A Wait has Lifted
The Show Must Go On
GOOD NEWS
Portlanders have come out to protest ICE in ridiculous costumes. I might join them next week.
The Mariners just won their second against the Blue Jays.
NO KINGS protests are happening all over the US this Saturday. Join your local protest or sign on to buy only used and small business goods for the foreseeable future in order to de-fund oppression.
WGN in Chicago has put out a list: What to know when engaging with ICE (a judge has outlined rules of engagement for ICE after members attacked protesters unprovoked).
MacKenzie Scott donated $42 million this week to the group ‘10,000 Degrees’ to assist in its mission of “supporting students to, through, and beyond college”.
A WAIT HAS LIFTED
Waiting for the heavy energy to lift over the last few weeks made the time drag and my life take on a stickiness I have not felt in some time. I thought it might clear on my birthday, but it didn’t. Even after cake.
Today I awoke renewed. After making several decisions about my life to cut certain activities and people out of it, my life feels decidedly lighter. I had been ruminating on violence for a couple weeks and coincidentally, had been quite down while doing it. I didn’t make the connection really until I broke into tears while writing about some of my visual ideas illustrating violent relationships and violent history in my journal. There’s enough violence in the world. I don’t need to put more of it out there. I have begun making pieces on attachment and connection. This feels more exciting to me and the work is progressing more quickly and wonderfully than it had when I was ruminating on violent topics.
I have continued my physical shift southward as I move more of my life to Edison and the surrounding areas. I feel more optimistic the more I pull away from Bellingham.
I recently came across a quote about pain being the central focus of a person’s life, and it struck a chord. I began to measure how much I focus on the pain I have felt throughout my life and in relation, how much I focus on the joy. This was part of my decision to change the theme of my upcoming show. It’s also part of why I am getting back into energy healing again. There is so much hope in the practice, and every time I work with someone, I’m healed as much as I am sending healing.
Waking up feeling lighter today was such a relief I decided to linger in the morning before I headed out the door to get the dregs of my belongings from underneath my ex’s house. It has been challenging to give up the people and places I have in the last couple weeks, but my buoyancy is telling me that it was the right decision and that maybe doing it sooner might have served me better. Sometimes it’s hard to say good-bye. Maybe waiting for heavy energy to lift is not as effective as actually doing something about it.
THINGS I LOVE
My brother made a chocolate cake for our birthday. I most likely mentioned that in this section last week. That’s how much I love it.
Mackenzie Scott
First Wives Club. Good Diane Keaton watch. Baby Boom too.
Thanks again for reading.
This halloween don’t buy commercial chocolate. It’s harvested by people who are forced into servitude, including children.
This holiday season, choose shopping small, used, and local. Pull your participation away from the system that supports fascism.
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Sara