More Compulsive Addictive Writing

I signed up for the NaNoWriMo Script Frenzy. Writing 100 pages for a screenplay. I'm always in awe of circumstance, coincidence...fate.

A night of jazz, a friend brings a friend. He's a screenwriter. I'm a new novelist. He says scriptwriting software might be just the thing to get my next writing project organized.

I'm ready! I've signed up to turn the novel I've blogged about tons of times into a screenplay to get the thing better organized. Working backwards. Screenplay first, details and literature later. I've signed up to write a screenplay in April.

It's ridiculous, silly, maybe straight on stupid! I simultaneously will work, live, play, build up a website and business and take another Landmark seminar. And hopefully see my honey now and again.

Whoohoooo! Anyone else in for a screen play? Check out Script Frenzy!

Don’t fight the Universe

At the beginning of the school year I found out I'd be teaching mostly government and a couple economics classes.  Usually it's the reverse.  I LOVE teaching economics.  Don't get me wrong, I love teaching period, so teaching Government works, too.  Given I have a law degree, I suppose it actually makes more sense.  

But when I read the newspaper, it's the Business section I go to first.  My favorite magazines?  Kiplinger's, Wired and The Economist.  I don't have time for subscriptions, but they're my go-to fav's when I'm in the airport or planning a relaxing day of pleasure reading.  

I contacted the school's counselor, the scheduler, and asked to switch it back around.  Why are they giving the new teacher my favorite classes???  Last year 3 Econ, 1 Law and 1 Gov. This year 3 Gov, 1 Law and 1 Econ.  Though I initially considered fighting it, I just went with it.

Realizing that my Government instruction wasn't as beefy as my Econ, I signed up for professional development opportunities.  My district was offering a series of lectures and materials on Constitutional Communities.  I signed up.  Then I saw something for a workshop series I'd considered year-after-year.  This time I participated.  The experience broadened my teaching.

So when an opportunity to apply for several grants for social studies to travel and study abroad showed up, I was in the spirit of it all and applied.  Making a long story only slightly shorter…Because I was reassigned more government classes, I took on new professional development which made me a better candidate for the study abroad programs.  

In July I'll spend a week studying the slave trade in Barbados.

Don't fight the universe.  Just let it bless you.


Robin Davis Fesseha, JD, NBCT
Reid High School

Reiki III times 3

Getting and giving Reiki attunements starts a twenty-one day transformation anew each time. The more of them you give, over time the less intense the cleansing experience may become, but there's always something new. It's the power of growth, of change and transformation. Can we admit that it is addictive? A wonderful design feature of the human being to help us evolve.

This past Saturday I was hit with a desire to tune up my Reiki healing energy. It started with a morning Reiki self-treatment to relieve a little stress I'd let build up over the rior week. After a few minutes of hand positions, I reached over and picked-up a spectacular green citrine point I purchased last New Year's Eve's Eve and placed it on my heart while I sent myself Reiki to calm and balance my energy.

Out of the blue, I started thinking about my experiences with Angel Reiki. I'd wanted to take this course from the same instructor who'd given me my Reiki Master attunements four years ago. The occasional energetic tune-up via giving or receiving an attunement always deepens the ongoing healing--a power burst. Knowing she gives the Reiki series a couple times a year through the local college I was curious to see when the next might be scheduled. Probably weeks or months away. I went online. She was holding a Reiki Master course the following day.

I signed up and sent off an email letting her know I'd be in her Reiki Master class a third time and that I wanted to take her Angel Reiki course. I didn't just want to take it, I was clear I would take it and we just need to work out the details! That strong an intention.

Yesterday's review of the Reiki Master course was phenomenal. The energy in the room, dynamic! We've got an Angel Reiki course scheduled for May 22nd and June 5th!

But the blessings from the course have already begun. I love the intense twenty-one days that follow. Already, I have experienced an incredible burst of healing for the planet. I sat in a crystal grid with my Shaman stones and a citrine point during nightly prayer/meditation. I was suddenly moved to draw the cho-ku-rei three times on my third-eye with the citrine's point. A new symbol that has come to me several times in the last few weeks then appeared in my mind's eye and I saw it go into the earth, wrap around and through it, and then I felt an intense healing energy surround the planet. New and powerful! And this is just the first day.

Oh, and one other note.

Reiki and religious practice. As noted in my last blog entry, my prayer life has become a daily practice. I was praying, but I wasn't moved to read The Word, The Bible. Tonight, there was a natural shift. Before my prayer time, I was enjoyed several passages of Luke and John. Folks sometimes wonder if Reiki takes away from religious or other spiritual practices. Truthfully, I sometimes ask myself the same. My experience however is always the same. It only deepens the religious context of the spirituality you already practice.

Fabulous!

Daily prayer.
Daily Reiki.
A life that works.

An Anniversary

One month ago, I realized that my world needs to work for everyone in it. I'm not first to notice the truth in this. The idea isn't news. Yet, something shifted a month ago.

The recent experiences with a family member passing, two--now three--members of my family hospitalized within a few months time and the general stress that exists for friends, family and neighbors as the world transitions into a new economy overwhelmed me. I'm so grateful it did.

It renewed my commitment to prayer.