My Novella- Soap Opera- The Alchemy of Ivy Mae

 Here is a little project  https://thealchemyofivymae.blogspot.com/  I started and having a lot of fun. I get up really early and I need something to do before I can actually get up and move around so I decided to write a novella. And to post 256 blogposts and then at the end of a year , re organize it all and make it a book. I was going to get everyone to help but I was having so much fun I have already blogged up until end of Nov 2025. But I plan to go back and refine now so if you want to help, you can add weird plot twists and stuff but has to keep to the theme of the storyline. Anyways check it out. Going to be fun. Exciting, Scary, Adventure, Educational. 

https://thealchemyofivymae.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-spark-of-change.html

The Essential Feminine Company- Maureen Simon

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WOW, I just had the most wonderful conversation with Maureen Simon. She has written a book called the Awakening the Essential Feminine. She such a amazing person, the way she speaks is so genuine, and she puts you so at ease.

Awakening The Essential Feminine

Maureen and I are going to be doing a little work with each other and I am thrilled.  It's so interesting as I had been looking for a mentor and actually applied to a program to find one but for various reasons, it all fell apart. Then the universe responds...it always amazes me when that happens. Maureen helps women with  Life and Business Design- Private Consulting (See Details Below or at this link)

I am super excited about the prospect of all this. I am going to start reading her book right away, so I'll have more to tell you in a bit. In the meantime, check out her site. She has some really cool things on there.

Like this Bubble Bath!

Summer Bubble Bath- Enjoying the Pleasures of the Season.

 

Summer Bubble Bath- Enjoy the Pleasures of the Season

An Exclusive 3-week Virtual Workshop 

June 23, 30, and July 7

It's time for renewal and rest. It's time for beauty. It's time for pleasure and play. It's time to bring back the girl within… No matter how many responsibilities you have-or how exhausted you may be-you are about to have a resurgence of your vital feminine life force. Within an innovative and interactive group unlike anything you have done before, you will have an opportunity to immerse yourself in a pool of peace and tranquility…right in the midst of your life as it is right now. Read more here... http://theessentialfeminine.com/events

Doesn't that sound FANTASTIC! I think it does! 

Here is some more info for you to check out. http://theessentialfeminine.com

The Essential Feminine Company

Empowering Women to Create Successful Business Lives from the Feminine Perspective

The Essential Feminine Company

 Maureen is founder of The Essential Feminine Company™ (TEF)-a lifestyle and business design company that supports women to create successful powerful lives that incorporates their feminine attributes and gifts.

The company provides learning environments and products that support women in claiming, living and leading with their natural strengths and talents. TEF believes that it is now time for women step forward and makes a major contribution in the world.

Life & Business Design - Private Consulting

Life and Business Design – Private Consulting

3-6 month custom-designed private consulting for women who are ready to reach the heights of their feminine potential and see the direct results reflected in their work, finances, relationships, health and well-being, spiritual life, and more. With the dynamic support of 1:1 private consulting with Maureen Simon, the opportunity here is one of utter transformation and upliftment…life can be better than ever!
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 You can contact Maureen Simon by clicking the links below or at the email or phone numbers listed here.

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Around the World in Easy Ways

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WOW, I TRAVELED AROUND THE WORLD THIS MORNING!

In my email today was a link from my Linkedin Group -Travel Geeks, this lady Lisa Shusterman. and her husband took their two daughters around the world for a year! AWESOME!!

This something I am planning for my daughter and me, and I am sure this book will be of great help and I plan to get one shortly.

I have added some links and a few of her blog entries below. Good Luck Lisa!


The blog is so awesome, I  am sure the book has really fab info.

  I need to sit down and write a book about our Adventurez in Mexico - there's so many things that happened that I didn't blog about or that when I re-created  Adventurez in Mexico from the original blog Adventures of Angel - I left out things, so one day I took will write a book.

Thanks for the inspiration, Lisa

I see you do not have Mexico on your itinerary, I'll have to see if you ended up there. Maybe after checking out my blog, you'll check it out. Okay check out her posts, links and info below. (Nope: they didn't go, but WOW, the places they did go)

These kinds of experiences, while your kids may not remember them all, will impact and imprint their lives incredibly.

Your daughters will make incredible ambassadors and peacekeepers as they will have such high levels of openenss and understanding of different cultures. 

Seeing all the different landscapes and environments, they can be wonderful spokeswoman and protectors of this planet.

And boy do we need kids like this right now. They are our only hope. They WILL save this planet, because they've seen, they understand it and they LOVE it from all the wonderful things they've experienced.

Around the World in Easy Ways

Around the World in Easy Ways
by Lisa Shusterman.

http://www.aroundtheworldineasyways.com/blog/

http://www.oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com

The Shusterman. Family

Cataratas del Iguazu, Argentina

MY TOP TEN REASONS TO TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD
By travelinlisa | Published March 8, 2011

Recently I read a list of reasons to travel around the world. In all honesty, I didn’t find the list all that compelling. I figured, if I was going to be critical of someone else’s list, I should attempt to create a list of my own that at least I find more motivating. Hopefully you will too…

10. It’s a big world out there. Explore more than your own backyard.


9. It’s a small world after all. Visit other countries while they still have their own languages and culture. The future may not provide that opportunity.


8. If you travel around the world, you only have to buy one way tickets. There’s a cost savings in there somewhere.


7. Meet people from all over and discover how wonderful they are, where ever you go.


6. Create the opportunity to “vacate” your life. Leave behind your routine to discover a new way of living, even if just for a short period of time.


