tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post602769531691048686..comments2023-10-11T10:21:44.707-05:00Comments on "Why Wear The Cross?": The Independent Author--The Courage to Face our DreamsBobby Ozunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06054557500399102688noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-59186543369738129322009-02-13T13:46:00.000-06:002009-02-13T13:46:00.000-06:00Theresa:Thanks for sharing in return.... I have co...Theresa:<BR/>Thanks for sharing in return.... I have come to another cross-roads in my life and my literary career...where I go from here, I am not yet certain. What I do know is this: No matter where I end up... the journey continues and so does the growth and so to do the stories....Bobby Ozunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054557500399102688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-70275278331374993392009-02-12T22:31:00.000-06:002009-02-12T22:31:00.000-06:00Bobby- thanks for sharing your most intimate thoug...Bobby- thanks for sharing your most intimate thoughts and hopes. You are so brave to lay them out there. Your words cause me to pause and reflect on my own hopes and dreams and what I am doing to make them happen. And I realize I have work to do.Theresa Lehrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06119078790135679592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-77548005798910244782009-02-12T11:13:00.000-06:002009-02-12T11:13:00.000-06:00Jessie:I am hoping to publish my short story (5 pa...Jessie:<BR/>I am hoping to publish my short story (5 pages) which I have entitled: "The Boy and his Garden." The story deals with the very ideals you have spoken of... working a garden, preparing the soil, studying to learn how and when to water and how to keep away the weeds and still studying further to learn what to do--LATER--when your garden bears fruit. <BR/><BR/>Whatever you do...believe in yourself...and find your way of kicking the dust off your boots and the seeds of discouragement when others try to sow them into your fields. Remember, Paulo Coelho goes on to say the following:<BR/><BR/>"...once we have overcome the defeats--and we always do--we are filled by a greater sense of euphoria and confidence. In the silence of our hearts, we know that we are proving ourselves worthy of the miracle of life. Each day, each hour, is part of the Good Fight. We start to live with enthusiasm and pleasure. Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our soul, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives."<BR/><BR/>If you plant and work on your garden daily...and you study to learn how and when to water...and then you prepare your mind for the long road ahead in study, your garden WILL bring forth its fruit, in its due season...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for believing with me.Bobby Ozunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054557500399102688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-37914905921601665362009-02-12T11:06:00.000-06:002009-02-12T11:06:00.000-06:00Nancy:Thank you so much for your words. It's a sca...Nancy:<BR/>Thank you so much for your words. It's a scary thing...following your dreams...because for as much as you know you can gain in the long run...so much is at risk to lose along the way...Bobby Ozunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06054557500399102688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-31489450205201857342009-02-12T10:44:00.000-06:002009-02-12T10:44:00.000-06:00Bobby,Thank you for sharing your thoughts and wher...Bobby,<BR/>Thank you for sharing your thoughts and where you are today. You know I believe in your dream and I am confident that it will happen for you...You know I support you 100% and more and am here for whatever help you need. I appreciate your friendship. And, by the way, my heart smiled to read your words...you are truly gifted!!! <BR/>Always, NNancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14917894029398061196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4141637017900148390.post-57944657436291329092009-02-12T10:26:00.000-06:002009-02-12T10:26:00.000-06:00Bobby,That was very insightful. I like to think of...Bobby,<BR/>That was very insightful. <BR/><BR/>I like to think of my success as a garden, (I love to garden) I planted the seeds, now I have to water and nourish them. In doing that some come along and say, "What cha got there?" I say my dream, one day it will feed me. Some see my dream, others say, "You'll never be able to make it grow." some justify that it is too hard to grow a plant, some say it takes to long to see it bloom or bare fruit, others come along (like you) and say, "I was here once and this is what helped me grow my dream."<BR/>My dream is still a seedling, but I know if I nourish it, and send all my love to it and put my heart and soul into it, that one day it will flourish! <BR/>Along the way there are bugs and fungis and animals that will try to destroy my dream but if I am dilligant, and I take the advice of those who came before and follow my inner voice and listen to my true heart, I WILL have the things I have dreamed of all along.<BR/>It is truely a long and slow process, but it is growing, I can feel it, my dream is growing. It's a sensation unlike any other, and sometimes it hurts, sometimes I want to give up. Sometimes I want to quit because someone has discouraged me and my ego conceeds to their point. My true heart knows tho. And that's what I am going with. <BR/>Like you I feel the Universe is truely conspiring in my favor and all is as it should be!<BR/><BR/>I am an adventurer, looking for treasure!<BR/><BR/>Your friend,<BR/>JessieJessie O.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15068614058844373797noreply@blogger.com