You will see that I’ve put up a donation button in the sidebar. If you would like to help keep a bit of forest alive–and all the myriad flora and fauna that lives and breathes upon it (and improve the air we all breathe!)–please consider a small donation.

Every single penny goes into my tenacious support of this 10 acres of forest, while the forest is being torn down and uprooted on all sides.

Even if you live far from here, these beautiful trees inhale what we exhale, and exhale what we inhale, and every deciduous and every evergreen tree purifies the air that keeps the planet on balance.

Thank you so much for your contribution to our lovely home….

EARTH.

What are your dreams? My biggest dreams are:
1. That I can keep the forest I live in and that I protect for the health of the planet and all that lives upon and in it
2. That I continue writing my books.

Reaching those dreams happens when you, my valued readers, buy my books.

Here are widgets to my books and stories for your reading pleasure. Keep watching this site for more new books and stories. In the meantime, please purchase any – or all! – of the following:
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Heartwarming! You’ll love reading 5 Minute Stories, with gentle family values. It will also make a special gift when it appears on the computer or eReader of someone you love.
Only $2.99!

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45 Ways to Excellent Life – 45 Action Meditations – something you can do every day to enrich your life and make you happy. Also makes a perfect gift!

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Abundance! Easy to read and easy to follow – how to have abundance in your life!

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Save Your Life with the Power of pH Balance

Because pH balance is so very important to your health and the health of the planet, I read everything I could get my hands on and distilled it down to this one very easy to read and understand book. The valuable information in this book could truly contribute to saving your life or the life of someone you love.

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Love Is The Answer is filled with universal, unconditional, love. A perfect gift to give to anyone you love!

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I’ve never mentioned in my blog that I’ve had many, many short stories published in both print and online. I’ve brought together a few of my previously published stories in a collection titled: 5 Minute Stories.

These are delicate stories of a young girl growing up on the Nebraska prairie. Take a break from this rush-rush world and enjoy visiting another place with a quieter pace.

Heartwarming 5 Minute Stories, with gentle family values, also makes a special gift when it appears on the eReader of someone you love.

I’d love to hear which of the Minute stories is your favorite – you can also go to Amazon and download the stories individually.

Thank you for stopping by!

Study any anthill or beehive. There you’ll see a kind of prototype, a little tiny mirror of our own species. Busy, busy, busy – touching antenna, gaining information and sending it on.

Science has shown that we have grey matter in our fingertips, and it seems that we’re proving it. Thinking and communicating at the speed of thumbs. Ah, our lovely, opposable thumbs!

Now it’s time to use the suddenly-upon-us-virtually-miraculous social media to Save Our Planet.

Use your thumbs for good!

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Save Your Life with the Power of pH Balance Have you heard people talk about the importance of pH balance, but you don’t really know what they’re talking about?

Because pH balance is so very important to your health and the health of the planet, I read everything I could get my hands on and distilled it down to this one very easy to read and understand book.

So affordable and truly could contribute to saving your life or the life of someone you love.

Love Is The Answer is filled with love. A perfect gift to give to anyone you love!

I dare say that many if not most of you have by now heard about the fire storm around GoDaddy CEO, Bob Parsons, murdering an elephant. I’m not interested in feeding that negative energy with more rant. Suffice it to say that as I’ve been working on my novel titled My Elephant Life for some months, I’d likely be among the scores of people who are appalled by this entire fiasco.

REFLECTION
Many years ago, before the dawn of history… well, okay, before the turn of the century, when I was researching web hosts, I, like everyone in the same boat, sailed into the ubiquitous GoDaddy. At the very outset I refused to sign up with that web host simply because of its overall icky “seedy side of Reno” appearance.

GoDaddy did not look professional.

I’m glad I stood by my initial intuition and continued searching.

SOLUTION
The web host I finally settled on, and have been very happy that I did, is Bluehost. The staff there is always available, polite and patient. Their web presence is professional. They provide a control panel of dozens and dozens of readily accessible components to make your web presence sing. Buehost offers excellent and easy WordPress hosting, which means you can have a beautiful blog up and running in minutes.

There are many other glowing compliments I could make about Bluehost, but check them out for yourself. They just keep growing and keep getting better. If you decide to move, Bluehost will be very helpful in assisting you.

And, bonus: Bluehost president Matt Heaton has considerably more class than to brag to the world about murdering elephants.
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Today there were high, high winds – the tops of the fir trees danced about, while the lower branches were as still as on a bucolic spring afternoon. I saw a raven plying these heavy winds, and wondered, how will he get to where he wants to be if the wind is blowing in a different direction from his destination stronger than his wings can prevail?

He happened to be at some distance and I was able to watch his progress across the big sky.

Here is what I saw – The raven beat his wings a bit, pointing north. Then he’d glide, letting the wind, which was driving just about due west, take over. The raven’s flight would be taken west. Then he’d point north and beat his wings, and then glide with the wind taking him due west. In this stair-step fashion, he made his way across the sky. When he got to my forest, he settled in the tallest tree. Behind him I watched as several of his companions performed the same exercises of flight, and they had a meetup in the big tree.

