100K Blog Views

 

Hello Friends,

Wow and woo-hoo! I’m delighted to write that this week is a celebration of all the readers around the world who helped this blog site reach 100,000 views. Thank you everyone.

I started this blog about romance, history, and mystery back in 2015 when blogging was a common thing for authors to do. Gosh, hasn’t the social media landscape changed since then. Blogging and long form writing was predicted to be replaced by video format, and then video was predicted to be replaced by short videos of one minute or less.

Yet today, after an unpredictable history, this blog is going stronger than ever. I have no words to explain it. But I feel gratitude toward the people who’ve stopped by and read the posts.

So, let’s get the celebration started with a little romance.

Words can weave a story that doesn’t include anything from the worldwide news. In the softer reality of romance, we can believe in love, feel good and anticipate a happy story ending.

             “Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles,

romance only sighs.”

--Margaret Atwood (Goodreads)

 

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life

into a golden haze.”

--Elinor Glyn (Goodreads)

Sometimes, I write about interesting curios from the past or knowledge long buried in history. History is another story where we can find our own place to explore. Indigenous cultures, Celts, the Roman Empire and the ancient Egyptian civilization are some of my favourite topics to dive deeper into. These old cultures helped shape the world we live in today.

             “Imagination governs the world”.

--Napoleon Bonaparte (Goodreads)

 

In this week’s history making news, NASA successfully launched its first rocket in 25 years on Australian soil. The southern hemisphere location was necessary because the science phenomena to be studied can only be seen from down south.

The rocket was launched from the new Arnhem Space Centre located in the Northern Territory. The launch happened with permission, and on the lands of the Yolngu people who are the traditional owners. The most fascinating aspect of this story is – the partnership between the oldest living culture on earth with the futuristic science of space. Amazing, and a rumbling boom was heard like nothing before in the Yolgnu communities and homelands.

Mysteries have an attraction that catches our attention. They can be about something strange, or which can’t be solved. Or enigmas that can’t be understood. The mind can’t resist searching for answers even if the path leads into the darkness.

 

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”

--Albert Einstein (Goodreads)

Mysteries steer us away from the routine of everyday life to maps and mazes of the mind.

 

“When I left my body on a distant shore.”

--T.S. Eliot (Goodreads)

Enjoy your week. May life bring you happy days and delight with the people you love.

Take care,
stay well,

♥ Ashlyn

 

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