Life Adventures for Miles

What is Life? Joy, Peace, Love? Sorrow, Strife, Disdain? Money, Work, Power? Sedentary, Safe, Routine? Wild, Free, Drifting? Living, Death, In Between? What is Life?

This month we've been crafting a lot! Stringing beads, stale cheerios, melting beads, sorting colors and mixing them back again; as well as jewelry making (bracelets and necklaces, (though my kid has commissioned me into making her dog collars and leashes/harnesses for her stuffed pups). I've also almost finished a big ol' fabric box for storage! fun fun! In alignment with the advice I have been given/assigned,  I am trying to narrow down my professional and or personal goals. So far I have done a lot of collecting of the resources! The internet is awesome like that but also very scary in its variety. With that being said the book this month was from Kevin W. Porter : How To Make Passive Income On Amazon: A Step-By-Step Guide To Your Merch By Amazon Business. He explains in various detailed steps of how he made a successful business using Amazon Merch (as the title suggests). He shares how he started his research and product/design ideas to finishing with the apps and outso...

Finally got a book in this month! I read Island of the Blue Dolphins. I remember it being a book assignment in grade school and before reading it this time only sort of remembered it was part of the "survival" storylines that are so popular. The one I compared it to was Hatchet, though after reading it, there are very specific differences- maybe, I'd have to get over the what felt like millions of pages of water discription, which was like probably not that long actually to read it again to be sure- and I am only talking first books here; Brian was dropped suddenly in a survival situation where he didn't know much but how to possibly use his hatchet. This would be a very big trial by fire situation. Karana on the other hand is left on her home island with her knowledge of her people's customs and island layout. Yes, she had a trial by fire experience but, I found, this story to be more of a mindset shift of how to survive rather then Brian's complete learning ...