DELIA QUIGLEY
-BOOKS AS ART~ART TO INSPIRE-
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Part 3 Let’s talk about designing your book covers. Sure. Book covers are a scary topic for self-publishing authors because it is HIGHLY recommended that you hire a professional to do your cover. For the first Body Rejuvenation Cleanse (BRCleanse) cover, I turned to a graphic artist Meghan Lyding. I had just seen a photo…
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When you are nobody, it is easy to become anybody or everybody in answer to the need of the moment. ~Sri Satchidananda
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Part II So what happened after you wrote the Complete Idiot’s Guide To Detoxing Your Body? Soon after I finished, I was hired to write a book on SuperFoods. This allowed me to expand on foods not often mentioned in health and cookbooks. Foods such as sea vegetables, pumpkin seeds, micro algae’s, wild mushrooms, well…
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People tell me they want to write a book. I tell them to put their rear end in a chair and write. That’s the only way to write a book.
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Part I I once hosted a radio show, Food For Thought, which ran from 1997 to 2006 in northwest New Jersey. It was fun, and I was good at coaxing a story from my guests. Since most authors wanted media attention, I would contact whomever I wanted to talk with and have them send me…
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Lifting The Veil ~ Human Nature is about all the wonderful drama and messy bits that make us human. It is a unique work of art created by writer and Photo Artist, Delia Quigley. With songs, poems, and stories, Quigley takes you on a journey from 1968 to the present. Delia’s photo art highlights her…
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For this months interview on the Creative Process, I turn to one of my dearest and oldest friends, Pat Fenda. Patty and I go back to a time when we were young, gorgeous women devoted to creating art for the stage through dance, mime, singing, design, and acting. We could do it all with such…
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“Act boldly, and unforeseen forces will come to your aid!”
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I was ten, almost eleven Free as a young bird I walked down alleyways alone Rode motorcycle samlors racing my brothers home My father was the Chief of Staff, US Army JUSMAG It was 1961 Bangkok, Thailand A child’s Disney world I remember water canals Gekkos Water snakes Buffaloes Talking mynah birds Leaping off roofs…
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I came out here to the farm in May of 1980, and I had just turned forty. Were you alone? Did you have a friend, a big group of people to start? In the process with the proposal that we presented eight months earlier, it was approved, and then we came out, there was another…
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Art is the capacity every human being has to make something beautiful and to make it well. ~Miriam MacGillis
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Part I In 1992 I began working with the environmental activist and founder of Food & Water, Inc., Dr. Wally Burnstein. One day he suggested that I invite Miriam MacGillis to speak to my Macrobiotic group, at the time in Sarasota, Florida. Miriam was the Dominican sister Wally often spoke of, whose learning center, Genesis…
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I am in the midst of moving my possessions once again It all happened suddenly, unexpected, a complete surprise One day I was contemplating new plantings for the garden And the next I was contemplating suicide as an alternative Then Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain settled the question If you have achieved everything, and still…
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In the city of darkness There are those who weep Those who sing love songs Piercing cries to God for mercy In the suburbs at dusk Lives with shattered dreams Eat gourmet dog food Off of silver dishes All along the lanes To the end of the circles Lights are springing on Another day’s gone…
DELIA QUIGLEY 