5. Discover the simplicity of living without mail, a phone, an answering machine, a job, a schedule, school, extra-curricular activities…


4. Experience a life without “stuff.” Where the contents of one suitcase is all you own and where the contents of one suitcase is all you really need.


3. To say you’ve been to all seven continents; have been to 50% of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites; 75% of the 1000 Places to See Before You Die or whatever list you might hold in high esteem.


2. To learn more about yourself, your travel partners and the world, than you ever will staying at home.


1. To discover the truth that in the end, it’s not how much money you have, how much stuff you have accumulated or how many hours you worked that counts. It’s the interactions you have with people and the relationships (even if temporary) you create, that make the difference in our lives.


WHO IS THIS BOOK FOR?

If you are thinking about long term travel, this book is for you. If you are curious about how to plan a journey of this magnitude, this book is for you. Or if you want to vicariously enjoy someone else’s travel adventure, this book is for you.

People are choosing to make long term travel part of their lives: empty nesters, ready to stop putting their life on hold for their kids and start living their personal dream, individuals taking a sabbatical year, those between jobs seizing the opportunity to see more of the world, homeschoolers who are incorporating extensive travel into their curriculum. Maybe hitting the road is related to your work. Maybe you don’t fit into any of these categories but you’ve decided to live out a lifelong desire of extended travel. If you are planning a long term trip, you will find the information in this book invaluable.



WHY WE DID IT

People thought we were crazy when we told them we were taking a year off to travel around the world. Who takes a year off to travel? I guess if we were retired with grown children and independently wealthy, they might have looked at us differently. But no, we are not retired, we have elementary school age twin daughters and we are definitely not rich. So what ever made us think of such a bizarre idea, and more importantly, what ever made us think that we could pull it off?


http://oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com/2007/12/where-in-world-is-shustermangreenwell.html

June 10-11 Dallas/Ft. Worth (Only way out on those FREE tickets)
June 12-July 2 Netherlands
July 3-July 21 Poland
July 22 Czech Republic (Only way to get to Dubrovnik cheap)
July 23-August 7 Croatia
August 8-August 25 Slovenia
August 26-September 25 Italy
September 26-October 18 Tanzania/Zanzibar
October 19-November 8 India
November 9-November 24 Thailand
November 25-December 8 Laos
December 9-December 20 Thailand (We had such a good time the first time -- We're back)
December 21-January 9 China
January 10-February 8 Australia/Tasmania
February 9-March 8 New Zealand
March 8-March 12 Tahiti
March 13-March 17 Rapa Nui (Easter Island for you plebians)
March 17-April 5 Chile
April 6-April 22 Argentina
April 23-May 4 Uruguay
May 5-May 25 Ecuador
May 26-June 1 Sun City Center, Florida (Bubie Stop)
June 2 Home

Check out these Blog links, awesome photos, the book will be great, much easier than reading alot of info on the web.
http://oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com/2008/12/summers-over.html
http://oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com/2008/11/flight-of-gibbon.html
http://oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
http://oneworldonetrip.blogspot.com/2008_10_01_archive.html

Valley of Flowers

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Oh my gosh this looks like a great book, I'm going to have to check it out. I have always wanted to go to Tibet & India and the Himalayas, that whole area. I want to take Angel there, I know we would grow so much. There's so much I want to go and discover there.

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Chris Collins

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Itinerant traveler (Asia), author of the Indian Himalayan novel: Valley of Flowers

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Valley of Flowers- A Himalayan Story of Discovery

Valley of Flowers-Chris Collins

Here’s a short video of the Valley of Flowers, in Uttarakhand, India. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

From Wikipedia:
Valley of Flowers National Park is an Indian national park, Nestled high in West Himalaya, is renowned for its meadows of endemic alpine flowers and outstanding natural beauty.


‘It is located in Uttarakhand state. This richly diverse area is also home to rare and endangered animals, including the Asiatic black bear, snow leopard, brown bear and blue sheep. ’

The gentle landscape of the Valley of Flowers National Park complements the rugged mountain wilderness of Nanda Devi National Park. Together they encompass a unique transition zone between the mountain ranges of the Zanskar and Great Himalaya. The park stretches over an expanse of 87.50 km².

The Valley of Flowers is an outstandingly beautiful high-altitude Himalayan valley that has been acknowledged as such by renowned mountaineers and botanists in literature for over a century and in Hindu mythology for much longer. Its ‘gentle’ landscape, breathtakingly beautiful meadows of alpine flowers and ease of access complement the rugged, mountain wilderness for which the inner basin of Nanda Devi National Park is renowned.

Valley of Flowers is splashed with colour as it bloomed with hundreds different beautiful flowers, taking on various shades of colours as time progressed. Valley was declared a national park in 1982, and now it is a World Heritage Site. The locals, of course, always knew of the existence of the valley, and believed that it was inhabited by fairies.

The place had disappeared from the tourist map due to its inaccessible approach but in 1931 when Frank S. Smythe a British mountaineer lost his way while returning from a successful expedition to Mt.Kamet and he reached this valley which was full of flowers.

He was so attracted towards the beauty of the place he named it as “Valley of Flowers”.He authored a book called “The Valley of Flowers” which unveiled the beauty and floral splendours of the valley and thus threw open the doors of this verdant jewel to nature-enthusiasts all over the world.

Read More Here!! http://nicolaskumar.com/2011/01/a-short-video-of-the-area/ 

Check this out, you can read it for free here. I might do that, but I prefer to read books.
http://www.freado.com/read/8977/valley-of-flowers

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