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Freedom to Be Alive

2/14/2019

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Bambi, whose picture is in this blog posting, is one of my three cats. When I went to an animal rescue center to adopt a pet, I had decided before entering the rescue center to choose a cat that would meet my needs (a female cat that was not aggressive and that would get along with both of my other cats, including one who was seriously ill). If there were two or more cats who were both appropriate, then I would choose the one who had been there the longest. 
Two cats were appropriate, so I chose Bambi because she had been there for six months. I was actually even worried that Bambi would be put to sleep or get really sick if no one offered her a home. She was super scared of people, skinny, and definitely not eating enough. She had been in a hoarding situation, so she actually was very nice to other cats.
In my home, she was--and still is--very sweet to my other cats (licking them, not being aggressive, not demanding her own space, etc.). While she's still scared of people, she's not scared of me. She has a really nice, deep purr and is very happy to be alive in a peaceful, quiet home with lots of good cat food. 
I really love to support animal rescue sites, in addition to adopting animals that are in need of a forever home.

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Writing is the Freedom to Create What I Really Want to Say.

12/22/2018

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The picture in this post shows me at my table at AutumnFest 2018. As someone who has done a lot of author events, as well as having written four novels and one book of poetry, I'm today asking myself what I really want to say. Unhidden Pilgrims does have a lot of content about free speech. Banking on Dreams shows connections between dreams and reality. Mayflower Dreams connects us to our history. Roger Williams in an Elevator has a lot of ideas about different kinds of freedom, including the freedom to worship God. Holidays Amaze connects to many of these same ideas through its use of different poems. These poems are also showing some of the many amazing aspects of life's mazes, holidays, and celebrations. With my past writing experiences, I often have found out what I'm trying to say after I have begun, have partially finished, or have completely finished writing the novel, poem, article, story, or blog post. The writing process can be highly creative because it actually helps me to figure out what I'm trying to say while I'm trying to say it. Through my writing experiences, I've learned a lot about myself, my life, my dreams, my reality, my history, my love of freedom, my thankfulness to God, and my world.

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Freedom of Speech as Work or Relaxation

11/22/2018

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Like my cats, I love to have the freedom to talk or to relax. I love to say things in person, through my books, and on my author and book websites. Also like my cats, I find free speech sometimes to be hard work and sometimes to be very relaxing.
Unhidden Pilgrims references a lot of different methods for communication and has information about the history of free speech.
The picture of my two cats in this blog post appears on page 56 of Holidays Amaze and illustrates what a couple of pets do after a voyage in a car that takes place in the poem "Timely Road Space on World Animal Day."

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Freedom to Lose or to Gain a Minute

11/18/2018

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I often hate to stop at a redlight. Especially while driving to work, I don't want to lose a minute of time. Even though I'm always early or on-time, I still hate redlights because I feel like my journey has been temporarily stopped.

I've recently realized that stopping at a redlight is not really that bad. Especially when one of my favorite songs is playing, I know I'll have an extra minute to sit in my car, relax, and listen to some music. I then turn up the music and enjoy the extra minute of relaxation.

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Freedom to Write a Sixth Book

10/28/2018

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To my inner self be true,
I’m writing poems anew;
unless a publisher’s view
tells me other things to do
and offers lots of money,
my sixth book will be
what I have chosen to do:
poetry book number two.
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An Amazing Holiday Dream

9/2/2018

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The blog entries on my five different book websites are often connected to each other, so I'll be posting this blog entry on all five of my book websites to illustrate one example of the many connections that I often see between my books and their content.
  1. ​A few days ago, I had a dream about a holiday event in my home. Because this really was a dream, I am also posting this blog entry on my dream blog for Banking on Dreams (http://www.bankingondreams.com/dream-blog).
  2. Since I have a large family and we were all in my kitchen at the same time, the room was as crowded as a crowded elevator. I even imagined during my dream that my kitchen was a kitchen inside of an elevator in which we were coming up with rules about who would be washing dishes, who would be putting the leftovers in the refrigerator, etc. The dream could therefore be connected to the freedom blog for Roger Williams in an Elevator (http://www.rogerwill.com/freedom-blog).
  3. We talked about how thankful we were for our large family with many helpers, so content about this dream is also being posted on my "Many Good Thanks" blog for Mayflower Dreams ​(http://www.mayflowerdreams.com/blog).
  4. We said a prayer and talked about God, so the content of this dream is also posted on my sharing faith blog for Unhidden Pilgrims ​(http://www.unhiddenpilgrims.com/sharing-faith-blog).
  5. Because my family and I were helping each other to wash the dishes and to do other tasks after an amazing holiday meal, this blog entry has been posted on the blog page for Holidays Amaze (http://www.holidaysamaze.com/holiday-blog). 

