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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems &“Up for the Challenge”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Only Certain People” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/1/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page in front of the New Orleans Public Library (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Up for the Challenge”, “Vanity Plates saying NO WAR” and “Only Certain People” from the cc&d 11/20 v303 book “What He’s Trying to Paint” during the “Poetic License virtual open mic 11/1/20” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page in front of the New Orleans Public Library (video filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Eleven Days”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Only Certain People”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the part 3 of the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Eternal Salvation in Hieroglyphics”, “Up for the Challenge”, “Eleven Days”, “Quenched Bloodlust”, “Only Certain People”, and “Extension of “Him”” from the Scars Publications cc&d 9-12 2020 issue collection book “Roll the Bones” 3/3/21, during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading

Only Certain People Janet Kuypers 11/27/19 (on Alfred Nobel’s 1895 signing of his last will to create the annual Nobel Prize) Only certain people in history accomplish things that make a sudden change in the history of the world. Scientist’s discoveries positively alter how we view the world. Chemists, under government orders, even make the atom bomb... Then again, there are some who were just businessmen, making, say, dynamite, who read their premature obituary one day that condemned their profiteering from the sales of arms. So, Alfred Nobel decided then and there to bequeath his fortune to the “Nobel Prize”, giving awards to people for doing good and not destroying. When his will was read, his family protested — they wanted his money for themselves, but eventually, they lost their 5-year fight, that stopped prize awarders from abiding by Nobel’s wishes. So, because someone published a “premature” obituary blaspheming a man for not doing good with his life, it changed him enough to make sure any profits from his past destructive ways would only be used in the future to highlight good. What a beautiful sentiment, when someone learns the error of their ways, and final actions make their final legacy endless good instead.

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