My Head Is Spinning!

Life just keeps getting better and fuller! This blog tonight is me emptying it all. Hope there's something for you to grab onto in your read.

• Just returned from four days in the Catskills where I visited the beautiful acerage and new home of Cosm, the project of Alex and Allyson Grey. I continue to be blown away by their courage, their creativity and their vision not to mention the people they gather round them. Was struck by how wonderful it is to sit in circle, eat in community, dance with abandon until 2 AM, gaze at amazing visionary art, drum, share, live and laugh with like-minded people. I can't do this all the time, but to return to it for a time with intention is blessed. If you'd like to see more, visit www.cosm.com

• The contest continues for The Next Top Spiritual Author. The networking I'm doing to see if I can end up in the top 250 (!) entries and be published far exceeds any networking I've ever done. What an amazing ability to develop and understand. If you haven't voted yet, and would like to cast one for me visit

www.nexttopauthor.com/profile.cfm?aid=1226

You will be sent back to your e mail just to confirm. Anyway, this networking has me walking around with flyers, gathering e mail addresses, begging, informing, thanking. It's a wonderful animal that is causing quite a stretch in me!

• Because of my new book and the way my business is turning or transofmring to include more of working from within whether on a home, on your life, or on yourself I am redesigning my website! That alone takes a great deal of thought and effort. Since the creation of my first website, so much has changed. One thing I am most excited about aside from presenting my new book, is a course for designers that can be downloaded. It will include footage from a very wonderful workshop I put together when a designer from Oregon announced she was traveling to the east to meet with me and hear more. Probably the spontaneous response to that decision made the workshop far more visionary and personal than anything I would have designed with lots of thought time.

I am mentoring several designers and find this work so fulfilling, so adding it to my website to expand the audience has me very excited.

• Last, and far from least is the work I am continuing with Common Ground Fellowship, www.commongroundfellowship.com This is a very diverse, multicultural group of people that is choosing to form community and work for a higher good. We meet one Sunday a month at The Cynwyd Club, in Bala Cynwyd. Our music, our message, and our persistence is adding great spiritual dimension to my life. We are celebrating six years this Sunday with Jonathan Granoff as our speaker before he's off to the U.N. for more deliberation and decision-making. You might want to attend. It's 3:00 meditation, 3:30 the celebration.

Is that enough? Whew! I feel better having emptied all that. On to the next. And in the meantime, I'd love to hear what you're doing. Write to me at www.dennydaikeler.com and I'll publish it. And before I close, did you know that Fort Hood is helping rehabilitate traumatized soldiers with yoga, work on the chakras and meditation. That may be the greatest news of all.
Blessings, Denny

The Art of Writing and Publishing

What an amazing life. You spend years and years, learning, digesting, integrating. And then you've taken in so much that you've grown a thesis. You decide you need to write it down. So you enter the world of writing, rewriting, rereading, rewriting! On and on. Then you finsih something you call "a book." And you find you've only just begun! You love the book, but getting an agent, a publisher, and others to even want to read the book, let alone support it, is as challenging as all those years of beginning!

But what an amazing growth. I mean to decide that you have something to say (you hope,) and then how you're going to say it, and then coming up with another perspective that needs a rewrite is really just like living, isn't it? I mean you decide who you think you are, and you take baby steps, and then more steps, and then it works, and then you get a new idea of who you are or what you believe, and you have to turn a corner, or move, or quit a job or, or, or. One thing all of this living, OR writing does though, is keeps one on a path to being conscious about whatever it is they're exploring? LOL!

The ups and downs, reevaluation, contemplation, and almost self destruction that I've gone through in the process of writing my first book, and now my second, has gifted me with a process that I had no idea would grow me up. I thought I was already grown up. I didn't have a clue.

So anyway, my second book is complete, and I'm standing on the threshold of the second part, that of publishing. This book differs from my first in some way, so it needs a different publisher and therefore a different agent. Where to start is certainly the biggest question up.

So along comes a contest, Next Top Author, for "Spiritual" books (aren't all books spiritual ?)
and it appears as a beautiful door into creating the process of how to get published again, getting some attention, entering a network. All of this is to ask you to now vote for me in this contest! But not really all. I am truly in awe of this dynamic in life, my life anyway. And craizness of all craziness, I've got a new idea, a new book, it started in my head yesterday! Life just keeps getting juicier.

Please vote for me in this wonderful contest. A description of the book etc. is on the profile where you'll vote. Read it and then decide if I deserve your vote or if the book resonates with you:

www.nexttopauthor.com/profile.cfm?aid-1226

Thank you!