We Still Need Help

This is the 3rd plea I have sent out. I hate doing this, but I must. You who know me know that I am a proud woman. I don’t mind asking my therapist and other social agencies for help, because that is their job. But I hate asking individuals for money. Yet I must. Stephen is standing over me right now dictating what to write. All right. I realize how tough it is when everyone has his hand out asking, in some cases, demanding money. But the need is dire. We need over $2000 to move, and we only have 48 days before the sheriffs come. Sixty-two and a half readings at $32 per reading would do it. Now I know many of you are just scraping by. You manage to pay your rent and your DSL, and that is about it. But others of you are better off. For $60, you get either both of us doing the reading or a reading and a class. If any of you lives in the Sacramento area, you get to get your reading/class in person. If I am not feverishly working on one of my WIPs, you’ll get 2 perspectives on the reading or class, not just one.

If you read the blog before then that, then you know that it’s about the cats, or as Stephen calls them, the putties. If a putty has ever owned you, you know intimately what they do for you. They lower the stress level with their comical antics, and there’s nothing quite like the feeling you get when you have one on your lap, purring. It’s gotten so that my moments of deep contentment take place when Bailee is in my lap, I am watching a Netflix movie, and doing my embroidery. Studies have shown that when a human is stroking a cat, and the cat purrs, the purring lowers the human’s blood pressure. I have an unproven theory that the deep buzzing also puts the human mind into an alpha state. Maybe it’s my ignorance, but I don’t know of a study that proves this. If you know of any please let me know. I’d like to find out. That’s why I pity those who are allergic to cats. They don’t know what they’re missing. Back before Doc died, when we’d go visit our friends and fellow coven members, I’d have what I call “fried brain syndrome” often I’d have been working on a manuscript, getting it ready either for publication, or for submission. When I do this, I get kind of a tunnel vision, where I barely acknowledged the existence of anyone else. I acknowledged Doc, of course, but he was only home in the evenings, and when he had a lodge meeting, he wasn’t home even then. So it was just me and my computer, totally focused on getting my book finished. I’d turn it in to my editor, pack, and wait until Doc got home, packed and we’d take off. When we arrived, the kids would pile kittens on me. They’re the best treatment for FBS. Their simplicity and sweetness soothed me. At this time, I didn’t have any cats of my own, since they’d all died on us. There’s nothing like having 3 or 4 several month-old kittens piled on you. It’s a sensation that’s difficult for even a wordsmith like me to describe. Imagine your lap being occupied by 3 or 4 small squirming furry bodies. You stroke their fur and a low buzz starts. When they’re all purring, it’s either in a 3 or 4 part counterpoint, or in unison. You scritch and scratch behind their ears and the purring gets louder. At times you raise them up to do the “Tooty Dance”. Back to the present. Our putties have learned certain tricks such as opening doors. Fortunately, they haven’t been able to open the sliding door to the back porch room.

If you live in the area, and need a cat, we have 5 available. I would have said before “free to a good home,” but a friend very wisely told me this past weekend that we should charge something because that will demonstrate that you have the income necessary to take care of a pet. So I am going to charge the nominal fee of $5 per cat.

So call for your reading today. I don’t have my webcam or headset hooked up yet, so for a multimedia reading where you can see the cards, call Stephen at 916-455-2267. You can have your multimedia reading on Yahoo IM, Windows Msgr, AIM AOL Instant Messenger), or Skype. I can do phone readings at 916-457-7476. $32 for a reading or class, $60 for both a reading and a class. For an extra $5, I’ll throw in a copy of one of my 5 books, for $20 I’ll email you all 5.

I have decided to pursue the mundane sources that are available to me, and use the Secret. It’s hard not to think poor when the evidence is all around me, but I have to, or I’ll never get anywhere. Here’s a riddle for you: What is the opposite of faith? The answer is not disbelief, but despair. Think about it.