manifest mondays

how is my intention for the month supporting me?
since tomorrow is Sept I am picking a new intention... GRACE. i need some bad. some grace to roll with the punches and who whisks in when things are **** and offers hope, ease and insight.

how do i want joy to lighten the issues?
i've come tot this place in my story line where i see where i am, i see where i want to be and i am trying to act in accordance with the new story line... but there is the tinyHUGEtiny leap that needs to happen. something is keeping me in the old pattern.

i would like joy to shine some insight on this. or at least provide me with a week full of laughter and fun.

who or what is giving me energy?
the early morning walk in the fog, watching the mist swirl and the dew gather on plants and spider webs.

exercise, sweat and stretching. trying to come back into my body and relearn what it is capable of doing.

what quality would i like to call in?
i need a dose of hope. i am so tired of this being so hard and feeling like i am not getting anywhere.

i could be show progress through the eyes of another
or i could get a genius insight
or the right thing could come my way like this video

taste of georgetown the photos!

there is our lovely product card with leopard pin-up gear and a monkey.

in front of the mistress of Helle is the lovely grapefruit soaps with pink Himalayan salt. glorious!

the only drawback was that they got very slimy int he hotHOThot room


and after spending the last 30 minutes trying to get the other 2 images to upload I am calling it a failed attempt and moving on to better things. I shall try to hook them in later or potentially utilize them somewhere on the website.

Thursday night was spent amongst an amazingly hip group of people.

Seattle Yelpers are trendy and like to play.

Danielle, the owner of Helle, and I trucked down loads of soap, lip care product and tarot cards.

We were the only non-food vendor there so later on in the night we had to watch people carefully to make sure they did not try to eat the grapefruit soap samples as they bore a similar resemblance to jello shots.

Tarot cards were read, bear was spilled, free whiskey was consumed, and soap and people got slimy due to the balmy evening. At one point I turned to Danielle and pondered whether or not we were in LA cause it felt like no Seattle scene I had ever participated in.

Yelp you sure know how to throw a party! check me out on Yelp! and if you would be so inclined you can review me for good karma points

reflexology and cancer

there are tons of studies going on about reflexology and how it helps those undergoing cancer treatments. one of my dearest friends and clients is having a mastectomy today and i felt the need to share a few thoughts on my reflexology is so helpful when dealing with cancer.

these are my thoughts and experiences only as reported by other clients during and post treatments for various forms of cancer, please do not take these thoughts as evidence.

Post Cancer and surgery clients are best served by reflexology because :

• Assists in Detox. Removal of harsh chemo drugs from system, these drugs settle in tissues and digestive system and can eventually lead to complications.
  
• Nurturing pain free touch. This gets clients back in their body after traumatic life experiences and months of feeling like crap. Assists in clients well-being and relief of nausea, pain, stress and surgical trauma. Re-integration to their body.
• Assists in circulation and lymph drainage. Reflexology allows the body to relax which opens the circulatory system allowing fluids to flow, pick up and distribute waste and nutrition to cells and facilitates increase health through potential stimulation of white blood cell creation.
• Body and Self love. reflexology allows time for deep healing relaxation, this stimulates the expression of deep emotions that have been pushed aside. Allowing fear, grief and pain to surface and leave the body opens the client to deep self love, calm and a sense of connection to all--allowing profound healing and shortened recovery time.

may we find a way to alter the harsh experiences cancer makes us experience. may we find a kinder, gentler healing process.

the invasion begins

apparently we were invaded by aliens in Washington

i do not feel any different, maybe a bit more positive so maybe these be good aliens.

i couldn't see the spaceships from my house in Seattle, they were sort of blurry due to the hazy pollution and i thought they were just strange clouds.

p.s. that is Mount Rainier, it is 14,400 feet high. those are some seriously large space ships

castor oil in my ski boots

YES please.

those of you who have seen me for a reflexology treatment know of my undying and sometimes annoying love of castor oil.

well now there are new reasons to love this incredible rich plant: ski boots! made from plastic from castor oil. I LOVE IT!

choose your life mondays #1 (yes i know it's tuesday)

so I found this lovely activity on Jennifer the Comfort Queen's Blog

and I think I shall start because recently I was told to stop driving the bus, and get out of the way and I know this will help with all of that.

