Hi there friends we are now going to be closed for two weeks, so we have are having some great offers for your today. There is free wine over there, and I have opened a keg of beer for you to enjoy. Just sit down and enjoy.
It has been a year of changes, but many things are still the same. There has been some change of bartenders and we have Open link every second week.
After our two week’s break we will come back and celebrate the 4th year’s anniversary of dVerse.
So today let us sit down on the veranda, and bask in the sun. Let’s watch the clouds drift or get some sand between our toes. Summer is a gift to enjoy in the company of books and other friends. Personally I will probably still write some, but read even more.
But tell me, what are your plans to recharge your batteries?
How will you use the summer best?
And of course on behalf of all the bartenders. Enjoy the break, and come back with the best you have.
dVerse 
Good evening poets.. how about some vacation?
Hey Bjorn + all the poets… it’s the perfect time for me to unplug from the internet.. I’m taking a break from all my social medias for these 2 weeks as well 🙂
Good for you! I would love to take a few weeks away from social media. I am a digital marketer though so I must be on for my clients. I could take a break from my personal accounts though. I will give this a try one day soon. It can be overwhelming at times no matter how much I enjoy it.
I take my vacations in areas where there is no coverage for any services.. then I cannot connect at all 🙂
Good idea!
that’s bold – but it makes sense.
A break from the internet is like a wake up call to the senses. I think they become dulled as we do most of our exploration and problem solving with a keyboard and screen. Maybe we need a holiday for that…hmm….National No Wifi Day?
Hope you enjoy the break, Anthony!
Hi all. I don’t vacation in the summer because it is too hot and crowded. But my husband I will do some mini-staycations – a trip to the museum to see a special exhibit of impressionist paintings, a weekend trip to NC to bring back barbecue, and in the late fall, a trip to the NC coast. Later in the winter, I will take a few days on the NC coast alone.
Hope you all get some rest, relaxation, and recharging!
Oh I would not like to live in such hot climate… here it’s cool enough so you can normally enjoy.
Today is cool. It’s only 93F but about 98% humidity….I prefer late fall and winter.
Oh my goodness…I can see why you would prefer fall and winter, if 93 F is “cool”. We get a few of those, but I prefer it “cooler”.
Stay-cations sound wonderful. Have fun!
Thanks so much for the wine. I will take a glass of your best white. I am definitely in need of a vacation. Hopefully I will be able to have one later in the year. I have been invited to travel to Europe in October and hope I will be able to go.
A poet’s mind needs to recline sometime. 😉
Oh where in Europe do you plan to go?…. so much to see on this side too
I’m not sure yet. I have to ask my friend as she is setting the itinerary. I’m excited to find out though.
Hi Tameka! Thank you for being so interactive and connected around here… Europe sounds great to me, I hope you’ll be able to go, too!
Thanks Anthony! I should be thanking you guys though as I was searching for a responsive and friendly group of writers and was pleased to connect with you! 🙂
We are so happy to have you here 🙂
Thank you! 😉
It is great having you here!
Thank you! Glad to be here!
You did inspire me with your comments. I did write about the death of my friend’s son. My laptop is down and I am tabletting. On my website, it is called The Bells. It isn’t a great statement, but you led me to it. Bless you.
Thanks so much for sharing this with me. It means a lot. Again, my condolences to your friend. Bless you both.
A trip around Europe sounds wonderful. My favorites of my trips was a cruise down the Rhine and several months in the British Isles. A trip to someplace totally different is a good thing.
Your trip sounds heavenly.
It was wonderful. Japan is my most fave but the folks in the UK were so very friendly and kind.
We’ve been to France a couple times which we enjoyed – but I admit that rugby tour in England in the way back was quite memorable.
Vacations in our house are even crazier than the rest of the year, so your restful sit on a veranda sounds like bliss. I hope to get a few moments like that, without the yells of overexcited 10 year olds in the background…
Have a lovely break, everyone, recharge those batteries well and look forward to seeing you all again soon!
Ha.. yes some of us really would prefer the silence at the workplace.
heheh… oh the joy of kids running amok… smiles. My mom always says I made enough noise for 3 kids. lol
That takes some doing, just by yourself! Mine are reasonably OK when it’s just one of them in the house…
ah – recharging the batteries sounds nice … i need to go and find a lake to swim a bit – that would recharge my batteries nicely i think… enjoy the summer everyone – enjoy the pub break team – and thanks for everything you’re doing!!!
