The Heart of Editing is a pay-for-access essay by American poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available for $3, on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan started out on WV PBS in junior high school and then went on to get a BA in Psychology and Sacred Arts from Boston University, Sanskrit credits from Harvard University, and a certificate in Marketing from Georgetown University, as well as graduate business credits from Marshall University. She has extensive customer service experience in a pediatrician’s office, at two major bookstore chains, as a children’s librarian, and at a large hospital. Lekhan was an editor of a journal of academic papers by students while at Boston University and now is the founding editor, and only editor and writer, of The Sweetest Art List.
The Heart of Editing is a short discussion of the primary values in editing, particularly as it impacts national security, and communities that would call themselves “country” in the US. It is a must-read for any bloggers, writers, or editors who classify themselves as “country,” and for others curious about the debate pertaining to areas in the US not near big cities.
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The Freedom to Love is a free essay by US regional poet (Tri-state region of WV, KY, OH) C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan has been an artsy girl serving her community in Charleston, WV from her childhood years, with art in multiple genres–including poetry–and appeared on WV PBS in junior high school in the early 90’s.
The Freedom to Love is Lekhan’s response to the brutal atmosphere of deceit and bragging of the current time, concerning romance. It contains her thoughts on love and relationships, from a poet’s perspective, as a person raised in America. It was first posted as a Facebook post (as a letter) on The Sweetest Art List Facebook page in May 2015.
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Sketch of My Handwritten Planner is a pay-for-access essay by American poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available for $7, on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan comes from Tamil-speaking business, banking, and jewelry stock in India, and knows how important handwritten records are to the international business world and to the passing on of business records to future generations in business families. Lekhan is a spiritual poet who has always been interested in keeping her own records on all sorts of things, and has had experience as early as junior high school as a layout editor and with teaching and using software for documents and organization. Lekhan has graduate business credits from Marshall University, and is now an entrepreneur in Charleston, West Virginia as the Founding Editor of The Sweetest Art List.
Sketch of My Handwritten Planner is a description of how Lekhan has made her own handwritten planner for use in her office with The Sweetest Art List, for more legal validity and a look of timeless elegance suitable for poets. The planner is described completely, with measurements and labels, so that you can make an exact replica. The essay also addresses some general points about making documents look more professional, so that owners look better in court.
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Building Plans for the Art World is a pay-for-access essay by American poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available for $7, on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV, where she plans on building a personal “Cottage for Two,” and a “Visitor’s Office Building” for her two companies: The Sweetest Art List and Lekhan Publishing House. Lekhan has always had a deep relationship with “the land”–or the mountains of West Virginia–and has been an artist serving the community since her junior high years, while growing up there. She watched many of the doctors and professionals in town build their own houses, and has made all the basic decisions for the overarching plans for her two building projects herself, and now both plans are ready to be turned over to an architect for finishing details and the visual sketches, after lots are chosen.
Building Plans for the Art World is an essay laying out a description of how to build a “Cottage for Two” and a “Visitor’s Office Building” for members of the art world. The description can be turned over to an architect, and then personalized and designed for your lots. This essay is intended as a contribution to a “global book” of building plans for the art world, to make decisions easier and faster when an artist needs to build a property. It also lays out some general points and considerations about the unique needs of artists in the international art world, concerning their houses and offices, as they relate to their security issues.
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Basic Brownie Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a free recipe by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV who was raised as a Hindu and influenced by the New Age Movement. She has had multiple periods of vegetarianism in her life, including veganism in college. She has recently grown into a diet she calls Saddhu-Style, which is a vegan diet with minimal nuts and seeds, relying on fruit and rice-based sweeteners rather than sugar. The diet takes its inspiration from Indian Saddhus, who–according to legend–are magical holy men, however is modified for a normal western lifestyle.
Basic Brownie Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a two page publication with a recipe for a chocolate cookie that tastes like a brownie, made according to the Saddhu-Style diet.
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A Poem: Thinking More About the Comic Books is a free poem by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet and a fiction poet for the Tri-State region of WV-KY-OH, who writes short and very short spiritual poetry, and short and book-length fiction poetry, as well as other writings in other genres.
A Poem: Thinking More About the Comic Books is a one-page publication with a short spiritual poem by the poet called “Thinking More About the Comic Books.”
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An Online Letter: Gender Issues and the Three Types of Feminine is a free letter by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a female Indian-American spiritual poet who is Hindu/New Age. As a literary type she has been asked to think about gender issues often in school and college, and addresses them frequently in her poetry. The Indian-American community also insists that girls be feminine, and has clear ideas about what is acceptable and not. The Gen X literary world–of which Lekhan is a part–is predominately male and male-driven, so female writers are often thinking about the meaning of gender and contributing thoughts on gender issues and standards of femininity.
