The Beautiful Answer

Reframing the Future

I can’t believe it, but this is my 365th post. It’s been a year since I started this blog,  beginning with a line from an e.e. cummings poem as my inspiration: 

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.” 

In the year I’ve been writing, I’ve asked a lot of questions. It began with wanting somehow to release some of the negativity I felt surrounded me, to let go of some aspects of myself that I had outgrown, and release some people who weren’t really making my life a more loving and rewarding place to be. 

As I began to actually go out of my way to search for the beauty, I found it. Almost immediately I could feel my heart and spirit becoming lighter. Which is not to say that all of a sudden, everything got amazing and better. But I started looking deeper and even deeper. I started noticing more. Stuff that used to bug the crap out of me, like the endless whining for more love, more attention and more … whatever someone didn’t have, began to sound like background noise. 

In reframing my present, I found. I was reframing the future as well. 

There is no real way to tell where any of us are going, even though I work in the realm of the intuitive every day, and have seen first hand how much this stuff works. But I know that I am headed in a far better direction than the one I had going a year ago. I don’t have to search for happiness now. It’s sitting right in front of me.

I can take my  camera and find a shaft of sunlight, or a little kid blowing bubbles, and everything changes. In that moment, I have found contentment, all on my own, not counted on someone else to determine my mood. I have claimed an entirely new set of tools to work with, broken them in, and even shared them with some of my clients. 

So on this last day of this blog, I want to say thank you to the people I have met. You are a cool bunch, with lots of interesting things to say. You’re funny and human and endlessly searching for that one perfect photo, or post, or joke to share with others. Because blogging is nothing but sharing, after all. So in that spirit, I invite anyone who wants to stay in touch to join me at http://www.sassypsychic.com. Think about signing up for the mailing list (don’t worry, I don’t overemail, and you always have the choice to unsubscribe), friending me on Facebook, or following me on Twitter (links on the left side of the Sassy Psychic home page). 

I hope your journey is made happier for being here. 

MisHearing the Words

You know when you read or hear a word you know and have seen a billion times before, but somehow this one time, for whatever reason, you hear or read it in a brand new way? 

I love it when that happens. 

Tonight, my husband gave me an iPod Nano. It’s so damn teeny that I’m glad I can clip it onto my clothes. But in the instructions they refer to plugging it in, and then using iTunes to download songs. I read the sentence “Download your content” as download your content, as in happiness. Download your contentment. 

Maybe that’s true for some people. I’m certainly a huge music lover, and it’s played a huge part in my life throughout the years. Maybe downloading music is really a way to download happiness. Maybe it’s a way of reframing your day, to bring joy or righteous rage or even crazy, anarchic creativity around facilitate your own ability to make something happen. Maybe downloading content, or I’m pretty great, or doing just fine can happen without iPods or iTunes or any other MP3 player or downloading site. Maybe it’s done with ideas or decisions or even writing this blog that’s caused so much change in my own life. And maybe ever so slightly it’s done by realizing that maybe our brains want us to see things in a new ways every once in a while, if for no other reason than to make things interesting.