Jumping: a Novel

I gather my stories– The Other Side of Resistance: Stories of Living Beyond Dying is written around eight stories of mine. Not just any stories. It’s not a memoir. These are stories I tell. I claim them as “mine” for a few reasons. Not because the stories “happened” to me but because they came to me. Maybe repeatedly, in dreams as real as the point of death. Maybe in broad daylight, with a…

Most of us have been touched by “the other side” at one time or another in our lives. In 2014, my first book, Jumping: a Novel, was published by Hampton Roads. It is the story of a boy who turns twenty-one and jumps into a bottomless void at the edge of town. It won their 2014 Next Best Fiction Writer contest.  They put it in the category of contemporary fantasy, a category I knew nothing about…

How to know if you’re a drone

I feel the Pleiadians at the door . . . We are the Pleiadians, come to call on Jane in her openness. That’s all it takes. The openness, combined with the intent it be us. She’s open to us because she’s a Pleiadian, and we’re her intergalactic cohort, riding the vast, impersonal forces of change right to her door. From our view, the worldwide shift in consciousness is already well on its way.…

The Pleidians are coming. Are you up for it?

Actually, they’re here, and apparently this isn’t our first Pleidian rodeo.Maybe they’ve always been here. We have a long galactic history with them. We have common ancestry that demonstrates our involvement with each other. It’s a very human ancestory, in terms of each side making bad karmic choices having to do with power and greed a long time ago on that cosmic level, choices whose…

The Boy –15 year old local boy (from the Rosebud area near Little Bighorn, 1876), lied about his age to be part of the Custer campaign. Probably not registered to the 7th Cavalry. May 6, 2019 Though it was Custer I’d thought and read about, it was not him I had the direct connection with. It was the boy, all of fifteen-going-on-sixteen. I used my own words when I couldn’t catch his or his were…

Prompt: something such as laundry, dishes, a mundane task.

They sit in silent rebuke, telling anyone who will listen of my secret shame. I didn’t do my dishes last night. Or the morning since. Or the lunch. They don’t blame me, but still, they silently scream neglect, if not abuse. Just saying it aloud in my head unleashes a fast-running, familiar river of invective. “A clean house says all that…

Part One: Conversation One

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The first conversation:

[Intro themas italics? Need an intro? E.g.—Late afternoon sun subdues the table. Sipping green tea with lemon, staring out the window at the empty hummingbird feeder swinging in a random breeze, thinking nothing. The idea of a book is kicking around the back of my head, repeatedly knocking at the sturdy main door back there. I know that knock because I’ve written…

We are the Shift: Navigating the global shift in consciousness

Introduction

  Son: We wouldn’t ever eat anybody, would we? Father: No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We’re starving now. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we’re the good guys. Yes. And we’re carrying the fire.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.

—The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 2006

  “…you engage…

Hopi Advice on Eclipse

If you’re thinking of going to Standing Rock: Commit to Civil Disobedience

From Solidariteam, a collective of trainers, @ Standing Rock Solidarity Network, from Sacred Stone Camp. If You’re Thinking About Going to Standing Rock First of all, thank you! The whole world has been moved and inspired by the water protectors at Standing Rock and many people feel called to go there. It’s important to think through whether you will be able to contribute best by going in person…

Standing Rock: Why I’m glad I went

I’m glad I went and am thinking about going back. Yes, I blogged that it can be hard to be a white person at Standing Rock. But I loved every minute of it. Why? Because it’s a rare and important opportunity to stand with people having the courage to speak truth to power, at great risk to their lives and well being. It’s a skill we all need to exercise, maybe particularly now. I am grateful to…

Standing Rock: Sending your best

amycatim.tumbler.com They’re overloaded, they said, with donated clothes and have already overloaded all the donation boxes in their area. Random stuff is piled everywhere, and someone has to sort it, and for what? Most of it isn’t worth keeping, what with winter coming on. They no longer need school supplies, thanks to your generosity, and they no longer need summer anything. They have a…

Standing Rock: Camp Etiquette

The latest–water cannons fired at water protectors (Dallas Goldtooth @ nbcnews.com). We were told by the young man at the gate to camp at the back of Oceti Sakowin Camp, where an offshoot of the Missouri River runs. You can see the tents of Sacred Stone Camp, the smaller first camp, started in April by tribal member LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, just on the other side. At night, you see their…

Standing Rock: “Where do I go to get arrested?”

Vietnam War protest (history.com) “Where do I go to get arrested?” said the Baby Boomer, grinning, come to relive his glory days. He could tell them a few things about being arrested. He’s been beaten by cops, maced, teargassed, threatened, thrown in jail, at an array of protests ranging from the Republican National Convention in’68, Vietnam War protests in ’67, Redwood Summer in ’90 and Iraq War…

Standing Rock: Praying for Keeps

    Nov 13: Go to Cannon Ball via Highway 1806, going north. At the intersection of 1806 and 24 there is a Bureau of Indian Affairs checkpoint. Tell them you are coming to the camp. Keep going north on 1806, past the Cannon Ball River bridge. The entrance is 500 feet north of the bridge, on your right. It is marked by a line of tall flag poles. The entrance looks almost festive in the sun. This…