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Creative Freedom

7/28/2018

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I love the creative freedom of writing novels, poems, academic papers, website content, blog content, and other forms of communication. I also love to create, design, and structure other items, such as this example photo shows. The photo is an image of a part of my living room's wall, which I mostly sponge-painted by myself, but a few family members also helped. I really love the design of the mixed colors on this wall and may someday--when I have enough extra time--do similar paint jobs on all of the walls in my home.

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Freedom from Worrying

1/7/2018

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As a homeowner of a tiny old house, I often find possibly minor problems that can suddenly become big problems. For example, I've been worrying for awhile about the condition of the old basement faucet in the first picture on the left side of this blog entry.

Last week, a minor leak happened in a different section of my house (in the plumbing for my kitchen's sink). I had to immediately get a plumber out to my house or live without a dishwasher, kitchen sink, etc. The plumber fixed the kitchen leak, a sometimes dripping faucet in the bathroom, and the old basement faucet/hose/etc. The new version of the basement faucet is in the second photo in this blog entry.

Thankfully, nothing major happened to the basement plumbing problem before it was fixed. I also have been so happy to be free from worrying about plumbing problems. Freedom from worrying is a great feeling to have. Fixing the plumbing problems for less than a thousand dollars was definitely worth the cost of the repairs.
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The Freedom of Cats

11/21/2017

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My pets love their freedom. The top photo in this blog entry shows one of my cats (Leo) while he was caged up in an animal rescue center. Some Target employees saw he was hungry and hurt. They called the Taunton Animal Rescue Center, and Leo was rescued.
The second photo of Leo in this blog shows him now: he's free to run around my house and jump onto such places as the refrigerator, where he feels like he really is in charge, especially of his own life. He's now free to eat all the food he wants whenever he wants. When I first got Leo from the animal rescue center, he was always starving. He was also scared to eat. Whenever he was eating, he kept looking around and acting as if he was fearful of a person or an animal attacking him. Now, he's no longer scared, and he eats happily while enjoying his freedom in a wonderful home.

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Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Censorship

11/19/2017

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On this freedom blog and in my novels, I completely love being able to say what I want to say. I also love being able to censor myself, rather than to have someone else censor my writing. Freedom of speech and freedom of censorship are both wonderful freedoms.

​Another great part of being a writer is to have my ideas published. Here is an excerpt from page x ​of the "Preface" of my newly-released novel ​Unhidden Pilgrims: "People in the twenty-first century exercise freedom and censorship through such mediums as printed writing, the internet, social media, dialogue, body language, home decoration, clothing, possessions, codes, abbreviations, computer software, images, and symbols. These methods of speaking to others are visible in many sections of Unhidden Pilgrims. Both hidden and unhidden elements of modern and historic communication are displayed by the characters in this novel" (Petit x).

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    Dr. Karen Petit is the author of Banking on Dreams, Mayflower Dreams, Roger Williams in an Elevator, Unhidden Pilgrims, Amazing Holiday Paws, and Holidays Amaze. She is thankful for having the freedom to worship a wonderful, caring God.

    Each of Karen Petit's book websites ​has a blog page:

    Animal Blog:

    http://www.amazingholidaypaws.com/animal-blog

    Holiday Blog:
    http://www.holidaysamaze.com/holiday-blog

    Dream Blog:
    http://www.bankingondreams.com/dream-blog

    Many Good Thanks Blog:
    http://www.mayflowerdreams.com/many-good-thanks-blog  

    Freedom Blog:
    http://www.rogerwill.com/freedom-blog  

    Sharing Faith Blog:
    http://www.unhiddenpilgrims.com/sharing-faith-blog​

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