Personal Reflection 12/27/24
So these are summaries of what I have done in 2024 (and in general for a bit):
I wrote a ton of books. Whee! FIN: The Gold Grief Leaf, Lonely Luna, Mourning Star, Brilliant Road and the Red Balloon, Nobody, The Listener and Fragment of Forgiveness. UPDATE — Finished Cyclone Cyclops! WIPS: Ya, Unseen Brilliance memoir and Abra’s Mederi of Magical Creatures. I have some other ones that can be used potentially.
I finished my YA’s synopsis and main character list. Enjoy: You Are The Reason My Skye Is Blue by Sarah Jeanne Browne:You Are The Reason My Skye Is Blue
By Sarah Jeanne Browne
Finalized YA synopsis:
“The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured.” ~Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107
Synopsis: Payton Rose Blakely’s grandfather Mitch was a lawyer who inspired her trajectory along with trauma to prepare her whole life for Harvard Law (of course for eventual grad school not undergrad). They talked about life when she was little before he died and in their talk of morality, she realized, “Doing good makes you feel good.” However, she didn’t know what that good looked like. She struggled with her parents’ divorce, her mom, Vivi’s (short for Paraskevi Paraskevopoulou), alcoholism, and her stepmom, Corelle who considered herself the greatest Life Coach to ever live but ironically had no idea about life and just copied others’ tricks in the trade, trying to force a family. Payton didn’t share it with anyone though, but her true dream was to sing. It took meeting Skye, a stranger running away from human traffickers at a train station, to convince Payton to live for her own song and to find her voice. They found love in a short amount of time teaching Payton that love is beyond reason and made a pinky promise to always be authentic. Skye lost her daughter, Raven. As Payton tried to pen her own tale of a hero to her, Skye left with a message that self-destructed before Payton could follow her, leaving her despondent and desperate for love and not just performing acts of kindness. Payton was swept up in a love triangle when she reconnected with her childhood love, Everard Dean Westwood, whose incandescence and innocence drew her in. They planned to host a suicide prevention ball in memory of his dad Forsyth a firefighter who died by suicide. It was largely suspected it wasn’t just mental health but a feeling of failure for not saving a little girl, Lenore. Everard had his own brush with death. He wanted to climb mountains, eventually Mount Everest. However he first traveled to Morocco where his family is from to check out the High Atlas Mountains. There was an earthquake, and he went into a coma. Payton chose to wait for him, even if he never returned in this life. Payton’s stepbrother, Aonas, was an autistic child perseverating on weather topics where they made their own creatures such as Cyclone Cyclops but he saw through his own third eye with seer-like qualities. Payton’s twin Yvonne who died at birth appeared to transform Payton into singing superhero Paycat who could travel beyond space and time to save lives. Yvonne shot the Arrow of Authenticity into the hearts that needed to be healed with a different take on law vs ethics. But Yvonne couldn’t stay. There was some price to be paid. Meanwhile Grier Yeakley, a little person who detests that people think she’s just a jest and that Payton wants to be the best, runs her life on the basis of rumors. Payton joins Grier’s minions I mean friends, Achu Chatterjee (blessed beyond belief with a lot of chattering), Morticia Dai (with a macabre sense of humor who was also in a band called Endarkenment as a pianist known for always playing her favorite song “Funeral March” by Frédéric Chopin, the third movement of Chopin’s Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat Minor, Opus 35, “Marche funèbre”), and Limbus Finito (someone who goes out on a limb for many but remains in his own limbo). Limbus was just a man slave to Grier, but he wanted to be so much more. This is not just a tale of feminism but finding love in all manners…even if it leads to incredible loss. The Brilliant Road of spiritual authenticity revealed itself to Payton. She had to surrender to find her footing. Every road has its reason, to rise above to unseen brilliance.
Payton’s class list (so far). Dystopian Lit; Encountering the Holocaust through Literature; Fashion Design; Ethnomusicology; Bioethics; Democratic Origins with a focus on Ancient Greece; Global Politics; and Transformative Justice. Some of these are from George School so will get in touch with them at some point.
Co-curricular transcript
Music club
Mock Trial Team
International Affairs club
Honors society
Debate Team
Future Leaders of America
Model United Nations
Musical Theatre
Amnesty International
Vegan Club
And Academic Decathlon
Yeah I know.
There is a Sphinx. Just a warning. You’ll have to get through them too!
