On the day I received my author copies for my upcoming book, the talented artist, poet and musician, Francisco Bravo Cabrera, posted this wonderful tribute! Thank you, Francisco, not only for this post, but for the collaboration, ongoing support and love that you and your beautiful wife have shown me!
Preordering for my book, “One Petal At A Time,” starts tomorrow, 3/27/24 – be sure to get your copy! Thank you to everyone for your support and love through this journey! You have all touched my heart and uplifted my spirit!
So nice of Francisco… The excitement is in the air. I can feel it. It’s going a great Joni. You and Scott have put in the hard work. The perennial dictum says whatever we sow, we shall reap. God knows the effort time and energy you guys have put into this project. Wishing you all the best. 🙏🥰
Nigel you are so kind and gracious and positive which I love and need sometimes. Francisco touched my heart like I could have never imagined by collaborating with me on this project to start with. His representative Guloshka, is a blessing as well, so incredibly knowledgeable in every aspect of his art. When he offered to donate not only the artwork on the cover, but the drawings on the inside of the book as well which are Indian Ink and Graphite, I just could not believe what an amazing gift this was. We have both worked hard, without Scott doing all the stuff he took care of these five years I would have never had the time to write and blog and make so many wonderful friends. Thank you for your faith with this project, Francisco and his beautiful wife also have great faith in this project. Thank you so very much for watching and for your gracious comment and all the support you have given me for over three weeks now my friend. We both send our love. 💗
You’re welcome my dear. I celebrate this with you. Really happy to see this dream coming true for you. 🥰🤗👏👏
Sending you kisses one for each cheek my dear friend. Kisses 💋 hugs too
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WOW! Beautiful poetry…beautiful art!
Thank you so much for your kind comment, it is truly appreciated. He is a masterful painter, jazz composer, poet, amazing photographer. He also does commission pieces we have one in our home that we absolutely love. His beautiful graphite and Indian Ink work which you can see a bit in the background does not do the detail justice either but I am so happy you liked what you saw. In the book when it is released on April 5th the work inside the book is truly fabulous and one can see the kind of symbolism and amazing attention to detail and the beauty in each stroke of his brush. Thank you again for reading. Oh this artist is a very famous Valencian and Miami artist who has exhibited his work all over the world. I appreciate your visit very much. Blessings to you dear friend.
It’s great to see your heartwarming writing getting the recognition it deserves, Joni. ❤
Timothy Watson, what a great name my friend. Thank you so much for that very kind comment. Francisco is a brilliant artist and I feel in love with his work on line and the rest is history. He is a pretty humble man even though he has exhibited his work all over the world and is so multi-talented, but he studies all the time. I can not draw a stick man. Thank you so much for watching and for saying that Timothy I appreciate it very much, you are a sweetheart. Big hugs, love and blessings always my dear friend. Joni
My middle name, Watson, is in honor of my grandfather, Watson Sinclair.
I bet he was a good man. It is a perfect name for a writer too. Hope that you on your way to a good weekend my friend. I am going to get some sleep tonight I am tired. One thing about getting older is that for me anyway I need my eight hours of sleep. Sometimes I think about all the stuff I would get accomplished when I was in my thirties and I just find it hard to believe. Big hugs and love my friend, have a blessed weekend. 🥰
Oh! It’s beautiful. I love the simple and pure lining of the art. It gives a fluid movement. Vraiment joli, bravo to m. Francisco, and that cover look astonishing!
Hello my dearest friend. How are you. I am so glad that you think it is “really pretty” I had my husband translate as he is learning French, and Italian and he really is pretty fluent in Spanish. His accents are so good too. The romance languages are so beautiful. Didn’t he do an amazing job on the cover. His inside work is very detailed and speaks to the imagination and the red brick home where are the sadness occurred. His Indian Ink and his Graphite works I just love but I also love Francisco’s gorgeous paintings. Thank you for looking and listening. je vous envoie beaucoup d’amour, de câlins et toujours des prières et des bénédictions cher ami ❤️
That is quite impressive that he learn language that way. I do struggle enough with two, already. The cover is stunning, the flower made woman, or vice versa. It make for a very beautiful book.
