ATLANTA BeltLine SW 5K July 16 details from Metro Atlanta Buy Lease Sell in Buckhead Atlanta GA
LOCAL EVENT ANNOUNCED TO ALL:
The Atanta BeltLine Southwest 5K Run/Walk accepts registrations now! BOTH the Atlanta Police Department and the Atlanta Fire Department will participate.
Media personalities - HMMMM Who could it be that's coming?
Additional activities including SCAD* designed awards and food to follow race.
The food will be spectacular as Chef Joe Rickerson fr Clarence Foster, the Abbey, the Mansion and La Tour.
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Robert Frost What side of the fence ARE YOU ON asks MetroAtlanta Buy Lease Sell, in Buckhead Atlanta GA
OK, so everyone knows what it is like to have a few lines of a song running around your head for days on end. Yet on ActiveRain, a blog may do just the same thing. Its topic comes up again and again in your mind until --- well, until you realize what was needing clarification FOR YOU from that post. That is what happened for me with the post about fences.
Sometimes thoughts find their own way through more than one level in our minds. We often see blog posts complaining about Clients' behavior. Not paying attention, not following through on what they promised , not, not, not ... The issues are the same when Clients' complaints about us are heard.
So what does it boil down to in this case? Why did the FENCES post follow me around? Why did I go back and search for a copy of the poem? Why did I re-read it, twice, and then leave a mega-long comment on the Clarks' Blog that day? I think at first, I took the post at surface level. There is land and its boundaries SHOULD be accurate and could be fenced. Then the issues arose: improper placement of the fence, for example, followed by logical answers and solutions: perhaps a survey. So that couldn't be the reason for the refrain float-- too factual and too clingy!
Skipping all the steps, (I'll spare you the meander through my mind) what was pestering me was a broader reflection. I was hung up on the idea of how many times, how many thousands of times, the line from Robert Frost's poem has been used in a manner that was so opposite what he had intended. Perhaps then we may see the reasons for the reasons for Frost's words "Spring is the mischief in me".
Was Frost in favor of the fence or just being a good neighbor by repairing it since it took two to fix it?
Then the reason for the blog post floating around incessantly in my mind became even more clear. I was analyzing how do we, as professional real estate agents, listen when Clients are speaking to us? How do we know that we haven't missed something important when our Clients are communicating with us?
Without further ado - hopefully you will stop by and see the Clarks' post. And discover the reasons for my own reflections on paying attention in conversations! My mega comment is here.
Have a happy day --
Lynn
Dear AR friends - Thanks for reminding me of the oft-repeated quote above from Robert Frost. But in what context did Frost use the phrase? "Good fences make good neighbors." The US Poet, born 1874 in San Francisco, moved to New England at age eleven with his mother after his father died. As a young married man, Frost and his beloved wife Elinor lived in England. Circumstances made a return to New Hampshire necessary. Then back to England and back to New England, where Frost lived on several different farms over the years. During his long life, Frost wrote many poems whose messages were seemingly clear - almost reports on events but those writings carried insights into human behavior and emotions. A closer reading of the poem "Mending Wall" implies that - in fact - Frost was not so sure of whether fences were a good thing or not. (See BOLDed lines.) That is the truth of Frost as a poet - his vision cut through scenes and focused on behavior. Who Frost was and what he really had to say is the subject of Randall Jarrell's essay, "The Other Frost". Jarrell stated that "[Frost was] the subtlest and saddest of poets" whose "extraordinary strange poems express an attitude that, at its most extreme, makes pessimism a hopeful evasion." During his long life, Frost received 44 honorary degrees and many government honors. He recited poetry at President Kennedy's inauguration. He visited foreign countries as the embodiment of American Poetry. Most enduring reward, however, about ten years after his beloved wife had died, Frost had the wonderful luck to make a close and lasting friendship with another woman, Kathleen Morrison, who acted as his official secretary & business manager. She managed his affairs for him and she typed his writings up for him. Have a happy day, "MENDING WALL" by Robert Frost (1874-1963)
See what you think the phrase means after reading the poem ...
