Reposting the peace sculpture in Paris from my May 2013 post.
For Peace I, see Peace.
Paris, the Champs de Mars park. “Peace” in many languages.
A prediction for publishing, and The Temple of Heaven, Beijing
I don’t make many predictions, I really don’t have any idea, I just kind of go along, but I have this one thought to share. And that is that once print on demand (POD) books come down in price to match mass market, things will change. I don’t know how exactly, but mass market prices for POD books would seem to have many repercussions. Independently published authors like myself for now (meaning independent of the big publishing houses) get their books into print by using POD.
My 2015 prediction is that prices of POD will start to come down in 2015.
What do you think? How do you think it would impact traditional publishing if you could make any book equivalent in price to a paperback on a rack in the grocery-store line?
The panorama picture below shows people enjoying the very long covered walkway in The Temple of Heaven park in Beijing. People were out in droves playing games with their friends. I loved the idea of getting together with friends and playing games like this. What a wonderful lifestyle. Very healthy for the mind, body and spirit. And such a peaceful scene.
Have a peaceful weekend with your friends and family.
Peace III: A bird comes to visit
At a good breaking point in my writing yesterday, this bird came for a bath and a drink and stayed for quite some time. Just a humble bird, but I felt compelled to take its picture. A gift of peace.
We run the waterfall every day for a half hour to keep the little pools fresh for the visiting birds. Much easier than keeping the water fresh in the little bird bath I used to try to keep up with. This little guy also did fly-by gulps out of the pool. I’ve learned that’s dangerous for birds because if their feathers get wet (and they aren’t a water bird, which all have oil in their feathers), they’ll drown. Perhaps that is obvious, but I never knew that!
Take a walk in the park… Rancho San Antonio, Cupertino, California
Note: All tree closeups I owe to sethsnap.com for teaching me to see “tree art.” http://sethsnap.com/2013/02/16/tree-art-of-halls-creek/.
