Category: Creativity

The Power Of One
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The Power Of One

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One of the most read posts I sent out on my WooWay personal newsletter mailing, called The Internet is Forever (Asterix) involved dealing with loss of the photographs I took for the Chicago Reader when the newspaper issues were digitized.

I just published this article on my main blog site.

In this, I wrote about my discovery that examples of my early photography career with the Chicago Reader were no longer visible in their online archives…anywhere.

Due to size or intellectual property issues, they imported the articles, but did not include the photographs from earlier editions of the paper.

The email started with dealing with the reality of the situation – but at the end* celebrated the various soft and hard skills learned with the experience.

Fast forward nine months, and through the wonders of Instagram, I get a ‘ping’ from an artist group I photographed in 1992, updated in a Gossip Wolf column. (the article here.)

He Who Walks Three Ways

After I did a quiet appreciative happy dance, I decided to update the story. In addition to the pleasant surprise in being led to one of my photos, it was also a little reminder to me to give life’s irritations or obsessions up to the body’s wisdom, and let things happen as they will.

*Looking with the attitude that there is nothing to panic about or ‘fix’ is a mindset that allows for quiet personal wonder, delight, and awe, even within an ordinary day.

I found that by not fighting and resisting and replaying the memories accompanied by emotions that would suddenly float in and make themselves felt, they changed or would leave by themselves. No examining or selecting anything for further review, I stayed present with no judgement as to what came up, and it would just evaporate.

Practice presence in all different types of situations to have the grounded feeling of being inside your body. Feel the heat through your fingers, feel your toes against the floor, use your senses. Even if at times you conduct your day on autopilot, make time to connect with yourself through the day.

I invite you to subscribe to my newsletter for intuitive counterintuitive strategies to help sense the world around you at your best. The sign-up link is here. I look forward to meeting you there.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago photographer of peoples’ personal lives and celebrations. Contact her at perryportraitart@gmail.com or here. Thank you.

Senses of Beauty
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Senses of Beauty

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two pictures together showing a woman's gesture and a spiritual hand posture.

When senses are expanded by the cultivated sense of smell,

like in perfume, incense or petrichor (the smell of rain falling),

it activates your appreciation and ability to be moved by beauty,

so YOU can see and feel what little beautiful daily things activate YOU.

A Japanese man writes speaks about just loving seeing raindrops on rainy days.

Blissing at rain drops on webs. Taking joy in a normal walk.

And the smell of rain falling.

These tiny joys in energy

are a joy of sensory magnitude.

Dorothy Perry sees daily joys for families and individuals. Reach her at perryportraitart@gmail.com or through her Contact Page.

Good Vibrations
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Good Vibrations

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Radiate a ‘good vibration’ wherever you go:

your relaxed state of mind and view filling the air,

sensing touch scent and sound wraparound ‘in your mind’s eye’

until your body connects with the vision.

I call it ‘uplifted memory’ energy.

One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.

John Coltrane

Whether or not it influences your environment immediately,

the ability to shift and to ‘reset’ an emotional mood

and place your dreams in your vision forefront

allows for new spirit and enthusiasm to enter

and to raise the bar on a future desire.

To your good vibrational dreams becoming reality,

Dorothy Perry creates photographic objects that carry and contain personal energy. She runs her life on her intuitive side in Chicago.

Her dream was to have a show of her photography. She had a solo show of her images of Summerdance in downtown Chicago in 2024.

Loving Cup
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Loving Cup

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Coffee is life. And energy.

I love making both.

My signed, limited edition ceramic mug is 11 oz for dark roast or Darjeeling,

my son’s hands signing LOVE to sweeten the brew.

ceramic mug with boys fingers signing out LOVE.

A single mug is sixty dollars (shipping incl.) through perryportraitart@gmail.com.

A warm sip to your success,

Dorothy Perry creates photographic objects that carry and contain personal energy. She runs her life on her intuition in Chicago.

Dance Circle
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Dance Circle

Dorothy Perry

The initiation into the world

of joyous daytime dancing in the car

and nighttime dancing on the patio

and parade dance groups and soul train lines

and dancing in the kitchen however you feel

sometimes begins within a circle.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago ~based~ portrait and lifestyle photographer following her energetic eyes through her world.

This photograph, titled Star Baby, is available as a 20×20 giclee print on photographic decked rag paper. Custom framing is available.

Buy her artwork or hire her experienced photographic creativity through her Contact Page.

Getting To It
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Getting To It

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My pictures come in as sentences,

short bursts of words my mind plays

in response to a picture or feeling.

Not song lyrics or anothers poetry

but what my mind says in seeing it;

the repeated refining and speaking it aloud,

the ear to hear a new sentence within,

creates the energetic poetry

that finally gets to what

I really mean to say.

Shining Your Light
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Shining Your Light

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You will be alone many times

when you shine, stand out, grow, excel or are happy.

Even in groups, even among your friends.

Be okay with aloneness for learning to trust and befriend yourself.

Dorothy, contacting here.

Image shows a shelf with many books and on top a framed picture of two hands. ‘Reading’ Your Room Through Intuitive Art Placement
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‘Reading’ Your Room Through Intuitive Art Placement

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One day after weeks of sitting in a room, I can suddenly feel the image on the left should be moved to the right – and feel much better on doing so.