An Online Letter: Gender Issues and the Three Types of Feminine is a two-page letter addressing misogyny, and laying out what Lekhan believes to be the three types of femininity as major global categories. These categories manifest in societies differently, and Lekhan describes in this letter how they appear in Indian society and in America.
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Organizing Ideas from an Entrepreneur is a free essay by American poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is an American entrepreneur who–like all American entrepreneurs–tries to cut down paperwork and management time to focus on product, planning, and ‘chief political officer’ work. She does this by making her paperwork do double-duty (as featured in the essay ‘Sketch of My Handwritten Planner’), and by standardizing her management, paperwork, and record-keeping systems.
Organizing Ideas from an Entrepreneur is a two-page free essay laying out 4 ideas for organization that Lekhan uses in her own office with The Sweetest Art List. These ideas give her company, and should give any company, a legal and financial advantage–and would be a healthy addition to the international business world if more commonly used.
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Butterscotch Candy Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a free recipe by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV who was raised as a Hindu and influenced by the New Age Movement. She has had multiple periods of vegetarianism in her life, including veganism in college. She has recently grown into a diet she calls Saddhu-Style, which is a vegan diet with minimal nuts and seeds, relying on fruit and rice-based sweeteners rather than sugar. The diet takes its inspiration from Indian Saddhus, who–according to legend–are magical holy men, however is modified for a normal western lifestyle.
Butterscotch Candy Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a two-page publication with a recipe for a cookie that will handle your candy fix–with butterscotch, chocolate, and white chocolate chips–made according to the Saddhu-Style diet.
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Caramel Cookies With Sprinkles Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a free recipe by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV who was raised as a Hindu and influenced by the New Age Movement. She has had multiple periods of vegetarianism in her life, including veganism in college. She has recently grown into a diet she calls Saddhu-Style, which is a vegan diet with minimal nuts and seeds, relying on fruit and rice-based sweeteners rather than sugar. The diet takes its inspiration from Indian Saddhus, who–according to legend–are magical holy men, however is modified for a normal western lifestyle.
Caramel Cookies With Sprinkles Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a two-page publication with a recipe for a cookie to help you feel like you had your birthday cupcake–made according to the Saddhu-Style diet.
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Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a free recipe by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV who was raised as a Hindu and influenced by the New Age Movement. She has had multiple periods of vegetarianism in her life, including veganism in college. She has recently grown into a diet she calls Saddhu-Style, which is a vegan diet with minimal nuts and seeds, relying on fruit and rice-based sweeteners rather than sugar. The diet takes its inspiration from Indian Saddhus, who–according to legend–are magical holy men, however is modified for a normal western lifestyle.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a one-page publication with a recipe for a minty chocolaty yummy cookie made according to the Saddhu-Style diet.
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Diagram of the Art Genres is a free essay by American poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is an American Spiritual Poet with extensive art experience as a professional and an amateur in many art genres. Lekhan is a part of the Gen X art world, and was schooled in it while studying at Boston University in the late 90’s. Lekhan got a BA from Boston University in Psychology and Sacred Arts and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the most advanced liberal arts-based honors college at the school. Lekhan began her professional art career in junior high school with appearances on WV PBS where she presented two original speeches–one on silence and one on the environment–to state-wide acclaim.
Diagram of the Art Genres is a one-page free essay relating the art genres to each other in a graph called “The Circle of Art Genres.” This graph comes from Lekhan’s own experience and is intended to start a discussion amongst journalists, marketers, businesspersons, and artists.
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Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a free recipe by American Spiritual poet C. Lilly J. Lekhan, available on the poet’s promotional site at PromotionalCLillyJLekhan.com. Lekhan is the Poet and Founder of The Sweetest Art List, which is a poet’s weekly email on music and literature, with her short thoughts on awesome art, and her original poetry. The Sweetest Art List is an arts appreciation website + blog with weekly email.
Lekhan is a spiritual poet from Charleston, WV who was raised as a Hindu and influenced by the New Age Movement. She has had multiple periods of vegetarianism in her life, including veganism in college. She has recently grown into a diet she calls Saddhu-Style, which is a vegan diet with minimal nuts and seeds, relying on fruit and rice-based sweeteners rather than sugar. The diet takes its inspiration from Indian Saddhus, who–according to legend–are magical holy men, however is modified for a normal western lifestyle.
Orange Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies Saddhu-Style: A Recipe is a one-page publication with a recipe for a cookie made according to the Saddhu-Style diet that will remind you of those great orange dark chocolate candies.
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