Nature can be very accommodating in providing us with visual examples of the lessons we might learn. Beat your wings a bit to keep your heading, but mostly allow yourself to use the winds of life to provide forward motion in the direction you mean to go. Fighting the winds one will never get to goal. Employ the winds, and you’ll soon be in your favorite tree, chatting with your companions.

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A couple of my books:

45 Ways to Excellent Life – 45 Action Meditations – something you can do every day to enrich your life and make you happy. Also makes a perfect gift!

Abundance! Easy to read and easy to follow on accessing abundance in your life!

Interestingly, I frequently have luminous, numinous experiences on my drive back home after these often late-into-the-night meetings. The first meeting in January was one such occasion. As I drove down the little road that leads to my home, the moon bright in a cold, clear sky, myself deep in thought, I was startled by a gigantic bird flying directly in front of my headlights, at headlight level.

I immediately realized it was huge owl, and I stopped, having seen it land in the leafless Alder beside the road. I peered up. There the owl sat on a low branch, inside the light of my headlights, as if he knew he would come to no harm from me. I looked at him, awe-struck. Owl-struck. Having never seen an owl so open and nonchalant in my entire life, I dared to slowly get out of my car and approach the tree. The owl watched me, his head moving smoothly on it ball-bearings, around, around, keeping his eyes on me.

When I stood a mere five feet from him him I said, “Well… what?”

He studied me for a few moments longer, perhaps trying to give me the answer… the “WHAT” of it all.

Then slowly, with a graceful bow of the the tree branch, he rose, lazily sweeping his gigantic, stunning wings through the new year air, disappearing among the trees of the forest.

This is actually a little “promotion.” I just went over to Amazon and I see that they have my book, Save Your Life with the Power of pH Balance on sale for a mere $8.45 (with the usual Free Shipping with minimum $25 purchase).

So click on over and get you copy while Amazon has this reduced price. You can click on the icon below to take you there.

This book will tell you quickly and easily how to make the fastest, wisest changes in your life style for your health.

And as it’s so close to Valentine’s Day, while you’re there you might get a copy of Love is the Answer.

Thanks for dropping by!
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Save Your Life with the Power of pH Balance Have you heard people talk about the importance of pH balance, but you don’t really know what they’re talking about?

Because pH balance is so very important to your health and the health of the planet, I read everything I could get my hands on and distilled it down to this one very easy to read and understand book.

Love Is The Answer is filled with love. A perfect gift to give to anyone you love!

I cat sat & dog sat for my friends while they took a day off to run up to Seattle.

The dog and I went on a delightful walk last night, watching the rushing white-water stream, all roiled up in the wake of two months of rain every day. Lovely companionship with the Mitra dog, who appears to find everything equally as enchanting as I do. She and I chatted with the naiads sitting on the big rocks while the water crashed around them.

Back up at the house, a couple of throws of the frisbee, and then a paw drying session (for Mitra. I didn’t need one, having worn shoes).

On our walk this morning, however, Mitra did not find my fascination of the giant red slug nearly as interesting as eating grass. She grazed like a little cow on the tall, wet grass while I studied the amazing grace of the slug trailing its hermaphrodite body across the winding driveway, moving on invisible ball bearings.

Quite intriguing…

Back up at the house, a couple of frisbee throws, a drying of the paws and then, back inside to tell the cat of our adventures.

Who completely forbore listening to us, having discovered a moth to make soft muttery sounds to on the other side of the window.

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My books at Amazon:

45 Ways to Excellent Life – 45 Action Meditations – something you can do every day to enrich your life and make you happy. Also makes a perfect gift!

Abundance! Easy to read and easy to follow on accessing abundance in your life!

It’s been a very busy time.

What inspires me to write now, finally, is late yesterday evening, as the shades of dusk were pulled, I finally heard the First Swainsen’s Thrush of the season.

All through winter I wait for the return of this unassuming little brown bird with the magical call from another dimension. All previous beautiful sounds fall away as if nothing in the wake of this lilting, haunting call, echoing through the forest in the evening and, sometimes, in the early morning.

It makes me feel that all, perhaps, could be right with the world. It’s not – but there’s hope!
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Visit my web sites:

BlytheAyne.com

ALightHere.com

Buy my books at Amazon:

45 Ways to Excellent Life – 45 Action Meditations – something you can do every day to enrich your life and make you happy. Also makes a perfect gift!

Abundance! Easy to read and easy to follow on accessing abundance in your life!

Save Your Life with the Power of pH Balance Have you heard people talk about the importance of pH balance, but you don’t really know what they’re talking about?

Because pH balance is so very important to your health and the health of the planet, I read everything I could get my hands on and distilled it down to this one very easy to read and understand book.

So affordable and truly could contribute to saving your life or the life of someone you love. Once you read it, you’ll want to get copies for everyone you care about.

Love Is The Answer is filled with love. A perfect gift to give to anyone you love!