I am having some really interesting days. Thank you so much :) I keep thinking of you reacting to my pretend sneeze like you did in the podcast :) I was cooking today and thought of you reacting like that, and I started giggling :)
hahahahhahaha!! I love that part so much!! and that it's making you laugh still when you think of it!! hahahaha :) I've been sending you loving vibes towards you and your mural project. I know you're smashing it. ❤️
Aw, well I haven't laid hands on the wall yet but I did an illustrator "drawing" which is just color blocking really. The final vote on design elements is on Sunday. Next week, I begin. I posted an image of that color blocking design rendering in notes, but I didn't tag anyone.
I find going to Walmart to always be a draining experience. It’s the the lighting or something, combined with that dull blue everywhere. In the future I’ll put on my love suit before entering, hopefully that will improve the mood of some people. It’s wonderful to read how you made a difference in somebody’s life in such a short time by sending out loves signals.
And your art? Through the roof wonderful! Thank you Amy! ✨💜🤗
Thank you , Charlotte! It was really remarkable. Although I still don't recommend going to Walmart. Haha. I hear ya about the lights and the blue.....eek
I love how you put that. Dream journaling is so important to me now. I would be breathless from this or that one particular dream or real world moment, but when I bring it all together, I can really see it too. There is something wonderful happening. Thanks Michael. I am excited for tomorrow. I made up a song this week that I am only half ready to play and I am not even worried about it. I just want to sit IN the energy of it tomorrow while I perform it. It's so exciting to see what can happen in a day. "Civility smiling on me", how nice to think about. I am enjoying communing with nature and listening and waiting and sending love. I am so much more patient these past weeks.
Amy! I've been waiting for you to post. I've told my daughters and dance friends your sandhill crane story and they were all appropriately aghast (that can be good, yeh? Think of it as amazed and enthralled)
I had an AI wish, if you ever found yourself put on hold in between your paying gigs. I want to do a post called Round Body Advocate. My youngest daughter has been taking up this cause and it's calling to me to write about. I almost thought you were going to fulfill my wish without a word, in your dream about the woman.
It's difficult to find curvy women in AI art who aren't wasp-waisted. My oldest talks about how much more attention round-bodied women need to pay to style, most of which isn't made for them. She's really the one who taught me how to see differently, to see the woman well put-together and walking with purpose. Or climbing with purpose, like one young woman I was admiring in my aerial practice.
I even wondered about women morphed with animals, who are always well put-together. Anyway, this is just something to throw out there and see if it sparks any ideas.
And love your loving Walmart mind-meld. I had to go back to see if that was a dream!
I love that you shared the sandhill crane story. I think the cranes would be happy to hear it too; ah the crane family and their little “blinky” :) The Walmart trip wasn’t a dream, but was it? Technically, I was awake and at Walmart in the here and now……….but it felt dreamy. When you walk with purpose like that, it feels a lot more like a dream. I was actually planning on doing a series like that, of differently-shaped humans. I was thinking of doing physically different kinds of people. I like it. I have a lot going on right now, but I can throw some words at that. When were you planning on doing that post? I am working on a chaos deck of tarot cards at the moment. My time at the computer will be spent on that for the following week. After that, I am open. Feel free to be more specific about what you were looking for. :)
Oooh that's so cool that you were thinking of doing a series like that. Since you're inviting me to let my imagination run wild, here goes:
I was thinking in my Worldanz class, how few dance styles are made for skinny bodies. We do a lot of Senegalese, and that's certainly not. I've taken classes from an AfroBeats teacher who used to do ballet. She's black but with a ballet body. She said that she went through serious dysmorphia trying to keep up in the Oakland AfroBeats community.
Jamaican dance hall is all about the twerk and, although a Jamaican teacher said it's all in the thighs and you don't need a butt, I fail miserably at it.
My dance teacher talks about a friend with a butt, back before it was fashionable. She was always trying to hide it, then she went to Brazil, and a man fell at her feet on the first day, begging her to marry him. She didn't, but that experience wasn't unique. I'd love to see curves in full-on feathered samba gear.
We also do Polynesian, also made for ample wavy women. And Haitian voo-doo snake dances, that could definitely be sinuous.
With the young aerialist, I was seeing her thighs as sturdy vines, wrapping the silks while she was hanging upside down, a bodacious trumpet flower. She had also brought a black friend whose hair was a force of nature. It was just long enough to part in the middle but defying gravity in all directions.
My oldest daughter just bought a bathing suit for her 32nd birthday next weekend, featuring a water slide. It's a white two-piece with white lace at the center braline that swoops down on each side, leaving two fetching arches of bare skin. Then it drops into a full-length skirt, with just enough coverage to show off her new black-etched floral tattoo on her thigh. She has blond curly hair and blue eyes, and I think she's going to need a daisy crown to go full fairy princess.
