But How Did I -- and -- We Get Here I Ask, Feeling As If I Am Living A Miracle

 Q. How can that be? Especially in this time of great desperation?

Here's one answer I'm trying on, How Did We Get Here?

Short version: With help from my friends.

Anastasia’s Prophecy To Be Featured In Forthcoming Fantasy Fiction Book

Article under construction.

Also see:  Breaking News: NH/ZOP Executive Director To Sign Book Publishing Contract

Whoopee! 

So much has happened these past months since Covid-19 became a fact of our lives. Not all of it awful.

On the positive side and a personal level, even more so since that fateful day, Saturday, October 10th, when NH/ZOP Board Member, Sue deVeer, informed me she had arranged a $50,000 pledge for our organization from an anonymous donor, intended to be matched many fold over, to be gifted to the NH/ZOP Publishing Fund!

OMG!!

 

I'm the only publishing person around here, meaning NOW I get to use my time quarantining creatively, happily, as long as I'm healthy, having the opportunity, sooner rather than later, to bring my G-d given gifts, as expressed in my writings – out into the greater world!  

OMG!!

I always knew it was coming,= from somewhere but not from where or when. Isn't that amazing!  

I call it faith, faith in oneself and faith in a higher order.

OMG!! Was that Saturday ever to start in motion HUGE HAPPENINGS for ME and New Horizons/Small “Zones of Peace.

One of the biggest so far is that for the first time ever I am going to try my hand at writing fiction, fantasy/historical fiction. And, you all, my loyal followers are just gonna love it!

Here are a few details with more to come soon.

Working Title: Book I, ……. tba of intended four part fantasy/historical fiction series, titled Lost Hope Regained.

Main Character: ME!! A fictionalized alter ego, representing ME to be named ……tba. who in the course of the series becomes an adventure hero, a total Goddess with healing powers.

What did you expect??

One of the key themes: Anastasia’s alter ego's journey to live out the directive of her “Prophecy.”

How’s that for starters? 

Fun looking from my end. First time I'll be writing a book, intending to have fun with it. 

Having the great team being put together for me by Kevin Anderson & Associates to provide me with optimum talent and support is key to the fun I'm counting on. 

Stay posted and help NH/ZOP and myself carry this project to the finish line.

We are TOTALLY going to need your help!

Now be thankful! I sure am, even in the midst of all the tragedy.

Happy Thanksgiving from me, Anastasia, and the NH?ZOP Board of Directors

It’s only the beginning! Look for details.

Anastasia"s Saturday Evening Storytelling Fire Circles To Move Indoors

 Next on our "new horizons" -- 

"Fireside" To Replace "Fire Circle" Storytelling

Begins Saturday evening, November 7, includes new online radio broadcast portion. Look for details.

11/11 Update: Now rescheduled to Saturday, November 14, due to Sue's husband's medical emergency and hospitalization last week into this . 

As November days grow shorter and the nights chillier, I (Anastasia) find myself needing to go indoors at sunset where almost no one will be able to join me for storytelling, much to my chagrin. At least nowhere near, for the coming months.  

Thanks to covid-19 and social distancing rules, I must now make my way -- alone -- or almost, at storytelling time. 

"But isn't storytelling a group activity?" you ask from your seat, wherever it is, possibly as a storyteller convert, new to recognizing this, sometimes, lost art, that has the potential for becoming a vehicle for healing the divisions facing us, at this time in our country.

So there it is: I must now come indoors -- leaving almost everyone else out. After all the New Horizons/Small "Zones Of Peace" (NH/ZOP) former GAME meeting area, spacious as it is, can't compete with our mountainside Forest Bathing Sanctuary and be safe for all.

But covid-19 is teaching me,  -- all of us -- to find new and creative options for being together while far away. So, following on the heels of saying good-by to Daylight Saving Time -- and -- sunset now being an hour earlier, I am going indoors to stay warm by my "fireside," leaving our "fire circle" outside where it lives. Maybe all the way until next spring. 

Darn! But we'll see.

Indoors or out, as wintery weather comes on, those of us, like me, who hate the cold will just have to see how it goes to be outdoors in the brrr cold, for a "new normal." 

In the meantime, come inside with me, while I, your fearless storyteller "tries" to take up the get-hardy-in-the-cold practice of the Scandinavians this winter and check out this fun read I wrote about ten years ago. 

If you let me know you like it, I might just want to get my Warrior Woman self, all bundled up, for a fire circle return before next ???? March ??? April??? 

We'll just have to see???

Find out how YOU can participate in next week's storytelling event, wherever you are.

P.S. Reservations generally close 48 hours before an event.

Contact Anastasia for additional information at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Aiming To Turn Lead Into Gold In This Time Of Unrest? Come To Anastasia's Post-Election Storytelling Gathering And Healing

The following announcement, in an earlier verson, is also posted to the NH/ZOP site here.

Join Anastasia The Storyteller for a 

Post Election Storytelling Gathering, Aiming To Turn Lead Into Gold

Let Us, The Election-Weary, Come Together To Hear The Stories Of Others, Share Our Own And Begin To Heal And Transform!

Election 2020!!

 Saturday, November 7

Begins 6:00 p.m. till ???

EST is our time zone, please be sure to adjust for your own.

Via conference call. For reservations, contact Anastasia at: 

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Look for a "Confirming Your Reservation" update, specially for this event here.

Main topics that may be suggested for storytelling and discussion: 

• How can gathering together, as we are for this event, become a foundation for helping us see our way past the divisiveness of our country at this time?
• What might your role be in creating a path forward such as this?
• How might your own isolationism, enemy thinking or othering sabotage such ideals?