Late last night, for no reason that I can fathom, I lost the two last posts from this blog. It was like the blog had rolled back, of its own accord, to a point about two weeks ago! Kinda reminded me of this day when clouds made the base of the oh so solid Obelisco disappear for a while.
I’d published a comment from jamesy and replied to it late afternoon, then I didn’t look at the blog until about midnight. When I did, The Absolutely Bloody Brilliant Barbie Award was back on the home page and Getting Closer and Bloody Hell! had vanished! So too had all the changes I’d made to my Who? page the day before. Aaargh!
So what can I do?
Well, I don’t want to lose those two lovely posts and since I had a backup of them on my laptop, I’m publishing them both together below. Alas I have lost all the wonderful comments you guys left congratulating me on being a Bradt/Independent on Sunday finalist and sharing your own inspiring dreams – that part makes me very sad. Some people back their blogs up every day. As usual it takes something like this for me to realise that I must too.
I was celebrating last night. After around five solid, and I mean solid days of editing the second draft of Happy Tango in Buenos Aires: One Way through the Maze (the title is a changing…) I finally let it fly out of Buenos Aires and into the hands of two wonderful people in the UK who are going to give me some feedback before what I hope will be the final draft. Writing a first draft of a book is hard work. Crafting it into a second draft and editing it into a respectable second draft is enough to make you forget that it was a longed for dream in the first place and not unwanted school homework. I was shattered by midnight y media yesterday, and to find my posts of hope and celebration had disappeared from my beloved Sallycat’s Adventures was a bit alarming. Oh well. I refuse to be battered by the unexplained. So I’m bouncing back this morning, and re publishing the lot. Then I’m backing up my entire blog.
Actually I’ve just thought, there is one way I might be able to recover your lovely comments (though not my replies) and if I can I’ll try and publish them in one big comment myself. There is, as I said recently, no way to silence Me and Barbie these days!
Have a great day guys. Keep bouncing back yourselves! And if any of you can explain the unexplained… I’m all ears. Meanwhile to ensure the story of my dreams is complete, here’s a bit of Deja Vu.
Bloody Hell!
For once in my life, I don’t have the words guys. I am silenced by pure unadulterated joy! Well, almost (sorry, but Barbie is never silenced these days).
On Sunday I wrote here on the subject of getting closer to realising your dreams. On Monday as I strode between writing my book, to tango in the afternoon, to coming home to the love of my life, I said to myself,
Sallycat, you are there already. You have the life you want!
I believed it. I felt it. No doubt. Never more certain in my 46 years.
Then something wonderful happened.
About a month ago I wrote a short travel essay and entered it into a travel writing competition organised by the wonderfully classy Bradt Travel Guides and The Independent on Sunday (diario muy famoso de Inglaterra). I entered because on the same day two events coincided: I saw a link to the competition on Twitter (brilliant window on the world Twitter) and my dear friend and talented film maker sent me the same link in an email… Now guys, I am telling you, one message from the universe – maybe think about it, two – DO.
There were 48 hours to the deadline and I was deep in writing tango guides. But the theme of the competition Destination Unknown jumped off the screen at me. It basically grabbed me by the heart and yelled, Tell them! Tell them! Tell them!
And I did. When you read my entry you will know exactly what I mean.
Thing is guys, on Monday, I got an email from Hilary Bradt herself, congratulating me on reaching the FINAL – a shortlist of just six!
That news had Me and Barbie literally dancing down Avenida Corrientes with our filmmaker girlfriend shouting to each other, Are you a finalist? Yes I AM! in the maddest behaviour you can possibly imagine, but hey… I’m realising that unbounded joy is electric and turns me into a Duracell bunny the like of which you have never seen.
So, what am I saying? Well for one, when you believe you are getting closer to realising your dreams, you get even closer. Two, read how this piece of travel writing was born and you will see how I am learning that if I want to be a writer, all I have to do is write. And three, I’m a fucking FINALIST!!!
Please read my piece on the Bradt website here. The beautiful photograph of me and the candyfloss was taken at Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires by my wonderfully talented photographer friend Anne Li. Do read about the competition and the other entries too here.