How is my Intention for the month supporting me?
Since I am new to this I did not realize I had to have an intention...however I have been playing with PLAY so I shall make that my intention. I think PLAY is supporting me to not take life so seriously, I've been dancing a bit more and when I don't know what to focus on for my business I have surrendered to outside, books, a movie here and there and art.

How do I want Joy to lighten this week?
So I feel as if I am tittering on the edge of a big giant change and I want to find ways to delight in looking over the precipice and to tease my way into falling forward instead of back into the known. I think the idea that laughter and games awaits me on the other side is a nice carrot to dangle. This week I shall find people to laugh with!

Who or What is giving me energy?
Art... randomly picking up scraps of paper and doodling is helping me this week.

What quality would I like to call in from the Divine (nature, love, spirit, something larger than me)?
Grace. I so desire to move out of these stories that are keeping me small and in a state of financial chaos. I know I can survive the next incarnation of me, and I know it will be easier on some level but I just can't get myself to fall forward into it. I am so attached to being poor and small and invisible... Grace to embrace the changes occurring and allow myself to surrender and let go with out the kicking and the thrashing out and the pain I am currently experiencing.

May it be so!

You deserve happiness, love, joy and ease.

Remember this and find ways and opportunities to smile, laugh and celebrate.

The most elegant and beautiful thing about humanity is the ability to take a really hard situation, to feel the heartache and pain and to keep going... it is stunningly beautiful.

May you fall apart and re-build yourself anew.

Be gentle.

why do some people...

...have so much trouble and/or bad luck? I just got word that my sister broke down on the way to visit my sick grandma? the good news she broke down in Spokane and not Safford Arizona., so someone can rescue her. Other bad news her not-yet-paid-off car needs a couple thousand dollars of work.

But what is it that attracts this? Why does it seem that bad things always happen to her? Especially as she seems like she is totally trying to be positive, move forward and make good choices?

And why does this other acquaintance I know always have stunningly good luck? With everything, without trying? Who manifests things and then throws them away...

why?

Is there some gene my sister is missing? Is it self confidence, or knowing the right people? Maybe she has monsters... hmm i think it must be monsters.

Any theories cause I'd love to hear them...

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Escaping the heat

this is my leg post kayaking adventure. I did not wear a spray skirt on the way over due to the heat. i also forgot to lather my inner thigh with sunscreen. ooops!

one week later i still have this wonky shaped burn on one leg. it seems to be here to stay awhile. bizarre.

escaping to Blake island during the INTENSE heat of last week was a very good thing. there we were sitting at our picnic table, cool breeze sipping tea and listening to the radio chirp out 99 degrees at Sea-Tac. this was at 8pm. OMG! YUCK!

we were laughing at the fact that we were 6 miles away, could plainly see Seattle and the planes coming and going from Sea-Tac and we were almost too cool. it's amazing what a large body of 50 degree water can do to coll a place down.

other than the burn the trip was delightful, lots of walking, and reading and eating and napping. also communing with the deer who came every afternoon to our campsite for their snack of laurel leaves. and raccoons who came every evening and tried desperately to find some oversight in our raccoon proofing of the camp. foiled again you pesky varmint!

i am so ready for a nice cool rain.

i adore the sun, but i miss the clouds and the variety in my days. too much of a good thing can really be too much. i know i won't be able to remember or savor these days when in December i am lamenting the lack of sun and the excessive rain and clouds so please can i exchange a bit of this sun for some of Decembers rain and forward this brightness into a cool sunny December day?

i think i might be insane

i am up in the middle of the night writing a manifesto on how i am going to help change the world by creating art.

it will be a three year project in which i work to meet goals, create art, and donate thousands of dollars to charities.

it requires the creation of 2012 pieces of original art each year until October 31st 2012. that's 5.5 pieces of art a day for three years. that's a total of 6036 pieces of original art.

and the idea is to sell them all to raise money for charities (and to help support the therapy i shall need from the nervous breakdown of epic proportions.)

but it's real.
and it makes me feel.
and it keeps me up until 4 am making manifestos on how to do it all.
and i want to succeed in it, like i have never wanted to succeed at anything else.
so how can i ignore it?

the problem... well for starters i have never sold a piece of art in my life. and oh so many many more i can't even begin to list.

this is epic... and possibly impossible and yet it would certain throw me face first into a whole ton of my stuck. the question is do i do it or do i stay safe and small and in the comfort zone?


let's find out... check back here for crickets chirping or plans