Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Animal Communication & Energy

I'm taking a bit of time off from new animal communcation sessions for others, in order to
a) work with my dog on her bad hip, using energy tapping techniques
b) study up on energy and animal communication techniques.

One of the exciting things about the field of animal communication is that it is unlimited. The more you know, the more you know the less you know. So there is always something to discover and detect that makes the work finer.

I also want to investigate the different energy levels of different animals and plants. For example, some trees can be reached on an individual one-to-one communcation, and some plants connect up via a "group" conciousness. Dogs and cats speak individually. Is this because they are domesticated and need this skill to stay alive with us? Have they learned this as a survival skill?

Another book on my bedside table is The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan. Even when we think we are eating with respect to the world, where are we blinded?

SCBWI - Children's Book Writers

4 days at the SCBWI Conference in LA - One Thousand People at this conference all passionate about children's books - and the impact writing and illustrating and publishing for this young audience can have on the future of our world.

Besides the overwhelming information from numerous well-spoken and entertaining speakers and workshops presented each hour, it brought me up-to-date on my Babar the elephant, Harold and the Purple Crayon favorites. Check out Flotsam, The Three Pigs, and for teens, Grief Girl as my new interests, along with Looking For Alaska as passionate, alive ways to wake up your mind. These all appeal to adults as well.

Even if I weren't already writing, this conference made me Have To Write.

SCBWI - Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators