Cheese Pizza Anyone?
Posted by Brianna
Hey.
It’s been like a month, right? Long time. I didn’t really have too much to talk about and I didn’t want to write a boring post, because we all know Brianna should never write boring posts. It just wouldn’t do.
So… 3 weeks ago I had a four-wheeler accident that really, really hurt. My poor foot. I was riding with my uncle and my foot slipped off the foot resty thingy and got caught underneath the tire–twice. Once, I probably would only have managed a broke toe or two, twice, I managed to scrape the skin off the top of my foot, bruise it to heck and back, prolly ended up breaking a few toes anyway, and…and…yeah. Not fun. No. Did I mention I was barefooted when this happened? If I hadn’t been, I probably would be sporting a broke foot.
I was so whiny you wouldn’t believe it.
Dr. Mom has been making me soak it in warm and cold water (to get rid of the swelling) with bedadine (sp?) twice a day and I’ve been washing it thoroughly as well as putting antibiotic ointment on it. I finally got to stop having peroxide poured on it a few days ago, and stopped the antibiotic ointment today to let it dry out. The peroxide hurt like crazy! Now it’s peeling kinda like a sunburn.
Oh, and my brothers and a few other relatives told me that it looked like cheese pizza. That would be the scab they were talking about, but since we’ve managed to get all that off now, it just looks like ham. I told ‘em to take a bite but they wouldn’t do it. It’s healing nicely, but still bugs me ’cause I can’t do things normally all the way yet. I especially miss my daily walks at the creek.
That’s what I’ve been up to, and why I haven’t posted in a while. Been taking care of the foot. And I really couldn’t think of anything remotely interesting to blog about. This is as good as it gets this week I’m afraid.
Hopefully I’ll see you next week.
Brianna
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Reincarnation: Fact or Fiction?
Posted by Maureen
My first book had to be a paranormal romantic suspense. But which aspects of the paranormal would I select? It was a no-brainer. Like a homing pigeon, I pinpointed reincarnation coupled with an ancient race’s religious belief in shape-shifting.
Here’s the thing. While embarking on my spiritual journey ten years ago, I read a fascinating book entitled Many Lives, Many Masters written by Dr. Brian Weiss, renowned psychiatrist. This book is a case study describing one of Dr. Weiss’ patients whose mysterious ailments disappeared when, using hypnosis, he regressed her into the past lives where traumas had occurred. Intrigued, I started researching the notion of reincarnation, reading voraciously, talking to energy healers, and even undergoing a couple of regressions under the competent care of a qualified hypnotherapist.
Armed with personal experience and a ton of research, I incorporated reincarnation along with the notion of both karmic and genetic memory in my first book, The Jaguar Legacy. Here’s the gist of my paranormal concept: Triggered by the energy of the archaeological dig, my heroine makes an unnerving discovery: In her past life, she was an Olmec High Priestess, trained to kill at an early age, thirsty for power, and possessing the paranormal ability to shape-shift into a jaguar.
As I wrote the flashback scenes, it occurred to me that the past life I wrote about in The Jaguar Legacy was one of my own. Certainly, it was the part of the book that flowed most easily, the only part that required little or no editing. Not only did the flashbacks evolve painlessly, but while writing those scenes, I discovered many facets of the physical location I had been unaware of at the beginning of the book.
Only my imagination? Possibly. I don’t rule out the possibility, but in my heart, I think not.
I would love to hear about your thoughts on reincarnation (pro and con), even some of your own past life experiences (those of you who remember them).