I watched I Prophesy last night on how climate changes have been affected by not only man's constant extraction and burning of fossil fuels but also by the low/high point shifts our sun goes through. They say the sun is emitting added amounts of cosmic radiation towards us and that is part of what is causing our weather patterns to emulate another ice age.

I think science evaded another truth it hasn't the open mind to see.

I broke through a veil of spiritual blindness myself this year and I have come to believe, after witnessing and learning how to read some of the signs presented to us from the Source, this is all coinciding with the great shift of 2012. Even the scientists on the show admitted the time frame for this next big climatic change is to occur next year but what they see as a long term catastrophic adjustment where the human race will have to endure hardship under extreme conditions, I saw a brave new world.

The spiritual community knows of this event, supposedly to take place in December 2012, where a world wide awakening towards the heavens and concern for the Earth and her inhabitants will change our lives forever. I see a world where we no longer need to compete for placement or status, ego does not rule the choices we make and we will live with the belief that anything truly is possible. We will connect with God again, we will speak with angels and spirit guides and we will not endure the stresses we pile on ourselves.

Yes, I believe it will be the end of the world as we know it - but that doesn't have to be in a bad way...

I had another book meeting with Roy and Tiffany and we discussed how we were going to tell this story in a more fluent way that gets the point across. We were very excited when we unanimously came to the conclusion tell it in their words but from my perspective. That was especially exciting for me because I actually get to be in the book! Too cool!!

We have set it up now as a story-telling interview process where they get to discuss their background and experience and the steps they're taking to start a new ministry. It's an amazing journey and I'm happy to be a part of it. It meant reviewing what was done so far and scrapping the first two chapters but that's par for the course in writing and if it makes for a better book, the extra work is worth its weight in gold!

As we go along, I imagine I'll be able to post some snippets and give folks a preview of the book before sales actually begin...

Ok I knew this was possible but never tried it. I forgot my phone one morning and wanted to send a text to my wife through my gmail account. It took some time and a few attempts but I managed to track down the Canadian domains for some local service providers to accomplish this.

All I needed to do was compose a regular email and the ten-digit phone number with the appropriate domain following the @ sign and voila - so simple. Here is the list I found so hopefully you won't to run the intensive Google search I did. Note here that the 'n' is replaced with the phone number:

n@wirefree.informe.ca (Aliant)
n@txt.bellmobility.ca (Bell Mobility)
n@fido.ca (Fido)
n@text.mtsmobility.com (MTS Mobility)
n@pcs.rogers.com (Rogers Wireless)
n@pcs.sasktelmobility.com (Sasktel Mobility)
n@msg.telus.com (Telus)
n@vmobile.ca (Virgin Mobile)
n@mobiletxt.ca (President’s Choice)

So I'm still discovering how hard my work life is on me. I try and I try but I'm too busy to put anything on a schedule - the nature of my business I suppose. A few long days with too much to do didn't allow any half-hour naps to compensate for a 5 hour night's rest.

Then it struck me like a heavy sack of "duuuhhh" - I don't need to try to keep such an odd sleeping arrangement, I can't function just fine on 6 hours so I adjusted the schedule - 10pm to 4am. I did it this morning and managed to wake up at about 4:10 without an alarm... I'm happy with that!

There's one experiment with a happy resolution. Now about that spare tire... my weight is still hanging around 190, which remains a five pound loss since christmas. I'm not expecting to drop too much as with a steadier work out regime, I'll replace bulge with bulk.

My wife is going grocery shopping today while I work so I'll have to get my vote in quick for more veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, mixed veggies and lentils (I'm not entirely sure what a lentil is but I'll give it a go). Then I'll be off to Costco on the weekend to grab some V8 by the case...

So the schedule is going ok, I'm keeping to it faithfully even if it isn't keeping to me the same way. I'm finding the first real drawback to getting used to it - shorter temper. Wow, does it take a lot of control not to just blow up sometimes! I'm doing my best but it's a tough haul.

