Today I had the opportunity to have a Mary Kay Makeover, compliments of my friend Joanne Sauter.  I tend to resist anything that may require more effort on my part (just wearing make-up), but the process was so fun and simple that I purchased my own “starter” kit.  The basics were surprisingly inexpensive and what is more amazing is that I will actually use it!  My delightful friend Celeste joined me and was also made over, in the Classic Look.  My look is Minimalist, as you can see in this photo.  I am in green and Celeste is in pink.

To get your own Mary Kay Makeover contact Joanne:

                  Joanne Sauter
            Independent Sales Director
                jsauter@marykay.com
          801-262-5857    800-734-9008
             
See it, Love it, Get it! Visit www.marykay.com/jsauter for great gift ideas, amazing products and a virtual makeover!

Here are my before and after photos.  My old home page photo, with glasses and my Mary Kay Makeover photo without glasses to freshen up the home page.

 Before                                                                     After

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Here are the musings of a professional poet playing on the words of her business name. Is there something to the addition of just a few letters that expand the meaning of a word, add an extra syllable to a rhythm, create a new and different rhyme or completely transform the meaning of a poem? Certainly. Personality is personal. Verse is part of Universe, yet these words expand far beyond their definition alone…

Is my personality expressed
through the rhythm and the rhyme?
Are the personal things addressed
in the poetic beating of time?

Am I merely playing with form?
A silly sort of game
Exploration beyond the norm
past identity with a name

Yet with every verse I make
and although it is very personal
which ever form the poem takes
the sentiment is universal

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Well, that’s all fine and good, for me, a poet, but what about you? You are also a poet, you simply have not acknowledged this yet. Want to find out? Just write. Spill it with ink onto paper or fingertips on the key board. Tell your critic to take some time off and express yourself. The only preparation is to get quiet for just a moment, tap into what your heart wants to express and let it flow. Don’t worry about form, don’t worry about rhyme, forget all the things you ever knew about poetry (I do). Let it flow.

Now read it, noticing the places where you may have paused to “think” about what you were writing, rather than letting in flow. These will be the spots where your reading will “come up short”, hesitate, feel abrupt. Now, paying attention to what you have said rather than how you said it- do you feel satisfied with what has been expressed?

Your choice from here is easy. Either continue to write, until you have a flow that feels comfortable and easy, or just go to www.personalizedpoems.org , copy what you have written in to the order page and buy a poem with the content that you created. Either way, you are a poet. Author or co-author, you still wrote the work.

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