I like the idea of reinventing mythological creatures with multicultures. An Inuit mermaid or selkie? And bellbottoms were made for curvacious women. They can give me the illusion of hips but it's all smoke and mirrors. Bumblebee body? Bumblebody?
No deadlines and no demands. Go where your heart leads you. Chaos deck! So cool!
I love it all. I am saving it to a word dox. When are you planning the Round body thing? Also, I am sure you don’t mind if I ask you questions once I get started :) Your daughter and her suit and skirt, sound beautiful.:) I love the girl with gravity-defying hair parted in the middle as well :) Yes, I can work with this.
Yes yes yes to questions! Or imagination prompts, as the writing coaches would call them. I have infinite other posts tugging on my pantsleg saying, "Pick me! Pick me!" So there's no timeline unless you want there to be, and then I'll make something up.
You are a WINR. And who puts articles into acronyms anyway? That insignificant a is understood. I, on the other hand, am Toilet Paper ;-) And happy to be such a useful product.
Oh I'm loving all of those. Transformative Polymath is most intriguing. I dunno what it means but it has a great ring to it ;-) Thank you for all those monikers.
Well, all this feels quite powerful and also true. It is funny as I have struggled to remember my dreams. I have worked at it. Taken a class on lucid dreaming. Read a book or two. I think I do much of this as my mind “wanders” while I am awake and I trust there is a reason I remember so little from the night. I have a feeling I do things while I sleep and that this life, it is my journey to remember less and see how I can navigate things. That little child feels quite important and powerful. I would not make it as small or big as calling it “a part of you”. It feels like caring for a new energy. Maybe for yourself. Maybe for the planet or your family. Maybe for a child somewhere that needs the energy of care. Most likely it is all those things. Thank you for your response as well….
How interesting. You say that perhaps it is a part of your journey that you should not remember as much. It's also interesting to think of "I do things while I sleep." That makes sense. Whether we remember the dreams or not, things are still being done with your truest intent. Reverberations are made. I wonder about the day dreaming part. Sometimes that's a problem with me, because I have a hard time drawing myself out of that to focus on something mundane. Have you ever tried lionsmane before bed? Someone told me they have more vivid dreams that way. It sounds like you have accepted that it is what it is and will be what it will be. That is interesting, if it were that you were not meant to have more information. It implies that you have extra fortitude upon which to build, by your very essence. Maybe you have been around the block/sphere/turtle/pancake a time or two. :)
I appreciate all you say here. I just checked and my “brain boost” tincture I just took with my other supplements. It is lions mane. I have another mushroom tincture as well and lions mane is in it. I also got something called “ghost pipe” someone here on substack mentioned to me
and it intrigued me. I have been taking a little of it too. I will take the two mushroom tinctures tonight right before I go to sleep for fun. I am pretty sure we have both been around the turtle a few times. It is quite rare to have this deep and interesting a conversation with someone who gets it. I got a sense on a psyllocybin mushroom journey that I came to go through some “stuff” and come out the other side to show other humans how it’s done (and this can be energetic, we do things like that simply by living our life and people feel it I believe and our life effects the human and bigger energy fields). I imagine if I could do a lot of things, I wouldn’t be showing people who can’t, how to do it from where they are at. That is all speculation that could easily sound like egotistical justification. But it is helpful for me to view my life as a journey through a sense of disconnection and separation back to love. I did some guided writing today around: Why do I matter? It is an interesting question for many people I imagine (although I also think few would want to say they wonder about it). A family member wishes to simply dissolve into nothingness when she passes. Life has challenged her. That has never felt “right” to me. I had a subtle vision of the field of love and how beautiful, changing, and diverse it is. And we are part of that. Anyway, it is good to ask questions of God sometimes. God and my guides are starting to show me a different perspective. But it would be fun to play in a lucid way in my dreams. I did have one lucid dream and was chased by two man-beings, which scared me. That was years ago. I have read they are part of me waiting to be faced. I am not sure that was the case…and I haven’t had the opportunity to explore further. Regardless my new friend, I wish you sweet dreams tonight. It sounds to me that yes, you are communicating with a lot and having an effect through offering your talents and gifts. Everything begins energetically. It is the most powerful place to offer one’s gifts. At one point I realized that it is often the slow, subtle, gentle movements that have the greatest effect.