Something else I've noticed - last night was the first dream I remember having since I started this. I read that dreams were supposed to get more vivid and intense and lucid dreaming becomes easier but I haven't been able to recollect any until last night - and it was more intense! I generally have use of all senses when I dream but last night was a front row seat to reality... cool!

Mealtimes are messed up cause I have breakfast at 4:30 in the morning and I'm ready for lunch between 9 & 10 - my wife is just getting out of bed by that time on the weekends! It's like being a teenager again though, I'm hungry all the time but I have to watch how much I intake so I don't overload on too much I can't burn off.

On the plus side, I'm getting some overdue projects done during my peaceful time. I've started re-muralling my office wall - I haven't had time to even have the ambition to attempt it before. Now, I try for a little every day.

My thoughts get a tad fuzzy from time to time, I'm working on a new chapter for The Theonis Trio and it has been difficult trying to word it the way I like. I hope by this coming weekend I start to feel more normal...

Good morning, early risers!

I am on day 2 of my uberman sleep cycle - tougher getting up today. I tried sleeping at noon and 6pm yesterday with bad results. I think I finally got the shut eye about five minutes before the alarm last evening but I expected as much for day 1, I didn't feel all that tired. Today however... I think I'll need a few cups of caffeine to to keep from passing out standing up!

Last night I jogged 1.5 kms on the treadmill, I'm sure I could have done 2 but my knees were feeling the effects worse than my lungs - I'm turning 40 in April, that's likely to happen. 10 body lifts on the arms of the mill, I stretched out to keep my legs loose and did 20 push ups. I feel pretty good. Sweet n sour chicken for supper - chicken good, sauce (though incredibly tasty) probably bad. I've had one glass of water this morning, my green tea with honey sits beside me, I have three eggs boiling in the pot and am about to take my blood pressure...

85 over 65, pulse 48 beats a minute... that's normal for me believe it or not.

I read too that you need to eat within the first hour of getting up, my eggs are ready so forgive me if I type with my mouth full! I should mention that since I started my exercise regime the first of January, the diet and sleep habit only a recent addition, I have lost 4 pounds so far. Though I'm not doing this to watch the weight, I'll probably regain in muscle mass - I am more interested in deflating the spare tire.

Til, tomorrow...

Is it a good sign or a bad one?

    Has my life become so busy that I must research and adopt a new sleeping schedule? I woke up at 4 this morning to give something new a try because I wanted to have more time in a day. So I have looked into a cool little discovery called Polyshasic Sleep.

  What this does is to break up your long, nightly sleep into shorter periodic naps, thereby training your mind to enter REM sleep faster - the part of sleep where your mind dreams and your body actually needs to repair and recover itself. In an 8 hour sleep cycle, the average person may get only 1.5 hours of REM sleep so the other 6.5 is useless, mindless state. I have to give this a try because it's weird and interesting and, well, how could I not? It's weird and interesting - just like me. For this first week, my night sleep will be from 11pm to 4am (not a large jump for me) and power nap at noon and 5pm for a half hour. Next week I'll change my night sleep from 11pm to 3am until my body adjusts to the schedule.

   Let's figure the math. I was sleeping from about 10pm to 5:30am, giving me 7.5 hours of sleep per 24 hour period, 52.5 hours of sleep per week. Once my new schedule is fully in adopted, I will get 4 hours at night and one hour during the day for a total of 5 hours sleep in a 24 hour period or 35 hours per week. That gives me 17.5 hours per week more wake time to get some other projects done. Me likey! But my math could be wrong, numbers are a language I have a hard time processing.

  I'm pairing this new experiment with a new diet, consisting of two eggs, a glass of water and two or three cups of honey-sweetened red or green tea for breakfast, and a regular intake of vegetables, chicken or fish, nuts (almonds likely, or peanuts) and a heavy decrease of white foods like bread, cereal, dairy, rice, etc. and regular exercise - I can jog 1.5kms per day when I'm not working late. This should help balance the energy levels, especially through the first two weeks of adjustment.

