Novel Allen
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You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. (Maya Angelou). Genuine accomplishment is not about financial gain, but about dedicating oneself to activities that bring joy and fulfillment.
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When dragons became pixies
There weren't always dragons in the Valley of the small world of the Freedom pixie sprites. My name is Moonbeam, and long ago I started dreaming of these wonderful flying beings with multicolored wings and beautiful kind eyes that wished to be my friends. When we spoke, we somehow understood each other. They were pleasant dreams, the kinds that made you wake up smiling and wishing that they were real.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
Never take a baby dragon to a reggae concert
There weren't always dragons in the Valley deep in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. Tonight up at the Marijuana Resort Lodge many bands were in competition for first prize of a loan of a baby dragon. They had come from far and wide just to jam with Ocean the baby dragon.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
The persuasive power of images
"Like the Entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased, in the garden of gray matter, cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secret of the mind"....Santiago Ramon y Cahal....on the persuasive power of images.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Humans
Secrets and betrayal
There weren't always dragons in the Valley where faeries and magic kept a hidden fountain of eternal healing. Queen Vashti knew that story quite well. She envisioned the dangers fast approaching their peaceful fortified stronghold. Plans were being formulated in her mind as she watched her husband Magnon, king of the formidable dragon kingdom of Zalakon. For as he paced back and forth along the glistening marbled terrace high above the vast palace of the dragons, his mind was in turmoil of again facing an upheaval and an uncalled for war.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Fiction
The beauty in graffiti's artform. Top Story - May 2022.
Years ago graffiti was viewed as an illegal activity and condemned as malicious destruction of property. It was seen as mere vandalism by the wayward wanton youth who was a waster of time and was also a scourge on society. We never stopped to think that it was the youth trying to express themselves in the only way that they had available to them. That they found and saw beauty in the freeform of expression giving their voices an outlet and substantive value. Beauty is everywhere. One just has to look hard enough.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Journal
Street smarts v Academic education
Is it fair to say that someone who is college or university educated is more deserving of respect than someone who, armed with street smarts, and is perhaps a school dropout, still managed against all odds to make a success of his or her life. This success may have been gained by less direct means than would be deemed acceptable to the academia of the central schools of thought.
By Novel Allen4 years ago in Education
