FREE DOWNLOAD THE PANJANDRUM OF QUONDAM
Current mood: busy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Hi everyone.

I wanted to let you know that you can download THE PANJANDRUM OF QUONDAM FREE up to Friday this week. This is a major opus and if you would like to rea dthe outstandinreviews then you can at www.myspace.com/panjandrumcd or www.myspace.com/panjandrumof quondam

Love to have your comments.

Blessings to all.

Sandra

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My beautiful new dog
Current mood: happy
Category: Pets and Animals

Wow! Overnight my life changed dramatically! I went to a local poet's new collection launch on Wednesday and went home with a new pet dog! He is awesome. Stands as high as a great dane and he is such a beautiful dog that I have been walking solidly with him for two days. We bonded really quickly and I am so happy to have been blessed with him. I will be taking a photo on Monday to put out on the blog so everyone can see this beautiful creature in all his glory.

This is the strange bit: he is a Russian breed and today some people stopped me in the street and said that it is a rare breed and there are very few in the UK.

A friend had taken him in but he already had a Rottweiler and the two were not compatible so the dog of my dreams came to me like a gift from heaven. I have wanted a big black dog for a long time now and I think  visualising myself with one was a subconscious way of finding him.

No doubt there will be some poetry flowing from our walks together soon. His name is O.B. however, I like the name MAYAKOVSKY, especially as he is Russian.

Will  post a photo next week. Until then I am walking miles with the wind in my hair and a big smile on my face. Blessings are great aren't they?

Thanks for listening.

All good wishes,

Sandra

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www.myspace.com/panjandrumcd
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Writing and Poetry

www.myspace.com/panjandrumcd is my new space for the 12 minute epic that challenges the critics/literati.

Please add to this profile and it would be great for you all to listen and give me some feedback. It's been described as a masterpiece by an Honorary Professor.

The poem is written in the new Literary Style I have devloped. I hav another epic that I will be publishing and recording very soon and a new Poetyr Collection following not long after.

Would appreciate your comments folks.

Best wishes,

Sandra

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BOOK-TO-FILM ADAPTATION
Current mood: busy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Hi.

For those of you that were unaware of my book THE RIPPER UNMASKED: Confessions from Sutcliffe to a Hypnotist, I would like to give you the latest information about this 300-page memoir. www.myspace.com/theripperunmasked I have been pitching this book as a Film Adaptation and have very positive feedback. Alex Monty Cnanwati the Director/Producer of RETURN TO BABYLON has just completed editing and this Film will be entered for the Toronto Film Festival in September.

RETURN TO BABYLON has proven to be a very unusual film and rather than me start explaining the complex experiences and paranormal activity that has occurred throughout the filming/footage, please visit www.myspace.com/montyvalentino and www.myspace.com/returntobabylon for a deper insight into the actitivites and experiences that surround this film.

Alex Monty Cnawati is a very passionate, creative person. I am delighted that he not only wants to work on my book-to-film adpatation - www.myspace.com/sisterlazarus - SISTER LAZARUS (The Illumination) with me, but also that he possibly wants me to write the Screenplay and there is every possibility I will have an acting role.

Please drop by and have a closer look at his work and spaces.

Thanks,

Sandra

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THE GRAPHORRHOEALIST MOVEMENT
Current mood: amused
Category: News and Politics

Hi. Recently I did an interview for a new local arts magazine and the focus was on my work as a poet/author/artist/activist and this encompassed being the founder of THE GRAPHORRHOEALIST MOVEMENT. This is an International Movement that will benefit from my wisdom as a hypnotherapist, writer/artist/activist and a background in business up to Director level and successful with my own agencies. I was rather reserved about giving too much away as I am, despite what people think, a private person. Also, I don't actually like publicity. In fact, if it had not been for the fact that I am launching a new CD this month, I would not have done the interview at all. The long and the short of this blog is that my gut feelings were right! The Magazine was just trying to cream in-depth information from me. My muses and mentors in spirit warned me. It never ceases to amaze me, that young people seem to think that you can't see through their veil of supposed sincerity. It's a joke to think that I would give away in-depth knowledge for people to steal and use for their own ends. I am a very giving person and will do anything for anyone if they treat me with respect.