Lynn
(Can you tell I am a devoted fan of the poet Robert Frost? LOL)
SOMETHING there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
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I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
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But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
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To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
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Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
He is all pine and I am apple-orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
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He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down!" I could say "Elves" to him,
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But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there,
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
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Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Metro Atlanta Buy Lease Sell finds HIDDEN JEWELS north of Buckhead Atlanta GA
You too can find the hidden treasure - that is a treasure hidden inside yourself! Head out with Metro Atlanta Buy Lease Sell finds hidden jewels north of Buckhead Atlanta GA to the one-year-old original location for Creatively Yours in Brookhaven on Dresden.
The difficult parts of trying a new experience in art are GONE! No more figuring out which supplies, winding up with the wrong size tools, or forgetting to buy something. Taryn Reed has made the option to paint canvas or make earrings or paint glass easy to try at her studio.
Creatively Yours has been featured two times on local news.
In the press release for this week:
PRESS RELEASE ATLANTA, GA JUNE 16,2011
"Female entrepreneur and artist, Taryn Reed has found success with her Creatively Yours retail painting classes called Cocktails and Canvas.
Taryn’s 2-to-3 hour instructor lead adult art classes allow students to bring their own beverages into her art studio and explore their creative sides. Mrs. Reed used her marketing degree from the State University of West Georgia for over ten years in the corporate world before she decided to focus on her life's passion in the arts. That dream lead her to open Georgia's first cocktails and canvas style art class at her Creatively Yours location in Atlanta's thriving Brookhaven Village. Creatively Yours is located at 1418 Dresden Drive Northeast Atlanta, GA 30319.
Creatively Yours has been holding its 2 to 3 hour classes since June of 2010. The classes cost between $25 to $35 and since opening have been a hit in the daily deal market including Groupon. Classes can accommodate up to 50 students and are held Monday through Saturday from 7-10 pm. There is also a Saturday class at 2 pm.
Taryn states, "Our specialty is creating a relaxing and creative environment for individuals, friends, family, neighbors and coworkers. We are exercising the right side of the brain and getting those creative juices flowing." Mrs. Reed offers, "sometimes the item that we are painting dictates the audience that comes in. For example, if we paint an abstract item we may have a few more men in the class then if I illustrate how to paint a row of tulips."
Creatively Yours also blocks certain evenings out for private parties with bridal showers, baby showers, and corporate team building events being the most popular. Creatively Yours holds 16 x 20 canvas acrylic painting classes for students 10 and up (students under 18 must be accompanied by an adult). Kid painting classes are 2 hours long.
Creatively Yours supplies acrylic paints, aprons and instruction. Students bring what they want to eat and drink along with plates and cups. Creatively Yours, LLC offers 2 or 3 hour instructor-led jewelry and glass painting classes. Jewelry, and glass painting classes are for students ages 10 and up . Students under 18 must be accompanied by a painting adults. The classes are 2 hours in length. and cost between $25 to $35 dollars. Creatively Yours is also hosting Kids Art Camp. Summer campers age 10 – 14 can attend instructor-led classes to learn about the great ages of art and create their very own masterpiece. Registration for classes is on the calendar page of their website at www.creativelyyoursinc.com
Mrs. Reed has already begun franchising her unique concept to another female entrepreneur in Johns Creek, Georgia. The longevity of purpose driven artistic entertainment educational shops can be witnessed by the decade plus success of Wired & Fired in Atlanta's Virginia Highlands which offers pottery making classes nightly.
For more information please visit http://www.creativelyyoursinc.com/ online or call (770)280-7087"
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MetroAtlanta Buy Lease Sell JOINS ePropertySites Single Property Websites from Buckhead Atlanta GA
Hello to
Today MetroAtlanta Buy Lease Sell JOINS ePropertySites.com Single Property Websites from Buckhead Atlanta GA as a new marketing approach. The approach is new to ODAT Realty Services, Inc. although the service has been around for a while.
