Hi IM !
Was thinking about you the other day, how you can express so beautifully, affection and encouragement.
Was thinking you should start up a line of greeting cards (you are also good at graphics?)...
I free-lanced some cards sold to companies many years ago, because I can roll off poems and lyrics so easily,,,
But cards today are more into statements, not schmaltzy little poems,,,
Maybe you could sell them on Amazon, or make store displays...
Anyway, just a thought..
love you always,,,you're one in a million...
Quoting: Arnie You are the sweetest Arnie. I love you right back. I do think you are absolutely awesome.
Funny and sweet that you mention that. I had a talk the other day with a great contact in my network and he recommended me to a cardboard company here in town that is in the process of starting value selling. Expensive word for putting client based slogans on cardboard boxes, displays and such. And they apparently also look for someone in their Ordermanagement, which is more in line with what I used to do. So I sent my resumé through my contact last week.
Haven't heard back from them yet, so it could also lead to nothing, but I will call them myself end of this week if they haven't contacted me.
In the meantime I am helping this contact with his website as organisation consultant. Based on catchy statements and such, with a personal feel to it. It is what I like, next to writing columns and such. And I wrote so many lyrics to all kinds of songs and occasions as well.
I am in the process of translating my columns from Dutch into English as well, now that I have the time for it.
Here are a few I did so far:
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I am also considering putting my Dutch columns in a paper back, combined with poems I wrote along the line. People have asked me for that, even though I always considered my writing to be fun and a hobby.
A few years ago I posted a thread here with poetry, Calm the Chaos:
Thread: The GLP Poetry Thread. Calm the Chaos. My graphics qualities are less, but I have a former colleague, with whom I really did a lot of cartoons, or he would make a drawing and I would put a slogan on it. We did that for a long time for our daily report. People loved it so much that in the end they didn't read the report, but just the cartoon with the slogan, lol. We even won a prize contest with it, story too long to mention it here. ;-)
You are right, it is a field that gives me new energy. I guess I am still dreading the fact that you need a network and a firm basis of clients to make a living. So I would prefer a combination, till I can make a living out of it.
You should share some of your poetry as well. You have such a creative soul yourself, passionate, your music, writing etc. You also could easily publish them for sure!
Thank you for this Arnie. You give such positive energy. Love you for that!
And apologies for the length of this reply, also to others. Sometimes the blessing of writing can be a curse as well.
I call it Broad Speech.. ;-)