While discussing THE GRAPHORRHOEALIST MOVEMENT, I can confirm that www.myspace.com/graphorrhoealistmovement is under construction, and this will encompass agency representation.I have already developed new contacts in the Film Industry and intend to develope these with care. I have a background in Media/Entertainment, Publishing, Hypnosis, and Psychotherapy as well as a recrutment specialist, man management, psychology in the workplace etc.,. I have long-term aims that will encompass radical change in many areas of the arts and soicety. Politics meets the arts! I am radical and I am already being approached to collaborate with various large movements that are very successful in raising awareness in society. I can't go into too much detail, as I have been told that the people involved with a local, small-town group are regularly stalking my spaces for ideas.

I can only say that I am flattered to think that this local magazine, and the local arts people feel that I am that much of a threat, that the best they can come up with is making a poor attempt at sabotage. I have made too big an impression in too many previous arenas to gratify their need to steal and destroy. Besides, true revolutionaries come to life when others buckle and dissolve into oblivion, and I am a true revolutionary.

My film pitch is going well. There is so much happening for me now, that I could do with ten of me.

I am grateful for all of the friends that read my blog. This is just the beginning. If you want to join THE GRAPHORRHOEALIST MOVEMENT then please contact me on this, my main profile first.

All good wishes,

Sandra

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THE RIPPER UNMASKED BOOK-TO-FILM ADAPTATION
Current mood: busy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Hi everyone. If you have not visited www.myspace.com/theripperunmasked please check it out.

This week I received a friend request from Charlie the actor from PRISON BREAK, which has been highly successful on UK Channel 5. I must admit I have not watched it, however, I don't have a TV.

I discussed the possibility of him playing the role of Sutcliffe in my movie adaptation of THE RIPPER UNMASKED and he likes the idea. He has a Producer that specialises in TRUE-CRIME/THRILLER genre so I sent him a Pitch Sheet of the movie. Even thought I have a producer Director that want to do the Film, I am keeping my options open as it feeles like my movie pitch is a strong contender.

I have set up a space for the movie www.myspace.com/sisterlazarus the title of the film, as this film is about my life experiences.

I would like you to go to these spaces and add your profiles as I will be developing them both over the next few weeks and regularly writing blogs to advise what is happening.

Thanks ever so much for your interest and support. I will keep you posted.

There are another 2 new spaces I am setting up for my juvenilia and old poems www.myspace.com/lesterjuveniliapoems and www.myspace.com/candycottonkidandthefaustianwolf, which is one of my masterpieces - that's what the critics said - about the life and suicide of Sylvia Plath. I will be adding extracts and reviews and notes on this space over the next few weeks.

Best wishes and have a good weekend. I am doing an interview for a new e-zine and will blog when it goes out.

All good wishes,

Sandra

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2 new poems added
Current mood: contemplative
Category: Writing and Poetry

THE POET'S WIRE

and

THE DECLARATION

These are both short poems, which is very unusual for me. I hope you enjoy them.

Thank you,

Sandra

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SURVIVAL/thewriting process/POEM: THE POCKET-SIZED WRAETH
Current mood: determined
Category: Writing and Poetry

I am selling personal belongings to survive still, but somehow the challenge of keeping going as a writer is fuelling my will to carry on. Every day new challenges appear and as I am slowly conquering them, I feel even better as this is defiant and non-conformity makes people angry with me, but that's because they haven't got the balls to do what I have done. Against odds beyond most peoples' imagination, I have continued with my crusade and I am now beginning to feel proud of what I have done.

I get the feeling that the tide is just about to turn for me. If I had given up when everyone was telling me to, I would have been another statistic as a writer that society drove back into the life I speak of in my poem THE POCKET-SIZED WREATH. If you have time to listen, please do. It is a poem that I am fond of and it is a favourite of someone I love. When it comes to decisions, I have chosen my writing above eeveryone and everything and I am grateful to those around me who have suffered because of this.

Writing poetry is a very peculiar process and it it this process that I write about in THE POCKET-SIZED WREATH.

Hope you can stop and listen and give me some feedback. I look forward to discussing this poem on a deeper level with anyone who cares to drop by.

