I feel the stirrings of the renewal of spring in spite of the lingering cold and recent snow flurries. As I stoke the fire in my kiva, I tidy up my plans for the Big Sur Seminar with Gerry Spence and Tony Serra on Saturday, Jan. 29th at the Big Sur Lodge. It's rare that these two Titans are in the same room together. It will feel like two Giant Sequoias in a log cabin. I'm packing my camera. Wish I'd sprung for the Hi-def Sony camcorder, but that money went toward printing more books. Amazon and Kindle sales are doing well.

Simultaneously, I'm planning ahead for an exhibit of my equestrian and polo art at the inaugural Equestrian Fair at the Equestrian Center on Airport Rd in Santa Fe, NM, Sat-Sun Feb 12-13, 10 to 4 o'clock. Look for it in stall #11.  Some of that art is on my website: www.pauletteart.com

This is the year when my egg hatches -- when that which I've developed and worked on all my life comes to fruition, but instead of it being the hatching of a single egg, it's more like a Russian Easter egg: one egg nesting inside another and another and another.

Another event on the Lust for Justice horizon is the KPFA fund raiser on March 6th. Some of my courtroom art will be up for bid. More about that later ... 

Kindle news

Click this link then click hot new releases and see that Lust for Justice has made it to 2nd place on the roster, way ahead of Hilary Clinton! Pretty thrilling!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/digital-text/154799011/ref=pd_ts_kinc_mte


I'm getting my ducks in a row to head off to CA again for the Monterey Trial Lawyer College seminar at the Big Sur Lodge from Jan 27-30. Tony Serra and Gerry Spence will both speak on the culminating evening of Sat Jan 29th. Should be epic! The contact person is:
 J. Jude Basile
THE BASILE LAW FIRM
1334 Chorro St.
San Luis Obispo, Ca 93401
805-781-8600
fax 805-7818611
www.basilelaw.com <http://www.basilelaw.com/>

Reflections on the ride ...

My dreams range from fret-sweats to lists of to-do's. I suppose eventually I'll get into step with this new life I've made for myself, over and beyond packing and unpacking and repacking. I love parts of it, but it's a helluva commute. Next is Big Sur: a Seminar of the Monterey Trial Lawyers College with Gerry Spence and Tony. And possibly a presentation that I will do solo at a bookstore on the subject of personal growth regarding this book and dealing with the bigger-than-life self-serving godzilla egomania of Tony Serra. I have so much to say about that, they'll have to cut my tongue out to shut me up.

Tony's gone from prince to impossible once again, and once again I find myself at the edge of my cliff of "never again!" But then the voice of wisdom from 17 years of bald-faced determination whispers into my ear, "Let it go. All things change and change again." So with a tight jawed clench of  teeth, I trudge bravely forward, shedding resentments like a tree sheds leaves in autumn in order to further the greater good of this project of interdependent symbiosis. Big Sur with Gerry Spence and Tony will all be worth it.

The good news is, my hyper-irritation with Tony has fast-forwarded me to a place when this will all be behind us, and I will just be kicked back receiving royalties from my outpost in Santa Fe. It will all be a memory, a bright light of powerful energy sending off fiery flares visible from outer space. Astronauts and aliens will scratch their heads and exclaim, "What the hell is THAT?!?" and I will smile inwardly and think, "What a ride it's been!"

28 December, 2010

I've been reminded I posted the wrong link to Tony Serra's dynamite KQED Forum interview with Michael Krazner: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201012270900

27 December, 2010

Tony did a stupendous interview this morning on KQED: Michael Krazner's Forum. He was the first guest on an hour-long new series featuring local heros. It was electrifying! http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/

25 December 2010

Merry Christmas! Hard to believe that we're finally here, standing atop the hump of the Christmas holidays rounding the bend of the end of one year and the beginning of another. Full moon on the Solstice, lunar eclipse -- the biggest lunar eclipse since 1376 (!!!) -- and in this case, bigger IS better -- hail, lightning, rain, snow, unprecedented weather conditions, unprecedented political conditions, unprecedented economic dips and dives and flickering spikes, unprecedented this and that, and yet, today Christmas, the sky an array of stripes of sunshine and rain clouds, warm and cold like a hot fudge sunday. As far as the dog is concerned, it's just another boring day by the fire, waiting for a the magic word "walk" to be uttered from someone's lips followed by the word  "dinner."

In the mayhem of it all, Lust for Justice celebrates its life of one month and 5 days of being out in the world.  I'm already planning the 2nd printing in anticipation of a good distributor who will place it in bookstores everywhere. To date, Amazon and Kindle are it's big name purchase centers, along with Modern Times Bookstore, and Green Arcade Bookstore in San Francisco, The Depot Bookstore/Cafe in Mill Valley, and Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz.  Also, Kaleidoscope in Bolinas CA.
I have a great PR person, Sally Douglas Arce,  who is doing a bang up job of getting the word about this book out there. Lots of media interviews: The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bay Guardian, The Marin Independent Journal, KCBS, KQED, KPFA. You can check them out Online.

21 December 2012

The night of the book reading on Dec. 19th at the Depot Bookstore and Cafe in Mill Valley CA was a joining of forces: the natural elements with the bold moxy of the human spirit.  A hearty crowd gathered together, bucking the elements of hail, slashing rain, thunder and yes! LIGHTNING! Lightning Rod Publications never misses an opportunity to remind the people gathered at these readings that they are in the presence of the energy LIGHTNING itself, from which this publishing company derived its name. As I stepped outside in the downpour to bring in armloads of books, a prominent bolt of lightning illuminated the way to my car. I smiled inwardly and thanked it for the convenience of greater visibility. And in a sense, that's what this book is about: greater visibility in the storms of fear and deception and the blinding deluge of every diversion to truth imaginable. Maybe lightning itself, which all will agree has gotten a bad rap in the past for its potentially destructive powers, is in fact the great illuminator that cuts through the elements, grounding the forces of the higher consciousness to the earth.

Tony and I joined forces for a rousting evening. A man who was sitting in the front row when Tony was speaking said he just had to keep making expansive adjustments within himself to accommodate for Tony's force field. It was a great evening. Everyone left charged with good energy.