Am way behind on adding updates to my ‘goodwill words’ project. Here is today’s contribution. (It’s one thing to write the notes and letters. Posting them is a whole other ballgame. đ¤)
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Goodwill words…starting the year on a ‘good note’
As stated before, writing is an act of faith…faith that your words will impact a reader.
But I have to remind myself to have faith that the words can impact the writer as well.
Ideas are everywhere!
Thatâs the message in todayâs email
from Jill Badonsky.
Why not make it your mantra for 2021?
Happy New Year!
Writing to Help Others
And the item inspiring this post…
Here’s hoping the holiday season [despite the weirdness and reduced connections with others] is yielding a few realizations of life’s other fortunes.
This December sunrise, for instance.
Or this towering reminder of the season.
I should be writing. Instead, chocolate forgiveness cake.
T: Just asking…Shouldnât I be making a rich chocolate cake into which I then poke holes and onto which I then slather a thin ganache that will seep into the afore-poked holes?
C: What is stopping you?!?
T: I needed personal affirmations. đ¤
C: Go for it!
T: Shame and guilt also work. I am Catholic, after all đ. Okay then. Iâll tell L that you insist.
C: It is a little known fact that chocolate can absolve sins! I insist you search for forgiveness!
T: Youâre kidding! I could have skipped that spooky confessional and chowed down on a Nestleâs Crunch Bar? …My âchocolate forgiveness cakeâ! I love it! đ.
So there you have it. Thanks to my texting pal, making my chocolate forgiveness cake (my name–website calls it The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe {Ever}) was a moral imperative.
This recipe calls for a cup of boiling water as the final ingredient.
As addapinch’s Robyn Stone tells you, the batter comes out very thin. Not to worry, the cake’s consistency came out just fine.
Besides enjoying the cake with my wife,
this was the best 12 seconds of the day.
And now, thanks to addapinch.com…
today’s chocolate forgiveness cake
Note: Back to the opening text conversation, and as if this recipe isn’t solid enough, I added the ‘poke cake’ feature. We tried two icings–chocolate for cake #1 and vanilla for cake #2.
Creating postcards for my ‘Goodwill Words’ project
I made a 3+ minute video showing how the iPad and the Canva app can team up to generate postcards to share as needed. [email, text message, print-and-send]
Here is the video…
Here are a few holiday-themed samples I made on Canva…
A favorite destination for ‘goodwill words’
I’ve recently posted about writing being an act of faith.
In this case, I have faith that my notes to…
https://loveforourelders.org/letters
lift someone’s day.
For sure, they distract me from lots of other disquieting stuff happening out there in the world. [And they remind me that others are hurting so much out there.]
Plenty of writers are directing their thoughts and support to folks they know and some they don’t know, so my ‘project’ is nothing new or unique.
But it’s something that makes sense.
And…
- it is a self-sustaining ‘volunteer opportunity’, which have dwindled ‘a bit’ since mid-March.
- it’s one more feel-good checklist item for my day’s end ‘review’.
- it’s so much better than watching the news.
- it provides a layer of human contact
- it’s been fun and rewarding and it will continue.
Let me know if you want to join me. I have a raft of resources that will make the project doable.
th at inventwithwords dot com
Tough writer talk from Margaret Atwood
“Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.”
I don’t think I’d mess with her. ;->
And geeeez, talk about someone who is not just an accomplished writer, but an accomplished person…
Meanwhile, I love what Grammarly says about her wording:
Curation Corner: Look into MasterClass Live
As I’m writing this, Dan (The DaVinci Code) Brown is the middle of his 50-minute YouTube video that includes a Q and A session with students who had signed up for his MasterClass course.
Here is the link to MasterClass Live on YouTube. Lots of excellent free knowledge being shared by the experts.
I was going to post this next week, but I’m going to squeeze this in today to promote their 2-for-1 annual membership offer through Nov. 30. (Nope, not getting any $$ for doing this. Just wanted to pass this along. I’m inches away from ordering myself, as it opens me up to send a free year as a Christmas gift.)
Many opportunities for ‘goodwill words’
First of all, these posts have nothing to do with giving myself props.
They have everything to do with encouraging others to find a little corner in their daily/weekly schedule and jot down/hunt-and-peck a thought or two for someone else’s benefit.
When I finished posting the note above on legacy.com, it hit me that some opportunities for goodwill writing can reach out and thunk us on the forehead. This was one of those times.
While Fred is reading it from ‘another place’, I hope it brings some comfort and a smile to his family. He was a special guy.
Nothing special, I realize, nothing earth-shaking or life-changing, but as writers, every time we put pen to paper, it’s an act of faith. In this case, I have faith that these simple items will improve a someone’s day, even just a little bit.
Plenty of writers are directing their thoughts and support to folks they know and some they don’t know, so my ‘project’ is nothing new or unique.
But it’s something that makes sense.
And…
- it is a self-sustaining ‘volunteer opportunity’, which have dwindled ‘a bit’ since mid-March.
- it’s one more feel-good checklist item for my day’s end ‘review’.
- it’s so much better than watching the news.
- it provides a layer of human contact
- it’s been fun and rewarding and it will continue.
Let me know if you want to join me. I have a raft of resources that will make the project doable.
