Pauline Evanosky

Thursday, April 9, 2026

Is There a Secret?

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This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with writing, but it's something I've been thinking about. Leave me a comment if you've been wondering about the same thing.

Where does wealth come from, you might ask. The bank, duh. That’s one place.

What about people who are poor but are happy? They have no money, and yet the wealth they describe is something anyone could have, yet not all claim.

Is this a riddle?

Maybe. Stay with me.

What if you could look at your life and see this: a person who is working two jobs, who is tired most of the time. A person who hasn’t had red meat in ages, not by choice, but just because it is a luxury, and who once upon a time had steak on a regular basis. You see a person who hasn’t bought anything new to wear from the store in years, yet still has attractive clothes.

You see a person who seems to have no expensive desires and yet lives frugally.

What about that person?

Is the person happy?

Yes. But the person doesn't have a large amount of money.

How can a person be happy with no money?

Well, their needs are met. The part of their life when they had desires and dreams is long gone. Passed years ago. They have not resigned themselves to poverty. They live in it. They have accepted it. They are happy with it.

Are they from Mars?

No, silly. They are not beaten down. They are your neighbor. They don’t trouble you with requests. They live quietly beside you.

How is it that they can be happy now when before they were well-to-do and now they are not? How is that possible?

Why don’t you ask them how they are? Conversations don’t cost anything. Keep them short. You might tell them you are trying to find happiness in your own life. It appears they seem to be happy now without a whole lot of bells or whistles. Ask them what their secret is.

Ask yourself how much energy it takes to be angry as opposed to how much energy it takes to accept.

Sure, you are poor where once before you were not, and yet you are poor, but you are happy.

Same person. Different circumstances and a totally different view of life.

It’s enough to make you think.

Okay, let’s pose this as a different sort of comparison.

Let’s take God.

What is the difference between a person who thinks God doesn’t care to the same person years later who now feels that God does care?

The person is the same. Maybe older. Maybe poorer. Maybe richer. Life circumstances in this instance don’t matter. What matters is how the person feels.

I’m looking now at people like Mother Theresa or the Buddha. I know they are far and away different from me, but what is it they found? They certainly didn’t buy it. They learned it. They accepted it. Perhaps it was faith. I don’t know. All I know is I would like to have that kind of peace in my life. To be able to not be affected by the minutiae, the upsets, the interruptions, the annoyances. I’d like to float serenely upon the waves of life.

I’m trying. Maybe you can too.

Peace Out.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

When Was It Ever Supposed to Be Simple?

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Part of my daily routine is to check out a website called WeberBooks. It advertises whatever free books on Amazon I might be interested in that day. These are all Kindle books. I’ve got almost 3,000 that I’ve picked out over the years to read. Have I read them all? No, but they are in my own private library to read whenever I want. Best of all, I didn’t spend any money on them. Oh, there are some that I pay for because WeberBooks not only offers free books on Amazon but also deeply discounted ones.

From my brief experience as a published writer on Amazon, I know that authors are given special promotion days when they can offer their books for sale on Kindle. You would use this as you introduce your Kindle book, hot off the press, so to speak. I believe it is five days, and authors generally choose a Friday-Saturday-Sunday combo and use their two remaining days elsewhere. It’s been a long time since I was involved in that, though I do hope to do so again this year, and the only books I offered for sale on Amazon were what are called low-content books. Mostly, decorated notebooks. Those were not on Kindle, but are paperback, and all my own copies I have were experiments just to see how to create a book on Canva. But that is an entirely different story.

One of the arguments to publish a “real” book, something that is not considered a “low-content” book, is that KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) also gives you an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). You could purchase your own, but it costs $125 for one number from Bowker Publishing Services. You can also purchase ten of them for $295. If you don’t have the money, get one from Amazon. I did a quick Google search, and evidently, you can purchase an ISBN for less on other websites, but you are restricted in where you can sell your book. Okay, too much information. I want to get back to my article.

One Kindle book that I selected today is a nine-volume set by Lauren Street called The Bishop Smoky Mountain Thrillers. Usually it sells for $29.99, but it was on sale for $2.99 or something like that. I used some Amazon points I had, and it was free.

So, if you are a writer, you would also be a reader. I’m just passing along a benefit that I enjoy, and you might too. This is, after all, my writer’s website.

But, back to the title of this piece: When Was It Ever Supposed to Be Simple? The idea struck me like a lightning bolt. Ideas don’t strike like a wet noodle. Ideas are stabbing and staggering thoughts. That’s what I thought as I read the synopsis of one of the books I did not buy today.

I don’t know about you, but I started out life and even as a young woman stood on the edge of my future life, thinking everything would go as planned. Of course, it didn’t, and it was the pain, heartbreak, and sometimes joy that allowed me to live what I think of now as a full life. It was never easy. I thought it would be, but no, it was unexpected. I’m pleased with my life. Even though I can only say I’m an aspiring writer, I have, to date, published a lot of articles. I’m guessing, but I know it’s over 1,000. Ah, the Virgo in me wants to count. Okay. Yes, on four writing platforms, I’ve written 1,090 articles. Medium has 838 articles; Substack has 148; Talking to Spirit includes 10 pages and blog posts; it is 65; and on this website, it has 39. I’ve also written a couple of books that I haven’t gotten published. I’m not going to include them, but they are there. I recently started writing on VocalMedia. That, so far, is only two articles. As time goes by, I might write some more. Two articles are paltry. Two articles, and I would wonder what happened to the person who wrote them. So, yes, I need to write some more there. It just doesn’t feel like mine yet. Time passing and time writing will remedy that.

Am I famous? No. I do have something to offer, both as an old lady who has had a lot of life experiences, but also as a psychic channel who learned just because I thought I could. You can too, if you want, and much of what I write has to do with getting to that point. You’d be surprised at some of it, and much needs to be tailor-made, but much is also simple. Like learning to draw will open your eyes, literally, to other things that are out there that you'd never noticed before.

My dream of being a writer has taken much of my life. I can remember recording a vivid dream as a little girl. Yes, there was an awful lot of reading. No, it wasn’t easy, but like anything else, you can achieve a monumental body of work if you keep at it.

The lessons that were so hard and took so long for me to master? Basically, they are simple.

One is that you never learn everything you need to know to make your way through life. You learn what you need.
Two is that you are not the center of the universe. Except, you are.
Three is that you are not being punished for the bad things that happen to you over time. You are getting stronger. Heartbreak is not the end of the world. Heartbreak happens because you loved, and love is never a wasted experience.
Four is wealth is not money. Wealth is in how you feel. If you are happy in poverty, then you will be just as happy with wealth.

I could think up more. In fact, were I to be writing a book, I might make each of those points a chapter. Don’t think you have it in you to write a book? Oh, yes, you do.