"That is all speculation that could easily sound like egotistical justification. But it is helpful for me to view my life as a journey through a sense of disconnection and separation back to love." I mean, I choose to believe that I chose to be here for this. That is no different. You are deciding how you feel about it and from what perspective you are coming. That makes perfect sense to me. I had some really weird dreams last night. I should write that one down. It was a mess. Thanks for pointing out that the slow, subtle, gentle movements have the greatest effect. That's a good thing to keep in mind if I am ever feeling impatient :) You matter to me. You are enriching my life. You are right, these conversations are rare. It makes me feel excited to know that there are other people out there who think about these things. It confirms my suspicions that there is much , much more to experience. I am excited to continue following along with you on your journey :)
I am glad to have found this this morning. I have been contemplating what is real. Sometimes, I feel the dreams are also versions of reality...and I imagine that is strange. But then again, I have to own that many people would find me strange or interesting, if they really knew me. I love what happened in Walmart. It is fun to read stories and experiences from someone who feels so much.
I think about that too, dreams being versions of reality, it's very important to me. I haven't written about this yet, but I recently had a dream that someone gave me a child. I looked up the shamanic meaning of that and it felt like it meant exactly what I read that it was "supposed to mean." I carried on with my life, but that child looked at me in such a way.........I see him here before me now, like someone I want to comfort. I have sent energy his way in my being. I send him protection and safety and happiness and peace, when I think of him. I think of people that I see in my dreams more and more, now that I am writing. I feel like thinking of them sends them peace or protection or love somehow in another time/space/dimension/layer.....whatever. I think this is an important part of my new practice. What if our thoughts toward people we see or know in dreams is a part of the Akashic Record? So, I think you are interesting, indeed. You are strange because you are talking time out to talk to me about dreams. :) May there be more and more strange people! Thank you for saying those things and reminding me of them. I love talking about it with people, but when they are there in front of you, they don't always want to hear about your dreams, do they? Haha.
Fantastic share, sister. And art! I love how dreamy and imaginative and connected to life you are. ❤️
I am having some really interesting days. Thank you so much :) I keep thinking of you reacting to my pretend sneeze like you did in the podcast :) I was cooking today and thought of you reacting like that, and I started giggling :)
hahahahhahaha!! I love that part so much!! and that it's making you laugh still when you think of it!! hahahaha :) I've been sending you loving vibes towards you and your mural project. I know you're smashing it. ❤️
Thank you for sending that my way :)
you got it, sweet pea!💗 (which I take it is the cousin of sugar bean ;)
XOX
Aw, well I haven't laid hands on the wall yet but I did an illustrator "drawing" which is just color blocking really. The final vote on design elements is on Sunday. Next week, I begin. I posted an image of that color blocking design rendering in notes, but I didn't tag anyone.
I find going to Walmart to always be a draining experience. It’s the the lighting or something, combined with that dull blue everywhere. In the future I’ll put on my love suit before entering, hopefully that will improve the mood of some people. It’s wonderful to read how you made a difference in somebody’s life in such a short time by sending out loves signals.
And your art? Through the roof wonderful! Thank you Amy! ✨💜🤗
Thank you , Charlotte! It was really remarkable. Although I still don't recommend going to Walmart. Haha. I hear ya about the lights and the blue.....eek
You have a lot of niceness in your dreams. It’s like civility smiling on you. That’s a wonderful energy manifesting.
I love how you put that. Dream journaling is so important to me now. I would be breathless from this or that one particular dream or real world moment, but when I bring it all together, I can really see it too. There is something wonderful happening. Thanks Michael. I am excited for tomorrow. I made up a song this week that I am only half ready to play and I am not even worried about it. I just want to sit IN the energy of it tomorrow while I perform it. It's so exciting to see what can happen in a day. "Civility smiling on me", how nice to think about. I am enjoying communing with nature and listening and waiting and sending love. I am so much more patient these past weeks.
Amy! I've been waiting for you to post. I've told my daughters and dance friends your sandhill crane story and they were all appropriately aghast (that can be good, yeh? Think of it as amazed and enthralled)
I had an AI wish, if you ever found yourself put on hold in between your paying gigs. I want to do a post called Round Body Advocate. My youngest daughter has been taking up this cause and it's calling to me to write about. I almost thought you were going to fulfill my wish without a word, in your dream about the woman.
It's difficult to find curvy women in AI art who aren't wasp-waisted. My oldest talks about how much more attention round-bodied women need to pay to style, most of which isn't made for them. She's really the one who taught me how to see differently, to see the woman well put-together and walking with purpose. Or climbing with purpose, like one young woman I was admiring in my aerial practice.
I even wondered about women morphed with animals, who are always well put-together. Anyway, this is just something to throw out there and see if it sparks any ideas.
