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    10 Books to Read In 2022 To Improve Your Life

    2022 is finally here and one of my New Years Resolutions is to read more and improve my habits. This is why today I want to share with you 10 Books to Read In 2022 To Improve Your Life. The books that will be shared in today’s blogpost will all be non-fictional and mainly about improving a certain skill or overall productivity and wellbeing Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content by Ann Handley Build Your Business in 90 Minutes A Day by Martin Gladdish and Nigel Botterill The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a…

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    A Brief History Of Beat Poetry

    I have realized that despite so many movies, series, and books based on the ’50s and ’60s, Beat Poetry hasn’t been discussed much in the last 6 decades. Today I wanted to shed some light on the History Of Beat Poetry The 1930s became the era of swing music and it quickly became mainstream and it seemed that everyone was listening to swing. Real Jazz fans, however, did not approve of swing, as they did not appreciate the simplicity of it. They thought swing to be a cheap imitation of real Jazz.  Real Jazz musicians would start off with a familiar melody which they ditch in favor of inspiration. It…

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    Books and Poetry

    A Poem Called Hope

    Tiffany Blue eyes staring into the blank distance Seeing nothing, but wanting to know everything Heavy lungs breathing in the polluted air, fear, and selfishness Breathing out hope, dreams, and love for nature, writing, and April days Sore legs walking on broken streets, broken dreams, and pieces of paper that have been scattered around like a puzzle Every piece bringing you closer to the big picture Dry hands – one of them picking up a cup of strong coffee The other hand leading the pen through the jungle or words, thoughts, and feelings Raspberry red lips leaving a mark on the mug, tasting the bitterness of the coffee Speaking sweet words of hope The kind…

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    My Favorite John Green Quotes

    Today I would like to write about my favorite John Green quotes. I know, I know, that’s so 2010.. but I don’t care. John once wrote: “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting.” and that is very true. I will try to add a little explanation and reasons why I like the below quotes. If you have been on Tumblr between 2008 & 2014, then chances are, that you are fairly familiar with the below quotes. As always, they are not sorted in any particular order. Without further ado, let’s get right into it. “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia…”  I often find myself…