New Year Wishes

photo taken by AVR

Christmas Tree

Sharing a photo of our tree this year and sending love and light and joy around the world......

Available Now - The T. Collection

The T. Collection: A Retrospective s now available on Amazon (including in Europe)!!!  As promised, the link to my cousin, Ciba's demo version of  "I Think of You" - my lyrics from the back cover of the book with his music. 

I Think of You audio

Buy the book here

Actual book cover

Christmas Wishes

To all my friends around the world - wishing you peace, joy, wonder, love and health this Christmas season and throughout the coming new year - One Love!!!

Heart ornaments made by my friend Vera from Cedar Rapids, Iowa (originally from the Czech Republic) many years ago.

December Moon

I just entered a photo contest 'What's Through My Picture Window' from Julian Lennon. Please help me win by voting for my photo! Thanks. 

Click here - Photo Contest 

December Moon by AVR

Winter Trees & Snow

Sharing some photos I took on Saturday....

English/Czech poem Alone/Osamělá

This is the last poem that I have managed to translate.  I will resume translating more of my poems into Czech after the holidays.  I originally wrote this poem in 1967.

ALONE

The wind

howled

photo by AVR

I felt a surge

of emotion

rush

through me

Leaves crackled

underfoot

Trees

reached

for me

Autumn

echoed

in every

woebegone

niche

As I

broke

into

a run

 

© Alice Vedral (Rivera) - 1967

Osamělá

Vítr kvílí

Cítím se

photo art by AVR

vzplanutím emocí

prorostlá

Listí

pod nohama

šustí

Stromy

vztahují

ke mně své paže

A já

cítím podzim

v každém

zanedbalém výklenku

A dávám se

do běhu

© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2013

T. Collection approved for printing

Finished adjusting the cover and uploaded the tweaked interior and cover for approval.  Approved for printing!  Now to proof read it online again and order a proof copy to see if the formatting needs to be adjusted more.
 

T. Collection cover update

After showing the draft of the cover on a glossy white background, the feedback I received was that it needed some color and possibly some marbling.  So, I am working on it.  Really stretching my limited capabilities here.

Sharing this work in progress:

Progress Update - T. Collection

The T. Collection is getting close to being ready for publication.  The formatting was a challenge, but not as bad as I thought it would be.  I just need to do one more thing and add the info to the interior of the book.  I have designed a book cover that I am happy with and finally decided to only put lyrics inspired by T. on the back cover.  My cousin,Ciba, wrote the music and recorded a demo version of it.  I will share it when the book actually comes out.

Sharing the book cover - what do you think?  I am trying to keep it simple.

The cover background color should be white - I don't know why it scanned in as a grayed beige.  The paper it is on is white with dark purple lettering. Things that make you go hmmmmm.....