Things That Make me Happy
I have several Things That Make Me Happy to talk about today.
I got a call from my mom and The Fox was highlighted in her hometown (my birth town) newspaper, The Pueblo Chieftain. WOW! It was a description, the beautiful cover that I LOVE and my website address -WOW! Pueblo Colorado. Nice….
I also received one more email of appreciation from a reader on Dec. 29, 2010
Email below
Dear Mrs Arlene!
I guess I wasn`t even half way of the book when I decided that I have to write to You. When I`m looking for a book to read I usually follow a feeling, I just know which of them are really worth reading (and it`s not based on the look of the cover). What I`m trying to say is that Your book, I mean The Fox, because I didn`t check if you have other, is such.
Although for me it`s far to difficult to define 'favourite' book, I can say that Your Fox became one of those which I love. What I find really precious about it are those 'grasping moments', when I wasn`t able to stop reading and I plunged into the action just as if I were the real witness. In my opinion, although I`m not an expert in any way, it requires a huge talent to be able to create such an involving atmosphere and I want to thank You for doing such a good job. I hope it would be even widely appreciated, because it deserves so.
P.S. Your interest in history is really visible in it and I dare say it`s 'infectious'. If I hadn`t already been interested in it, this book would certainly encourage me to do so.
Best wishes,
Eva
I answered and asked where she lives and how she found The Fox:
Dear Mrs Arlene!
After I sent you an email, I thought that I should`ve written something about myself, but I finally decided to wait for your reply. I`m from Poland and live near Cracov ( actually, I`m a second year student of English Philology and I hope I didn`t make many mistakes in that email:> ). I am supposed to read 1 book of my own choice in English each term at shool, but as I`m a passionate reader, I can read only a book towards which I have a feeling, as I told you before. And as in our library we don`t have many books ( in general ), I browsed the net. I foud a website with e- books, logged in and found Your book.
I used to write when I was younger and I regret that I don`t have time to do it now, so whenever You feel that something really needs to be put on paper and have time, do it:) People who have talent should share it with others - it`s fun for both. And I`m glad that you are still writing. Maybe Your second book will (if it`s available then) also be my choice for my each-term reading :)
P.S. Of course, You can put my message on Your web page:)
I also wish You all the best in the New Year ( including successful writing:>)
Eva
Since this we have become friends on Facebook and have exchanged several emails.
I did a count of downloads so I can see it the article in Pueblo's paper gives my counts a boost.
My website had 6180 hits
Podiobooks.com lists 623 downloads
I am ranked at 2808 in the Barnes and Noble E Book catalog
Now to the countable:
Libsyn-3050 full downloads
FreeE-books.net 17,481
Manybooks.net 1544
LitPitch (now not online but FIRST place I uploaded The Fox) 142
App Engine 20
Smashwords.com 1900
Obooko 145
Scribd 2715
Sold by me 75
Sold on Amazon 34
Mevio listens 65
TOTAL of 27,626 people, worldwide who have downloaded my book.
I got a call from my mom and The Fox was highlighted in her hometown (my birth town) newspaper, The Pueblo Chieftain. WOW! It was a description, the beautiful cover that I LOVE and my website address -WOW! Pueblo Colorado. Nice….
I also received one more email of appreciation from a reader on Dec. 29, 2010
Email below
Dear Mrs Arlene!
I guess I wasn`t even half way of the book when I decided that I have to write to You. When I`m looking for a book to read I usually follow a feeling, I just know which of them are really worth reading (and it`s not based on the look of the cover). What I`m trying to say is that Your book, I mean The Fox, because I didn`t check if you have other, is such.
Although for me it`s far to difficult to define 'favourite' book, I can say that Your Fox became one of those which I love. What I find really precious about it are those 'grasping moments', when I wasn`t able to stop reading and I plunged into the action just as if I were the real witness. In my opinion, although I`m not an expert in any way, it requires a huge talent to be able to create such an involving atmosphere and I want to thank You for doing such a good job. I hope it would be even widely appreciated, because it deserves so.
P.S. Your interest in history is really visible in it and I dare say it`s 'infectious'. If I hadn`t already been interested in it, this book would certainly encourage me to do so.
Best wishes,
Eva
I answered and asked where she lives and how she found The Fox:
Dear Mrs Arlene!
