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July 25, 2013   Breath #400…Now that’s a marker!  Are we grown more thoughtful? Wiser? Kinder? Sillier? Contemplative? Wilder? Creative? Connected? From these past years of ‘Breaths?’  Do weigh in.  I should so love to hear your ‘Breath-stories.’ Thank hevvins for bad TV.  I’ve turned to reading.  One of the books was recommended by the author, Janet Wong.  The book is,  APE How to Publish a Book, by Kawasaki & Welch.  It begins, “How to read this book.”  First, I think ‘how stupid, then I realize, that makes me feel safe.  This is a direct correlation to my daily reactions of dealing with too much technology, and not having instruction, or worse, incomprehensible instructions.  Most of the time, I don’t even know the right question on what has gone amiss.  Ergo, the omnipresent, quivering safety factor.  Yes, even with a book. This first question is followed by a second, “Should you write a book?”  Too late.  I’ve written the bloody thing.  I’ve bought your book instructing me on how I might deal with mine, and now you’re asking if I should have even written it ?  This bombshell is immediately followed by third.  “To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.”  Aleister Crowley.   I know of Aleister Crowley.  I’m completely cowed.  Books, mine and theirs, go back on the shelf. This is like asking, “Should you take this incarnation?”  Too late.  No shelf-life available.  I am here, I’ve become me, I’ve passed the ‘400-mark,’ and you’re still here with me.  I take heart.  I take the bloody books off the shelf.  I begin again.  Self publishing has to be just that, no?  It’s a self, for better or worse, god-like or not, sharing thought-life with those who care…. Read more »