Greet­ings!

You have pounced and landed on the Intro­duc­tion Page of the ‘Bold Kit­ten Brigade’.

Take a moment and look around:

About: Learn about the Brigade.

Blog: Catch the lat­est free con­tent for the Bold Kit­ten Brigade.

Con­tact: How to con­tact Birdy & Mike.

Mar­ket­place: Wanna pick up some Bold Kit­ten swag? Here’s where you do it.

• Bold Kit­ten Ora­cle Deck
• T-shirts, Totes, Mugs, Etc.

Paid Con­tent: The Bold Kit­ten Brigade is a paid com­mu­nity where Safe+Sacred Space is held for its mem­bers. Click the links to find out more about the Brigade and see if we’re a good fit. To join the paid com­mu­nity, go to the Brigade Sign-up Page here.

• Community-based Posts: Paid Brigade mem­bers can access members-only con­tent here.

• Forum: Paid mem­bers of the Brigade can access the fora here.

Resources: The things that we’ve found help­ful, beyond the scope of the Brigade.

Chirp, chirp!
–Birdy :>

Greet­ings!

Birdy here, with a quick list of guide­lines for the Bold Kit­ten Brigade, to keep us purring along and the spats to a minimum.

Bold Kit­ten Brigade Bylaws & Guide to Com­mu­nity Zen-ification

1. We may be Bold Kit­tens, but we are also human adults. We pledge to remem­ber this as often as we can manage.

2. Bold Kit­tens are bold & auda­cious. This means that we need to remem­ber to make our bound­aries clear.

2a. It also means we need to remem­ber to respect the bound­aries of others.

Give what we wish to receive, and a’that.

3. Bold Kit­ten have a lot of wis­dom, both indi­vid­u­ally & col­lec­tively. We are also out to Change the World. This means that we tend to have Opinions.

A lot of them.

And THIS means that we need to be Very Clear when ask­ing Qs as to the kind of responses we want, as our fel­low Bold Kitt­tens will have a lot of Opin­ions which we may or may not be inter­ested in hearing..

• Do we want Advices?
• Do we want Cheerleading?
• Do we just want a friendly ear to Lis­ten Quietly?

Any or all of these are fine.

We just need to remem­ber to define which we want at any given moment.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is key!

4. Bold Kit­tens are often Head­strong and Firm in their Opin­ions. This means that we need to think before we speak or type.

• Is this truly help­ful to the per­son we are inter­act­ing with?
• Is this in reac­tion to our own stuff, and not about the other per­son at all?
• Is this fit­ting in with what they have asked for in terms of what kind of responses they desire?

Also remem­ber that indi­vid­u­als are just that. Indi­vid­ual. So what WE would want in any given sit­u­a­tion may or may not be what THEY would want in any given sit­u­a­tion. (Read Pace & Kyeli’s ‘The Usual Error’ for more infor­ma­tion & Signs to Watch Out For.)

5. Bold Kit­tens have done a lot of liv­ing. This means that we all have our Bat­tleScars and our Stuff.

5a. We take respon­si­bil­ity for our own Stuff, while remem­ber­ing to be kind to our­selves about it.

5b. We allow oth­ers to have their own Stuff, while remem­ber­ing that other people’s Stuff is theirs, and noth­ing to do with us, no mat­ter what it may seem like at the time.

5c. We do our best not to stand, sit, or lay in judg­ment about other peo­ple for their Stuff. We haven’t walked in their shoes at all, we have no clue of where they are com­ing from, no mat­ter what they’ve cho­sen to share with us.

6. Bold Kit­tens have Bold Ideas. This means that many of the Ideas being given Safe Haven here will seem… odd. Out there. Per­haps even a bit zany.

We pledge to sup­port our fel­low Bold Kit­tens as best we can, while remain­ing true to what is True for us.

We will not stand, sit, nor lie in Judg­ment about any one else’s Idea, no mat­ter how Out There it may seem to us.

We will remem­ber to say only what we can truly say in sup­port, while being will­ing to make that effort to find SOMETHING to sup­port a fel­low Bold Kit­ten in need.

7. Bold Kit­tens have many dif­fer­ent World­views and under­stand that there are many dif­fer­ent vari­a­tions on Truth.

We stand firmly in what we believe to be True, while both allow­ing for change and allow­ing oth­ers to have their Truth as well, even when it dif­fers from ours.

And there you have it, Bold Kittens!

If we can at least remem­ber most of these most of the time, we will all being doing well.

