Some Not Very Interesting News

Well, I'm pretty sure that by now everyone I know is pretty tired of hearing about the website, so that's why the title of this post is "Not Very Interesting News." But, I have been working my ass off and I have to have some place to post updates of what's new... so here it is.

My friend Daniel and I were talking about meditation, and I was kind of psyched about all the Transcendental Meditation content I had uploaded earlier, so I got to work and made the Meditation landing page. I totally love how it looks. The ads need some tweaking so they aren't so... well... obnoxious... but other than that I really like it. I also put up some meditation content:

• Simple Instructions For Meditation
• Instant Mantras
• Meditation for Repair and Restoration
• Om Namah Shivaya

Then I posted two more Sufi Stories.

• A Sufi Dandelion Story (this one was originally posted here)
• The Seeker and the Sufi

I also added two new pages (A story called "Socks", and 4 new poems) to the Independent Review Winter 1986 issue. I figure if I do one or two pages at a time, it'll eventually be completely finished and I can move on to the Spring 1987 Issue, and at some point all the issues will be online and I'll be done with that.

Then I got excited about creating the Dog Training Pages which I think looks awesome. I also uploaded a few pages of stuff including:

• About Me (I actually look pretty good on paper)
• Four Reasons to Obedience Train Your Dog (Cute... at least I thought so)
• Getting Started With Dog Training

So, there you have it. The story of my weekend...

A Drop In The Bucket

Ok... so one of the things I didn't expect when I decided to create a mega website with a boatload of information on it was that uploading a bunch of stuff would be so decidedly underwhelming. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy creating websites and sharing all the stuff I find cool and interesting.... It's just that when a website is so ... well ... mega ... a "bunch" of posts or pages are like a tiny drop in the bucket and almost not even noticeable.

For example: I spent all day yesterday working on transcribing the notes I took during a course called The Science of Creative Intelligence. I managed to get about 8 classes transcribed, plus an article about Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and five... yes five !! pages of Maharishi Quotes. If I would have uploaded all that stuff here, or on one of my other blogs, my readers would be praying for mercy! But on my mega site... it was like nothing happened.

So... anyway... that's all I have to say about that right now. Here are links to the pages I uploaded. Enjoy!

Science of Creative Intelligence
About Maharishi
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

My Latest and Greatest Idea

It's been a really long time since I put anything new up here at shirleytwofeathers the blog. But that's about to change. I have been working really hard on a static website for all my cool shit. Well, actually it's going to be a mega (and hopefully awesomely cool) website by the time I get everything uploaded.

The idea was to put all my eggs in one basket - consolidate all my blogs and cool stuff on one static website that is owned by me. A place where I can put whatever I want, wherever I want, and nobody can give me too much grief about it. Images will be hosted on the site itself, so I won't have that annoying problem of hosting images on websites and then suddenly they're gone because I wasn't paying attention... or paying money... or whatever..

So what will happen with my blogs? This little blog is going to be the news feed for the website. I'll be posting information and links to the new content on the website. This is because I am not all that good with html and code and etc, and I couldn't figure out how to have a dynamic news feed on the site. It's also because I hate to let go of anything, and this gives me a really good reason to hang on to this blog.

Gradually, I will be moving all the cool stuff that I've posted here, and putting it on the new site. This is going to take a while - I have so much to upload from all my other blogs. But don't worry, I'll be letting you know when something moves from here to there.

Oh, and the name of the site? Well, it's shirleytwofeathers.com... what else would it be? My plan is for it to be your online resource for all things magickal, mystical, spiritual, inspirational, radical, ridiculous, and cool... So, go check it out and let me know what you think. Comments of any kind are appreciated.