Posts

NEW!!!

Surrender (but don’t give yourself away...)

“Just surrender and trust the Universe.” “Everything that is meant for you will be yours, and you won’t have to struggle so hard for it.” “Get very clear on what you want and the Universe will have no choice but to give it to you.” On the surface it sounds like total wishy-washy bullshit, basically encouraging people to skate through life because everything that’s “meant to be” will simply fall into their laps with very little effort. Which, to be fair, a lot of people take that interpretation and because ignorance is bliss, end up doing pretty well for themselves. Alternatively, on the end of the spectrum where people’s heads and assholes have a fair distance between them, there is- or should be- a slightly deeper understanding of this message. A message that I’ve heard only a bazillion times but can only seem to truly grasp and internalize about 57% of them ( that is a technical statistic ). The message is, essentially, do the work and then let it go. For the first t...
Post a Comment
Read more

Shimmer

HEADS UP: I'm writing about some kind of "out there" ideas today, so if you didn't already think I was a little strange, you're about to get a sizable dose of weird. I mean, I'M totally fine with that, but just in case you aren't...you've been fairly warned. --------- I was listening to an Astrology YouTube video regarding this Full Moon in Taurus today (9:45am PST), and she made mention of how all of the planetary alignments at this time are encouraging us to stand in our truth and our power. How we are to be so honest with ourselves about our darkness and our light, to be OK with losing relationships and accepting others that maybe we previously have not truly seen, so long as when we fall asleep at night, alone in our beds, we are truly confident in who we are and where we are going. HOWEVER, it was something else she said that really stood out to me, about imagining yourself as being fully present, in the right place at the right time,...
Post a Comment
Read more

How Do You Take Your Burrito?: The Language of Love

Image
Have you ever heard of "Love Languages"? They're the way that we express and receive love- in all forms- in our relationships. Somewhere along the line, it was narrowed down to 5 modes of expression:  Words of Affirmation Acts of Service Receiving Gifts Quality Time Physical Touch Sometimes, our Expressed Love Language can be different from our Received Love Language, which is to say that one may "speak" in terms of Gifts but may receive love in terms of Quality Time or Physical Touch. As a Capricorn and someone who basically holds other people to the standards I hold myself to, my primary Expressed and Received Love Languages are pretty much the same: Quality Time and Physical Touch, with a dash of Words of Affirmation ( You're so handsome and amazing...now give me a list of reasons why you like me and   tell me I'm pretty. ) I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because understanding Love Languages has become increasingl...
Read more

Talk Amongst Yourselves, I'll Give You A Topic: An Uninspired Musing on Creativity

Image
Does anyone else feel like all their best ideas come exactly when they have no opportunity to execute them? Jewelry designs come to me during a yoga class, writing topics while I'm driving to run an errand, clever Tweets when my hands are full and by the time I get to my phone, I've forgotten the wording and it's less funny ( the most real of all the tragedies here, let's be honest ). I feel like maybe that's simply the nature of "The Creative Process", but it's honestly maddening. I guess the alternative would be to stay home in front of all my "tools" and wait for the ideas to come, but I'm pretty sure there's a Catch-22 in doing that. I'm staring at my list of potential blog topics ( I figured I ought to write them down while I had the opportunity since, as I previously mentioned, that's not how it usually works ) but nothing is inspiring, nothing is sparking that little flame inside of me that gets those opinions ...
Read more

New Moon, New Year, New Me (kinda)

Image
Well it's been over two years since I wrote a full entry and sooo so very much has happened since then. So very much that I'm not even going to attempt to detail anything about it, but I will give a quick overview: between Feb 2018 and September 2018 ( just typed October because apparently I have no idea where I am in time anymore... ), I embarked on what I will ( begrudgingly ) call a "spiritual journey" ( oof, that sounds so cheesy ). In mid-to-late 2016, a shift started happening and I really started to dive into a pool I had previously only dipped a toe in ( crystals with Dad, practicing yoga, watching The Secret, astrology, chakras, whatnot ); I knew something was changing inside of me, it was necessary and an upgrade, and I really started "doing the work", as They say. ANYWAY, a couple years, some psilocybin journeys, an ayahuasca ceremony, countless meditations, reflections, shifts, and changes later, here I am in 2018. It's September ( ...
Read more

I'M BACK! For now.

After a 2+ year hiatus, I've decided to return to this blog ( as I am often wont to do from time to time ). We're living in some real trying ( re: frustrating, backwards, fucked up...yet oddly inspiring? ) times and I've got some strong fucking opinions and an open throat chakra that's just DYING to shout them from the rooftops...except that's way too extroverted for me and I'm a far better writer than I am speaker, so I decided it was high time for me to type a run-on sentence about getting back to my blog again so I can rant and rave and spellcheck and revise before presenting my thoughts to the public. So, there you have it. I'm back. For now. 
Read more

Being a Strong Woman will not get you dates.

More on this later. --------------------------- Ok so I started writing this entry liiike...I don't know the exact date but I'm going to say it was between a month and forever ago. I haven't been able to really commit myself to writing lately, I don't quite know why. Probably because I do my best writing when I'm upset or ranting about something and I haven't felt particularly ranty (outside of my everyday workplace "why is everyone SO STUPID?!" customer service rantings*), but I really need to flex my writing muscles and I actually think this is a good starting point. Anyhoo, I still stand by that original statement: Being a Strong Woman will not get you dates . At least, not in a city like LA where most of the men (a term I use loosely) I come across are barely confident enough in themselves as Strong Men to be able to handle a Strong Woman during a conversation, let alone a whole evening. I realize this is a subjective statement, but as this ...
Read more