The Lover’s Journey has begun!

So I did a two-hour presentation on the LOVER’S JOURNEY yesterday via Zoom. The transcript is 47 pages single-spaced. Cost me 25 bucks to have the transcription done at Happy Scribe. They claim 80% accuracy but that’s absurd. Much closer to 95%.

Anyway, now I have to edit and expand. What needs to be explained more carefully? What tools and resources are needed? How many worksheets? And I reserve the right to fiddle. I’m thinking that there will be sections that are straight transcript (very lightly edited) especially when Tananarive and I were jazzing together (about the last 1/3 of the talk) and others where it should be text and illustration.

The talk is passionate and compressed. Have to be sure that any “jargon” is explained clearly. Calls to action have to be clearly deliniated: after finishing the book, what is the FIRST thing people should do?

We demonstrated the “Blessing Dance” live for the very first time, and that clarifying of love for each other strikes me as a fine foundation for a ceremony of self-healing, because THAT is the first step: to love yourself enough to be willing to fight for a happy life, to remove all the obstructions. And I believe 100% of people want to be happy (or at least pain-free. Some have lost their belief in happiness) 99% of people would like to share their joy with another human being, IF they could believe this would be a positive experience.

Breaking through that fear barrier is a powerful initial step. Faith. But as I write this, I…