From the ePropertySites.com Home Page:
Ranked # 1 since 10/16/2008 by alexa.com, compete.com and quantcast.com.
ePropertySites.com offers the real estate professional a single property website for one year for a $10 fee. An alternative is $10 a month for 10 single property websites. That is just the beginning of the many options they offer.
They state you can enter data and build a website in minutes due to the simple steps needed to use their system. Many template styles are offered. Looks pretty interesting.
Reading member comments about the site is like reading a record of unsurpassed excellence. The testimonials are as full of praise as one could imagine. Check out the links and see what you think of their many different products. ePropertySites.com offers online classes to members also.
Have a happy day -
Lynn
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Metro Atlanta Buy Lease Sell Gathers AR Social Media Button Instructions in Buckhead Atlanta GA
Buttons for social media sites to put on the signature block of ActiveRain Blogs to connect to social media eluded me. Then - the dilemma of how to install them?
Here is a post from 2009 - from the fountain of knowledge - ActiveRain. The post was written by Brad Andersohn in 2009.
I couldn’t really figure out how to re-blog it from an outside posting so here it is as a COPY - full credit to Brad and AR - not me.
NOTE: How about a Baker’s Dozen of other button related posts as well:
1. Margaret Woda http://activerain.com/blogsview/953799/make-your-own-link-buttons
2. Steve Hundley http://activerain.com/blogsview/547111/free-call-to-action-lead-generation-buttons-for-real-estate-sites-and-blogs
3. Sheldon Neal http://activerain.com/blogsview/2251024/video-tutorial-how-to-add-social-media-buttons-to-your-signature
4. Liz Loadholt http://activerain.com/blogsview/1519532/adding-buttons-to-active-rain
5. WordPress.org info http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/like/
6. Alex Chang http://activerain.com/blogsview/1626913/easily-add-facebook-like-buttons-to-your-wordpress-blog
7. Pippa Mac re-blog by Edward Wadsworth http://activerain.com/blogsview/806306/super-cool-free-blogging-buttons-vintage-flowers-web-2-0-and-more
8. Liz Loadholt http://activerain.com/blogsview/1517743/add-buttons-to-web-site
9. Alison Nicklin Shuman http://activerain.com/blogsview/2320678/css3-gradient-buttons-reduce-your-website-graphic-design-expenses-advanced-css
10. Anna Glebova http://activerain.com/blogsview/2077441/how-to-create-cool-buttons-and-logos-for-your-blog-or-website
11. Rebekah Radice http://activerain.com/blogsview/2297513/how-to-add-social-media-buttons-to-your-active-rain-signature
12. Sam De Bord http://activerain.com/blogsview/1177143/add-a-call-me-now-button-to-your-activerain-blog-google-voice-widget
HTML 13. (a) Cheryl Waller (http://activerain.com/blogsview/1767525/follow-me-how-to-add-your-social-networking-buttons
13. (b) Nestor & Katerina Gasset http://activerainguide.com/post/951362/Active-Rain-Tutorials-How-To-Make-Buttons-For-Your-Blog-and-Profile
Have a happy day -
Lynn
PS If anyone knows where to find the official listing of LinkedIn badges/widgets/buttons ready to link to one’s one profile, ready to copy from LinkedIn, please add that info on your comment. The closest I could get was http://developer.linkedin.com/docs/DOC-1101#general-use but from there, after putting it on my site, I would still have to create a link. UGH! However, if you want to add applications on your LinkedIn Profile, there are many available at http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=application_directory . Thanks!
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One tip I would suggest is to be careful which Icons you select for some of the Social Networking Sites. If the Icon or Button isn't a familiar looking one, then visitors might be less likely to click on it. For example, the cow face, what Social Network or site does that one belong to? Maybe visitors would click on it just to find out? (LOL~) With all these Buttons and Icon styles available, one thing for certain is that your signature can be unique. So have FUN!!
129 comments • Brad Andersohn • October 19 2009 12:30PM
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