"I of my own knowledge…"

This 1.5 minute clip is wonderful! Not, at all, a self-consciously “inspirational” clip, but if it doesn’t set up your day, I don’t know why, maybe you’re dead.

http://www.wimp.com/flybird/

If the download falls behind the play, just pause it a few seconds. (I go back to the beginning and start again.) Truly wonderful, via wimp.com

A friend sent this to me, and for the first few seconds, the slow pace, and the piano, and even the child’s voice, tempted me in impatience to go elsewhere.

Glad I didn’t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Zodh2siHI&feature=player_embedded

Ever since I appeared on Coast to Coast AM on June 1, I have been looking in at Amazon to see the size and duration of any boost in sales attributable to the show. I’m interested not only in The Cosmic Internet, but my earlier books, as well: The Sphere and the Hologram, Muddy Tracks, Babe in the Woods, and Messenger. (A sixth book, Chasing Smallwood, isn’t listed with Amazon.)

As you no doubt know, the lower the number, the better a book is selling. As I learned years ago when I was with Hampton Roads, though, the fact that a book falls even hundreds of thousands in the rankings doesn’t mean you sold more than a couple of books! Anyway, it’s sort of fascinating to watch. One thing, clearly, that one appearance gave a strong boost to my other books.

My good and long-time friend Rich Spees of Spees Design sent me an email this morning at 6, when he was sure that the influx of site visitors from the Coast to Coast AM program had been handled without incident. He said, in part :

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This is just a reminder that I will be the featured guest on George Noory’s Coast to Coast AM show:

Eastern ….. 2 a.m. – 5 a.m. Wednesday June 1

Central ….. 1 a.m. – 4 a.m. Wednesday June 1

Mountain ….. midnight  - 3 a.m. Wednesday June 1

Pacific ….. 11 p.m. Tuesday May 31 – 2 a.m. Wednesday June 1

Tune in to see if I can put together a coherent sentence at 2 a.m.

So here I am in what might be described as Day 21 of the Unpacking  Hostage Crisis.

Well, okay, not that bad.  With the extensive and artistic help of my friend Nancy, I have managed to bring my new lodgings into not only livable, but actually quite pleasing, shape. And in record time, too. The initial phase that seemed like it was taking forever actually took less than a week. Everything after that has been a matter of refinement:  sorting 13 bookcases of books into alphabetical order by author within subject, for instance. Try that on a day when you have nothing better to do.

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As of   Sunday February 27, 2011. after nearly 13 years on what we call The New Land (the grounds near The Monroe Institute in rural Virginia), I will begin a new life in Charlottesville. Once the process got started, it went pretty quickly. A month ago, I knew  I wanted to move, but hadn’t yet begun looking.

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All done.

After a short but intense bit of work, I finished the book. Yesterday I turned in my manuscript to Bob Friedman, who is going to publish it next Spring as part of his Rainbow Ridge Books line with Square One publishing company.

Tentatively, I’m calling it Accessing the Cosmic Internet. May or may not wind up with that title, but that’s the best I’ve come up with so far.

If you’ve read some of the transmissions from the guys that I have posted here, you will have a general idea of the nature and intent of the book. It’s my attempt to put together some of the information the guys have given me, to show how the universe works. In fact, our tentative subtitle is A Guide to How the Universe Works.

Oh, there will be more for me to do before the book is out, of course. There always is. Bob as editor will have some thoughts on it, and, after a while, I’ll re-read it and see how I feel about it – see if there are glaring gaps, or afterthoughts, or whatever. And I’ll need to put together the beginnings of an index.

But for the moment, I’m done, and I can look around and tend to the things I’ve been letting stack up. In a couple of days, hopefully I will be able to start posting regularly once again. It certainly has been a while!

I know it’s been a while since I posted here. (Bless you, Suzanne, for reminding me how long!)

I am writing a book based on the TGU material, and it tends to focus my attention on it rather than on any other form of writing. No excuse, but it’s the closest thing to an excuse that I have, so I might as well use it.

The book? I have been thinking of calling it “So You Think Your Life Was Wasted,” but I have had second thoughts, so am referring to it for the moment as “he 2010 book.” After I finish, then I’ll find the right title, a la Hemingway.

Bob Friedman, my friend and former co-conspirator at Hampton Roads, has been an appreciative follower of the TGU conversations, and although we don’t yet have a contract, it looks like he will publish my book as part of a line of books he edits for Square One, a New York house.

Hopefully the neglect this blog has suffered will turn out to have been worthwhile.

Fifteen years ago last July, Rich Spees and I met at a program at The Monroe Institute and discovered that we were friends. Despite my having explicitly described his first encounter with Guidance in my non-fiction book Muddy Tracks, and despite my having turned him into a major character in my novel Babe in the Woods, we remain good friends today.

Out of the goodness of his heart, Rich, a demon web designer (http://speesdesign.com/), maintains both my blogs, this one and one devoted mainly to political and public affairs (http://thehistoricalcontext.wordpress.com/).  As he finds time, he keeps making little improvements, most of them invisible to the user, but some of which show.

I am not exactly Mr. Technology, so he had to explain to me that the “Share This” button at the bottom of the column allows you, the reader, to automatically send someone a link to a page you like. I figure I can’t be the only person in the world not to know this, so I thought I’d explain it, hence this little note.