What happens on the 14th July, when Matthew Parris selects the winner, ah well, that’s up to the universe. For me it’s head down to get Happy Tango in Buenos Aires: a Guide for First Time Travellers (Yep that’s the title folks) in the bag, as pronto as posible.
What are you doing to realise your dreams today?
Getting Closer
If you stand on the corner of Plaza de Mayo – in the middle of the road while the lights are holding the traffic behind you – and look towards Diagonal Norte, it will be as if you stand just outside this photograph, and the oh so perfect peak of the Buenos Aires Obelisco, will be in your sights. If you start walking towards it with a clear intention to eventually touch it, you will reach it.
You will reach it. It won’t matter which side of the road you choose, it won’t matter if you rush or dawdle, it won’t matter if you stop to look at the fascinating buildings en route. As long as you keep moving in the general direction of the Obelisk, it will always be within your reach. Even if you take a detour down Florida and lose sight of it altogether for a while, when you decide to aim for it again, it will still be there. If you want it to be. It will be there for you.
In October 2008 I stood far, far off from one of my dreams: my first book.
I wrote about it here. And in that article, I wrote this:
“I am working on writing a small but ‘essential guide for the tango traveller’ to Buenos Aires, the Sallycat way. After all, who better to do it than me, who came here as a beginner in tango with no knowledge of Buenos Aires, but who survived? Who better to do it than me, who meets and emails with hundreds of tango travellers all over the world who ask me all sorts of questions that I find myself answering over and over again? Who better to do it than me, who has an open mind about all things tango, and will be able to draw on the experience of many friends whose preferences are slightly different to mine? How better to do it than in the Sallycat voice: simple, honest, open?
I am well aware that every tango traveller will craft their own journey here in Buenos Aires, will discover their own tango joy, will have their own adventure, as I did. But oh how I would have loved a little guide I could hold in my hand: to give me some tips before I left home, to be read on the plane, to offer some idea of what to expect, to inspire and motivate, to be agreed with, to be disagreed with, to grant me the feeling that I was not alone. Oh how I would have loved that.
And I hope that you will love it too.”
After I wrote about the dream in this rather Barbie-bold way, I started working or should I say, walking towards it. Some days I felt that I strode giant steps in the right direction (I wrote sections of the book and felt enthusiastic about what I wrote), and some days I faced many obstacles (the how, the what, the VOD), and at one point a few months ago those challenges seemed so insurmountable that I turned my back on the dream altogether (shredded any printed pages of it, told myself it was a waste of time, and tried writing something else instead).
But the dream was as solid as the Obelisco and it wouldn’t go away.
Even as I worked on writing ‘the something else’, I would wake with new ideas for making the original dream real and concrete in my life. Barbie was very persistent. Just keep walking Sallycat, she said, Try this path, try that path, don’t think about the whole journey if it’s too scary, don’t think about the end of the journey if it seems too far away, just think about this bit… yes, that’s it, just write this bit Sallycat, and the bits will add up.
One day I realised, she had been right. The bits did add up, to almost 50,000 beautiful and useful Sallycat words. And by then I’d realised something else too: the manuscript now had an energy of its own; it was finding its own ways to become a book; it was attracting answers and wonderful people who could help me; it wanted to be written; it wanted to live; it wanted to be out of me and in your hands.
It is almost a certainty now, that the book will be. Oh look at me! I still write almost, because a tiny piece of me, called VOD, is scared I’ll fail my dream at the final hurdle.
Do I dare to leave the almost out? Oh hell… yes I damn well do!
My first baby (I don’t have any children) will be available as a real book as well as in ebook form. It might even be born by the end of July (ish).
Step by step my dream is getting closer. All I have to do is keep walking. If I do, then I believe that one day soon I will hold my dream in my hand, and that so perhaps will you.
Do you have a dream?
Are you walking towards it? In it? With it?
How is the journey?
I’d love to know. I’d love to know I am not alone.
And I know I’ve posted this before, but I post it again because it keeps me going every day, in pursuit of every single one of my dreams.
There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.
Source: The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho, who also says this and offers us this.
