I have been tagged by my good friend Matthew to join in the Blog Apocalypse meme. The brainchild of The Urban Monk, the Blog Apocalypse is a fund-raising and attention-raising effort, now joined by a multitude of bloggers, designed to elicit some exemplary blog writing and show how each of us and all of us, joined in a community, can bring about small changes that benefit us all.

First the challenge: The blogosphere is ending. No more blogs. Blog apocalypse. The internet is still working, the world is fine. But you can’t write anymore. Write your last post. Make it a good one. What is the reason you blog? What is the last gem of knowledge you want to leave? What do you want to be remembered for? Who are you? What is the meaning of life? Haha…well not exactly but you get the point. Pour your heart into it.

Now my apocalyptic post: Why do I blog? I started this blog VeraNadine.com after a couple of failed attempts at blogging about more mundane things such as my life as a creatively unemployed waif, a wayward writer and a fiber arts fanatic. I just realized one day that the best way for me to change my own life and love myself was to embrace my gifts, no matter how fearful, no matter how strange, and to try to help other people to do the same for themselves. I got some good advice from a fellow psychic and light-worker. She told me that my real name said everything that my pen names never could about my life’s purpose and that I had to trust that the Universe had a great plan for me and would always keep me safe. So this blog is titled after me, using my real name, Vera Nadine, which means “the true hope.”

With this blog I seek to know myself better by allowing any well-meaning, positive spirit guide to communicate through me to the world, a world which is ever-changing and full of spiritual seekers like myself. I am not deluded into believing that everyone will agree with what I have to say or that I am the one true psychic. I also freely admit that I hope to be able to make money at some point with my writing and my channeling abilities. This is not really the American dream but a human dream, we all simply want to be able to live freely by being who we truly are…I am just now beginning to embrace the reality of this vision. I do not want to own a mansion in the south of France so much as I want a small piece of land with clean running water and enough room for some chickens. That’s not greed, it’s just good gastronomic sense.

So what I wish to get across to all of my readers is a love for nature, for magic and for possibility. I wish to help others to awaken their own light-working capabilities, for that is why we have all chosen to be here, now, in this time and place. I do believe that one petal upon the water can change the world and that the more it travels and the more it touches, the more people who see it, the more petals that join it…the greater that change. My spirit guides and I write out of love for self and for humanity. Not completely altruistically, but darn close to it.

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