Awww man! Well there is no doubt that everyone needs a break once in a while.. and a recharge sounds tempting.. but I m gonna miss everyone because I have grown quite attached 🙂
See you all after two weeks 🙂 Till then take care.
Lots of love,
Sanaa
Oh I love that you have found our little place.. and this is just a little break. So nice to have you around Sanaa…
Its been a pleasure 🙂
So nice to hear you’ve been having fun! And don’t worry, 2 weeks will just fly by, and we look forward to seeing you back here again.
Thank you Marina, I too am looking forward to seeing you all again 🙂
xoxo
I’ve already enjoyed two weekends away this summer…one to a writers’ conference and this past weekend camping with husband at a state park…no wifi, just bike trails, trees, songbirds and a herd of bison (“wild” with high fence around perimeter of their grazing grounds). A glass of wine, lawn chair and book sound good to me 🙂
Ha..no wifi maybe should have big ads nowadays.. but of course there is always some coverage. Sounds great.. 🙂
Yeah, places used to advertise, “We have WiFi!”, now we’d like to see some advertise for none 🙂 Thanks to you and all the pub team…enjoy the break!
Sounds pretty heavenly to me. I don’t miss Wifi when I don’t have it, which would surprise family and friends who think I am wedded to my online community.
i did have my laptop along and wrote one poem (but couldn’t post until we were home) 🙂
For coming weekends, we have scheduled outside activities, but it will only be for the day ~ There are many summer activities and events to catch up, so it will be fun to be away for a bit from the computer ~ (I don’t think I can survive without the WIFI for even a week, ha) ~ No vacation for me as I am saving it up for next year’s vacation ~
I look forward to seeing you all back here on July 13, 2015 to kick off our 4th D’verse Anniversary ~
To those taking a break, enjoy and have fun ~ 🙂
Oh I know it is going to be just wonderful.. with 6 weeks of vacation I save every year anyway,.. no way I could take it all.
Enjoy the well deserved break! Sitting outside isn’t an option for me right now…there are numerous forest fires up in the north of the province (Saskatchewan, Canada)…about 3 or 4 hours drive away from here, and the air is so thick with smoke we can almost cut it. If you can teleport me over to your veranda, I’d love to sit and enjoy a nice cold drink with you all! As far as my plans for the break, I have some writing that I want to do, but have been putting off…and hopefully I can find a good book too! Canada Day is on Wednesday, so might go out with the family to celebrate.
A good book .. and we have the list from last OLN we can use too.. what a wonderful thing.. I’m sorry about the forest fires…
I hope the smoke subsides soon, Bryan.
Happy Canada Day to you. 🙂
what’s the beer on tap from the great north Bjorn ?
Ah it’s a local IPA from south of Stockholm today
During the holidays, I like to read the books I choose rather than books that are job-related and get up to my own schedule.
I do the same. Filling up me ebook reader and leave.. We’ll see what it will be 😉
I too do some reading to recharge. It is nice to have the extra time. I also try to find interesting things for my grandchildren to do when they are with me. Today in the morning we went to a Mining Museum at the Bucyrus – Caterpillar plant here in the city. Saw lots of models of gigantic pieces of mining equipment, and grandson had a chance to sit in a simulator and learn how to move large chunks of earth. In the afternoon we went to an interactive ‘hip hop’ program for children at one of the local libraries. Tomorrow we will go to see a juggler at another library. Such is my summer life. Really (unfortunately) not hot enough for swimming here yet..
Hope you have a great vacation, Bjorn. And everyone, I hope you will return to dVerse after the break refreshed.
A caterpillar museum, that sounds like a childhood dream. Can you try the simulator as a grownup too?
Yes, a grown-up can try it too. Smiles. I did not. The handles to use are kind of like joy sticks…and a boy is more used to making this kind of co-ordinated movement than I am. But yes…adults definitely can! The pieces of equipment that they manufacture there cost about $25,000,000 apiece. Used in mines all over the world.
You sound like such a wonderful grandmother, Mary! May I join you?
