Kelly Loves Getting Bossed Around by Spirit Guides

The spirit world digs wikipedia, apparently

Today I had the pleasure of a phone call with the one and only Ainslie MacLeod, psychic author extraordinaire, and his Greek chorus of spirit guides. I have the honor of being one of the chosen few for whom Ainslie's guides have instructed him to give free readings indefinitely. The reasoning in my case is that after numerous editors blindly turned down the opportunity to publish his first book, The Instruction, I picked it up for Sounds True. Ainslie and I got along famously from the start, and he's been giving me good advice from the other side ever since.

But never in my time with Ainslie have I received as much homework from the spirit realm as I got today. The to-do list is long. And while some of the tasks are one-offs (write a business plan for my new venture--apparently the Guides are all about the planning phase), some of them are ongoing.

Like this one. In order to counterbalance my past-life fear of failure, I am supposed to actively learn something new every day. Now this doesn't seem like much trouble--pay the teensiest bit of attention and you, too, will learn something new today. But the otherworldly instruction is far more specific. At night, before I go to bed, I am to learn something new. (The Guides suggest Wikipedia. How cliche.) And not only am I to learn said new thing, but I am to write out what I learned.

Longhand.

Um, yeah. So, I promised to give the learning and writing thing a shot, but I crossed my fingers when I agreed to do it longhand. For I have discovered that one has only so many hours in the day, and I have a blog to write. If I'm going to learn something new every day, you'd better believe I'm going to get a daily post out of the effort. So here goes nothing--I'm off to get me some learnin', and then I'm going to post about it here.