on borders, choices and worming right on in

before I forget it ...

I had an interesting insight today ... into worm consciousness. It was enlightening really :-)

I had a pillow on the floor representing the worms when I saw them spreading out, wriggling away and some even "wriggled" up my legs. I was standing stiff and watching it happen, but not doing anything. ... It took me a while to remember I have POWER and can say NO. Then they stopped their advance.

I have the choice to say YES or NO or not say anything and that is kind of acceptance by omission and read as a yes.

So, worms can't decide, they don't have a choice. Just like trees don't throw their seeds at a special most nurturing birthing place but spread them the widest they can and hope one falls on a perfect place. Worms do that too. They spread into all directions and keep going til someone says No! Some people are like that too, they keep walking over others and take it as acceptance by omission if no NO comes. Knowing our borders and saying no to trespassers is our responsibility. We are in charge of the door to our lives. It is our responsibility to say YES or NO. But people walking into houses that are not theirs are called burglars and it's a crime. There we don't argue that the owners could have said NO, as they didn't, it was acceptance by omission.

So we knock on people's doors and wait to be invited in but we walk right over their borders? cross

The other thing I learned from the wormeys is that sometimes things come knocking at our doors for no other purpose than for us to say NO. ... I always believed things came into my life for a reason and so I kind of let everything in because ... hey, it came for a reason! Even if it hurt and I didn't want it, there must be some deeper reason behind it that the universe knows but I can't see yet. Like something to see or learn or transform or let go of. ... Never did it occur to me that the deeper reason was for me to use my human consciousness (the one that the worm doesn't have ... yet) and make a CHOICE. YES OR NO? Is this what I asked for? Do I still want this?

YES or NO?

I don't have to dance with everything that comes to my door.

ask or worm the way in?

I can if I want to ... or I can say no, move on and try your luck next door.

Who's in Nalini Singh's new novella collection?

after reading Midnight Kiss from Nalini Singh's new years eve newsletter I had to re-check the scene at Wild. After that, I just couldn't stop and re-read all the books after - again. I realized something close to the end of Vasic's book, Shield of Winter. THERE IS A LOT GOING ON ALL OF A SUDDEN!!!! I mean, lots of flirting and flirting and ... flirting!

native creative - something's going on  here

• Jaya and Abbott: There is definitely something going on between those two. Curiously, after the "I am falling for him too" scene back at the E Compound, all of a sudden there was no more mention of their relationship, just Jaya finding out about her special E Power and lots of Jaya and Abbott still at the hospital. That's it? End of story? ... I don't think so.
• Concetta and Isaiah: Definitely something going on as well ;-)
• Ivy's parents: little glimpses of something more going on ... 
• Clara, the former J-Psy and manager of Haven and her husband: ... married means something was happening and is still going on ... a J-Psy with a second life? If I don't smell a story here, I am not deserving of my predatory changeling nose.
• Stefan, the "one of us" Arrow on permanent duty at the deep sea station Alaris and his lover: As he discovered the method of redirecting Tk-Energy into water while intimate ... I claim there is more than a little something going on ... or eat my tongue.
• Alice and the wolf males: Now there is definitely something going on ... nothing specific yet, but getting there. Suspects? wolves living at the den rather than lieutenants from other sectors. single wolves we met so far: Sam, Kieran, Felix, ....

All of this was just going on in Shield of Winter!!!

native creative - flirting of the dangerous kind

  Riordan and Noelle: they already got their own story in the newsletter, but there is potential for more, I am sure.

• Tai and Evie: that is the one relationship turning serious Sienna talks to Hawke about without mentioning their names. 
• Lake and Maria: not much we know but definitely something going on.
• Jason and Nicki: they were at Wild too, something's going on here.
• Rina and Jon: ... not yet, but soon 
• Tag and Tiara: there is definitely something going on between the two powerful Forgotten Telepaths from Dev's book Blaze of Memory. They are both sooo ready to get down to business.
• and last but not least: What is going on between Nikita and Anthony? and don't tell me there is nothing going on! You don't have to be a cardinal E-Psy to know that there is something going on.

So, who is gonna make it into the next novella book? ... Could also be some of the already mated pairs having their story told like D'Arn and Sing Liu, Ava and Spence, Elias and Yuki, Simran and Ines, or someone with nothing going on right now like Lucy, Kit, Bowen, Samuel Rain, Silver Mercant or Leon Kyriakus. 
Nikita and Anthony are more like a full novel caliber, but Tag and Tiara are novella material - and I just want Jaya and Abbott's story!!
Well, I guess it will be a surprise ... until we know for sure.