And love your loving Walmart mind-meld. I had to go back to see if that was a dream!
I love that you shared the sandhill crane story. I think the cranes would be happy to hear it too; ah the crane family and their little “blinky” :) The Walmart trip wasn’t a dream, but was it? Technically, I was awake and at Walmart in the here and now……….but it felt dreamy. When you walk with purpose like that, it feels a lot more like a dream. I was actually planning on doing a series like that, of differently-shaped humans. I was thinking of doing physically different kinds of people. I like it. I have a lot going on right now, but I can throw some words at that. When were you planning on doing that post? I am working on a chaos deck of tarot cards at the moment. My time at the computer will be spent on that for the following week. After that, I am open. Feel free to be more specific about what you were looking for. :)
Oooh that's so cool that you were thinking of doing a series like that. Since you're inviting me to let my imagination run wild, here goes:
I was thinking in my Worldanz class, how few dance styles are made for skinny bodies. We do a lot of Senegalese, and that's certainly not. I've taken classes from an AfroBeats teacher who used to do ballet. She's black but with a ballet body. She said that she went through serious dysmorphia trying to keep up in the Oakland AfroBeats community.
Jamaican dance hall is all about the twerk and, although a Jamaican teacher said it's all in the thighs and you don't need a butt, I fail miserably at it.
My dance teacher talks about a friend with a butt, back before it was fashionable. She was always trying to hide it, then she went to Brazil, and a man fell at her feet on the first day, begging her to marry him. She didn't, but that experience wasn't unique. I'd love to see curves in full-on feathered samba gear.
We also do Polynesian, also made for ample wavy women. And Haitian voo-doo snake dances, that could definitely be sinuous.
With the young aerialist, I was seeing her thighs as sturdy vines, wrapping the silks while she was hanging upside down, a bodacious trumpet flower. She had also brought a black friend whose hair was a force of nature. It was just long enough to part in the middle but defying gravity in all directions.
My oldest daughter just bought a bathing suit for her 32nd birthday next weekend, featuring a water slide. It's a white two-piece with white lace at the center braline that swoops down on each side, leaving two fetching arches of bare skin. Then it drops into a full-length skirt, with just enough coverage to show off her new black-etched floral tattoo on her thigh. She has blond curly hair and blue eyes, and I think she's going to need a daisy crown to go full fairy princess.
I like the idea of reinventing mythological creatures with multicultures. An Inuit mermaid or selkie? And bellbottoms were made for curvacious women. They can give me the illusion of hips but it's all smoke and mirrors. Bumblebee body? Bumblebody?
No deadlines and no demands. Go where your heart leads you. Chaos deck! So cool!
I love it all. I am saving it to a word dox. When are you planning the Round body thing? Also, I am sure you don’t mind if I ask you questions once I get started :) Your daughter and her suit and skirt, sound beautiful.:) I love the girl with gravity-defying hair parted in the middle as well :) Yes, I can work with this.
Yes yes yes to questions! Or imagination prompts, as the writing coaches would call them. I have infinite other posts tugging on my pantsleg saying, "Pick me! Pick me!" So there's no timeline unless you want there to be, and then I'll make something up.
You are a WINR. And who puts articles into acronyms anyway? That insignificant a is understood. I, on the other hand, am Toilet Paper ;-) And happy to be such a useful product.
Well, you are useful but COME ON :) Haha. It's more like :
Thoughtful Philosopher
Thriving Professional
Trailblazing Pioneer
Transformative Polymath?
Tenderhearted Poet.
*drum roll please ~
Timeless Phenomenon
Oh or "Tip". TP = tip. Here's a tip from Tereza, "become a timeless phenomenon" :) Haha.
Oh I'm loving all of those. Transformative Polymath is most intriguing. I dunno what it means but it has a great ring to it ;-) Thank you for all those monikers.
I love you and your cacophony, leaky face. 💚💚💚
*lays on the ground. The face doesn't leak so much when you lay on your back. :)
It keeps it contained. Just tilt once in a while so you don't drown. 🤣💚
Hahahhaha. :)
Well, all this feels quite powerful and also true. It is funny as I have struggled to remember my dreams. I have worked at it. Taken a class on lucid dreaming. Read a book or two. I think I do much of this as my mind “wanders” while I am awake and I trust there is a reason I remember so little from the night. I have a feeling I do things while I sleep and that this life, it is my journey to remember less and see how I can navigate things. That little child feels quite important and powerful. I would not make it as small or big as calling it “a part of you”. It feels like caring for a new energy. Maybe for yourself. Maybe for the planet or your family. Maybe for a child somewhere that needs the energy of care. Most likely it is all those things. Thank you for your response as well….