Tags: Bradt Travel Guides, Independent on Sunday, travel writing competition
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Good to have you back! The disappearance of time and progress was most unnerving, I have to say.
And I’ll take this opportunity to say ‘HURRAH FOR MY TALENTED BIG SISTER!’
Go, girl!Jo x
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Oh Jo,
It unnerved me too.
But I will by hook or by crook manage to restore as much content as I can. No ghost in the machine is gonna get the better of me.I march on!
See you sooooooooooon!SC
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Hi Sally,
First time commenting here, but I wanted to say that I’ve enjoyed following the blog. I’ve been studying tango for about 5 months now here in NYC and it’s been great reading about your adventures. Looking forward to checking out your book when it’s finished. (I’m working on a book here as well so I can relate to what you’re going to with regards to first, 2nd, 3rd drafts etc.! Keep at it! : ) My girlfriend and I hope to make a trip to Argentina at some point so I’m sure the ‘Sallycat Tango Travel Guide’ will come in handy!
best,
thomas
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Hey thomas
Thx for letting me know you have been reading and enjoying and indeed that you are a tango dancer.
I was 5 months into my tango lessons when I came over here… I remember that time very well. I was completely obsessed back then, and I guess I must have been to up sticks and come to Argentina from Britain on a 12 month ticket!
Now yep, getting this book finalised is a bit of an obsession (and it’s great to know you understand!), but I long to get it out there into the world so that it can help folks like you guys thinking about coming this way for the first time.
Having said that, I’m off to dance tonight and I am going to be celebrating the fact that my manuscript is now with my editors and I can take a break (well from redrafting at least) until they give me their feedback!
Mañana I’m onto working out the Print on Demand puzzles… it never ends!Un abrazo and good luck with your book, SC
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Hi Sally,
I hope that I can be of some small help here to get your comments back.
Google has a “cache” of your Getting Closer post that includes 21 comments. If you go here as soon as you read this, you should find them:
Just in case the cache has disappeared by the time you read this (though I doubt it), I have copied and pasted the comments for you and saved them in word, so let me know if you need me to send that on.
Google also have a cache of your first Bloody Hell post, however unfortunately it is not showing any comments. How many were there? Perhaps an update will show the comments in a day or two, although this is unlikely. If you want to keep checking, here is the link for that post’s cache:
Hope that this is of some help to you. Glad to hear that the writing is going well!
Take care,
Alan
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Alan this is FABULOUS and so very kind of you.
I am going to do my best to copy all the Getting closer comments into one comment below.
The Bloody hell! post had lots of comments too so I will keep checking on that, but this is genius and I am very very grateful.Thank you so much!
SC
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No problem at all Sally!
I knew that my seemingly useless technical knowledge of search engine operators would come up trumps and be of help someday…
Keep up the good work with the blog and writing (Ludmilla and I read every post in our feed readers, just don’t usually come to the site and comment).
Un abrazo,
Alan
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Oh, slightly better, bing.com has a cache of Getting Closer with 26 comments:
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=&d=112357956718&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=560c0318,3f0c6a64
Still no luck on a Bloody Hell cache with posts anywhere though. I’ll let you know if I find one in the next few days.
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Yep Alan, found that one and posted the 26 comments below.
Bloody hell! still shows no comments in the cache and I think it had about 30, so I’ll keep my fingers crossed, and keep checking.Beso and thx again mucho, SC
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Hey, from the post Getting Closer – here are the 26 comments that I have managed to save, thanks to the brilliant Alan of BuenosTours: http://www.buenostours.com/
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Jo’s avatarJo on June 14, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hurrah!
And as I sit here struggling to write a conference paper, I’m so appreciative of all your struggles, but also of your joys. I suspect tango has a wider appeal than nineteenth-century theatre history, though.I’m so glad that it is going to be a concrete something as well as an e-book – good writing needs to be held in the hand; practical writing needs to be accessible on the move, get dog-eared inside a too-full bag, brought out and consulted when needed.
Can’t wait to see it!
Jo x
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 10:55 am
Hey darling Jo!
The first to support me as always – my wonderful family who champion everything I do!
Yes it will definitely be a real book. It has to be. I know that if I was arriving in Buenos Aires for the first time all over again, I would WANT this book in my hand.
