Bonnie Alden Phillips
Concord, California, USA
Bonnie Alden PhillipsConcord, California, USA |
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Bonnie Alden Phillips, successful writer, cartoonist, lecturer, historical researcher and radio personality extraordinare, internationally-acclaimed has received enconiumons from W. Somerset Maugham, Ogden Nash, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Wilson, Red Skelton, to mention a few and now listed in some 20 national and international Who's Who. Mrs. Phillips was born in a log cabin in South Dakota. She lived in a high-rise with late husband Phil, over-looking the Pacific Ocean in Waikiki, Hawaii - where she said, "You don't have to own the whole world to enjoy the sunset!" She now devotes most of her time writing, when she isn't a "Professional Volunteer." She is proud of her 15 American Libraries, established in Fiji, Samoa and Africa. She has done field work in archeology and anthropology visiting some 85 countries (mostly after her 14 children [7 adopted] were married), where you will find her fossils in the museums. Now the delights of her life are the 35 grand children and her, "The Over The Hill Gang," International Senior Citizen's Club she founded in 1976. "The difficulties of life are to make us better - not bitter." |
Love Me - Love My PoetryI once wrote some poetry - the best,the finest POETRY My POETRY came with a capital "P". My POETRY was distinguished POETRY, proper, complete line of Verse POETRY - honorable, prehistoric, geographical POETRY Divine, instinctive, even religious POETRY - I sent it to the magazines The very good magazines The very best magazines - They returned it to me every time! I once wrote some inferior POETRY Low in style, irregular in measure POETRY Undignified, trivial, absurd POETRY inadequate, mischievous, comic POETRY Some stuff like this - A CRIME - I sent it to the magazines The very good magazines The very best magazines They kept it every time! Now, I ask of you - my question is fair and brief - I ask Of you - your ear I pray and beg you give - Shall I write intuitive, comprehensive, reasoning POETRY Specific, Godlike, Capitol committed POETRY The sort I think will live? Or shall I write inferior, very bad POETRY - the kind that soon is Dead - and send it to the magazines, the very good, the best magazines THAT I MAY LIVE INSTEAD!!! |
Hey - PenniesIt is not what you do with a MILLION ifriches should soon be your lot... but what you do at the PRESENT with those PENNIES you've got... so break to the needy - sweet charity's bread... "For GIVING is LIVING the ANGEL said... "And must I be giving, again and again:, my peevish and pitiless answer ran... "Oh No," said the ANGEL piercing me thru... "Just give 'til the MASTER stops giving to you!" Yes, it is what YOU do with those PENNIES you have got! |