Thank you all for your support and interest.

Blessings, love and light to you all.

Sandra

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THE PHILOSOPHICAL APPRAOCH/COUNSELLING/FAITH
Current mood: calm
Category: Life

Hi again.

Yesterday I encountered a good person that thinks they can help people when they are clearly not a professional therapist. I find it hard to turn any needy souls away and tend to depend on my faith to see me through. However, I am a former highly successful hypnotherapist/counsellor and have a proven success rate with helping people to resolve their problems and I use my own hypnosis tapes still to this day. I closed my therapy practice in 1991 as I was going to become a nun. At present, I have nothing to offer finanacilly, but I always lend an empathetic ear to those in need and pass on something inspirational, as to how I have helped myself in times of hardship. The encounter yesterday with a kindred spirit gave me the time to reflect on what life throws at people and how they deal with it. It is one thing to be inspirational, but quite another to profess to know things that qualified, professional people know. I agree that empathy is far greater than sympathy, but positve thinking and blind faith can often be negative in disguise if not balanced with rational knowledge and experience. For instance, it's no use saying "keep positive" and infer that blocking problems out gets rid of them. Something that is positive to a person distressed, is for them to accept their situation, begin to approach it rationally - with help of a professional if necessary - and resolve to engage with the problem and find a way of transcending it at a rate commensurate with their well-being at any given time. Positive thinking can often mean that people have to make decisions, and their situation often gets over-shadowed by these decisions and that's when desperation sets in. Yesterday I felt desperate, but I only have those feelings on a temporary basis, as I always work back to the source and choose a course of action that simplifies the situation i.e. one day at a time, go back to basics. If I have food for the day, a roof over my head - even though I am under threat of eviction - then I have my basic needs and I pray to be able to build upon them.

Life is really very simple.

My briefcase disappeared yesterday and it has found its way back to me today!I did not panic; I felt uncomfortable about the fact it had so much of my art and my poems in it, but overall I felt philosophical about it and left it to the omnipotent forces of the universe to either send it back to me, or for me to truly let it go. Today I have it back. The moral of this story is that when all seems lost, it is a space in time to re-consider the experience and grow spiritually, safe in the knowledge that it is our resistance to what is that casues us pain. I did not resist, I accepted and my briefcase came back to me like a faithful dog.

All good wishes,

Sandra

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THE FIGHTING SPIRIT
Current mood: enlightened
Category: Goals, Plans, Hopes

Hi readers! Hope you are all well.

Today was a truly challenging day for me. I need a hysterctomy and because I am so focused, I have been putting it off for three years now! There have been extenuating circumstances and a lot of emotional upheaval in my life that weakened my resolve and I just wanted to accomplish my goals and build some strength before I have an operation. THE HOSPITALS IN UK ARE RIFE WITH TWO STRAINS OF SUPERBUG: C.Dif and MRSA. I want to go private, but with my circumstances as a destitue poet it seems a long way from my grasp.

I have lost - or someone has stolen - my briefcase today and it was full of my poems, sketches, collages and all of my marketing material for my books past and present. For a short time I felt panic-stricken, lost, almost a rape of the soul as my poetry and art are so very deeply personal and confessional that I imagined a crowd of alcoholics thinking they had found some money and credit cards and all they found were my confessional poems and sketches! I felt amused by this as I always say that money is something that comes and goes but all my reviews have been so dynamic that I am truly amazed to have accomplished so much. The beauty of reviews is that they are eternal and when we focus on the eternal all else is futile.

So, the case has gone wherever it was menat to go, and if it doesn't come back, well I would say that someone, somewhere needed to read my poems, they might reach out to a soul that found solace in them as I did when I composed them.

Now, I feel free! Like a big weight has been taken from me. Like my emotional backpack has been taken away like a crutch from a one-legged man! I hopped for a while, but I definitely have two legs, a big heart, a wise soul and a great deal to give in this world of lacklustre materialism.

Onwards, and upwards. A new beginning is looming on th horizon now.

Fantastic how there can be positive in what appears to be a negative, if you just search, you can always find the positive in everyone and everything.

"Let us then be up and doing; with a heart for any fate! Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labour and to wait."

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Good night.

Sandra

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