Getting What I Asked For

I've been asking for more light - it's winter and I run on solar input. It's been an inner chant - light, light, more light. I wanted to come out of a brain fog - induced by the dictate of "no caffeine," by my doctor.

Today, I got a ticket on the way to work for having tinted windows. The car I'm driving came from Idaho. Came with tinted windows which are legal there but are illegal in CA - how would I know that ... when it passed CA inspection by DMV ?

I was shocked to see a red light flashing, a loud horn telling me to pull off the freeway. I haven't had a ticket in 30 years. The officer says, "you can save a blemish on your record, and have this fixed...have someone take a razor blade and scrape off the tint, get CHP approval to take to court and it will save you some money."   I sat there shaking, trying to figure out WHY?

Well...duh. Back to what I'd been asking for. Obviously, I want more light, and the shades have to come off. More transparent, no hiding, no shadows, no "rosy tint" on the world.

Just seeing clearly. I see clearly now, the rain is gone ... what are those lyrics from?

Treasure Maps ~ Vision Boards

I've had such fun leading groups through the Vision Board process - Treasure Maps we used to call it. So much fun that I've added a page devoted strictly to Vision Boards. At the top of this page - next to About Me, just click on it to see the latest group photo with their boards. 

Kathleen has the greatest space to teach in, and we had the most delicious lunch! Mardi Gras Pasta from Creala in San Carlos! Spinach salad...The BEST!!! 

Need Your Thoughts on This

Many of you know how diligent I have been lately about my thinking - choosing uplifting, creative, positive, happy thoughts over negative, glichy, reptilian-brain knee jerk reactive fear based thoughts. I understand we have 17 seconds from the time we have a thought and the time it magnetizes a SIMILAR thought - like attracts like, yes? Yesterday I watched my boss leave a meeting with HR. Ten minutes later I have an email requesting a meeting with me. Knee jerk, reptilian-brain thought is..."Shit, I'm in trouble again - just put two and two together." I paid attention to that thought, looked for a happier thought - "Maybe it's not about me." I came home last night and meditated, and this morning, too.  I practiced my breathing mantra, "ham-sa." There's a story about Shannon and I on that word (another time). 

Today, we had our meeting which went soooooo well (it wasn't about me - duh). So I'm on top of the world today,  finding lucky pennies (one is standard - two is plural and a nice surprise) on the way home. Running errands, I went to the bank, and put an extra $100 bill in my wallet, thinking, now I can magnetize more money... not spending my C-note, but knowing I have it to spend. I went to a couple stores (grocery, office supply, etc.) and thought about what I could spend this on - but didn't. Now, here's the thing I need help on. When the Universe offers you a gift... do not return to sender. I live by this standard. As I'm pulling out of the parking lot, a couple of guys in a red convertible (top down day in SF in January - go figure - it's warm here) honk at me as they pull aside motioning me to roll down my window. I did. The driver says, "I see your scratch on your car - and I can fix it for you."  It's more than a scratch, it's a pretty good size scrape the length of the car on the passenger side. I said, "Gimme a card." He says, "It's what I do, and I'm off today and can do it now for $80."  I said, "I can't today, I haven't got it." He says, "$60 but it has to be now."  

What would you do?  Comments please!

p.s. The $100 came from saving all my $1.00 bills received as change...2 months only.

Law of Attraction - Balance - Visual Aids

I have been focusing on BALANCE for the past few months (okay, Jewel is focused on finding her voice - my cockatiel hasn't stopped chattering today). Whatever you want to attract, whatever the focus, the learning, the growth, it seems to go smoother and faster with visual aids. I learned many years ago that affirmations seemed to take forever to attract a result. Our souls see in pictures and then come the word/s. I proved it to myself - I put a photo of a blouse I'd ripped out of a magazine and it jumped off a rack at me just a couple of weeks later. I put a photo of me leaning on my friend Paulette's Mercedes, and though this took a little longer than a couple of weeks - I became an owner of a used 300D that came to me with the license plate II Lee (to Lee). 

Back to BALANCE - B(e) AL(L) 'AN CE (see).  I had found a visual in a magazine of a stack of rocks, much like you see in Hawaii. Then I found this art installation and took a photo, added type and created my visual that I meditated on daily for about a month, and now I can call it up in my mind at any time - I've internalized it, memorized it, put it into every cell's memory. 

This morning, I looked out over the deck to find the moon setting in the west and the sun rise rise reflected off the building opposite mine. Inner/outer balance. A stunning reminder to balance the inner needs with the outer reality. An inner picture for this type of sun/moon balance is a teeter-totter with two evenly matched people at either end - not up, not down, just sitting evenly balanced talking to each other (can't you see that so easily?). 

Inspiration = Motivation and Motivation = Realized Dreams ~ Cheryl Richardson

I took photos of the sun's reflection, and the moon setting just to the left of my neighbor's building. And then I found, as I was downloading photos, a jpg of one of my Goddess collages and noticed the moon is quite prominent in that as well. Another reminder to pay closer attention to inner needs.

 

Little Love Messages

So So So so cool is a tricky thing that a.j. does with fonts in her emails (I have yet to figure out how she does it - kids these days have digital brains) did not translate onto this page (thanks-sweet email a.j). 

I soooo agree with Jerry's comment about kids and their art as inspiration. I have boxes under my bed (I know, bad Feng Shui) with every piece of art my grandkids have ever given me. Their art clearly reflects their feelings at that moment. They can't hide their anger - it shows up in paintings with daggers for eyebrows; or their joy - which shows up in hearts and rainbows and butterflies and very bright colors. Because of these kids, I have a trunk full of paint pots, brushes, crayons for days, shoeboxes full of markers, pads, pencils, glue sticks and stickers.  

Alixis, aka a.j. - is the oldest of my granddaughters. She's a reader, a writer, a storyteller, a musician, a neatnik with a pretty stylin' bedroom and dreams of being a model, a tennis star, and a lawyer. What I love about Alix is that she leaves little love messages hidden all over the house, and in my computer for me to find long after she's gone.

Little love messages would work for anyone in relationship!