And Now for Something... Completely Different!

Gratuitous cat photo. Bean, aka "Mischief," (black) and ChaosPixie (flame point siamese)

Different for ME, anyway! It's been a minute since I put up a blog here, which for most of you - that's not so much of a surprise. :) I've been hard at work on "Not Quite Human," which is a vampire series. I'm having fun writing and researching it.

What's going to be different is that I wanted to...well...DO something. I've hit a point of horrible saturation and overload - like many of you who are here in the U.S., I'm sure, have as well. I'm nearly off social media, because I see three things when I'm on there: politics, people arguing about politics, and cat videos. Believe me, if I'm on social media THESE DAYS, it's for the cats! (See gratuitous cat photo, above!) It's not simply social media - I've nearly stopped watching the news, too. It's hardly ever good, and to be honest, I don't trust much of what I see and hear these days coming out of any mainstream media organization. Why? Because they all have agendas, and there's too many ways to spin news for any of us to be actually informed. All I do when I watch the news is end up turning it off in disgust. Or yelling at the TV. Neither one is good. It steals my peace - which I value.

The one thing I know for absolute sure is this: no matter what, there's lots of folks out there are that are just...done. Cooked, mentally, emotionally and probably a host of other ways, too. People are all worried about finances,their jobs, the future...and then there's some that are scared for their status, because something about them or their lives makes them different, and they're downright frightened. Hell, I don't need to tell you. We're all running off of different variants of the same scripts these days.

That's where that desire to DO something comes in. Rather than just post a blog, I did a thing. I was trying to meditate solo - meaning, with no guide (or trying to; without a guide, I SUCK at it), so when the meditating went south, I started writing. During the past year, I've been doing channel writing. It's doing wonders for me. (Shout out to Marie Coveley, who's been a help with that! We both belong to Sekhmet.) So there I am, channel writing, and I realized what I was writing was a guided meditation - but it wasn't meant solely for me. Ruh-roh.

This is where my inner voice starts arguing with me, and telling me "Are you crazy?" and "Who would listen to THAT?" and a host of other self-deprecating things that are meant to talk me OUT of posting them. That's when I remembered Marie telling us recently that we needed to change things up; do things different. Step up, be present, step out - use our voices!

This is that. In the video link below is a guided meditation, something I never ever ONCE thought I would post - but there it is. Do me a favor: if you love it; if you hate it - if you have suggestions, if it helps you in some way - please take a minute and let me know.

I'm at Elianora.estelle.warren@gmail.com

P.S. You can find Marie by looking up "Marie Coveley" on YouTube (I found her while searching for Sekhmet, lol), or in your browser, go to mariecoveley.com.