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Doing well on the diet - it isn't hard to follow. I did get some walking and biking in today. It got to 60* on my outdoor thermometer on my balcony, it was sunny but windy. I just walked back from the library it is a half-mile away. I went to the poetry group, about fifteen people. It was good to be around intellectual people as my neighbors are the type who don't read books with the exception of Mike and my neighbor Marge but Mike will read books about intellectual stuff. I have been writing since I was in my early 20s, by the time I was 32 I had two books done nearly. Then I had a severe breakdown and threw the books out. It took quite a few years to recover and get back to writing properly that is why I am almost 50 and not published. I have sent out query letters in the past, no one has wanted to read my work yet. One book has the same characters as the first one I wrote - it is the western. The other book I can't remember the characters names even it was set in a foreign country - yet it was twenty years ago. Things happen for a reason and there is a time and season for everything. By not being successful in any way and being 47 will make me appreciate getting published more than someone who by my age has had thirty books published. My true potential was held back, but perhaps it will come to fruition in another manner in some work of mine in the future that wouldn't have happened had I had success as a young man. I know one thing and that is I am sick of being poor and would have probably been better off had I been born in Europe. But I'm glad I'm here and have to make the best of it...
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