Running Over Copyrights

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In my haste to post Planning A Blog, I rushed to find free images to illustrate it and inadvertently used a photograph without permission or credit. I didn’t see the photographer’s name in the link, which is just about the same as running a red light.

A few days after the post was up, the photographer contacted me and sent me a bill for “release from liability of copyright infringement for unauthorised and uncredited” use of his image. I apologized and appealed, to no response. So I’ve paid the fee, and I’m writing this post both to make amends and to warn others not to make the same mistake, even unwittingly.

There are images available to use for little or no cost, and there are images that are owned by their creators. These artists deserve to be credited for their work and have the right to charge for it…

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Sometimes you need to just take pride in the fact that you showed up ready to play…

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Serial Killer

This topic is about loss…losing something or someone. Doesn’t need to be depressing, was part of the instructions. I am having a little bit of difficulty with this as I have experienced great losses in my life and I do not want this to be depressing. This is also part one of a series, so I need this to be something that I can use as a series. (and, I already did the blog 101 assignment I have caught up to…so, the instructions there were to make sure I do this, nice ;))

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I love this…sometimes, if you seem to be lost or even just have some ‘funk’ in your eyes…close them, the world aligns in such a way that your answers or re-assurance appear right where they should.
-Rach

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Today’s topic

To write about anything (for 10 minutes straight)

I have Natalie Goldberg’s book and have tried several times in the past to condition myself to free write for 10-15 minutes each day. Too often “life” has gotten in the way.

I am trying to keep this blog focused on the silver lining. This is what the girls and I stand for, this is what we represent to each other and what I want to try to keep doing here. All I see is silver linings right now, and that is so attributed to these two soul sisters of mine and the journey we share daily.

I am rather known in my home as a ‘tornado’

the tornado that spins

slowly at the bottom, moving effortlessly

consuming more air, more speed

swirling in an uncontrollable motion

eh, couldn’t get much farther than that…so my tornado is my mind…it goes. And goes and flies all over the place. When I am cleaning, I cannot focus in  one place alone. I will start in  the kitchen with the dishes, then need a new hand-towel. As I head to the hand-towels, I realized I haven’t started any laundry, so will then veer into the laundry room and begin a load of clothes. But the clothes basket, it is full.

Moving into the bedroom to start folding the clean clothes so I can use the clothes basket with the dishes still wet, and the hand towel sitting on top of the dryer now…I trip over a shoe, look down and see dog hair on the bedroom floor. I pick up the shoes, put them in the closet, head to the vacuum and begin to vacuum the bedroom…but there is a pile of stuff next to the dresser and, if I stop to pick it up and can get the whole floor at once…who wants half of a clean bedroom floor? Plus, hubby will sigh with that happy smile when he sees the floor looks brand new again. So…

I think that was 10 minutes 😉

Happy Birthday!

Today is the birth of our blog:

Secret Silver Linings

We are three girls, from complete different areas of the world, with 3 complete different backgrounds. Fate put us together in a meek and gloomy setting in downtown Philadelphia, in a super posh conference room just a few months back and quickly started our journey down a new and unfamiliar road.

When life brings us lemons, we make lemonade to sip and share…and together we are finding that life is full of silver linings, some of which shine so bright, they bounce prisms of light around those watching, circling them in a warm feeling of joy and laughter, while there are some linings that are just so pristine and clear, the only thing you can see is the reflection of yourself, the most important part of any journey.

Life is ever-evolving, the journey never stops. This here is our new chapter, our blank canvas. With every stroke, out picture will continue to expand..we welcome you to watch our masterpieces being created~