After I sent you an email, I thought that I should`ve written something about myself, but I finally decided to wait for your reply. I`m from Poland and live near Cracov ( actually, I`m a second year student of English Philology and I hope I didn`t make many mistakes in that email:> ). I am supposed to read 1 book of my own choice in English each term at shool, but as I`m a passionate reader, I can read only a book towards which I have a feeling, as I told you before. And as in our library we don`t have many books ( in general ), I browsed the net. I foud a website with e- books, logged in and found Your book.
I used to write when I was younger and I regret that I don`t have time to do it now, so whenever You feel that something really needs to be put on paper and have time, do it:) People who have talent should share it with others - it`s fun for both. And I`m glad that you are still writing. Maybe Your second book will (if it`s available then) also be my choice for my each-term reading :)
P.S. Of course, You can put my message on Your web page:)
I also wish You all the best in the New Year ( including successful writing:>)
Eva
Since this we have become friends on Facebook and have exchanged several emails.
I did a count of downloads so I can see it the article in Pueblo's paper gives my counts a boost.
My website had 6180 hits
Podiobooks.com lists 623 downloads
I am ranked at 2808 in the Barnes and Noble E Book catalog
Now to the countable:
Libsyn-3050 full downloads
FreeE-books.net 17,481
Manybooks.net 1544
LitPitch (now not online but FIRST place I uploaded The Fox) 142
App Engine 20
Smashwords.com 1900
Obooko 145
Scribd 2715
Sold by me 75
Sold on Amazon 34
Mevio listens 65
TOTAL of 27,626 people, worldwide who have downloaded my book.
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Marilyn,Like you I have met, in this short life, others whom I have known before.
I have a great respect for the old ways and nature, but also enjoy the new life filled with technology, I have to admit. I am filled with curiosity about our future.
My husband has business all over the world so I have been able to travel with him. The first trips to France were wonderful and filled with adventure, but the first time I set foot in England, I knew I had been there before. And then in Scotland, I was home. What is it about a land that draws our soul, even if we lived there so much later in our timelines? I wonder at that.
On a trip to Greece there were many times I looked around at never seen before in this lifetime, familiar meadows and mountains. My feet touched the ground as if I had walked there before. I love ancient history and have traveled much but have never felt that sense of belonging as I did in Scotland and Greece.
It is through our respect for our history and the families that have lived before us, those ancient fires we sat by and told stories at that I feel. The love that allows us to survive through dangers in life. I only hope to pass along the sense of our ancient selves in my story.
And I watch as it happens all over the world today. The young and old who fight for the right to live free, I pray for their stories to be told someday.
And I too had dreams before my daughters' births. I related one in The Fox. Jahna had the vision just before Crisi's birth, the unfinished house that was completed with her birth.
Thank you for your gift of this note and your time that it took to write it. It is precious to me.
Arlene
PS, I am curious where you found The Fox?
I picked up The Fox on a Freebie on Amazon. I'm on Michael Gallagher's list of the daily free books. I read the write up and knew I had to get it. I am finding some gems in there. The White Lions of Africa is another one. Just saw the new 3D movie: Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The lions, the caves the tie into Egypt is all tying everything together. If you read the Seth Books, he speaks of simultaneous time which makes sense, it's not the past, it's happening in our soul now. These people aren't just our ancestors (I believe) but like fingers on our hand. We are unique and yet we are not alone. Joan Grant wrote her Memory stories of her different lifetimes in Egypt (3 of them) one in Greece, and an Indian (American). Other's I can't remember but have to go look as I have them all.
Treasures. You wrote a truth about time. We may not always know where and when but our interests of our everyday life hold secrets that we often ignore. Mine aren't whispered to me...they often are IN MY FACE with out of body or dreams. AND it's not just the past...it's what we call the "future" as well! We are in somebody's future face!
Love it.
Thanks.
I love your truths and you have given me a new line of thinking. I do believe we hold our past inside us, as pat of our souls, that we learn with every life we have here. That we are our ancient selves, not just relations. I often feel a Aine did in my book, that the voices of past selves are speaking to me. And Jahna had a connection to her future self. I have several layers of friend, I am sure you know what I am talking about. Those you discuss the weather with and then the ones you have mt before. One, who is connected deeply by writing and spirit lives close. I just showed her your quilt and we have so many questions. It is absolutely spiritual. The fabric it is on, and made of, is deeply layered with dimensions of life. Did you dye it yourself?
We are in awe and wonder of it.
You can email me at aradasky@mac.com if you wish.
How did you get to Michael Gallagher's list of the daily free books?I want to tell him that my book is free for any reader download in several spots https://www.smashwords.com/books/view... and http://www.free-ebooks.net/ebook/The-Fox and available as a free recorded book here http://www.podiobooks.com/title/the-fox
My goal is to let as many readers as I can read about Lovern and Jahna.