It’s mostly about Respect.

• Respect for yourself.
• Respect for others.

Oper­ate from that place of Respect and all will be well.

Chirp, chirp!
–Birdy :>

P.S.: If you came over to see if this com­mu­nity is for you and the answer is a resound­ing ‘YES!’, then click here to be taken to the Sign-Up Page for the Bold Kit­ten Brigade. :>

Greet­ings!

So, you’ve decided to join us in the Bold Kit­ten Brigade.

Wise choice, young kit­ten.

A Brief His­tory of the Brigade

The Time: New Year’s Day 2012

The Place: the chat belong­ing to one of the biz groups of which I am a member

The Prob­lem: sev­eral of us were bemoan­ing the fact that our Ideas seem so huge. :> :>

Our Ideas: so huge.
Our Selves: so small.

And even tho’ our Ideas are World-changing in the direc­tion of Awe­sometas­tic, they are also very different.

Hence the problem.

The sta­tus quo can be a pow­er­ful thing, after all.

The Solu­tion: As I went away & pon­dered the prob­lem, the answer started com­ing to me fast & furious.

Cre­ate the space you want to have.

Don’t wait for oth­ers to do it for you.

Do it now.

And so I am.

(Already know you want to be a mem­ber of the Bold Kit­ten Brigade? Then click the pic below & POUNCE on the oppor­tu­nity! :>)

What the Bold Kit­ten Brigade IS…

The BKB is a com­mu­nity of Idea-holders, peo­ple who have Big Ideas but who have moments when they feel a bit Too Small to get them out into the World.

The com­mu­nity spaces are cre­ated to be both Safe+Sacred, so that mem­bers can feel free to relax, replen­ish, recharge, before they go back out to face the larger World.

These Spaces are also set up to encour­age mem­bers to give & receive sup­port from each other, as well as thoughts as/if desired.

The Purr-fect Bold Kit­ten Brigade mem­ber is:

• pos­i­tive
• respect-full
• play-full
• tol­er­ant yet discerning
• will­ing to take a look at other world­views than their own
• feline-friendly
• woo-tolerant
• paranormal-accepting
• some­one with places to go and things to do
• some­one who is look­ing to grow them­selves & their Idea

The Purr-fect Project for a Bold Kit­ten Brigade mem­ber to have is:

• respect-full to them­selves and oth­ers, includ­ing the planet
• pos­i­tive in nature
• appro­pri­ately inclu­sive (i.e., no dis­crim­i­na­tion except on the basis of Best People)

Past that – have at it! :>

Ben­e­fits of Membership

• The con­tented glow that comes from con­fi­dently tak­ing your Idea out into the World.

• The joy of mak­ing con­sis­tent progress thanks to a com­mu­nity of peeps just wait­ing to cel­e­brate with you.

• The hap­pi­ness that comes from being able to be of ser­vice to your­self & others.

Yes, you still have to do the work.

We’re here in the Bold Kit­ten Brigade to help you get it done by sup­port­ing your belief in the pos­si­bil­ity of what you are try­ing to do.

(read enough to know that the Brigade fits you purr-fectly? Then click the pic below & POUNCE on the oppor­tu­nity to join us in the Bold Kit­ten Brigade! :>)

How We Sup­port the Possibilities

• your fel­low Brigade members

• access to Mike’s & my Gallery of Guides

• access to var­i­ous human-based resources

• links to sources for ser­vices & coach­ing beyond the scope of the Bold Kit­ten Brigade.

What You Receive in Return for your Monthly Mem­ber­ship Investment

Besides the warm, con­tented glow & joy­ous hap­pi­ness men­tioned above, you also get:

• Mom­maCat Mon­day Mis­sives flown in fresh every Monday

• Mom­maCat Chats twice a month on the 12th & the 24th, to give & receive sup­port, and to answer any Qs that might have come up since the last chat.:>

Mike & I will be chan­nelling dur­ing these chats so that you can have access to our Gallery of Guides and their wis­dom & perspective.

• Mom­maCat Med­i­ta­tions — pub­lished at least once a month, these short med­i­ta­tions are designed to help you get past some of the hur­dles that Bold Kit­tens need to be able to scale with ease.

• Access to a Brigade-members-only Skype text chat for addi­tional sup­port between voice chats.

Mem­ber­ship Bonus: After 90 days in the Brigade, you will receive a voucher good for one (1) free Item from our Bold Kit­ten Brigade print-on-demand store.

