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November 2009 
It's all going to end soon. Finis. This blog will be on vacation.
Posted on Oct 23rd, 2009
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Centria
Centria
Ahhh, it's been a lovely month of October. Just blog, blog, blog. You know, letting the inner voice carry on. Say what the heck it wants to say, whenever it wants to say. Blog, blog, blog. (Don't anyone say blah, blah, blah!)
But it's all going to end.
Be over.
Goodbye.
Adios.
Fare thee well, you Gaians.
I'm going to be on a Mission during the month of November. A real live Mission. A Mission which is even beyond a Commitment.
I am going to join many folks on the Diving Deeper site and write a novel. (Ha ha, you're all laughing now, aren't you? She thinks she's going to write a novel? You're doubled over, aren't you?)
It's going to be NaNoWriMo month. A slew of us (hey, maybe YOU?) are going to sit down and babble out a whole lot of words to create a novel. Now don't you imagine we're going to be famous. We're in for quantity, not quality. We're going to be writing between 1,600-2,000 words a day. We''re going to be Authors.
OK, OK, so we may never publish our babbling. Does that matter? We're at least going to produce The Book. The Novel. We're going to be able to let it drop in conversation or cocktail parties, "yes, when I wrote my novel..."
So all this spiritual rambling is going to Cease. It's going to be done. You may see me signing in to Gaia, but it will be for novel-talk at Diving Deeper. It will be for moral support. For cheerleading. For encouragement. For a lifeboat! A raft! Anything that will help see me (us) through the month of November.
So, goodbye. Adios. Fare thee well. May your Novembers go beautifully. May you all become enlightened or not enlightened, as is your deepest desire.
(But, never mind. I still have seven days to bore you with spiritual blogs, ha ha! But just wanted you to know that I was disappearing for November. Maybe. I think so. Well, truly, you never know. But it looks that way right now.)
But it's all going to end.
Be over.
Goodbye.
Adios.
Fare thee well, you Gaians.
I'm going to be on a Mission during the month of November. A real live Mission. A Mission which is even beyond a Commitment.
I am going to join many folks on the Diving Deeper site and write a novel. (Ha ha, you're all laughing now, aren't you? She thinks she's going to write a novel? You're doubled over, aren't you?)
It's going to be NaNoWriMo month. A slew of us (hey, maybe YOU?) are going to sit down and babble out a whole lot of words to create a novel. Now don't you imagine we're going to be famous. We're in for quantity, not quality. We're going to be writing between 1,600-2,000 words a day. We''re going to be Authors.
OK, OK, so we may never publish our babbling. Does that matter? We're at least going to produce The Book. The Novel. We're going to be able to let it drop in conversation or cocktail parties, "yes, when I wrote my novel..."
So all this spiritual rambling is going to Cease. It's going to be done. You may see me signing in to Gaia, but it will be for novel-talk at Diving Deeper. It will be for moral support. For cheerleading. For encouragement. For a lifeboat! A raft! Anything that will help see me (us) through the month of November.
So, goodbye. Adios. Fare thee well. May your Novembers go beautifully. May you all become enlightened or not enlightened, as is your deepest desire.
(But, never mind. I still have seven days to bore you with spiritual blogs, ha ha! But just wanted you to know that I was disappearing for November. Maybe. I think so. Well, truly, you never know. But it looks that way right now.)
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what's it going to be about kat?
oh….what's it going to be about, she asks. I have some broad topic idea that settled in this brain back when I was about 30 years old. But the truth is this. One of the Diving Deeper premises is you sit down and write and let what comes up be the topic. So I'm going to go in with a vague idea of the direction (and I really don't want to summarize it right now because it feels like I'll abandon it if it's summarized again…weird, huh?) and then just try to stay close to sense-oriented details and see what comes forth. It's scary. But cool, too.
Thank you, Star, for caring!
oh please let us know how this journey went! I am so curious, and strangely think that might be something I might one day do - mmmmhm - got something to think about - hugs!
Enjoy your journey dear Kathy. Big hugs.
Claudia, will surely let you know! Just wanted to share that a strange Gaia-blogging experience might happen around here in November if I suddenly go mysteriously Silent. And thank you dear Jyoti for your well wishes! It will certainly be an interesting month at the least…
P.S. Claudia, maybe there's still time to decide to join us in November??
omg, I almost got a heart attack when I got to the “adios” part…oh, baby, what a relief u are only going to be busy writing a book. We shall miss u around that time but hey, now my heart is soaring for you. U go gorl. I just know u will produce quality as well as quantity. Can hardly wait to hear about your adventure. Hugs. U rock!
snif snif, waaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaa I'M ok really. Have fun becoming the talk around the table just remember us verbless souls when you hit the big noun.
