Saturday Surprise – Believe and It Is Given

Believe and It Is Given

By Patty L. Fletcher

August 31, 2024

Moon Phase waning crescent

Good morning to all.

I hope you’re doing well. Blue and I got a late start to the morning, not getting outside until nearly 7.

After I fed him and made the coffee, we settled in for a morning of reading email while my helper and her trainee cleaned.

I don’t normally have people in training in my house but since my helper is so familiar and knows what she’s doing I decided to allow it. I thought, “It’s the best way to train someone to work with a blind person.”

Anyhow, as my helper and I were talking I had a peek into a hiding place where I keep money. It’s the end of the month so I expected maybe some loose change and a 1-dollar bill.

To my delight there were 25.00 dollars in there and so we got things we need today. I’ve just sent her to the dollar store for water and some toiletry items.

How wonderful it is to find unexpected treasure. Each morning, I wake and commit myself to another day of following the good creator, and every day I’m blessed for doing so.

No matter my trouble and trial, no matter the valley I am safe and loved.

When I say, “Thank you for what I have and have not yet” I know those words are true and that my needs will be met. I may not always get all I want, but I absolutely get all I need. Learning the difference between the two has been a wonderfully enlightening experience.

I’m learning to love all of my life and though it’s easier on a day like today when things are going well, I know that…

There is no part of my life which does not belong to the Goddess.

There is no part of my body which does not belong to the Goddess.

I am she and she is me.

We are one yet we are we.

As I will it.

As she wills it.

As we will it.

Blessid Be.

Believe and it is given.

This post was brought to you by author and poet Leonard Tuchyner…

B. Zeke and the Other World

A science fiction novel by Leonard Tuchyner / C 2024

For sale on Amazon in e-book, paperback, and hardcover formats / 315 pages in print

Full information about this book and the author’s previous books are at:

https://www.dldbooks.com/tuchyner/

Synopsis:

Gazeon. A gaseous planet far from Earth, but whose bubble–like, intelligent inhabitants are working to contact other planets and civilizations. They have no permanent edifices, yet they live and work in ways not unlike our own. There are births, deaths, marriages, divorces, sports, restaurants, and institutions of higher education and research. There are also personalities of every stripe and problems similar to ours here on Earth, including drug addiction and its disastrous effects.

The Gazeon characters have marvelous names that always reflect something of their essence. Strong–Presence, Dr. Mind–Storm, Harmony–Lights, and Dark–Lights are just a few of the most prominent beings involved in the Other Worlds Contact Project.

Earth. Rural Missouri in the 1920s. The boy Ezekiel Isacks, or Zeke, is contacted in a subtle and mysterious way by Strong–Presence, who has been sent to attempt to bond with him. Strong is tenuously anchored to his home world by what they call the silver cord. From that moment on, the formerly ordinary child is overtaken by a desire to “learn everything.” In the military, he becomes a doctor. He marries the beautiful Lila, and they have two daughters.

In the story that follows, the lives of the scientists on Gazeon are roiled by frustration and fear that they can never get Strong–Presence back. Is he in fact hopelessly, permanently tied to Zeke? In addition, serious personal problems beset many of the Gazeons. On Earth, people age much faster than the Gazeons do, and at last Dr. Isacks is an old man with dementia and a wife with her own mental problems.

The most pressing question for the Gazeon scientists is this: What will happen to Strong–Presence if Zeke dies before they can be uncoupled?

We find the answer in an ending of immense beauty, tenderness, and hope.

Description of the cover for blind and visually impaired readers:

The scene is of a young boy standing in a field of short corn stalks. The sleeves of his shirt are rolled up, and his hands are in the pockets of his overalls. The sky is cloudy, and we see two farm buildings in the distance. Only the right side of the boy’s face is visible to the viewer, but he is obviously staring at a strange object in the sky: a large blue orb filled with clouds. The main colors of the picture are black, white, gray, and grayish beige. Only the orb and the narrow band at the bottom of the cover are blue. The title is at the top in very dark, reddish-brown letters, and the author’s name is in white letters at the bottom, on the blue band. The picture radiates mystery and fascination. The back cover is the same blue, with the synopsis in black letters inside white, puffy-edged surroundings that resemble clouds. The blue orb is duplicated in the lower left corner.

About Patty L. Fletcher

Updated April 2024.

Patty Fletcher is a single mother with a beautiful daughter, of whom she is enormously proud. She has a great son-in-law and six beautiful grandchildren. From April 2011 through September 2020, she owned and handled a black Labrador from The Seeing Eye® named King Campbell Lee Fletcher A.K.A. Bubba. Sadly, after a long battle with illness on September 24, 2020, King Campbell went to the Rainbow Bridge where all is peace and love. In July 2021, she returned to The Seeing Eye® and was paired with a Black Labrador Golden Retriever cross named Blue.

PATTY’S BLINDNESS…

Patty was born one and a half months premature. Her blindness was caused by her being given too much oxygen in the incubator. She was partially sighted until 1991, at which time she lost her sight due to an infection after cataract surgery and high eye pressure. She used a cane for 31 years before making the change to a guide dog.

WHERE SHE LIVES AND WORKS…

Currently, Patty lives and works in Kingsport, Tenn.

Patty is quite involved with The American Council of the Blind – ACB and its community.

She’s a member of Guide Dog Users Incorporated where she serves on the GDUI Election Candidacy Task Force, and the membership Committee.

She works with the Audio Description Project by serving on the ADP Performing Arts Committee.

She has also recently joined Blind Information Technology Specialists (BITS). Another special affiliate of ACB.

Though she’s not yet found her place there, she is learning things from their informational content.

She’s the creator and owner of Tell-It-To-The-World Marketing (Author, Blogger, Business Assist), The Writer’s Grapevine Online Magazine and the creator and host of the Talk to Tell-It-To-The-World Marketing Podcast, which have recently been reconstructed and can all be found in Patty’s Worlds.

WRITING GOAL…

Patty writes with the goal of bridging the great chasm which separates the disabled from the non-disabled.

Patty is also a published author.

Learn more at the links below.

All full length published works…

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Patty-L.-Fletcher/author/B00Q9I7RWG?

https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/PattyFletcher

Anthologies…

Midnight Roost: https://books2read.com/MidnightRoost

Visions: https://books2read.com/VisionsAnthology

Poetry Treasures 3: Passions: https://books2read.com/VisionsAnthology

Strange Weather Anthology