phantom limb pain."

 I love that man.

Plagiarism states Kleon, is claiming another's work as your own. Stealing from many sources is RESEARCH. If you steal from enough sources people will say, “She’s so brilliant.”

Barbara Kingsolver said in her last tip of five on writing, "If you are young and a smoker, you should quit."

 I qualify as a writer. 

 I don't smoke, and I'm not young.

I abandoned Where the Tiger Belch in 2015, that was before all hell broke loose in the world.

I discovered a new sense of wonder when I stumbled upon this old blog a week ago. Perhaps I was lighter then. In any case, I'm back. Yet I know that life is a progression, ever-growing and ever-changing. I just want to believe in the hope that we, the people, will see that the world survives and that we cherish our God-given right to exist and flourish.

I wrote a series of posts called Where The Tiger Belch. Later I assembled it into a booklet by the same name. It’s on Amazon, free for Kindle readers, $2.99 for an ebook. (9,627 words.)

 

Click here for the link.