Aww, thank you so much, Laura. Just remember you’ve traded fair-weather friends and family for new relationships with people who share your passion for truth, liberty, and justice 🤗
It still feels like we are in a minority as most ppl I know are in the dark or don’t want to talk about it! It is a bit maddening for me bc I see that precisely bc too many refuse to see or address this serious issue, it is more likely nothing will change the very disturbing trajectory we are on!!! It’s like living in a prison of mostly lunatics (but they think I’m the lunatic) day to day and a very long sentence with no end in sight!
I bought and read the book!!! I LOVE IT!!! Elegantly simple way to explain what is happening in our world. I ordered 10 more this morning! I plan to "forget them" in every waiting room I go in!
Aww, thank you so much, B, and I’m delighted to hear your enthusiastic response! I *love* the idea of your leaving them in waiting rooms!! One of my other readers just bought 20 and plans to plant them like seeds around town with a note to pass the book on. She is trying to get them into her library and local bookstores, too.
If you ever want to buy signed copies at a bulk discount, just email me by responding to any of my newsletters, and I’ll hook you up :-)
I don’t have sufficient time or energy right now to put down in words all that I remember that’s been lost. I am too busy trying to give all of it to my child so that it’s not lost forever. What I remember most of all that’s been lost is the privilege - luxury really - of not having to remember what’s been lost. Because nothing had been. It was still all upside, all growth and gain, I thought, sweet summer child that I was. Still, I’ll take humility and wisdom and knowing the awful truth and re-possessing my own full sovereignty and freedom to tell the beast to go fuck itself over that simulacrum I was living before the wool got pulled from my eyes.
The loss is so massive and so silent; it is overwhelmingly sad sometimes. Just the sheer un-acknowledged weight of it. And I know you are too familiar with loss this year as well. Thank you so much for baring your soul and for bearing witness to all our losses. We must keep holding council with and for each other. It’s what humans do.
Thank you for the sweet words, Humdeedee, and so glad you enjoyed it! I did not create the illustrations, but I feel extraordinarily fortunate to have discovered two stock illustrators whose surrealistic, dystopian style suits my work—especially this fairytale—so perfectly!
Margaret Anna Alice ... I am dead broke ... my checks are bouncing (use to work as an RN until PLANdemic happened (refused the vaccine) .... My job working at a preschool will be starting soon (next week) I would love to buy this for my class (I now work as a teacher assistant) ... when I get out of a negative balance. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU"RE DOING FOR TRUTH & LOVE!
How horrendous that you were forced out of your job as an RN, MJSchild60, but I am happy to hear you will be starting a new job at a preschool!
It would delight me to no end to think of preschoolers reading my fairy tale and hopefully learning critical thinking skills, courage, and a healthy questioning of authority :-)
Please get in touch whenever you’re ready, and I’ll be happy to give you a discount on signed copies for you and your students.
Now oddly enough, here is something I posted elsewhere that does not see to have gotten through, so I thought I'd post it here. I hope you don't mind....
~
CIA = cancer in all.
It is a cancer upon the citizens of the country.
One that needs to be cut out via emergency surgery.
That is just what I think - a reckoning it will be.
I sure hope so because otherwise....
say good-bye to the country.
BK
Poem of the Day here at this Newsletter. Happy it is here.
OK, it posted. Now it posted twice. Oh well. There was a delay that I had not encountered, and so sometimes on the internet, or with email, or whatever, when odd incidents occur, it is wise to do some exploration as to the possible cause. Build up a case of information, and then let me tell - you will have a lot of evidence! I already do and I plan on putting it to good use.
Looking forward to receiving the signed copy of the book!
Good to know! I hope Amazon Australia isn’t surreptitiously censoring it.
I’d be happy to arrange for a direct order. Shipping to Australia is pretty pricey, so I can give you an estimate based on your desired quantity before you commit. Just reply to any of my newsletters or my Welcome email if you’d like to discuss privately. Thanks, Geebee!
Thank you so much for asking, Geebee! Which Amazon store (country) did you check? I just looked at the US version, and it shows it is in stock and available for order.
Even if it says there are zero copies in stock, it *should* let you place an order as they are print-on-demand, and copies will be printed when ordered.
If it doesn’t let you do that, another option is to order directly from me, and I can mail you signed and personalized copies if desired. Let me know if you are interested in going that route.
This makes me sad. I'm gaining the gumption to fly once again to California, the place of my birth, where my sister and cousin live. It's where my heart and soul has resided forever, until...I haven't been there since before and I'm afraid to leave my now home of NC where I've been sheltered for so long. I have been shunned, put away, told I'd kill people because I didn't give in. It's been so difficult and lonely in some ways, but in others I've met so many like-minded people from all over the world, so comforting to know we live hidden but together. And I found in my own neighborhood unlikely friends and support among the members of my husband's ex-family (his ex-wife's family is all around us, not her but everyone else, and so funny that they all love and support us and we them, life is strange). So in October I'm off to see my sister and cousin in San Francisco, to mourn what's happened to my home, to let it go and understand things change, yet to continue the fight to keep this country free from tyranny, from destruction. We can't let them win control.
