Getting positive reinforcement is not hard, and today,..I got the most positive reinforcement that a person could get.

Caaaaaaaaaaaaackle!

Heh! A young lady chased me around the grocery store in Brewster with her own version of the "You changed my life!" reading response to WALKING FREE. If I hadn't been short of wind from my pneumonias,..I would have beaten her past the tomatoes and gotten out of the store before she caught up with me.

The young lady knew that I can talk as well,..if not better than some hearing folks,..so I couldn't play mute with her. I guess that I will be speaking to her Sunday School class in a week or two!!

So what will I be telling these teenage kids? First,..I will tell this class of young church going faith seekers of "wisdom and truth,"....that not everyone in this world is going to like them. Then,..I will tell them that how they deal with that dislike is up to them.

I will also tell them that.."Dislike matters only when it comes from someone,..that you actually like or respect!. If Saddam Hussein wishes you, all, dead and straight in hell,..I doubt if it would bother you much!!"

I think that the kiddies will get the point!

Then,..I will point out to the Sunday school class that...."when people like you or dislike you excessively much,..they pass along their energy to you via the feelings that they create in you!"

What a person does with the energy,..passed onto them by others, is up to that person. One can be down and use the downess to hurt others, or one can be up and use the same energy...to write a best seller!

I prefer the response of writing a best seller,..to start one's own group for one's interests,..which I've already done,..,or a dozen other useful or productive things, which can be used to improve the lives of others.

Right now,..I am searching for a scholarship for another woman to go to college on. As far as I know,..she has devoted her whole life to her family and her children. This strikes me as a very noble thing. To have been so unselfish in the face of problems,..which most folks have never found the strength to deal with,..deserves a chance at something beyond just housework and child care. I hope that some part of her feels that I am thinking of her often,..because I do.


Another person,..that I am thinking of,..has within her the creativity to become whatever she sets her heart to. To do that,..she must admit her own creative abilities. Most of all,..she must look within herself for her own inner strengths and resources and admit that they are there.


What is,..is. Opinion does not put it there. The individual puts it there. How one uses one's resources inside oneself..is up to oneself. Me,..I am more interested in creating than destroying and will ever be so.

While I was in office on the Ohio Governor's Council on People with Disabilities, Rosezelle used to drive me to Columbus,..the state capitol of Ohio,..she used to tell me fascinating stories of growing up in her homestate. I told her to write down those stories. The supernatural ones..used to keep me awake at night,..they were so good!

The task of putting those stories on paper took her almost seven years, but she has done the task and her manuscript is done! WALKING FREE took almost five years to write as it is very hard to pry my memories out of me!! Trust me on that statement!! It takes time to get information together. It takes time to write things down....just right.

Rosezelle's THE BLACK HEART BOOK has been written just right. I should know,..I content proofed it for readablity along with about twenty other folks. The actual "proofing" for mistakes and "blue-book" proofing has not yet been done yet.

All I can say is that THE BLACK HEART BOOK is going to change how folks look at a rural people,..known as hillbillies,..and recognize them for the true survivors that they are!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! IT WILL ALSO CHANGE SOME FOLKS' IDEAS ABOUT THE SUPERNATURAL!! (Shivers in delight!)

BLACK HEART is a "big read,''....but a true story and well worth the trips to Kentucky to research it!!! Even if one has to sleep on the sofa of a log cabin and eat corn bread and drink cold buttermilk for breakfast!! More on that later!!

Except for one short spell of losing my breath this morning,..I AM better and feel great!! I better feel good! I have to meet up with "Clarie"..tonight and I'll tell you about that in my next blog entry.