Vacation Daze

Hey all,

Boy! Have I ever been busy. I went to visit a friend over the weekend and we spent some good times shopping, which is nice for me since I don't drive and shopping is always a treat.

So, Sue and I went downstate to a little town called Snow Hill where my friend Dawn Tarr had a gallery show at Adkin's Gallery just off the main drag. Everyone was so nice and Dawn was delighted to get a couple of the books she did covers for during the past year or so.

I was delighted because Jim Adkins agreed to handle my books and a couple of my character dolls - see the pic! I am going to have to make a few more dolls pretty soon. They are all hand sewn - not just with a machine, but with a needle and by hand. I paint the faces with water colors and sharpies and the like. Take a peek, maybe you will like them. If you do, let me know and keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
"Travel Through Time With Terry"
http://www.terrylwhitesblog.blogspot.com/

An Eastern Shore poem

Mom Mom

She keeps her hands in her lap at rest,
Fingers bundles of broken twigs,
Brown and knotted, scarred,
Big-knuckled from long hours with the knife
Worrying the sweet meat
From horny red shells that cut to the quick.
If she didn’t have all those years
What would there be
Beyond the work?

Her dress is clean,
Faded at shoulder, thigh and breast
Patches over patches
Covered with the soft apron
Of dim rose print.

Her hair is pulled back each morning
Anchored against the wind,
The constant wind.
Fine lines fan out from
Eyes once as blue as bay and sky,
Now faded into ancient haze.

She was always there
In the house beside the water
Where the fiddler crabs
Clattered their shells
At break of day,
Annoyed at her steps
As she tended the goat,
The chickens, the pig.

She doesn’t need much.
The neighbors look in
And see her hands in her lap
The fingers knotted like salt-hardened lines.
She smiles, says she is fine.
And they leave, shaking their heads
At her presence at all.

Her voice is now an echo
Of the persisting wind
As she whispers her prayers
Over sourdough batter
Started years before and
Stirred with a tarnished spoon.

Her children stay on
In faded portraits ranked
By size and age on the mantle shelf
Where the flu is cold
In the summer damp.
They rarely call.

Her man was heavy of hand,
His shoulders as broad as a tree.
She loved him true when they were young,
But he laid him down to sleep
One night, and did not breathe
In morning’s light.

There was a time she waited
On the bridge near the water’s edge,
For the sight of a well known sail;
And now for the Maker’s call.
There’s nothing more,
Her world has passed
And soon will fade to memories
In a book that once fell into the water
So that the ink ran
And the tales were lost.

Keep on the sunny side folks, Terry

I'm Back!

Hello All,

Well, here I am, more or less recovered from my computer crash, and a wonderful week at Fire Island where I got to commune with the ocean, ride a ferry, meet some wonderful people and make some new beach glass creations.

Oddly enough, the ocean left me no presents as far as more materials go. I was surprised. I thought beach glass was a fairly common thing. Not so.

Coming home was bittersweet. I had a ton of work to catch up, and was delighted to sleep in my own bed once again. Life is indeed good.

For now, I will post from time to time and try to keep the hedge trimmed, the grass cut and my tomatoes watered - great news on the last: I planted the tomatoes from seed and they are already setting fruit. What a gift. Makes you want to keep on the sunny side.

Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
"Travel Through Time With Terry"
http://www.terrylwhitesblog.blogspot.com/

Just So You Know

Hi Bloggers,

Sorry I've been missing of later. This sort of work seems to come under the heading of casting one's bread upon the water - but doesn't it all? Given the crash of my computer, I got way behind in my posts, and can only aspire to keep up the posts for the rest of the month when I am going on a week's vacation.

Last month, I got caught up in a couple of rummage sales for my art group - one at a fair for senior citizens. (Shhhhh! Don't say it!) While there, I happened to be talking with a disc jockey who asked me to stop by the station for an interview.

I hope I sounded intelligent. One of the things I was able to do was to talk about Book Three in my Chesapeake series.

Chesapeake Destiny should be in print this autumn and I am looking forward to that announcement. Again, the art was done by Dawn M. Tarr of Snow Hill. This has been a big project and the final book is finished, so I am looking forward to seeing the entire series on your bookshelf. In the meantime, keep on the sunny side. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
"Travel Through Time With Terry"
http://www.terrylwhitesblog.blogspot.com/

The Recovery Trail

Hello Bloggers,

I guess I mentioned that my computer crashed last week. What a chore it is to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. I don't know how I could have done it without the help of two very kind friends. I won't mention their names, but I do want to send out a heartfelt thank you to Doug and Alan. I am back in business, except for losing all of my photo files.

