{"id":1330,"date":"2013-12-23T10:43:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flowermandalas\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2013-12-23T10:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T15:52:48","slug":"help-me-choose-the-4-5-best-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flowermandalas\/2013\/12\/help-me-choose-the-4-5-best-essays.html","title":{"rendered":"Help me choose the 4-5 best essays!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Readers,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m planning to enter an essay\/memoir contest and need to choose 4-5 of the Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas<\/strong><\/em><\/a> essays from the 58 I’ve written so far. If any of you have particular essays you remember liking more than others, I’d love to hear about it, as I have no objectivity with them.<\/p>\n

Here’s a link to the whole collection: Fifty-Two Flower Mandalas on WattPad<\/a><\/p>\n

Please email me directly or comment on this post.<\/p>\n

Thanks, as always, for your support.<\/p>\n

David<\/strong><\/p>\n

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