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March 2026 we spent almost a month in Puerto Rico!
Never took the time to blog about it here, although I did keep a daily journal so maybe one day I’ll type up something but what an amazing time we had!
The Caribbean is part of us now and forever.
Here are a couple photos from the trip. I wanted to post them so at some point I can add commentary but for now, to make space for our new adventures
Update::: Feb 2026:
I did not invent this genre, although I may have named it.
Lucinda Riley invented it, so far as I can tell. Over the past few months I flew through Riley Seven Sisters series. This complex and immersive series is a living example of a Holistory. More specifically a timejump historical holistory.
Let me know if you have ever read a book like this!
More on this later, I just wanted to add that note. Carry on.
HOLISTORY
Are you bored with the worn out selection of story templates that we’ve been stuck with for so long?
Do you have a feeling that there is Magic in the act of writing and you want to dive in the inkwell headfirst as a wizard of words?
Do you love a good mystery but you don’t resonate with murder and violence anymore?
Well, allow me to introduce you to a new genre in the world of storytelling . . .
The Holistory.
What is a Holistory?
In a nutshell, a Holistory is a story that, like a mystery, the author writes backwards with the end in mind for the reader to read forward and pick up clues as they go, leading to a climactic revelation and resolution which bring together all the incrementally revealed pieces of the puzzle.
A Holistory is a Mystery of Miracles.
Here are a couple lists to clarify the nature of the genre. The first list is long (and yearns for your additions).
HOLISTORY DEVICES:
Dreams
Telepathy
Secrets
Lies
Healings
Forgiveness
Animal and plant magic
Reincarnation and kharma
Time travel
Alternative universes or timelines
Numerology
Music, vibrations
Stories
Earth Air Water Fire
Happenstance
Disease and its meanings
Passing comments
Random choice
De javu
Sacred writings, poetry
Prayer
Birth/death
Premonitions
Butterfly effect
Chance meetings
Body holding memories
Symbolism
Car problems
Pre-used items/object magic
Near death experiences
Emergencies
High stakes
Quantum Loom
What is needed is free and perfect or always there
Meditation, epiphanies, visions
Blessings / curses
Superstitions
Legends
ITEMS THAT NEED RESOLUTION:
Guilt
Fear
Loneliness
Something is broken
Disease
Repression
Uncertainty
Abuse
Doubt
Old trauma
Abandonment
Lack of purpose
Close mindedness
Depression
Artists block
Slavery
Infertility
Regret
To live or to die
To stay or to change
Drama
Stagnated mental patterns
Lack
MOVIES OR STORIES THAT ARE ALMOST HOLISTORIES - these works are in the same vein to give you the idea:
A Dog’s Purpose
Cloud Atlas
The Celestine Prophecies
Jitterbug Perfume
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Timekeeper
Past Life Regression stories and books
Oedipus Rex
The Butterfly Effect
Many songs
While these stories explore the themes or touch on the structure of a Holistory, most of them lack the identifying feature of the genre which is its clue-based puzzle nature. The closest are the books of Mitch Album.
THEMES
Synchronicity
Things that need each other find each other
Heart/ power of Intuition
Spirit
Time
MOTIFS
Clocks, Timepieces
Fortune cookies
Holistories can be combined with other genres, of course, like sci-fi, romance, adventure, etc.
Please play with this genre format if you - the Artist, the Writer, the Sorcerer of Script - find yourself inspired to create something with it.
I pray it opens new roads in the way we entertain, delight, share and heal.
One Love.
-Amanda
“Soul Religion”
- A simple format for spiritual community -
Free to use by anyone at anytime
BELIEFS
We believe in Ourselves and Each Other and we highly recommend Optimism.
VALUES
Beauty Love (Energy) Freedom Learning Evolving Nature
COMMANDMENTS
1. Love Yourself
2. Love As Much More As You Can
GUIDELINES
Gather every week to give thanks.
Gather outside if the weather is pleasant.
Everyone is a priest / priestess and is encouraged to bring 1 to 3 things to share, such as a story, song, creation, exercise, food, object, idea, knowledge, question, anything.