That will teach me!

Hopefully I will get out and take some new photos and find the sunny side again. In the meantime, I will try to get some posts out as time permits. Have a great day. Terry

Terry L White -Author of the Chesapeake Heritage Series
"Travel Through Time With Terry"
http://www.terrylwhitesblog.blogspot.com/

Computers for Fun and Profit

Hello All,

I would like to say my absence has been due to a nice book tour or something like that, but alas, my computer crashed and I am still trying to restore its memory - and mine!

This post will be brief, written in the hope future posts will be longer and include art, although all of mine seems to be lost along with who knows how many other lost files.

Like my mind, I miss them all.

To make this short: I am still mowing my own lawn, my resident bat has flown from my window, and the Wednesday Morning Artists had a successful yard sale. Things are going well on most fronts and I have been invited to a week on Fire Island, which will be my yearly vacation.

Hopefully things will get back in order soon. Bless you all and keep on the sunny side. Terry

How can you say that selling is spiritual service?

How can you say that selling is spiritual service?

Earlier we shared with you how Jim discovered the idea that selling is spiritual service. But that concept may seem foreign to you, even impossible. So what we've said bears repeating. Now we go more deeply into what we mean by Selling Is Spiritual Service.

This perspective on selling is based on the profound reality that we are all connected. We are all one interconnected web of consciousness. We all create together the experience of being alive, so we all need each other. That's a simple and profound fact of life.

As John Donne wrote in the seventeenth century, "No man is an island."

When someone has a problem they can't solve by themselves-and you have a solution in the form of a product or service-you have an ethical, even moral obligation to make your solution available to as many people as you can.

If you don't, you shortchange your own creative spirit as well as your business. You shortchange all the people who need what you provide. And you shortchange Spirit or God, or whatever it is you deem to be The Source of All.

This point of view is fundamental to your larger success as a soft sell marketer, and The Heart of Marketing is devoted to supporting you and the growth and expansion of your heart-based marketing.

So let's look at this more closely.


What Is Selling?

Selling is the process of converting someone from being a looker, a seeker, a searcher, a prospector into becoming a Customer.

It's the art and skill of helping your reader make the decision they know they need and want to make in order to solve the problem they're wrestling with. The selling process guides them to that decision for the benefit of both of you.

As a soft sell marketer, when you add the commitment to sell with respect and care, your priority becomes the well-being of the relationship between you and your buyer, which also includes the sale.


What Is Spiritual?

At the core, practical spirituality takes us to the fundamental connectedness that permeates and creates this world and the need we all have of one another. When you take in the emotional truth of our interdependence-and let it guide your business dealings-you begin to market and sell with consciousness and conscience.


Consciousness-with awareness of the co-creative life that joins us all together, the customer becomes not just someone who will buy, but a necessary partner in determining the best outcome for both you and your buyer.

Conscience-reflects the care and respect for ourselves and our customers as feeling-filled human beings, not just walking wallets.
Doing business with consciousness and conscience you advance the experience of being alive by recognizing and supporting the well-being of the whole-the whole of life on this planet through the whole transaction-that is, your awareness of both the seller and the buyer.

When you participate in a spiritually motivated sale you recognize the gifts you, the seller, bring to the marketplace as well as the need brought by your buyer. There is a unity of purpose and respect that is expressed through and manifested in a value-for-value exchange.


What Is Service?

Service is the assistance you offer as you put yourself forward to support and advance your prospective customer's buying experience. When in service, you contribute to the well-being of your prospective customer even if they never become a buyer.

However, when you come from service, you must avoid martyring yourself. To fully participate in the buyer/seller partnership you must make sure to serve your own self-expression, your own personal value, and your own economic well-being. Otherwise you negate the partnership and are thrust back into the every-man-for-himself mindset. It's essential that you respect and support both you and your customer.

When you take to heart that Selling Is Spiritual Service you are on your way to release from fear, shyness, embarrassment, guilt and any other internal millstone holding you back from marketing with passionate commitment. You are emboldened to use your marketing to educate your readers about what you know, what you've created for them, and you invite and encourage them to make the decision they already know they want to make.

You share your story, you outline the many benefits they can enjoy, and you provide testimonials from satisfied customers so that your readers know, truly know they are in the right place. Then when they buy, when they put money in your bank, their payment is a form of appreciation and gratitude.

That's the power of Selling As Spiritual Service.

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