I am very excited that I found a book designer to turn my manuscript into that book (or rather they found me)… Bloody hell, the universe is a clever beast!I soooooooooooo wish that I will be with you as you hold your copy in your hand this summer!
Huge love, SCReply
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Ken’s avatarKen on June 14, 2009 at 11:36 am
Darling, your journey has always been an inspiration. This post is a wonderful summary of everything for everyone. We’re all on a journey to the Obelisk. Sometimes we get lost in the side streets. I certainly have. More than once. I’ve never quite been able to take the ‘almost’ out of my world until I’ve arrived. One day at a time. One step at a time. Thanks for sharing this wonderful insight. Always xxx
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Dearest Ken
Oh yes we all have our Obelisks don’t we? For a long time though mine were obscured by fog and pollution never quite crystallising nor coming clear… once I caught a glimpse though, all I had to do was take the first step, then the next and the next… soooo easy on the face of it, yet at times seemingly impossible because of the sticky glue under my feet.
I always have to bear in mind too, that my Obelisk might turn into a sphere, or a cube or some evolution of my original dream, and that that’s ok too. The final shape will emerge as I get closer to it.
I am glad that I have inspired you. You were there at the start and helped me on my way.
Until soon, SC
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tangobaby’s avatartangobaby on June 14, 2009 at 1:09 pm
This post just gave me goosebumps and made me teary eyed. I’m so happy for you, that you followed your dream despite your questions and now you are close to realizing what you wanted all along.
What an inspiration you are. I cannot wait to have my own copy of your dream in my hands!
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hey TB,
In the quest to realise our dreams I believe that dream guardian angels are sent to us to encourage, urge, push, lead by example… you are one of mine.
Would I ever have got started if you hadn’t taken the trouble to send me (a blogger in another land who you had never even met) the fruits of one of your own dreams: your first book and one of your inspiring photographs?
My Barbie stands on my desk infront of that photograph… Window on Haight Street, San Francisco.You are the kind of supporter a fledgling artist needs, because you absolutely and utterly lead by example and with ACTION.
I hope that anyone needing a bit of inspiration to act on their dreams finds their way to your blog and to your stunning photographs and stories of life in San Francisco, and gets lost in them for a while.
http://tangobaby2.blogspot.com/I am kind of wishing that you were here now to take some fabulous black and white pictures of me, and of C. and of us for the book and maybe for another reason too. I need a great photographer.
Universe, are you listening?Hugest hugs TB, SC.
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Modern Tanguera’s avatarModern Tanguera on June 14, 2009 at 7:32 pm
You know what’s crazy? The dream that I am walking towards is to become a professional translator. In one of my classes this spring, we repeatedly practiced simultaneous interpretation with an audio recording of The Alchemist. That bit you quoted is completely ingrained in my memory!
I am definitely walking toward my goal. Last night I started running, and at about 2:30 am I launched my website! (www.mcrobertstranslations.com) I still wake up some days and hear my own VOD telling me that there is no way I will reach my goal, that I will never actually get work and never become a professional translator. But days like I today feel glorious and full of hope.
I just keep telling myself to work toward my goal a little bit today and let tomorrow take care of itself.
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Oh My God Modern Tanguera, this so bloody wonderful!
And I am so excited you shared it here! People who are living their dreams UNITE on this page!
You are indeed racing towards realising yours. The moment when you hit LIVE on your website last night must have been quite a moment for you.
I can yet only imagine how I will feel when I finally hit LIVE on my book… excitement, terror, joy, relief all flashing through in a spin cycle of emotions. I got a tiny glimpse of how it might feel, when I sent a current draft of my manuscript to my book designer this week… the beginnings of getting ready to send my baby out into the world, getting ready to release my control over its life.I am so happy to hear you feeling ‘glorious and full of hope’. GLORIOUS! What a divine word to describe how it is to be alive, connected to our soul, passionate, leaving the VODs in our wake, creating the life we want. I know. I feel it too.
Oh, thank you for sharing your dream. Thank you thank you!
You are not alone.