Four festivals per year.
Jubilee Celebration every six years for all groups to join together. Possibly in the style of a Rainbow Gathering.
Soul Religion can be modified to fit any group, time or space.
“Disciples of Experience and Friends to All”
Suggestions for Human Societies on Earth - 2024
When in the course of human events, murmurings of a great reset begin to rise, well what the hey, let’s reset this thing!
Here are some simple remedies to society’s ills. You are free to use them, share them, steal them, add to them, and think of more and better ones.
Here we go! It’s vengeance and favor time!
1. No more government. That’s the first thing to go.
2. Owners of businesses have one day to step foot in any store if they want to keep it. If they don’t, the manager owns it or it closes.
3. All politicians, gangsters, child molesters, and celebrities board one-way outbound spaceships run by humorless AI.
4. Everyone is terminally healthy because they have access to health machines and reiki masters. Doctors are only needed in emergencies. Hospitals become temporary homes for homeless.
5. Anyone who has killed a person, including police, military, terrorists, CIA, and murderers, go to healing camp until they’re ready for the ferret test. Then they are put alone in a room with a ferret and if they send it only loving vibes, they are free, but if they send it anything shady, they are off to space and the ferret gets reiki for life.
6. To rid ourselves of money and all the problems that go with it, we only need three technologies:
Free Energy Technology,
Replicators for physical goods, and
Crystal Wallets for services.
Replicators create anything you need out of surrounding molecules and molecules from recyclers.
Crystal Wallets are crystals programmed to measure and store personal outgoing energy. Energy is measured in quantity and frequency.
Humans can invent anything, so let’s get working on those three projects asap.
7. Wherever you live now, that’s your house. No rent. No landlords. You can build and trade houses but no buying or selling. If more than one family lives in a house now, they Rock Paper Scissors for who keeps the whole house and who gets a beach house best three out of five.
8. Keep your campers. Traveling is about to become the national pastime.
9. Stop production on everything besides food; we got enough crap as it is. Retail stores become swap-shops and replicator recycling centers.
10. All libraries are run by 70-79 year olds.
11. Marinas become boat libraries and boats can be returned to any location.
12. Factory farms all close. We need a good idea of what to do with all the animals.
13. The only red tape is the grueling paperwork required for approval to cut down a single tree. Toilet paper etc is made from hemp and bamboo.
14. Everybody with taxidermy in their house gets slapped upside the head and they have to bury it with a eulogy.
15. All 15 year olds are competing to invent a car that runs without gas. Winner gets a mansion.
16. There is a bonfire for each menarche where all the women dance to the live band of the girl’s choice.
17. No more American football. God!
18. Artists and parents are the most respected profession.
19. Cell service is off. Walkie-talkies, CB’s and letters are back. No more internet; y’all couldn’t handle it so. Wi-fi towers are torn down.
20. SPCA’s and pounds unlock the animals and play music for a few days. When the music stops, whoever’s yard an animal is in is the new owner.
21. Schooling is only required until the student reads at a third-grade level. All other classes are free, optional, copious and high-quality.
22. Weather machines are owned and controlled by farmers.
23.Girl color changes from pink to red. And we tell the truth that women are more into sex than men are. That should clear up a lot of confusion.
24. All 17 year olds help run a family for three months.
25. All 21 year olds are nannies for nine months and are also the lifeguards at the pools, all of which are free and saltwater.
26. Anyone who has been traumatized by war or abuse gets a house on 30 acres, a horse, a cow, and a monkey.
27. All cars have breathalyzers.
28. All debts are cancelled.
29. No movies or TV; theater and comediennes are encouraged.
30. 14 year olds apprentice in a trade and can do more apprenticing in any trade at any age.
31. All religions incorporate the worship of plants.
32. News anchors and fact-checkers clean public toilets for three years without thanks.
33. We use the thirteen month calendar.
What say ye?
Shall we be anointed and bring good tidings to the afflicted, heal the broken hearted and speak liberty to the captives?
Shall we proclaim The Year of The People?
I say:
One
Two
Free!
Jubilee!