Also, would you be willing to write a review for Amazon and include these websites? I would be very grateful.
I was thinking of you after I wrote the last email about how wonderful you tied the sacrifice of one old cultural ways of what sacrifice was to our present day wars. It was a real lightbulb moment for me. I thank you for that. Ah, my quilt. Thank you. I'm partial to it myself. I thought you might like it. Not a picture of a thumbnail "me" necessarily (I'm hesitant to do much of me on the internet) but a picture of a part of what I am inside instead. The quilt was not an easy one to make. Imagine trying to take fabric wrapped closeline and shape it into a labyrinth to begin with and then to figure out how to sew it so it stayed it's shape. The fabric is a piece of Hoffman batik I purchased. I have dyed fabric before but not like this one. The way I sewed it, it ended up open...my creative "mistake" so I left the tail long so as to wrap it around much like an umbilical cord. I call it "The Birth of Order". It just sort of made itself.
Your eyes intrigue me. so much depth in them. So many things behind them. I fall into them and wonder much like the way you write.
What book are you writing about now? Are you going to continue the story? You are a fabulous writer. The Fox was seamless to me.
So, I wonder where In Greece I knew you? LOL!!
I felt the strongest connection to the Greek soil in Corinth. It showed up in other spots, but there, I had to bend down and touch the path.My friend and I are now challenged by your work, your quilt and I am sure we will have something like this to come of it.
My next book, I hope to get the draft done soon as it has taken me way to long to write it, is about a woman and man who lived in Great Britain over 5000 years ago. The late stone age. The bringing of the first metal working into GB.
Isn't the way thoughts are intertwined in the ether, fascinating? We probably would not have met if not for the internet. Our world is growing and we are learning about each other so quickly now.
I smile in wonder.
I am packing to go on a twelve day voyage to England. My husband has a meeting and I am going to do some research.
Maybe I will find another spot where we have walked together. LOL
:0) Arlene
Well, that's the thing, we're not just from one existence. We're multinational, heck, I think we're even from other planets and beginning of time. It's the seed of life in all of us that is part of All That Is. What a concept. I can't fathom it. Maybe we're not suppose to? I'm so happy that in some way I can give back some inspiration to you after reading your book and the gift you gave to me in being able to read it. I'm sorry I didn't do a good job with the review thing on Amazon. I just got stuck in the right brain as to me this is REAL stuff. Read "History of Great Britain" so have some form of background knowledge. Your new book sounds like it's going to be a good book.
Yes we are fascinating. The Internet gives us a chance to look at ourselves as a whole. This is ultimately a good thing.
Picked up another freebie from Amazon: Soul Identity by Dennis Batchelder. It's about identifying your soul each in each lifetime so you can send your future self some money and information about your life. A funny, thought provoking book. Easy read.
Best of fun in England. A voyage as in a ship voyage? Find lots of cool things. Love that the museums are all FREE!! Good luck too.
Marilyn
Your photo downloaded and I was so perplexed. I searched the face trying to figure out where I'd seen you before only to realize that I don't know this lifetime face at all. Each time I look at your face I get that familiar "I know you" feeling.
You have to be haunted by the "past" life in order to write this wonderful book. To feel as strong as the Celtic ways as do. My fabric coiled labyrinth that I made into a quilt hangs on my wall and my healing herbal salve I make is in the cupboard. I sit here with thoughts on making my own lard for a special pie crust. Brined sauerkraut is in the frig never to see the heat of the pan. I find that I'm a soul haunted cook as well. Herbal books line my shelves.
My husband and I were able to take a trip "home" to England, Scotland and Ireland a few years ago. There is a piece of both of us in those old stones. The heart feeling that exists when you know you've been there and loved before. I feel the Celtic energy in my husband's love and burst out crying at hearing the celtic word "Farewell" for the "first" time. My heart sits in a painful knot of knowing for the intensity of love that time gives me.
Not just Celtic, there's Egypt visions and French: waking up knowing I've just been speaking French in my dreams. My children came to me in my pregnant dreams in the forms of another body to tell me they are coming to be my daughters. Some blond haired blue eye daughters do not have olive complexion with long black hair in this lifetime and yet I know them and they me. The list is long and the support for those lifetimes are within us as we go about our daily lives. Your book was one of those memories that brought back a reality that does encompass time's door. A door that it is not locked but here for our hearts to explore.
Thank you,
Marilyn