Barbie and I are with you ALL the way!Go Modern Tanguera, Miss McRoberts Translations of
http://www.mcrobertstranslations.com/Go!Go!Go!
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tangobaby’s avatartangobaby on June 14, 2009 at 7:34 pm
OH my gosh, I would LOVE that! YES! Universe? Are you listening? Send me to Sallycat post haste!
xoxo
I’m glad you find me as inspiring as I find you…
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 8:31 pm
TB. I do. I do. I do. SC
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Modern Tanguera’s avatarModern Tanguera on June 14, 2009 at 7:38 pm
And, by the way, I am SO excited about your own goal! I can’t wait to see your book! It is inspiring to see other people working (diligently and creatively and against their own obstacles) to reach their dreams.
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 14, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Yes, and you have inspired me tonight. SC
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JT Long’s avatarJT Long on June 15, 2009 at 3:45 pm
You are an inspiration. Now I want to write and dance and travel and reach all the goals that slipped out of sight while I took side trips. Thank you.
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 15, 2009 at 11:34 pm
Hi JT Long
How brilliant to get your comment!
Thanks soooooooooo much for saying that. It made me smile big time. Go for it!And I’m going to love checking out your website!
SC
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Mike in Van’s avatarMike in Van on June 15, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Hi Sal
Just a real quick note cause I’m at work. For some reason that I have no idea, my laptop is now behind some proxies. So I can’t comment til I find out why.
But I just wanted to add my support to what everyone else has said. Can’t wait to see the book.You go girl
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 15, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Thx mj.
I am go go go!
I am excited.
I am breathless with excitement.
I feel alive!SC
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Xiaosong’s avatarXiaosong on June 16, 2009 at 1:27 am
Hi Sally! You’ll be there in no time. It’s written!!!
I was plotting a trip to Mongolia the other day and thought of you!!! Will try hard to find my dream, as it keeps hiding or in disguise from me!!!
Un abrazo tanguero,
Xiaosong
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 16, 2009 at 4:10 am
Dear Xiaosong
Plotting a trip to WHERE? Mongolia!!!? Really?
Oh my goodness… you absolutely MUST try the Gobi Sauna…
Please check out my little Mongolia Travel Guide – Just a few places I loved there – on Nextstop.com
at http://www.nextstop.com/guide/dTWB4E-qX5M/mongolia/I will go back one day, with Carlos.
I will.Just keep listening to your heart dear girl, and you will find your dreams.
Warm hug, SCReply
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Xiaosong’s avatarXiaosong on June 17, 2009 at 12:50 am
Will definitely check in to the Sauna if the forces of the Gobi desert pulls over those of the snow peaks in Tibet! Loved your mini Guide!! besos
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Russell J. Hall’s avatarRussell J. Hall on June 16, 2009 at 7:25 am
My last year’s Buenos Aires dreams had to be put on hold. But they’re still there. Looking forward to being there one day, facing the Obelisk with your book in my hand, tango shoes in my bag.
Thank you for bring a little tango dream or two to my day.
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 16, 2009 at 9:11 am
Hey Russell J. Hall
You have just given me a fabulous image to focus on. A tanguero standing in that beautiful street (of my photo) facing the Obelisk, my book: the friend in his hand, tango shoes in his bag… on the road of his tango dreams… I am gonna hold that as I walk on through the final pages of the second draft, and add the final craft to the final draft.
Images that live in my mind and bring my dream alive are so crucial as I focus on the next step.
Thank you for reminding me, with that lovely description, of the tangueros and tangueras who I am writing my book for!
It will spur me on today
SCReply
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Tangobob’s avatarTangobob on June 18, 2009 at 9:30 am
Hi saL
Almost there? my own book is stalled, I need you for inspiration.
How about a book signing in Shrewsbury when you come. I am sure I can whip up some custom, there is a whole group of tango people, hungry for some of Buenos Aires. You are their chef, come on serve up some good stuff for us.
Besos Bob
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 18, 2009 at 9:54 am
Hey Bob, that’s such a cool idea! Me? Book signing? What a lovely thought. Actually fabulous – thank you!
I am working round the clock to try and ensure that the book will actually be available while I am in UK and if it is, then yes, hell, why not – absolutely!!!
