Ten Ways To Free the Creativity Within
1. Who you are is life’s gift to you. What you make of yourself is your gift back to life. 2. To be more you, be less you. Do the opposite of what you're used to doing. 3. Your personal record is against yourself and nobody else. 4. Fear is Forgetting Everything’s All Right 5. Put gratitude in your attitude. 6. Live in day-tight compartments. 7. When agitated, pause and breathe deep. 8. Remember the problem in front of you is never as large as the power behind you. 9. Take care of your mind, heart, body and soul each day. 10. You only get to live once and if you do it right, that’s enough.DianaBletter
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Diana Bletter is a writer living in Western Galilee. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, tabletmag, Glamour, The Forward, The North American Review, Times of Israel, and many other publications. Her first book, The Invisible Thread: A Portrait of Jewish American Women (with photographs by Lori Grinker) was nominated for a National Jewish Book Award. Her novel, A Remarkable Kindness, (HarperCollins) was published in 2015. She is the First Prize Winner of Family Circle Magazine's 2011 Fiction Contest and author of Big Up Yourself: It's About Time You Like Being You.
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Yom Kippur – Finding a Way Toward Forgiveness
I wanted to share my short story that was just published in the latest edition of Jewish Fiction. It is timely for Yom Kippur. Thinking about forgiveness, forgetting. You can find it here. I revised the above story many times … Continue reading
Posted in forgiveness
Tagged #Jewishmother, #story, #Yomkippur, fiction, Forgiveness, Jew
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First Place Winner in Moment Magazine’s Fiction Contest (Me!)
I’m honored to announce that my story, “What If I’ve Changed My Mind?” won First Place in Moment Magazine’s Fiction Contest, judged by Max Brooks, author of World War Z and many other books and articles. This reminds me, once … Continue reading
Posted in work, Writers, Writing
Tagged fiction, fiction contest, Moment Magazine Fiction Contest, short story writing, writing, writing contest
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Coronavirus and My Husband’s Shoelaces
Here’s my latest blog at Times of Israel on the Coronavirus and my husband’s shoelaces. https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/coronavirus-and-my-husbands-shoelaces/ You can read it on the Times of Israel site or here: The other day, hours before Israel imposed a countrywide lockdown to stop … Continue reading
Posted in Being a Hero In Your Life, hope, Uncategorized
Tagged Canada, coronavirus, Health, Israel
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Waiting 75 Years for Liberation from Auschwitz
I was honored to be a part of the ritual in our hevra kadisha, the village burial circle, to prepare my neighbor, Suzy, a survivor of Auschwitz, for her burial, on the very day that Auschwitz was liberated. Then I … Continue reading
In Israel: Signs of Hope, Signs of War
At the same time that I was writing about Christian, Druze, Jewish, and Muslim women getting together in the mixed city of Akko, Israel on November 15, 2019 for a “Fridays with Women” event, I was also writing about the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Activism and Peace Work, awareness, Israel, Israel-Lebanese War, war
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At a Time Like This, It’s Important to Read About a Muslim-Jewish Friendship like Theirs.
After the hate-shooting in San Diego, California, in which Lori Gilbert Kaye was killed on April 27, I’m re-posting my article from The Times of Israel about these two 83-year-old friends, one Muslim and one Jewish, who still meet every Monday … Continue reading
Posted in hope
Tagged anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, friends, Israel, Jewish, Lori Gilbert Kaye, Muslim, San Diego, shooting
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Big Up Yourself: It’s About Time You Like Being You
Big Up Yourself: It’s About Time You Like Being You gives you the easiest, smartest, and fastest tools to help you big up yourself. What does that mean? To like who you are. Right here and right now. You’ll learn about … Continue reading
Posted in awareness, detachment, forgiveness, Gratitude, hope, miracles, Self-care
Tagged big up yourself, detachment, happiness, heart, joy, Mind, self-care, self-improvement, self-love, soul
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The New President and My Old Marching Shoes
Hello, everyone, in case you were wondering where I was, I have been busy revising my latest novel. I want to stay focused but don’t think I’ve forgotten about you, my faithful reader. Meanwhile, I wrote the following for The … Continue reading
Leah Kaminsky, Author of The Waiting Room, on the Past and Future
I’m delighted to welcome Leah Kaminsky, author of the debut novel THE WAITING ROOM (Harper Perennial 2016). Although this story is set in Haifa, Israel, during 2001, the story straddles three continents and a time span of seventy years. It … Continue reading
Posted in how to write, novels, Writers, Writing
Tagged Haifa, Israel, Leah Kaminsky, novel, Waiting room, writing
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Shimon Peres: Never Give Up Hope.
I wrote to the Former Israeli President Shimon Peres–who died Wednesday at the age of 93 and whose funeral was attended by seventy world leaders on Friday morning–when he was a member of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliment, in 2004. … Continue reading
