Browsing Archive: June, 2021

Some money and a room of one's own...

Posted by Olivia Giles on Wednesday, June 30, 2021,

I believe that everyone should have a "room" of their own, I know sometimes that isn't possible, but, when I say a room, it doesn't have to be an actual room, but a space in the universe to call their own. It can be large, small, physical, spiritual or mental.

A home in a suitcase

My mother travelled the world for years working as a Shaman/ Matakite. She taught people to reconnect with the earth and themselves using the wisdoms that came to her through channel. She helped thousands of pe...
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WTF....Writers that fuck-around

Posted by Olivia Giles on Sunday, June 27, 2021, In : normal

Shit happens

Okay, lately its been drama, drama, drama, all around me. Other peoples drama, not mine. (I can't share that with you it belongs to others damn it , I loves a good gossip)
I don't get to have drama, I'm to busy in my garret (bedroom) knocking out my next masterpiece (playing scrabble on the computer).
By the time I am aware I am having a drama it has already passed me by and I'm like wait a minute, I'm sure something just happened...what happened?? shoot, missed it again.

May...
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Little Brown Princesses

Posted by Olivia Giles on Tuesday, June 8, 2021,

Accident

When I was a little kid I was in a very bad car accident. I was hit by a van outside my Aunty and Uncles house.
I was at the front window waiting for my parents to come back from wherever they had been and pick me up. When I saw their car arrive, and park across the road, I ran out of the house to it, straight into the path of an oncoming van.
The driver had no chance, and I was hit head on and thrown a fair distance to land in a bloody heap on the road.
I remember two things from t...
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And another thing..

Posted by Olivia Giles on Friday, June 4, 2021,

Where the magic happens

Rejection is painful. And as an artist I leave myself open for rejection every single time I do anything. There is no way around it. I have learned that when it happens you have to feel it, all of it, every gutting shitty moment of it, because it will pass. Everything passes.

Rejection

I just got a rejection letter from 'Pikihuia Short Story Competition" telling me that none of the stories I entered made it through as finalists.
It was a very nice letter, but the t...
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