I am a California refugee myself and don’t think I could ever bring myself to return to that festering cesspit, so I admire your intrepid willingness to venture into such territory :-)
That said, I recommend focusing on the freedom you are fighting for and modeling it exuberantly for others, and perhaps they can’t help but be attracted to the glow of your joyful spirit. Maybe you will plant a contagious seed in the drought-cracked soil, and a resilient seedling will burst through the surface.
And sprout as poppies and daisies! I will envision and believe it and it shall happen! I can save California and my beloved San Francisco! Thank you so much.
Hi, love your work, I don't know how to get in touch with you, but if you are interested in being on my podcast, let me know! I would love to have you as a guest. Great work and thank you!
Dennis, haha, let’s hope! I see that article you referenced is now obsolete since the promise (lie) that life would return to “Normal” has already been rescinded ;-)
I remember when I had more family and friends in my life. 😢
I remember when I slept like a baby.
My ignorance of the real world was true bliss. But it’s ok. Knowledge is power and I will die on my feet before I live on my knees.
Thank you for this article MAA. At 63, my true and worthwhile education is only just beginning.
Just ordered your book. I look forwarding to reading it. 😘❤️
Aww, thank you so much, Laura. Just remember you’ve traded fair-weather friends and family for new relationships with people who share your passion for truth, liberty, and justice 🤗
It still feels like we are in a minority as most ppl I know are in the dark or don’t want to talk about it! It is a bit maddening for me bc I see that precisely bc too many refuse to see or address this serious issue, it is more likely nothing will change the very disturbing trajectory we are on!!! It’s like living in a prison of mostly lunatics (but they think I’m the lunatic) day to day and a very long sentence with no end in sight!
I bought and read the book!!! I LOVE IT!!! Elegantly simple way to explain what is happening in our world. I ordered 10 more this morning! I plan to "forget them" in every waiting room I go in!
Aww, thank you so much, B, and I’m delighted to hear your enthusiastic response! I *love* the idea of your leaving them in waiting rooms!! One of my other readers just bought 20 and plans to plant them like seeds around town with a note to pass the book on. She is trying to get them into her library and local bookstores, too.
If you ever want to buy signed copies at a bulk discount, just email me by responding to any of my newsletters, and I’ll hook you up :-)
I don’t have sufficient time or energy right now to put down in words all that I remember that’s been lost. I am too busy trying to give all of it to my child so that it’s not lost forever. What I remember most of all that’s been lost is the privilege - luxury really - of not having to remember what’s been lost. Because nothing had been. It was still all upside, all growth and gain, I thought, sweet summer child that I was. Still, I’ll take humility and wisdom and knowing the awful truth and re-possessing my own full sovereignty and freedom to tell the beast to go fuck itself over that simulacrum I was living before the wool got pulled from my eyes.
Beautiful and profound, baba_gbb. If you haven’t yet seen it, Tonika of Visceral Adventure made a beautiful video of “Do You Remember?”:
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/do-you-remember-video
The loss is so massive and so silent; it is overwhelmingly sad sometimes. Just the sheer un-acknowledged weight of it. And I know you are too familiar with loss this year as well. Thank you so much for baring your soul and for bearing witness to all our losses. We must keep holding council with and for each other. It’s what humans do.
😭💔🙏💓🤗
Just finished reading your allegory - excellent use of the fairytale format and the illustrations are wonderful - did you do the illustrations, too?
Thank you for the sweet words, Humdeedee, and so glad you enjoyed it! I did not create the illustrations, but I feel extraordinarily fortunate to have discovered two stock illustrators whose surrealistic, dystopian style suits my work—especially this fairytale—so perfectly!
They are perfect!
Margaret Anna Alice ... I am dead broke ... my checks are bouncing (use to work as an RN until PLANdemic happened (refused the vaccine) .... My job working at a preschool will be starting soon (next week) I would love to buy this for my class (I now work as a teacher assistant) ... when I get out of a negative balance. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU"RE DOING FOR TRUTH & LOVE!
How horrendous that you were forced out of your job as an RN, MJSchild60, but I am happy to hear you will be starting a new job at a preschool!
It would delight me to no end to think of preschoolers reading my fairy tale and hopefully learning critical thinking skills, courage, and a healthy questioning of authority :-)
Please get in touch whenever you’re ready, and I’ll be happy to give you a discount on signed copies for you and your students.