   So today is day 1 - I'll keep you posted, please forgive me if I begin to drabble on about gnomes in my closet or the sudden appearance of a purple cow in my yard - I may be delusional from sleep deprivation.  

It's 2011, I'm turning forty in April and find myself reflecting on what I've done and realizing where I want to be.

I'm a writer. I have written and I continue to write. That's where I want to be and that's what I'm working toward. I have finished another chapter of The Theonis Trio which brings me one chapter closer to completion of the first draft. A few more to go and that's book one. The next two are going to reach into phenomenal grounds and plot twists and an ending that I hope my readers will close the well worn cover and sigh from exhaustion - deeply.

I found some more great learning material in February's edition of Writer's Digest to keep the flow going. I've gone into more detail on my home page, http://kevinghare.com... Some great stuff, you don't want to miss out!

My recent edition of Writer's Digest arrived in the mail and as loyal as I am, I just had to read it cover to cover to absorb what info I can. My first go round, I found a snippet in the Readermail section on page 6 that caught my eye.

It was titled Website Woes and it was written by Barry Webb from Tucson, Arizona and in this short note he mentioned his concerns about getting an author website on a minimal budget. He says agents need their prospective clients to have websites to effectively market their books. Fair enough, as a small town web designer and a writer, I fully understand the marketing potential of social networking.

On page 10, WD followed up with an article on how to create a free website on WordPress by Meryl K. Evans that was very informative and effective. Allow me to add my two bits of experience...

You can search around for the smaller guy trying to run a business, like myself who sports a Starter Package for $349CAN which gives you a complete three-page website, ready to go. But we want to be more thrifty here because once you've paid the designer to build the site, you need to find a host server to display your pages. Having tried out many hosting outfits in my span of designing tribulations, I have settled on Bravenet for a plethora of wonderful reasons. They offer a free hosting package but you have to tolerate their advertising on the top and bottom of your site. To do away with the adds, get a professional hosting package for only $99US per year - which I have found to be incredibly reasonable considering they have so many freebies to go along with your service such as a blog page, guestbook, hit counter, email accounts and so much more. But the cherry topping for the tech-illiterate is that they offer a template based, drag-n-drop design package called Viviti where you can design your own website with just a few clicks. It just doesn't get easier than that.

Hopefully, I've whetted your appetite to check Bravenet out and if I did, hopefully I can persuade you use the link on my own website: http://kevinghare.com, and click on the flashy banner on the lower left-hand side. That's another perk they offer - an affiliate program where I get paid by referral. My thanks prominently forwarded in bundles of joy to any who give it a go!

Barry, if you ever get to read this, I hope I've helped! 

Ok, so I understand that you don't always get the support you would hope for from your own family when you discuss your writing ambitions and where you'd like to see yourself in, say, the next five years. I'm comfortable with the fact that no one in my family ever asks me, 'What ya writing?', or, 'Lemme read what you got so far.' And I am well aware of the fact that your family members are often times the worst editors because you can't expect an honest answer. Your mom will love it no matter what...

I have been the unfortunate soul in my family that has always been reminded of what can't be done and what I won't be able to do.

I still don't believe them.

I was prompted to write this after explaining where I'd like to be in the near future with my own writing projects and I was promptly told that one has to be lucky to get anywhere in the writing business. I had to chew on that one cause if I had anything to say in my own defense, I would have started a battle of the odds against the little guy. I am always surprised when small town thinking is insistent that 'it will never happen to me.' I see examples of the opposite happening all the time, what's the problem?

I used to believe it takes a little more work for the small town guy to get recognized because I'm not in the immediate area to get in touch with the right people. I have come to realize that everybody else has to work just as hard to get started simply because of the competition factor in the industry. I may be only on the first step or two of the ladder towards success but after reading some articles, listening to those with experience and making contacts through social networking, I now know my location has nothing to do with my ability to get my work in the right hands.

Take that non-believers! Down with pessimism!!
I'm Kevin G Hare and I want my name on a billboard.