Sunday January 18, 2009  5:00pm    Well I just finished the February Horizons Magazine and sent it off to the printer.  I thought I’d finished it several hours ago, yet when I went to export the file to PDF, I began getting error messages that kept failing the export.  Hmmm.  I’d never gotten this error message before, so I Googled “Adobe Sans MM: this font could not be embedded because it is missing.  The font must be installed to view or print this file properly with Adobe Acrobat.”  I got several pages that gave fixes for the Mac which of course I don’t have.  But what I read let me to think it was one of the new PDF ads.  I went back in and checked everything and, technically, it was all fine.  It passed the pre-flight and all the fonts and links were properly packaged.

I tried another Export, and paid attention to which pages it got hung up on.  Hmmm, it was 2 ads from the same person, who is a friend of mine.  Rather than disturb her,  I simply went in and converted the PDF files to tif files, then my export happened perfectly.

I always like to notice what particular people or things are brought to my attention in the course of my work, and to contemplate what the message might be for me there.

This is one of my favorite issues so far.  I have Michelle Whitedove on the cover, she will be appearing twice in Fort Lauderdale, once February 22 at the Expo of Heart, and again at the Universal Lightworker’s Conference which runs June 12-14.  Michelle was the winner of Lifetime Television’s America’s Psychic Challenge where she was named “America’s #1 Psychic”.  I’ve spoken to her and seen her in action and she’s the real deal.  John Edward of Crossing Over is another I’ve experienced who is the real deal.  I am always impressed by a psychic who can give me names and dates and places.

Michelle Whitedove isn’t merely a psychic, she’s also got a good message and has written several books, and we excerpted from her Ghost Stalker in the February Horizons.  Visit her online at www.michellewhitedove.com, where you can also see her win Lifetime Television’s America’s Psychic Challenge.

On the show, as Michelle made it to the final two, it was clearly a battle of Light vs. Dark.  If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought the producers had embellished the Jackie character, who was always being cynical and acting theatrically mysterious and mentioning voodoo.  A  real Debbie Downer and quite the contrast between her and Michelle.  Michelle is naturally light and bright and blonde and happy and smiling and upbeat and animated and fun. So the contrast was glaring and it made for good tv.

Michelle reminds me of myself in a lot of ways.  We do a lot of things behind the scenes that we don’t care if we get credit for.  We are not big promoters of self yet have the attention of a good group of like minded others. We’re hopeful about the future,  And like me, Michelle has come across her share of detractors and even stalkers.

The last several years, Michelle has had a local psychic follow her via her events webpage, and contact the venues and make claims and even pretend to be Michelle, with the goal of damaging her reputation.  Michelle doesn’t put a lot of attention in to these things, but she does put her attorney on it.  I suggested she simply publish online the cease and desist document showing the name of  the offending party and that should nip it in the bud.

I used to have a local evangelical person fax me pages upon pages of scripture in the middle of the night.  I finally just got a fax machine that didn’t print out.  Their return number was on each page so I simply reported it to the phone company.  They’d stop for 6 months then start again, and did it off and on for a couple of years.  I simply reported it each time and didn’t give it much more attention than that.

I don’t expect that everyone is going to believe as I believe and I don’t demand that people account for their behavior.  The most obvious answer is usually “they just are where they are and don’t know any different” and I just let it go.  And I let them go.  As my attention moves on to a different focus, all the discord just naturally drops away.

So now my February Horizons is done!  I just took a sundown walk through my trails and am now going to go into the kitchen and make a celebratory fried rice.  I have onions, celery, green peas, ginger, lemon zest, a yellow squash and one half a red pepper.  I think tonight’s salad will be a simple tomato and romaine with some ginger miso dressing.

Yay 6:18pm  My weekend begins now 🙂