Joanna Blaze
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I love writing just about everything but some of my personal favorites are romance, criminal, horror, and fantasy. I'm also an avid traveler I love traveling solo because I have a lot more fun adventures and the experience is more exciting.
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Carolina On My Mind!
For someone who may not be a North Carolina native doesn’t mean that can stop me from loving this great state that has so much heart. I have been visiting North Carolina ever since I was a baby. I’ve almost everywhere in the state from the beautiful seaside towns, to the big cities throughout the state, and finally to the high majestic mountains. North Carolina has so much history and beauty and love so, who wouldn’t want to come here. There is just about everything for everyone. What I love about North Carolina is that no matter where you go in the state it feels like any day can be a fun new exciting adventure. But in Western North Carolina is where I made a lot of cherished memories.
By Joanna Blaze12 months ago in Photography
Southport Memories
I first heard about Southport, North Carolina when I was reading one of Nicholas Sparks novels called Safe Haven. While reading the book I saw so many similarities between me and the main character Katie and everything she’s been through. I went through a lot of hurt myself and I was in a bad relationship at one point myself, and there were a bunch of times I wasn’t sure if I would ever fall in love again. Because the trust, love, and protection had been shattered, and I wasn’t sure if it could be fixed. But just like Katie it did, and I too found someone better that could never hurt me or break my heart again. After watching the movie adaptation and seeing the story brought to life I wondered if I would ever go there someday. My opportunity finally came because there was an event in Wilmington I got invited to attend. I knew Southport wasn’t too far from Wilmington and I decided to stay in Southport while there for the weekend.
By Joanna Blaze12 months ago in Photography
A Solitary Place
When I think of a special place where I can be free of everything from the outside world it would be a place like this. I know some might say why the swamp, and there are a bunch of whys, of why I would come to a place like this. One of the main reasons is that the second I arrive, and I hop out of my car all I can hear is nothing. It’s like an ASMR video where all you can hear are the sounds of nature from crickets, frogs, barred owls, and even the sound of rushing water from the river. For me this location is everything I need. When I first visited this location where my Airbnb is that I frequently rent out when I want to escape from everything, I was taken back at how almost secluded it was. Even though there were a few houses close nearby on a long dirt road it was perfect. I made so many memories just staying in this little cabin on the river.
By Joanna Blaze12 months ago in Photography
Lights Will Guide You Home
It is not something that you see you every day, especially in a location where it should be impossible to see the northern lights in the sky. When I heard that the northern lights were visible where I live, I was excited because, I haven’t seen them since I was a little girl. I live in the south so seeing the northern lights in the south is very abnormal. But my joy and excitement could not be contained any longer that night. I drove out to a desolate road in the middle of nowhere where I know there is no light pollution at all, and the view would be perfect because there are no trees in this wide-open space. Seeing the northern lights for the first time in a long time brought so much nostalgia for me. They are a little hard to see sometimes with the naked eye but, that when I remember when you take a picture of them the visibility and imagery is a thousand times better. I was just snapping away photo after photo. It was intriguing to see the lights moving through out the night sky and changing colors it was just breathtaking and almost magical.
By Joanna Blaze12 months ago in Photography
You all weren’t the victim, I was!. Second Place in Echoes of the Year’s Lessons Challenge.
The Year 2024 was rocky from the start, when it got towards the middle of the year that’s when everything started to change for me. I knew this was the year of my high school reunion, and I was debating about going. Over the last few years of my life, I felt like I had finally gotten my life together. The life that I had to live at home is a life I really wish my peers could have known. I wish they knew how much I was already suffering already at home. In high school I struggled a lot with making friends but, that was all due to the fact I had no social skills at the time and no personality. I didn’t know who I was, and I was lost I didn’t know who I wanted to be. I couldn’t be the person I wanted to be because I was suffering so much physical, emotional, and mental abuse from the people I have never considered as parents, and it was the same with members of my extended family. So, I wasn’t sure where I fit into society, and it was sad that I felt like no matter where I went, I don’t fit in at anywhere. I was an outcast, and there was no reason for me to be treated as one because I haven’t done anything to anyone. There were even points where I thought maybe I am the problem and maybe I need to do something to fix it. But then I realized I wasn’t the problem or the issue. I realized the only problem with me was I was too nice, and I didn’t have a voice to tell people to stop and leave me alone.
By Joanna Blazeabout a year ago in Motivation
2024 Playlist of Lows and Highs
I have always had such an admiration and love for music ever since I was child. I just love how music can tell a person’s story even without the music artist knowing the person that they are writing about. But even people in the music industry will tell their own stories through their songs. I was first taught to sing by someone I loved from my family when I was just a little girl; she may be gone now but her love for me and music continues to live on in me. Music over the years has become my passion and my therapy when I’m battling my internal emotions or dealing with everyday struggles. I will say this that this year has been the most chaotic year of my life where I experienced a lot of lows and highs. I am glad that as this year is finally coming to an end, I’m seeing a lot of light and hope as I am getting ready to make a lot of big changes soon for a better future. But here are a few songs that pretty much got me through so much rough times.
By Joanna Blazeabout a year ago in Beat
To The Man I Love
To the man I love. I hope one day you’ll read this and know it’s true, I love you beyond a shadow of a doubt otherwise I wouldn't be writing this about you. I want you to know one very important I am eternally grateful that I found you. It’s because of you that in the last four years of my life of being with you has been the happiest I’ve ever been. Even though we met a decade ago and found each other again seven years later all over again I still feel like I have known you my whole life and multiple lifetimes. In the last four years of my life I have seen so many beautiful changes within myself to where I am a whole new woman.
By Joanna Blazeabout a year ago in Humans
Helene
Helene Destroyed Us But Never Broke Our Spirits We are Carolina
By Joanna Blazeabout a year ago in Poets