J.M.
Kathy, wishing you every success with the novel, you go girl !
You actually made me think, I am writing a book too, though not a novel, and it is slow going at the moment, maybe I should take some time out to write it as you are.
awww Goddess, I'm not leaving…not going anywhere…far too wordy to depart! There are so many words hangin' out in this brain that it's dangerous. They're all on some street corner just putting in time. A whole bunch of words want to write ANOTHER blog already. Get over it, baby, says a whole bunch of other words. “But we want to respond to Siona's question about boredom,” say the first group. “Put a lid on it!” drawls the cigarette-smoking guy in leather. What DO we do these words? Put them in jail for lingering on the street corner?
Awwwww Just Me (Just Who?) the verbs and the nouns got all excited hearing you talk like that! They want me to remind you that none of us are verbless. But they could be wrong, if we're only into Being. Hmmmm….well anyway maybe I'll break this promise not to write any more spiritual blogs in November and then the exclamation points and question marks will start going crazy!!
OK, Gael, here's the scoop. Whispering to you: I don't really like writing fiction AT ALL. So maybe you SHOULD really do it with us. Just for the fun of it, maybe it will get the energy zapping for your other book. Just a thought? Half of us are too busy or crazy and shouldn't be even contemplating this at all. What do you think?
Sounds fun, is it each person writing a novel or is it, the whole group writing one novel Kathy ?
Everybody writes his or her own novel. There's a website NaNoWriMo.org which explains about it. People will be writing novels all over the world and you can join on this website and post your daily count. You only have to write about 1,600-2000 words a day (a couple hours maybe) and some people who type fast have been able to put out more. The people here on Gaia in Diving Deeper are providing support…there's maybe 15-20 Gaians who are doing this already. The whole point is quantity and not being afraid…just going for it! Letting the muse free. Later, we can go back and edit. Now it's just to get the words down. Doesn't it sound cool?
Hi Kathy - been thinking about this blog of yours all day now, and finally decided to sign up for this novel-writing-thingy (as you can see this will be one interesting read, judging by my current gaia output). love the idea, but i do have a question, could you send me a link to the diving deeper support thing you where talking about? don't have the time to dig around anymore today, you would make my day! hugs !
Oh how cool, Claudia! Hurray. Here is the Diving Deeper Group on Gaia. http://groups.gaia.com/creativewriting
You have to join the group, but then you can tell everybody your NaNoWriMo name and who you are and other people can buddy you. Cool! If you buddy me on the NaNo site, I'll buddy you back. :)
I too nearly had ze heart attack, until I read the particulars. Jeesh!!!! You tried to scare us, I bet !!!
But then again, one of your gifts, one of the things you model for us, Kathy, is never staying in one viewpoint for too long. So I am sure I can count on at least one blog in November, haha. Thank goodness.
Hey, I wish you the fun of the adventure. If I were going to write that much, I would finish up the two nonfiction books I have mostly done and not touched in months. But I await Divine Inspiration as to the timing of picking those up again.
Have great fun, and I will look forward to reading whatever you have written that you choose to share, Kathy. I have the highest respect for your ability to capture sensory details/impressions as well as emotional nuances.
Love, OM
Now now now now now, OM, I can too stay in one viewpoint for a long time. I am in the midst of a YEAR LONG commitment to go outside and blog every day. That is a very very very long viewpoint, let me tell you. A 31 or 32 year marriage. (oh goodness, who can remember such things?) A 52 year commitment to this body, this life! A 31 year commitment to living in one place. (Which makes the marriage commitment-thingee 32 years.) I once commited to 13 years of not drinking alcohol.
But hey, sorry, sometimes I think it's a FAULT (judgment, judgment) to so quickly jump from viewpoint to viewpoint. The Native Americans who taught me said that our greatest gift is also our greatest weakness. Sometimes it's way too easy to not sit still with WHAT IS. You just wrote the most beautiful sentences. Incredible beauty in everything you wrote. One could sit with those paragraphs forever and drink in the beauty of them. And what did I do? Sit with them and allow them to simply be the beautiful flowers that they were? No– I pounced on something to turn around. Will you forgive me, OM? I love you so much!! :)
whoa, where did that come from? Since there was so much energy there, I was probably trying to convince myself of something. THANK YOU for your kind words, OM. Sitting with them now in gratitude…
Just sitting in Love-awareness with you, Kathy, and it ain't boring at all, so THERE !!!!! LOL !!!