All my congratulation to all who are involved, and the patience you took to make it to fruition. Take care and be happy of that acomplishment
He has worked on it for a while and it’s hard when you don’t get to use the language that you’re learning. The romance languages are just so sexy. I think no matter who’s speaking the language. I’m so glad you like the cover. I think it is stunning as well, I thought it was perfect exactly what I was looking for, you talk about what your thoughts are, and either his representative Gül, or Francisco listens to the correspondence very carefully and before you know, he captured exactly what you were looking for. He certainly did this for me and the entire book. Thank you for your congratulations I really appreciate them. It is a lot of work and much more emotional involvement than I ever thought it would be. I truly pray it does help other people. It would’ve meant the world to me when I was young. I was blessed to find Claudia Black’s book. So I am very grateful for that. Sending you big hugs my dear friend and my love always, Joni 💋🤗🙏🤗
This is so heartfelt & lovely. I am feeling the love & joy with you Francisco & all the other writing community friends, sending their support & love for my dear Joni. I am hoping this support brings you confidence & love within yourself Joni. I adore you my friend. You are loved, you are using your gift from God to help others. I pray it helps you too. Much love from Janette
The support my friends have shown me and the gifts that they have all given to me of their time, resources and space on their own blogs, Francisco’s beautiful tribute has touched my heart. Mich has posted me on all three of her sites and sent a press release to Asia and I was in a magazine the next morning. Nigel has done a comprehensive interview which he spent so much time on. Mike has featured me on his blog and said so many nice things. Karima and Navin who have done such beautiful recordings that they have made us both cry. Barbara wrote an amazing review which was so kind. Yes, I feel overwhelmed with love from this community. It has been such a blessing to see this kind of love because all of these people are extremely busy working on important projects. I am sure I am missing so many people and of course just all the people who I am blessed to have read my work, so yes I do feel please my dear friend. I love you dearest friend. My soul sister. Sending you big hugs, I hope the fairies have been swinging on your earrings and staying at of your kitchen when you are trying to cook dinner. Send them back whenever they start to get in the way, but they love their aunt Janette. They like to visit your tingling shell tree by the water. I love you my gracious friend. We will talk soon. Scott sends his love to both you guys too. 🌹
All I can say Joni is you are feeling the love from everyone you give your love too, it’s contagious! My fairies like to help me keep my hair back at night while I wash my face & they whisper to me, that you sent them & know they are safe here until I must send them back home to you! Love you Soul Sister!!
That is so sweet, yea they like that long beautiful hair, I bet they sleep tucked inside your hair too. I am busy so you are really doing me a favor right now watching them. Have a nice night sweetheart. I will send you a text tomorrow you will have it when you get up. I love you.
text me tomorrow, please get some rest my friend, xoxo
I love you, sweetie and I know tomorrow is your birthday, you just get younger looking every year, and I can not use COVID as an excuse for my ten extra pounds anymore, and you look fabulous. I don’t know if I will ever be a size 4 again, but size six is still good, I will take it. I hope that you two are going out some place fabulous. I am sending you a quick text, for info only dear friend. I love ya bunches and bunches. Big hugs my soul sister
All of us women are fabulous, no matter what! Women supporting other women is very important to me, & I know it is to you too. Love you, please get rest & breathe!!
Happy birthday my dear friend. You are such a sweetheart. Yes, I am with you always on women’s rights dear soul sister. You are like a bit of a grounder for me, you are beginning to sound wiser and wiser all the time to me. I hope that you had a nice day today. Sometimes I just wish we could spend an hour together, sit outside together and see how many butterflies would come around. I wonder how your neck does if you work on the computer for hours. I was on-line for 16 hours yesterday and almost that much the day before, it is hard on my neck. I have to watch that. Listen sweetie, sending you real special love and hugs tonight, so glad that God put you in my direction or the other way around. You are the longest person I have ever had as a friend. We always moved too much when dad was in the service, so besides Scott of course, it is you. We will always know each other, even when we are in heaven. Still it is pretty cool I think. Would you say a bit of a prayer for Carolyn about what we talked about, this is something that would be pretty wonderful for her. Thank you, who knows maybe our prayers for one another keeps us both out of trouble – love ya, Joni
Love you sweet soul sister. I sent you a text just to read no need to comment, I love you.
All our love to you and Scott. God blesses those who work with love as the intention! Many blessings and a big hug! We are very excited here in Europe!
Thank you our dear friend. Our love to you both and we also have always known where your two hearts are as well. Compassionate and full of love and prayers for others. Big hugs dear friends to the both of you. 🌹
A stunning display!
Francisco is not just an astonishingly smart man but a thoughtful one and also him and his beautiful wife are also believers – they have great faith. His artwork always has some symbolism of faith and I too was truly amazed and blessed by his very kind gesture with this tribute. It touched my heart very deeply. Big hugs and lots of love Barbara, Joni
How wonderful is this!
I know right Belladonna, will make a person cry. They are wonderful people. I love his work and it was such an enormous gift to give. I mean he sells his work all over the world. Kindness is such a beautiful things these days just like compassion. Love you sweetie, hope your son in all settled and really enjoying his college. I bet you really miss him, I know what that is like, it is hard.
Good luck Jonie with the book, I hope it does really well for you! Xx
Thank you so much dear Carol. I pray you are having a good day. Sending you lots of hugs and love. ❤️🙏❤️