Magical realism + prescription/inspiration + exploration of faiths in general + dramatic monologues + literary nonsense + poetic/rhymy + music therapy + dark comedy + motifs — rose, brilliant road, authenticity, heart shaped red balloon, raven, Unseen Brilliance, and more + allusions to certain works in literature + teaching through literature + suicide prevention workshops + themes of grief, resilience, LGBTQ issues, race, gender, education system/elitism, autism, disability, rights in general, and love and romance, and more!
Vivamus, moriendum est
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I rewrote my Brilliant Road and the Red Balloon synopsis:
Maresca Pearl Lawson loved stargazing in her backyard with her new telescope. She didn’t expect to see a lovely heart shaped Red Balloon floating over her house. She ran to catch it. The Red Balloon could talk! It said, “Every road has its reason, to rise above to Unseen Brilliance.” She had to learn what that meant for herself. She wished to be a star so The Red Balloon lifted her to a brilliant road made of starlight. This was no ordinary road; it was the spiritual road of authenticity where goodness glowed. But The Red Balloon’s REAL identity was still unknown. She had to pass its tests. She journeyed with The Red Balloon on the brilliant road to leave footprints behind that others could follow, if they dared to touch the skies.
I made my own memes. Here are my favorite memes from different categories of memes.
WISDOM MEMES:
Reason: There are memes galore and meme wars online baiting likes and shares. I helped some sites with this type of thing. Specifically for one about “solving life wisdom.” However there is something beautiful about this person saying what he says. He doesn’t need to share everything with the world. Neither do we in order to have meaningful lives. Your private life matters more than anything the world can give you. It’s about integrity!
MISC MEMES:
This lil guy is my best friend. Nuff said.
YA MEMES (I chose two because the photo is EXACTLY how I pictured Payton but she has two different colored eyes as shown in illustration. OR it could be said she’s the twin Yvonne who died at birth and guides Payton now as a spirit BECAUSE she has BLUE eyes.
BRILLIANT ROAD AND THE RED BALLOON
LONELY LUNA
NOBODY, THE LISTENER
FRAGMENT OF FORGIVENESS
UNSEEN BRILLIANCE (PROJECT TBD)
SOME ART INSPO NOT MEMES FOR SOME BOOKS JUST ALL TOGETHER:
GRIEF ADVOCACY
Just check out this LINK for Reimagine
MY FAVORITE ARTICLES OF MINE (IN GENERAL):
Connection Before Correction for ENDCAN
What the Vagus Nerve Is And How To Stimulate It For Better Mental Health
REIMAGINE CANNOT CHOOSE LOVE ALL: Just check out this LINK for Reimagine
How to Hack Your Unconscious Mind and Untap Your Potential
Meet John Oberg: Social Media Influencer for the Animals
How to Combat The Stigma of Invisible Disabilities
Bella Grace Issue 28 — 21 Simple Declarations to Get You Through Your Day
5 Ways Post-Traumatic Growth Helps You Recover With Resilience
The Psychological Basis of Hope and How It Gets Us Through Hard Times
4 Ways Trusting Your Intuition is a Superpower
5 Self-Soothing Techniques to Heal Your Inner Child
4 Ways to Tap into the Transformational Power of Empathy to Find Common Humanity
Why It’s Okay To Do Nothing Sometimes For True Success
If You Do This, You May Be Manifesting The Wrong Way (clickbait title sorry :) )
How To Choose Your Attitude In Adversity
How To Stay Authentic In Any Situation
How to Forgive When You Don’t Feel Like It
How to Cultivate Self-Compassion For Success
How to Pursue Your Purpose With Clarity
How to Let Go of Fear, Worry and Indecision
Wanted: The Missing Gold Tooth That Took My Youth
Job Interview Like Me To Succeed
I ALSO HAVE A FREEBIE WORKSHEET YAY https://static1.squarespace.com/static/534863d5e4b039879a596419/t/655db0adbe852f2d72d03e5e/1700638893742/The+Art+of+Authenticity+Workbook+Questions.pdf
Updated bio: Sarah Jeanne Browne is a wisdom collector who assisted Tiny Buddha with such projects then formed her own philosophy; writer for Forbes and other popular self-help sites (and now deconstructs self-help as the industry can be misleading); speaker for organizations such as The Peal Center, Pennsylvania Youth Leadership Network, The Woodlands Foundation, Reimagine, various podcasts, and more; activist for human and animal rights; innovator and problem solver on social issues; brand and social media consultant; and neurodivergent with bipolar, dyscalculia, and AuDHD. She/they
MY DOG LADY PASSED AT 2:22am APRIL 5 (222 is my lucky number) RIP My fav photos of us:
Thanks all! See you next year!