Your Mem­ber­ship Investment

Mem­ber­ship is cur­rently $27.00/mo.

After the Bold Kit­ten Brigade wel­comes its 50th mem­ber, we will be clos­ing the Brigade to new mem­bers for a while, so that we can get to know each other & each other’s projects.

After the Bold Kit­ten Brigade reopens, the mem­ber­ship invest­ment per month will increase, so if the Brigade is call­ing to you, now is the time to POUNCE!

What if I don’t like the Brigade?

Of course Mike & I hope that every­one will love it here, but we know that some­times things just don’t work out for what­ever reason.

If you decide the Bold Kit­ten Brigade is not for you, sim­ply let us know and you’ll not be charged again.

If you let us know within the first 30 days, we’ll also refund your first month’s mem­ber­ship investment.

Sound like a Cun­ning Plan?

Then click the but­ton below, com­plete your trans­ac­tion, and wel­come to the Brigade! :>

Chirp, chirp!
–Birdy :>

Greet­ings!

Wel­come to the ‘About’ page for the ‘Bold Kit­ten Brigade’, In Which, we talk about what exactly the Brigade is, why it exists, and how you can find out if you’re a mem­ber. (And if you’d be a good fit for mem­ber­ship in our com­mu­nity.)

What is the Bold Kit­ten Brigade?

The Bold Kit­ten Brigade was formed as a result of a con­ver­sa­tion held in one of my busi­ness groups on New Year’s Day 2012.

Sev­eral of us were talk­ing about the fact that we had Bold, Hairy, Auda­cious Ideas that we were striv­ing to get Out There into the World, but were scared of what the reac­tion to such devi­a­tion from the norm would be.

Out of that notion, the Bold Kit­ten Brigade was born.

Who Are We?

We are pos­i­tive, play-full peo­ple who have a Burn­ing Desire to see our Bold, Hairy, Auda­cious Idea safely birthed into the World.

Where we come from is not NEARLY as impor­tant as where we are going.

Our projects are pow­er­ful, pos­i­tive, and world-changing, whether on a local or global level, on a per­sonal level, or affect­ing mil­lions. They are insight-full, respect-full, and different.

Dif­fer­ent from what is out there.

And that’s where the Brigade helps the most.

I know from bit­ter expe­ri­ence how hard it can be to hold your own against a world that thinks you’re weird at best, and crazy at worst.

I know what it’s like to cry because the task just seems too large for one per­son to accom­plish, and just who did I think I was anyway?

The Brigade was formed as a haven for peo­ple like me.

And peo­ple like you.

Peo­ple who have an Idea, and desire a Safe Space to come to where they can sim­ply be.

Warts & weird­ness & all.

Bold, Hairy, Auda­cious Ideas & all.

We’re pos­i­tive peo­ple, full of respect & tol­er­ance, but some­times you just need a space to come to where you can be accepted just as you are.

The Brigade seeks to be that place.

It’s not a sub­sti­tute for ther­apy, nor is it a place to hide from the World forever.

Not every­one will fit in here.

But for those who do… welcome.

Mike & I, Lady Coco & the rest of our Gallery of Guides, stand ready to wel­come you, and to do what we can to help you get your Idea out there.

The World needs what you have to give.

And we will do what we can to help you make it so.

Chirp, Chirp!
–Birdy :>

The Purr-fect Bold Kit­ten Brigade mem­ber is:

• pos­i­tive
• respect-full
• play-full
• tol­er­ant yet discerning
• will­ing to take a look at other world­views than their own
• feline-friendly
• woo-tolerant
• paranormal-accepting

The Purr-fect Project for Bold Kit­ten Brigade mem­bers to have is:

• respect-full to them­selves and oth­ers, includ­ing the planet
• pos­i­tive in nature
• appro­pri­ately inclusive

Past that — have at it! :>

One other thing: Mike & I are firm believ­ers in both sci­ence & psion­ics, a.k.a. magick.

As this is not a democ­racy, and IS being held as Safe & Sacred Space, we will hold a zero-tolerance pol­icy towards bash­ing on EITHER side. :>

’nuff said. :>

Is This You?

If the above fits you like a tai­lored glove, then jump on over here to our community-joining page and pounce on the chance to join us in our bold­ness!! :>

Greet­ings!

Well, here it is Mon­day again (or will be by the time you are read­ing this! ), and it’s time again for another Mom­maCat Mon­day Mis­sive from Lady Coco, Guide & Mom­maCat Extraordinaire.

