blog power! received this just now from Marco, the editor of Haiku Canada's newsletter. Thanks, Marco, for sending my review of Arthur Breverman's book, Living and Dying in ZaZen, as a HC newsflash. 50 orders! - yeah, the dude owes me a beer or three : )
(apologies, readers, for the above large & bold type - still learning all these internet techniques)
The two 'rants' I recently published on my blog were also published as letters-to-the-editors of both NOW Magazine (big Toronto entertianment weekly) and my local paper, which is a member of a conglomerate newspaper chain. Almost a million readers in total. Having the blog encouraged me to organized my thoughts for posting, & then I sent them on as letters. It's synchronicity (of course) but both my rants achieved results (Blue Helmet UN action re Libya; and Ontario Hydro has changed its cheapest rate from 9 pm to 7 pm afer my rant about how a friend could only afford to cook on weekends under the old restrictive Hydro time frames).
I'm definitely a convert to blogging. It's ironic, but I've caused far more overt changes thru my letters-to-the-editors than thru my poetry, but of course, poetry is meant to change the spiritual and visionary fabric of society, while the rants & letters DO seem to have a substantial effect on day-today realities - far more efficiently than voting in our pseudo-democracy : (
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To Chris Faiers
| From: | Haiku Canada Newsletter (haikucanadanewsletter@hotmail.com) |
| Sent: | April 9, 2011 2:46:20 PM |
| To: | Chris Faiers (zenriver@sympatico.ca) |
Hi Chris,
Just thought that you'd like to know that as a result of your review (which I sent out as a HC Newsflash), Howard Lee Kilby ordered 50 copies of the book (see below).
Tell Arthur Braverman he owes you a beer.
Marco
Dear Marco,
Arthur Braverman impressed me so much with Living and Dying in Zazen.
That I ordered
Just thought that you'd like to know that as a result of your review (which I sent out as a HC Newsflash), Howard Lee Kilby ordered 50 copies of the book (see below).
Tell Arthur Braverman he owes you a beer.
Marco
Dear Marco,
Arthur Braverman impressed me so much with Living and Dying in Zazen.
That I ordered
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