Ah.. Summer Vacation a dreamy place to me.. to be.. in decades of work life.. where when anyone asks me.. what ya been doing.. all i can say is two words.. working.. working.. and truly that can be described as a forecast of coming stress related illness.. i seriously never take a real vacation but a few times in decades of work imprisoned.. way…
Oh.. but since then.. after suffering the consequences of my IGNORance.. i learn a way of STAYcATiON as Hopeless Wanderer.. and what i mean by that is attaining the flow of now.. wHere not even hope.. faith.. or belief are required.. and truly a place in ‘normal society’ in a system where reality often does not provide a chance for this.. until one finds real new tires of re-tired.. in a culture that is objective goal focused from the time of PRE-K..:)
So as usual.. i will drift out in the backyard upon diamond sands of soil.. let the air of breeze transverse my whole of body from head to twinkling toes of jewels of sand.. and drift aimlessly as a feather with the wind.. with feet.. legs.. hips.. torso.. arms.. hands.. and head flowing with current winds.. as i become one with air and GOD the same.. more than even water.. of my hero Bruce Lee..
And then powered by the nuclear force of GOD in FULL POSITIVE FLOW THAT LiVES STRONG WITHiN me.. off to 3 hours of extreme totAlly free style Martial arts training.. sparring with metal machines.. and now leg pressing half-a-ton twenty-times as easy as a butterfly sings with wings…
Human potential is what it’s all about for me..
after going to the lowest valley i find
a place to sing..
on mountain top of free..
And yeah.. writing is flow for me.. as well…
effortless as the breeze of the fingers that live within
me..:)
And yes.. oh yes.. of course.. on course.. there is shopping for my wife.. and more dancing in public and rave dance halls gaining steam.. but at this point the air needs no music.. dancing as air.. with feather breeze.. of now.. so cool am i.. as me.. he HE..!..;)
Anyway.. it continues to be a stimulating ride with all that dVerse does online.. and i very much appreciate all the volunteer effort that goes into that.. no matter what the ups or downs may be.. as that is life.. as it comes.. it will.. but it always comes well for me.. as i am simply in control with relative free will.. the art of a lifetime is me.. hopeless wanderer.. now.. AS staYcation Breeze..:)
And there is song by Mumford and Songs named ‘Hopeless Wanderer’ that is perfect in practice.. and i might add.. timely for this..:)
Oh Bjorn, you’re singin’ my song–I SO need a break, the HEAT is killing me today. And yes, of course I’ll still be writing–like a machine. But I love your idea, a sandy beach scene–think I’ll go there in my head…..and pour me a tall iced diet Pepsi, please! Cheers to you and the great gang at d’Verse!
Cheers!
How long is the holiday break in Europe, Bjorn? We get five weeks in Australia, although most people split the time in half or more. Having time out is so important for recharging batteries.
We have minimum 5, but many have more..
It has taken me 10 years to earn 4 weeks of vacation time. I still squander it, afraid to use it all at once for fear of wishing I had some left, later in the year.
A minimum of 5 weeks sounds wonderful. 🙂
Enjoy the break, Bjorn…and thanks for all you do! 🙂
Yes, some jobs can be six weeks. All good. we need to play as well as work.
Have a wonderful break, everyone. I hope that by the time we come back we will all be refreshed…and that by then my hand/wrist, sans splint, will cooperate a bit better with the keyboard and my dormant inspiration will be rekindled. I see it as a wise thing to take breaks and listen to what our body/mind/spirit/emotions have to say to us. A special thanks to you, Bjorn, and all the team. Enjoy the beauty of being outdoors if you can.
Summer has been off to a nice start here, weather wise…I love temperatures in the 70’s. The kale and lettuce are taking off in the garden, so I’m looking forward to some tasty salads. No travel plans but life can be spontaneous…so who knows!
A break sounds like a great idea and well deserved for all of you that put so much into dVerse. I continue to be inspired by my fellow poets! 🙂
Wishing everyone a wonderful break doing whatever makes you happy!
Wow, I can’t imagine such a long break. 2 weeks! I will be on holiday for about a week middle of July for Eid, and another break for perhaps 10 days during Christmas.
Happy holidays everyone!
Each time I walk past the pub, I see the sign in the door that says “Sorry, We’re Closed – management on holidays”. Hope you’re having a great break, but really looking forward to seeing the neon “Open” sign light up again!