Another brief expla­na­tion of what I-as-Birdy do when I chan­nel. I am what is known as a ‘con­scious chan­nel’, which means that I ‘stay in the back­ground’ when I chan­nel and am aware of what is said.

This also means that I par­tic­i­pate in the con­ver­sa­tion from time to time. To keep things from get­ting com­pletely con­fus­ing, I let my Guide, in this case Lady Coco, attribute what I’m say­ing in the background.

So when you read ‘Birdy says’ in the post below, you know that I really am speak­ing in the back­ground, as it were. :>

Now onto today’s Q! :>

Today’s Q is about how to keep your Idea safe in the face of those who think they know you because they ‘knew you when’.

And over to you, Lady Coco!

Hello, again, dear ones!

This is a Good Ques­tion for which I will strive to give you a Good Answer.

The biggest thing is to not let such per­sons mat­ter, but of course that is far eas­ier said than done.

Espe­cially when they must remain in your Sphere of Influ­ence for what­ever social rea­son you choose to let them stay there, Out­side Forces can be very dif­fi­cult to repel.

One thing is to treat your Idea as a very tiny, new­born kit­ten. You don’t sub­ject a kit­ten to a lot of noise & chaos right off. The Mom­maCat will have none of that and will whisk her lit­ter away to a place of peace pronto.

Your Idea is best nur­tured in the same way.

Keep it safe in the womb of your heart at first until it has had a chance to grow up & become sturdy enough to face the Out­side World.

When you do let it out of the nest, make sure that your Idea is sur­rounded by those who know how to trea­sure it.

Your fel­low Kit­tens, for exam­ple, can be a great resource for that. (A Mom­maCat reminder to always let your fel­low Kit­tens know what you are look­ing for when you announce your Idea to them. Cheer­lead­ing? Cri­tique? Sup­port­ive Listening?)

Birdy asked a great Q in the back­ground: what if the peo­ple you thought were safe turned out not to be?

Have com­pas­sion for them.

And for yourself.

Remem­ber that yes, work­ing with new Ideas can bring up a lot of Stuff for peo­ple: old hurts, regrets over per­sonal Changes/Chances not Taken, things like that.

So, the first thing to remem­ber is that it is most likely not you, but their memories/experiences that are caus­ing them to react in this way.

The sec­ond thing is to remem­ber that you are in no way oblig­ated nor obliged to live in the Uni­verse or mold that other peo­ple have of you.

It can be dif­fi­cult to over­come the energy of oth­ers, which is why the say­ing of being care­ful how you choose your com­pany came into being.

But it is by no means impossible.

This is where jour­nalling, dream boards, that sort of thing can be helpful.

Birdy rec­om­mends 750words.com as a great place to store such things.

Remind your­self of who you really are, why your Idea will Change the World for the better.

That way you have a record for when it seems the World is not in sup­port of you & your Idea.

And, yes, record also those peo­ple who are sup­port­ive of you & your Idea and the kind things they say/do/etc.

Human mem­ory is short, but the impact of Kind Things lasts a long time indeed.

Also, remem­ber to Ask.

Ask the Ether & the beings such as myself who live here for help. We are eager to offer our help & sup­port, but the car­di­nal Rule we live & work under is that we must sup­port you in your own expe­ri­ence by wait­ing to be Asked before offer­ing our help.

Yes, Birdy is cor­rect. You can check out a won­drous post by Birdy’s fel­low Abun­dance Explorer Susan T. Blake about how Asks don’t have to be for­mal or super-specific. (And we’ll go into why they are even bet­ter done loose & semi-specific in another ‘show’. )

Ask your fel­low humans for support.

Ask your pets for love.

Just Ask.

Want More of This?

Birdy sug­gests a Call to Action in here that if you’d like access to more of the kind of sup­port we have been talk­ing about in this arti­cle, then click here to be taken to the page for join­ing the Bold Kit­ten Com­mu­nity.

Works for me!

Until next time, dear ones, be Bold!
–Lady Coco >o<

Greet­ings!

One of the perks of mem­ber­ship in the Bold Kit­ten Com­mu­nity is that you have access to my Guide, Lady Coco.

So now seems like a good time to intro­duce her and explain why hav­ing con­tact with her is a Good Thing.

Lady Coco is a Soul & a Guide, by which I mean that she is an pan-dimensional being who chooses to help out phys­i­cal plane beings such as humans. And in her case, she has had lives here on Earth, both as human and other, most notably for our pur­poses here as a Siamese cat named Coconut.

