It is 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ warriors🥳🎇! Oh wow, the New Year is here whether we were ready or not. It’s always creeping up on me and will be another busy one. So many dates but those are all coming soon and if you read often, you’ll share in them all with me. I do hope your holidays went well and that you got that R and R I mentioned. We all need it and are worthy of downtime. We are worthy~~~ always remember that warriors. I’ve written this post a few times now. I think I’ve only done that once before… Before getting into the depth of this post today, I would like to THANK all of you who’ve been reading during these past few weeks that I have been gone. The numbers have completely been off the charts!!!I do know, however that some of those numbers are related to the release of “The Iron Claw” movie about the Von Erich Family. I know this because my post “Family Business Banter” got *TONS* of views, more so than it had ever in the past. I used a pic of U.W. and Kerry… I’m overwhelmed as usual, but I thank you all for reading as I did go back and reread that post recently. I hope to see the movie but I just don’t know…..
I told you I’d talk about a book but it’s more than just me sharing my recent reading material. I haven’t mentioned books on here lately and there hasn’t been one that impacted me as much as this one has. I’m not going to recommend reading to all of you as the title and author won’t be shared, but I’m going to get a little DEEP into it. Believing is feeling or is it the opposite? It’s like the expression of “seeing is believing” or vice versa. Today’s title came to me after reading this book’s extremely profound text that had been on my list for years. Warrior had said to read real SH*T and I do! OK, I loved my summer romance novels as we all need a break from the “thinking mode” to get into the “feeling mode” but this book did both for me in a different way.
Several years ago, I had heard of this somewhat controversial book and put it on a reading list but then forgot about it until recently. I never completely put it out of my mind but it just wasn’t my title match. It wasn’t until the author was a guest on a podcast I listen to often that it came back into being for me. The topic is spiritual, but NOT religious and NOT on psychic gifts either. It’s historical and connected to my past in many ways. It concerns a relationship that has been talked about in like-minded groups for centuries now. I was brought up thinking about these folks a certain way and yet there were always questions surrounding them throughout history. A *HUGE* question looms as I too wanted an answer and thought someone, somehow would have one. Despite researchers efforts, they like us will never fully know the true nature of that connection between those celebrated individuals. There are many books on this subject out there for sure. It’s not like “The X-Files”, nope~~~ nothing at all but more about peoples roles in our taught history.
I believe another reason it became a topic of controversy was because the author incorporated many of her own personal stories into the text. People didn’t respond well to that and thought instead she should’ve stuck to more history, facts, logic, and science. Boy, that made me love her book even MORE! Yes, of course we need all the proof if we can find it but there are other ideas that will never fully get proved and that’s how life goes. We can question, research, and probe all we want as that is our journey but if we had all the answers to all the mysteries, we wouldn’t be fully human, would we? She interpreted these historical documents in the way that worked for HER and not necessarily how it might work for others. That’s how it needs to be for all of us. We might agree and then we might not. It’s all about how and why we believe the way we do. I can identify so much with the work in this book as questions will always abound. Fans of Ultimate Warrior, (including myself) will always have our questions too about his final days. Let’s feel and believe in the good…
The truth is, we NEED stories and that’s why I share mine. Sure, I would love to know the BIG answer to that debatable question “wrestled” by historians as much is common knowledge but the truth is, we may never know and need to be fine with it just like other questions. 
The people written about in this revealing story lived over a millennia ago and yet even now, their connectedness and closeness remains a burning topic. ❤️🔥 Even if those interested would know the real truth, does it really matter? Maybe to some, but it wouldn’t change the trajectory of history all that much. It would just validate what many already thought to be true. This author went to places in history while researching her version of the story but never came up with the answers many wanted. History is a mystery, but what does your *** GUT*** tell you? Interpret all the facts received and then feel them warriors.
So, to back up a bit on all this… I had called my library and they had two copies but both were out so it became a waiting game. After a few weeks, I called again being the impatient one I am. It was getting closer to holiday time and I really didn’t want to get into such deep language with the craziness of shopping, decorating, etc. and all that starting up. 😬 Time was ticking and I felt rushed, ugh… That was very typical of me to feel I won’t have time and then I always do. Still no book and I had other agendas on my mind then. I forgot about it for a few days and then the library contacted me— it was in, a month later. Just when I had almost decided to cancel and wait until after New Year’s. I’m so glad I didn’t.
It was the perfect book for me to read despite all that was happening externally. We need the quiet and stillness too warriors and we need it alone. The LOVE and SPIRIT contained in that little red book 📕 gave me such PAUSE with tears 🥲 as I totally GOT IT unlike some other biographers of late. It explored so much of my journey in a unique profound aspect involving others I had only heard about throughout my life, but never fully knew. This author needed to capture the essence of those two main characters by relating her own experiences because it’s more personal that way. If my blog was always just rhetoric or a bio on Warrior, I wouldn’t like it or enjoy writing at all. Some of you might prefer all the logistics of wrestling, just like other readers would prefer more specifics in Ms. Author’s book. We are all entitled to be our own selves but again, it’s about the feelings that help us to remember to believe. We are not learning for the first time warriors, we are remembering. It’s complicated~~~ I know, but without personal reflections, we can never share and say “Yes, I’ve been there too and feel the same” or something similar. 
She mentions about how being human isn’t a failure since many think it has to be such a struggle all the time. It’s really the Soul’s chance to be HERE. Wow. Let that absorb for a moment. Yes~~~ that sounds a bit much for most of you but if you know the story, it would make sense. We may not be understood by others because of how we feel and it can create distance. Some might be jealous (Warrior knew this,) since a few are “privileged” to know or understand in a way others can’t. Hand raised here. 🙋🏻♀️This relates so much to me which I cannot fully express to you, but it’s true. 🫢 We believe because we feel and feel because we believe no matter who or what it is. I needed this book during the holidays and wrote down more passages in my journal. I have the answer to MY BIG question and have for years but critics of this book will not have theirs answered. What is true in your heart without logic? Do you feel it? That’s the true human experience. Be your own warrior and go inward to discover your realness…
P.S. Heal in ways your soul needs. Start now and keep going into this new year. Books, movies, music, genuine connections, and anything else that inspires you. Do good SH*T and believe what you feel every day. I only thought it fitting to use a collage of Warrior for this one. Oh, and the word warrior is mentioned several times. Every book I read, it seems. ❤️🩹
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