How interesting. You say that perhaps it is a part of your journey that you should not remember as much. It's also interesting to think of "I do things while I sleep." That makes sense. Whether we remember the dreams or not, things are still being done with your truest intent. Reverberations are made. I wonder about the day dreaming part. Sometimes that's a problem with me, because I have a hard time drawing myself out of that to focus on something mundane. Have you ever tried lionsmane before bed? Someone told me they have more vivid dreams that way. It sounds like you have accepted that it is what it is and will be what it will be. That is interesting, if it were that you were not meant to have more information. It implies that you have extra fortitude upon which to build, by your very essence. Maybe you have been around the block/sphere/turtle/pancake a time or two. :)
I appreciate all you say here. I just checked and my “brain boost” tincture I just took with my other supplements. It is lions mane. I have another mushroom tincture as well and lions mane is in it. I also got something called “ghost pipe” someone here on substack mentioned to me
and it intrigued me. I have been taking a little of it too. I will take the two mushroom tinctures tonight right before I go to sleep for fun. I am pretty sure we have both been around the turtle a few times. It is quite rare to have this deep and interesting a conversation with someone who gets it. I got a sense on a psyllocybin mushroom journey that I came to go through some “stuff” and come out the other side to show other humans how it’s done (and this can be energetic, we do things like that simply by living our life and people feel it I believe and our life effects the human and bigger energy fields). I imagine if I could do a lot of things, I wouldn’t be showing people who can’t, how to do it from where they are at. That is all speculation that could easily sound like egotistical justification. But it is helpful for me to view my life as a journey through a sense of disconnection and separation back to love. I did some guided writing today around: Why do I matter? It is an interesting question for many people I imagine (although I also think few would want to say they wonder about it). A family member wishes to simply dissolve into nothingness when she passes. Life has challenged her. That has never felt “right” to me. I had a subtle vision of the field of love and how beautiful, changing, and diverse it is. And we are part of that. Anyway, it is good to ask questions of God sometimes. God and my guides are starting to show me a different perspective. But it would be fun to play in a lucid way in my dreams. I did have one lucid dream and was chased by two man-beings, which scared me. That was years ago. I have read they are part of me waiting to be faced. I am not sure that was the case…and I haven’t had the opportunity to explore further. Regardless my new friend, I wish you sweet dreams tonight. It sounds to me that yes, you are communicating with a lot and having an effect through offering your talents and gifts. Everything begins energetically. It is the most powerful place to offer one’s gifts. At one point I realized that it is often the slow, subtle, gentle movements that have the greatest effect.
"That is all speculation that could easily sound like egotistical justification. But it is helpful for me to view my life as a journey through a sense of disconnection and separation back to love." I mean, I choose to believe that I chose to be here for this. That is no different. You are deciding how you feel about it and from what perspective you are coming. That makes perfect sense to me. I had some really weird dreams last night. I should write that one down. It was a mess. Thanks for pointing out that the slow, subtle, gentle movements have the greatest effect. That's a good thing to keep in mind if I am ever feeling impatient :) You matter to me. You are enriching my life. You are right, these conversations are rare. It makes me feel excited to know that there are other people out there who think about these things. It confirms my suspicions that there is much , much more to experience. I am excited to continue following along with you on your journey :)
I am glad to have found this this morning. I have been contemplating what is real. Sometimes, I feel the dreams are also versions of reality...and I imagine that is strange. But then again, I have to own that many people would find me strange or interesting, if they really knew me. I love what happened in Walmart. It is fun to read stories and experiences from someone who feels so much.
I think about that too, dreams being versions of reality, it's very important to me. I haven't written about this yet, but I recently had a dream that someone gave me a child. I looked up the shamanic meaning of that and it felt like it meant exactly what I read that it was "supposed to mean." I carried on with my life, but that child looked at me in such a way.........I see him here before me now, like someone I want to comfort. I have sent energy his way in my being. I send him protection and safety and happiness and peace, when I think of him. I think of people that I see in my dreams more and more, now that I am writing. I feel like thinking of them sends them peace or protection or love somehow in another time/space/dimension/layer.....whatever. I think this is an important part of my new practice. What if our thoughts toward people we see or know in dreams is a part of the Akashic Record? So, I think you are interesting, indeed. You are strange because you are talking time out to talk to me about dreams. :) May there be more and more strange people! Thank you for saying those things and reminding me of them. I love talking about it with people, but when they are there in front of you, they don't always want to hear about your dreams, do they? Haha.
Even reading this feels uplifting. Thanks for sharing ☺️
That's a bonus :) Thank you for saying that.
❤️. You’re welcome!