I will definitely do so .... thanks so much Margaret Anna Alice! Working with children makes life brighter. A Godsend in these times for sure !
🧒🌷☀️
I'm looking forward to getting this book.
Now oddly enough, here is something I posted elsewhere that does not see to have gotten through, so I thought I'd post it here. I hope you don't mind....
~
CIA = cancer in all.
It is a cancer upon the citizens of the country.
One that needs to be cut out via emergency surgery.
That is just what I think - a reckoning it will be.
I sure hope so because otherwise....
say good-bye to the country.
BK
Poem of the Day here at this Newsletter. Happy it is here.
This is where I tried to post it: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/
Maybe it will show up later.
OK, it posted. Now it posted twice. Oh well. There was a delay that I had not encountered, and so sometimes on the internet, or with email, or whatever, when odd incidents occur, it is wise to do some exploration as to the possible cause. Build up a case of information, and then let me tell - you will have a lot of evidence! I already do and I plan on putting it to good use.
Looking forward to receiving the signed copy of the book!
Ken Hausle
*lol* You crack me up, Ken! 😹
also - I REALLY WANT TO BUY TEN OF YOUR BOOKS, SIGNED PLEASE. How do I do this?
Thank you so much, baba_gbb! I will follow up via email 💓
ahh thanks, I am in Australia. i would prefer to order directly from you rather than Amazon anyway.
Good to know! I hope Amazon Australia isn’t surreptitiously censoring it.
I’d be happy to arrange for a direct order. Shipping to Australia is pretty pricey, so I can give you an estimate based on your desired quantity before you commit. Just reply to any of my newsletters or my Welcome email if you’d like to discuss privately. Thanks, Geebee!
hello I just checked for the paperback on Amazon and it says no copies available currently ..... are you printing more?
Thank you so much for asking, Geebee! Which Amazon store (country) did you check? I just looked at the US version, and it shows it is in stock and available for order.
Even if it says there are zero copies in stock, it *should* let you place an order as they are print-on-demand, and copies will be printed when ordered.
If it doesn’t let you do that, another option is to order directly from me, and I can mail you signed and personalized copies if desired. Let me know if you are interested in going that route.
This makes me sad. I'm gaining the gumption to fly once again to California, the place of my birth, where my sister and cousin live. It's where my heart and soul has resided forever, until...I haven't been there since before and I'm afraid to leave my now home of NC where I've been sheltered for so long. I have been shunned, put away, told I'd kill people because I didn't give in. It's been so difficult and lonely in some ways, but in others I've met so many like-minded people from all over the world, so comforting to know we live hidden but together. And I found in my own neighborhood unlikely friends and support among the members of my husband's ex-family (his ex-wife's family is all around us, not her but everyone else, and so funny that they all love and support us and we them, life is strange). So in October I'm off to see my sister and cousin in San Francisco, to mourn what's happened to my home, to let it go and understand things change, yet to continue the fight to keep this country free from tyranny, from destruction. We can't let them win control.
I am a California refugee myself and don’t think I could ever bring myself to return to that festering cesspit, so I admire your intrepid willingness to venture into such territory :-)
That said, I recommend focusing on the freedom you are fighting for and modeling it exuberantly for others, and perhaps they can’t help but be attracted to the glow of your joyful spirit. Maybe you will plant a contagious seed in the drought-cracked soil, and a resilient seedling will burst through the surface.
And sprout as poppies and daisies! I will envision and believe it and it shall happen! I can save California and my beloved San Francisco! Thank you so much.
California poppies—perfect!! 🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼
hi Margaret. I really should have read this by now.... can you send me a signed copy please?
I didn't realize I have been living my life just like a Ray Bradbury quote!
Hi, love your work, I don't know how to get in touch with you, but if you are interested in being on my podcast, let me know! I would love to have you as a guest. Great work and thank you!
Thank you for your kind note and invitation, Dystopian Deep Dives! I will drop you an email :-)
Bought the book and left a 5 star review.
Absolutely brilliant! And you interview with the Corona committee was spot on!
How wonderful to hear, Astrid, and I greatly appreciate your making the extra effort to leave a review!
Just ordered. Looking forward to reading this.
How delightful to hear, and thank you so much for supporting my work, Jean! If you can’t wait and don’t mind spoiling the surprise, you can read my fairy tale here (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/the-vapor-the-hot-hat-and-the-witches :-)
That said, I think it is best enjoyed in the nicely illustrated and typeset paperback format if you’re okay waiting :-)
Your book Will help many with Covid Fear Reentry Syndrome.
https://www.psycom.net/anxiety-after-covid
Dennis, haha, let’s hope! I see that article you referenced is now obsolete since the promise (lie) that life would return to “Normal” has already been rescinded ;-)
Thank you for this book . What else have you written?