jenny top 8 no. 19
Let’s keep it sweet and simple this week. Sweet and simple is also a practice.
This week I want to share two small things I’ve been thinking about.
Dr Wayne Dyer’s advice about spending the 5-10 minutes before you fall asleep allowing yourself to marinate in the good that has happened and what you wish to draw into your living experience. As he says, most of us spend the time right before we fall asleep thinking about, really chewing on all that didn’t go well, or dread for what is to come. It’s so hard to remember that worry is a fantasy, and also a prayer. Sleep is a powerful time for the subconscious mind; it when it gets to play, explore, digest!
He suggests asking yourself, How would I feel if my wish were realized? And then LET YOURSELF feel how it would feel if it already existed in your life.
I was reminded of this literally several times on the gram this week from different accounts, and then my dear friend Sheri mentioned it, so obviously I neeeeed to head the universes big pointing finger. Sometimes I need the universe to be VERY clear with me.
I love Dr Wayne Dyer. I have loved him since my mother first played me one of his tapes in the nineties. After my grandfather died I found a list of Wayne Dyer’s 10 principles in his belongings, so you could say I come from a Wayne Dyer household. And Dr W Dyer has saved my emotional, mental, and spiritual tush so many magical synchronistic times since his death, and the subsequent death of my parents, so I’m gonna give it a go this week. Do it with me!!!
And here’s the other thing, speaking of the universe, and I sort of think it’s the pits. The bible says ish, and it is referenced in other literature as well, Where two or more are gathered God appears. I am intentionally not using the actual phrasing because this is not about religion or about some kind of congregational discipline. I just heard it somewhere last week, and it got me thinking…
I want to connect with the universe ALL BY MYSELF. I want a rainbow god who comes to me when I am alone and having snacks on the sofa. I want to journal or pray or meditate and then see hummingbirds shoot past my window by the dozens as I magically understand the workings of the universe and never have to be confused or have emotions ever again, but that’s not what is suggested by that sentence. That sentence deduces that in order for me to be engaged with the unfolding big magical universe filled with infinite possibilities I need ANOTHER PERSON!! I’m sorry WHAT?
Not only are we biologically designed to attach to others, now we need to reach out to another fallible human being to access magic; this seems like a sneaky little trick. But I start thinking, I have never really been saved by myself, I have never shifted my perspective without another human being, I have never really made my heart muscles stronger, or laughed as hard alone as with someone else. I have in fact made a lot of situations way worse by being by myself, and trying to figure it all out alone. I started thinking maybe that sentence is right, no matter where it came from.
It makes me think about when you get a new credit card, but you have to spend a certain amount of money before you get your big points. So the other day I was having a hard time figuring out how to proceed with something, and I called Tessa and I said hello I am calling because I want to activate my god credit card. We giggled, we talked it through, and I came up with a way more balanced and loving approach than my little solo mind was envisioning. Maybe it’s a dumb analogy, but I like it, because I like generally like dumb things, God, and shopping.
We need each other. We have the power to save each other’s lives, not always, but a lot, and a lot is a lot.
Okay, Okay, onto the shopping!!
Jenny Top 8 no. 19
Mignot Gold Jewels The candy of jewels. I first saw these gemmy sparkling pieces at Imrie Industries on Maui, and I have been drooling ever since! This is my WHAT IF I win the lottery, One of each please!
James Colarusso Festina Leute Pendant Festina Leute translates in Make Haste Slowly. I love this phrase! To me, it is another, and way cooler way of saying, I do my part and I accept the divine timing of the universe.
Independent Bookstore Baby Doll T’s. Okay what is cooler than an independent bookstore? Nothing really. And then what is cooler than a middle aged woman wearing baby doll t’s like she used to wear in high school in the nineties, repping independent bookstores? Again, nothing really. I am on heavy rotation with my Annabelle’s Book Club LA and my Godmother’s T’s. Highly reccomend.
Ballerina Farms Bone Broth Hot Cocoa I’m not into this whole situation, but when my cousin said bone broth hot cocoa, I said sold. And let me tell you, this is the most delicious hot cocoa I have ever had. It has 25G of protein. It could be repackaged Swiss Miss, and I wouldn’t care, it’s that delicious!!!
The Cloud Report I love Vermont crossing guard and artist Christine Tyler Hill’s tiny zine that comes to my mailbox once a month reminding me to see all the granular daily basic beauty that surrounds me at every moment of my life. It’s so little sometimes I have to use the magnifying glass app to read it!!!
Block Shop Little To Do List Notepads. My mother loved a TO DO List. When I was eight years old I made my mother go to therapy with me because I told her I felt like her To Do list was more important than me. She had pages and pages of yellow legal pads filled with things she just had to get done. And now, if I had a kid we would have to go back to therapy because I Love a good To Do list! I don’t know how actually helpful they are, maybe a I DID list is way more helpful for the psyche and motivation, but generational habits die hard, and if I have to make so many lists at least I get to do it on these incredible $8 little perfect pretty notebooks from one of my absolute favorite shop in Los Angeles.
Practical magic 2! I mean why does everything have to be so good? Is this a good movie? I’m not so sure. There is a bit of a plastic surgery problem, and it’s probably not up to the standards of many movie goers who like to stand on the sidewalk afterwards and talk about the brilliance of this choice or that, but is it a good time? Absolutely!! I had the absolute best time watching this movie. I laughed. I reacted out loud ( sorry two other people in the theater, you prob hated us). Aren’t movies also supposed to be fun? This was so fun and I wanna see it again and again. I saw Digger last night, brilliant film, absolutely brilliant; I will never watch it again.
The work of Dora De Larios I want you to discover this beauty the same way I did. So go to LACMA, buy a ticket to The David Geffen Galleries and wander until you step up the pace a little and then a lot to see what on earth these insanely gorgeous pieces are. Water Goddess, 2009 is pictured above. I am still so excited to learn more about the breadth of work that this Los Angeles based ceramicist created.