OM
LOL you big goober!
Kathy, born on 20 July & loves words- sounds familiar!
Enjoy the book writing experience!
M
& a question for OM: what's with the french accent? ” Ze heart attack”?
I dunno, Mikey Dee. It just comes out now and then. As do many other dialects or accents. Born on June 16, loves words, yup.
OM
Loves words, yup! yup! yup!
Elisa, yup, a big goober, that's what I am. tee hee…
Mikey Dee, you can not imagine the smile on this face I am sooooooooo happy to see you here on zee blog. (We're all talking w zee French accent now, even though this one can't hardly say a syllable in French.) Merci re the book writing challenge.
1Vector3, I just wanna hug you. Guess what? Guess what really? We REALLY are awareness. I mean, really. Down to square one. How could we have ever thought we were anything else?? (oops, sorry, Elisa and Mikey Dee, we're just in the midst of a continuing conversation about awareness that never ever ends, does it, OM?)
We ever thought we were anything else because Awareness decided to think, as us, that it/we wuz something else. Thass all.
I am gonna collect that hug in person, sometime, I really am !!!!!!
Love, OM
OM, I have a question. Raising hand. (If you have a spare moment.) Why do you think awareness gets so fascinated with thought? A thought can go by and….wheee…..we're not aware of being aware, we are so absorbed in that thought. Awareness doesn't seem to get so absorbd in physical-reality things, and therefore we can witness it easier. It's not as fascinated in looking at the jeans, or the chair, or the plant. This is why I think this earth-incarnation is so very very valuable. Because we're not only in the realm of thought and thus we can wake up easier, perhaps. Anyone else please answer this question. Awareness must be fascinated with it and wanting to forget itself today, ha ha.
Oh, P.S. to sit quietly with your sentences OM…won't it be lovely to collect that hug in person some day!
Kathy,
Oh, I so need to be writing.
I just almost totally ignore the group notifications, yup. They fill up my inbox. So, I am going over there to Diving Deeper and check this out because I so need to be writing (you know, I told you I was going to do that and I did do that for a little while and then, well life fills up my time - really - and I CAN make time for this, I know I can).
Thank you so much for THIS notification.
In “word” with you -
Deb
Well, what a wondrous question, Kathy. There are two answers I currently work with. Perhaps as time goes by different ones will emerge into my thinking, haha.
Please note all the words are quite inaccurate and misleading. We are speaking of that which cannot be spoken.
First, Awareness loses its awareness of itself in thought because that kind of experience seemed like a good idea, at the time the idea for that possible kind of experience came up. “It seemed like a good idea, at the time.” (With all the current emotional perspectives connoted in that wording, haha.)
Second, when you are infinite, you're up for anything. Eh?
And for much of humanity which is not much into thought and hardly even has the concepts of thought and thinking, Awareness IS lost in awareness of physical reality. IMO.
Those are my answers. You alluded to aspects of Earth experience which facilitate waking up. My current best take on that is the most facilitative experience is waking up from sleep!!! Other than the biological need for sleep, I think it offers us that opportunity for spiritual insight, as well. We go through the experience of waking up every day!!!
Awaiting other answers to your delightful question !!
Love, OM
Deb, so excited to hear you'll be joining the crew with NaNoWriMo! What an exciting crazy wonderful month it shall probably be! (Hopefully…) So glad to have written this blog if one of two people got enthused to join in. :)
I have changed my mind three or four times re topics. I was about to change it again last night when my husband suddenly forcefully started telling me what I should be doing. I always sit up and listen when he talks with that tone of voice. He usually doesn't offer his opinion about these matters, so when he does speak up like that it sometimes feels like the voice of Spirit saying, “shut up, Kathy, just listen.”
So happy for you to join. To think we'll have a novel by December 1st!
OM, oh you sweetie, thanks for playing with this question. (You may be the only one. Everyone else may be sick of this whole discussion, tee hee.) I like both of your perspectives. They both sound plausible. But your comment about most of humanity being lost in physical reality…REALLY? That's an earth-shattering thought. REALLY? How could you get lost in physical reality?? I suppose it's true. It has to be. Some people are lost in emotional realities, dream realities, physical realities and thought realities. It's like the Native American wheel. We're each more inclined toward one direction. And that's one of the reasons why everyone waking up is going to look different! I have known this, but you opened up a huge new area for thought. A new awareness for awareness to get lost in. ha ha ha… Love you!