The challenge of pulling it all together – not just the writing which is almost done – but the book design, the photos, the creation of the final files, the practicalities of the arrangements for the Print on Demand, the set up for selling it on my blog etc. – oh my gosh, it’s another whole mountain! But I WILL climb it. I will keep you informed.Re your own book. Bob, just keep going. A tiny bit each day or when you can. You will get there! You WILL!
Looking forward to meeting the tangueros and tangueras of Shrewsbury sooooooooooooo much!
Besos, SCReply
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Katie’s avatarKatie on June 19, 2009 at 1:31 pm
I really enjoyed your post. I am in the situation of following my heart. I became a UK citizen in May and now all I need is my passport. It has been delayed and now I must change my original ticket to a later date(i thought i would get it beforehand). It is a real blow because I was building myself up to my dream living in Florence, and yet I will be leaving just a month later, I feel someone just popped my balloons at a fair. I am proud of you for not giving up on your dream and letting your book be the gift you are giving to the world.
The Universe does chose us to carry out a mission, I truly believe that. No one else can give the gift we are meant to give.
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sallycat’s avatarsallycat on June 19, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Hey Katie
Do you remember commenting on my blog many moons ago and telling me about Barry, the voice in your head. That was long before I faced up to mine and called him VOD. What you said stayed with me and was the germ that led to me eventually giving my Inner Critic, my Voice of Doom, the name VOD. Since I did I have been fascinated to get to know him, and my glorious and brilliant Inner Artist Barbie who now is more than a match for him. By encouraging her to grow, I have shrunk him… the results have been beyond my wildest dreams, and have allowed me to get this close to realising my dream, or infact realising that I already am, just by going for it with gusto!Oh how marvellous it is to hear that you too go from strength to strength and are so close to realising a dream… yes I know well the disappointments of visa type paperwork… Aaaaaaaaaaaaaargentina! I often cry, but oh how grim that the UK can be the same too! Hang in there and just keep your eyes and your heart firmly on your Obelisk eh? You’ll be touching it before you know it! I won’t give up on my dream, and I know that you won’t either.
‘Noone else can give the gift we are meant to give.’ No they can’t can they? But we can, and if we don’t I think our souls die. Strong stuff maybe, but oh I know it’s true. How do i know? Mine was dying for years. Not now though. No not now.
Huge hug of support Katie! SC
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Hi Sal
Hope I’m back. Off to work I’ll check in later. Have a happy Thursday:-)-
Oh super! My spam plugin is very effective at stopping spam but sadly a few commenters too – anyway, let’s hope that little fix has let you through the defences!
Hasta pronto, SC
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Abso-bloody-lutely!!! x SC
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Bummer, my comment got deleted. Anyhow, just wanted to say congrats on becoming a finalist — I loved your story. Brought back memories of going Salsa dancing in Seattle — I can’t dance worth a damn but went with a very talented friend and just observing her interactions was like witnessing people speaking in some secret language I couldn’t understand. Wish I could have been a part, but was awesome to watch.
Anyhow, congrats again!
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Hi Carl!
Thanks for persevering with commenting… my host had some problems and unfortunately over the last few days some of my data has been lost, including two posts with their comments and comments posted yesterday afternoon.I’m so happy my travel essay brought back memories of dancing. Maybe you will try tango one day? Who knows?
I am very excited about being in the travel writing final – the first time in my life for anything like that…
Buenos Aires continues to work its creative magic.Keep up the great work at http://nextstop.com and I will keep adding my new finds in Buenos Aires to its pages!
Un abrazo, SC
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Hi everyone!
Thank you all for your patience the past days. The people who host my blog had a problem and alas some of my data (the two posts Getting Closer and Bloody Hell! plus comments – including those posted yesterday afternoon) has been lost.We are now back to a stable point and I don’t think there will be further losses.
I will try and restore the comments from yesterday but if I can’t, please forgive me and come back and comment again very soon!
It’s the first time in two and a half years that I’ve had any kind of problem, but it’s a warning to us all who blog, to TAKE DAILY BACKUPS!!!Hugs, SC
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