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    Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations
    Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations
    Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations
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    Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations

    By Bev Walton-Porter

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    In the second volume of Nocturnal Musings, author Bev Walton-Porter offers up another helping of ponderings and essays examining the mundane to the spiritual aspects of everyday life. Whether it's finding humor in a freak hair vs. seat belt accident or contemplating one's value and worth in this fast and raw world of ours, Walton-Porter reminds us to find the humor where we can, contemplate and/or meditate when possible, and ride the waves of life's challenges one overwhelming arc at a time. 

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    Release dateSep 2, 2017
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    Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations
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    Bev Walton-Porter

    Nocturnal by nature, Bev Walton-Porter has been a professional writer, editor, and writing instructor since May 1997.  Bev has published several books, including Sun Signs for Writers, Aim To Write: Tips & Tricks for Freeing the Scribe Within, Mending Fences, Hidden Fire, Secrets of the Professional Freelancer, Shadows of the Soul, and Nocturnal Musings: A Collection of Ponderings, Essays, and Short Stories. Bev also co-authored The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential. She has been a member of The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Pikes Peak Writers, The National Writers Union, The Editorial Freelancers Association (EFA), and the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Married with two adult children (one of whom is also a professional writer) and an adorable grandson, Bev's hobbies include reading, watching documentaries, researching obscure and/or weird subjects, listening to music, playing World of Warcraft, crocheting, traveling, and hanging out with her beloved fur babies – one Staffordshire Bull Terrier/Rottweiler mix and three Border Collie mixes.

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      Nocturnal Musings, Volume 2 – Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations - Bev Walton-Porter

      )0( Triple Crow Publishing )0(

      Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A.

      2017 All Rights Reserved

      NOCTURNAL MUSINGS, Volume 2 –

      Selected Essays, Ponderings, and Meditations

      Copyright © 2017

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by an information storage and retrieval system, now known or hereafter invented, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Address inquiries to:

      )0( Triple Crow Publishing )0(

      Colorado Springs, Colorado

      triplecrowpublishing@gmail.com

      Published in the United States of America

      Cover Design by Bev Sninchak

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Introduction

      PONDERINGS & ESSAYS

      The Wedding Hair Incident

      When a Tomboy Marries Her Broham

      Scrooge Lives

      Bathing in Bliss

      Oh, the Drama!

      An Inside Job – Always!

      But Why Are You So Angry?

      Years Ago, I was Nearly Date Raped While College Baseball Players Watched. I Kept My Story Secret for Decades.

      This is All an Elaborate Hoax

      MEDITATIONS

      On Radical Self-love

      Against All Odds

      Find a Way

      Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

      Live Your Purpose

      Maybe

      Serve Your Own Plate

      Gaining Clarity and Trusting Yourself

      Believe in yourself

      Truthful Balance

      Sit or Stand. It’s Your Right as an American.

      Introduction

      I’m naturally verbose. I know this because it’s not only obvious to me, but it’s painfully obvious to others. But spilling out words, either verbal or written, is how I work through thoughts or problems and eventually come to conclusions. And while I could write a long, sprawling introduction about this second volume of Nocturnal Musings, I won’t. Why? Because, first of all, most of you will skip it.

      Second, anything I wanted to say or have said on the topics presented here can be found within these pages. As in the first volume of Nocturnal Musings, you’ll discover a variety of ponderings and essays. This time you won’t find any short stories, though.

      Instead, I added shorter meditations about topics you might wonder about as well. Or maybe you woke up feeling like crap on a cracker and you need someone to remind you that you’re still okay, life will go on, and you get to restart tomorrow and write a new chapter in your own book of life.

      As expected, you may or may not resonate with the ponderings, essays, or meditations in this book. However, there’s a chance you might. Perhaps you’ve felt the same way about getting your hair caught in a seatbelt on a friend’s wedding day. Perhaps you’ve felt the opposite and wondered how a person could view the same subject matter from an opposite point of view.

      In the end, your mileage may vary (YMMV), as it’s been said. I can’t promise you’ll view life the same way I do; however, I can promise that, regardless of the subject matter, you’ll always receive my unvarnished, slightly skewed view on such matters. Sometimes served with a helping of tact, and other times served with anything but tact.

      Thanks for checking out my book. I hope it elicits at least one chuckle (or fit of legit outrage) to your day. If so, my work here is done.

      Bev Walton-Porter

      Colorado Springs, Colorado

      September 2017

      The Wedding Hair Incident

      One recent year, on May 7th, as we were on the way to Mike and Julie's wedding, we are tooling down the road in Mike's car. I'm in the backseat while Mike and Paul are in the front. The windows

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