Coconut was a Lilac-point Siamese ex-show-cat, who was well aware that humans found her beautiful.

For those who remem­bered to fol­low Earth-cat Pro­to­col, she was friendly, tho’ not familiar.

To those who did not, she had a long mem­ory and short patience.

For us, how­ever, she treated us with a com­bi­na­tion of friend­li­ness and the demand to be adored & pam­pered, which Mike & I were quite happy to go along with.

I fell hard and when she died after a long ill­ness (before her final ill­ness, she’d had at least one exten­sion granted from Else­where), I was dev­as­tated to say the least. :>

I spent sev­eral years after that in pain & depres­sion from los­ing her, from los­ing my Mom, from los­ing our other kitty, Simba, all in a span of about six months.

I’m not remem­ber­ing now exactly how it hap­pened, that time is a bit of a blur, but I do remem­ber two things: one, I was told that I would see Coconut again within a cou­ple of years and two, I learned to channel.

I knew she was there as a Guide from before I took for­mal classes, as I requested her for my first for­mal Guide.

And things went on from there to here.

One other quick thing before I turn things over to Lady Coco: Coconut as a show-kitty was a momma-cat. :>

So when it comes to kit­tens, she knows her stuff! :>

Ques­tion: What qual­i­ties of a bold kit­ten should humans attempt to emulate?

Lady Coco: The qual­i­ties of a kit­ten, bold or oth­er­wise, that it is help­ful to emu­late are first & fore­most those of Play.

They are not afraid to make mis­takes, to look silly, to do some­thing wrong.

They go out, they try some­thing. If they suc­ceed, great.Sometimes there is no-one more sur­prised than they when they succeed.

If they don’t suc­ceed, they get up, they try again.

No big deal.

They don’t worry about how oth­ers will per­ceive them. (They save that for later in life. As do humans. Some­thing to think about. Can you pre­serve that child­like desire to Explore?)

They don’t beat them­selves up for not get­ting it right the first time. (Tho’ they do occa­sion­ally let their tails start things, but that’s another show. )

They main­tain an atti­tude of Play.

Every­thing is a Game.

Every­thing is a poten­tial toy.

EVERYTHING!

(yes, indeed, I am speak­ing a lit­tle bit in my former-to-you role as a physical-plane MommaCat.)

Play is Seri­ous Busi­ness to them.

They play, they exper­i­ment, to learn the Nec­es­sary Skills to be a suc­cess­ful cat, a suc­cess­ful predator

If they don’t learn these skills, they die. (Or they would if they were out in the Wild, where a kyoot kit­ten face will not get them a full food bowl. )

But they don’t go to school for eight hours a day, sit­ting up straight and lis­ten­ing to a teacher.

No, they play games with their sib­lings and with their momma’s tail and they fol­low her around and learn what she knows to do.

You can learn a lot from that.

Take your learn­ings as Seri­ous Busi­ness that can be accom­plished through Play.

Play can be Very Hard Work, as you know. But it is so enjoy­able that the work involved is not a burden.

Keep that flex­i­bil­ity that allows you to fail & try again, take the chance of look­ing fool­ish, and remain mobile enough in your think­ing to look at things from as many sides as it takes to fig­ure them out.

And finally, be bold!

Stick your paw into new things. It’s okay to be cau­tious if you feel you need to be. Take the time you need to take.

But do it! :>

That’s your Mis­sive for today!

Best Bless­ings!
–Lady Coco

Greet­ings!

No-one is of just one Nature.

We all have many Work­ing Parts.

The trick is to bring them into a har­mo­nious Bal­ance, where each part can work together for the good of the whole.

You may be won­der­ing, as I have done over these past few days, how it is that a Bird is becom­ing the leader of a flock of Kittens.

Think Grif­fin.

A Grif­fin is an ani­mal which is part Cat & part Bird. :>

And because of this dual Nature, the Grif­fin under­stands both.

While I am pre­dom­i­nately Bird in my ten­den­cies, I know too, what it is like to be Cat, so I walk in both worlds.

The Grif­fin is a fan­tas­tic beast, one which does not (yet) occur in Nature.

How­ever, we can learn a lot from Grif­fin on how to han­dle a dual Nature and walk simul­ta­ne­ously in seem­ingly incom­pat­i­ble Worlds.

Bold Kit­ten Ques­tion of the Day: Are there places where you walk in two worlds at once? How can you use the pow­ers of Grif­fin to help you do so with more ease and grace?