My inspiration for this post is from a Thread advising people to hang their own original art up on their walls ‘somewhere you’ll see it often’.

Many of my community and clients are visual artists themselves, and it’s a terrific idea in seeing your digital images from your computer or camera in real prints and framed art of YOUR OWN WORK

is a good energy practice for creative people who exist in sensitivity and clairsentient lives with experiences that need to sit and process over time.

As a manifesting generator with sacral authority, I get a first burst of sparkly ‘sugar’ emotion that takes time to filter through to feel and choose my authentic response. I no longer make (or let myself be pressured into) decisions on important things without sleeping on it at least 48 hours.

From an energetic view, though, I would curate the work by feel to fit and enhance the ‘time’ the room is used, to mesh and match the images with the organic time flow of your home to enhance where you rest, work, and especially where you ‘future’.

Some images illustrate your waking early morning energy: to show your family fortune in golden triumph (and an actual commissioned family portrait I created for an innovative influencer.)

I have nothing against vision boards, but I am drawn to that meaningful art message being within periphery and sight elegantly, however it works for you.

The images for your day and afternoon income generating area or workspace ideally are chosen for its subconscious boosting ‘recharge’ to inspiration throughout the workday; tabletop sized family photos of the kids at play, big wide baby smiles,

or the special shot that is your absolute FAVORITE and makes you breathe in happiness every time your eye falls on it.

Legacy photos of loved ones and goals achieved create the warmth of gratitude in mind. Sit and have coffee, fill your eyes with beauty, and create a restful garden for your mind.

The first choices may take moving around or changing out. It’s a process that takes time for me: sensing and ‘reading the room.’

Those photos or art pieces are placed by their inner sensation of feeling ‘who goes where’ until it brings my eyes happiness. I would love to hear if this exercise has benefits or has worked for you.

Dorothy Perry; mystic by birth, photographer by choice. Here.

Positioning
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Positioning

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Face of toddler chlid swung upside down.


Counterintuition: an instant change of picture and response,

given by neuro and physical emotions saying, ‘this, instead‘.

It’s a part of your intuition and a place that comes from even further out / (or deeper);

a ‘wild card’ of deep knowing, immediately.

It requires trust in yourself like never before,

physically being in your body like never before,

which is the practice of inside body connection and inner communication

that builds mental and emotional strength to do other things,

and in that spirit, ultimately, the things you were meant to do.

Dorothy Perry, contacted here.

Ignition
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Ignition

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Dream and desire a certain way with certainty and you can HAVE it.

Old Car to New Old Car: This is a little story of the application of abundant thought to creating a new auto. In short, this is how I made my new car happen!

I am a fan of the Volvo 240GL car – it is a very unique and beautiful car to me, and I have already owned four! My current 240 was classic and beautiful, had deep sentimental value, and ran like a champ.

But 3 years ago, a motorcycle hit and run damaged its side, and my energetic pleasure for this car decreased when I looked at it. The quotes for body work alone were more than it cost!

I was learning to ‘drive’ the idea of a new book for creating abundant situations in daily life, and chose to test its efficacy with my car situation.

In meditation, I realized that I looked and thought about it in a continual state of dissatisfaction. I did not want to feel this way about this car, which was great in every other way.

So I began to really love the heck out of this car just the way it was, seeing memories of its dependability and protection in my mind, memories of washing and cleaning it, happy moments driving in the beauty of nature, and talking with loved ones,

saying that it would resolve itself in an even better way than I can imagine, and most importantly, leaving it alone, and not dwelling in doubt that my desire would be granted in its own Divine order.

I have since worded this to accept it as already as having happened, and already mine.

I blessed the situation with this confidence and abundance mindset for four months to see a change in the situation. It happened in a way I did not predict.

The Fourth of July saw a rash of gunfire in the area where I was visiting, and my rear car window was shot out by a stray bullet. No auto glass places, even the ones famous for older models, could find a window for it.

I lost my mind a little in the energy of ‘fixing it’ – activity that often makes things more expensive or worse! – searching want ads, frustrated at the communications with strangers, while dealing with the realities of errands without a car.

I had to speak what I desired into effect. Aloud, in writing, in dancing, in WILL.

Now with sanity restored, I looked at the photographs of my car and thanked it

for its’ years of dependable, safe operation, the memories driving loved ones, and its dependability, wishing its next owner years of pleasure and safety in driving it.

I then began to describe in detail a beautiful auto of the same style that had been well cared for, and would be a stable, good running vehicle for myself and my family.

And let it go again.

The changes happened the next day. My searches led to a new auto website, and the details of an estate sale car lovingly cared for came on the market four days ago!

Within a week this lovely gold 240 was mine!

From stating my desire to seeing it at home my next new car took about 6 months (when you really do this often, this change occurs more quickly.)

It is exactly what I desired, and I enjoy it even more, knowing it was generated and manifested in this manner. Now she even has her own name (RaeJeanne) and her own Instagram (called Volvocago)!

Now the car is driving on the streets of Chicago, in addition to safety, I put an invocation over its origination and manifestation that everyone who has seen, learned of, or drives past my car would get good energy.

Good gratitude habits to send myself and everyone uplifted thoughts of abundance keep it shining as we travel into 2026 in grace and style.

DESIRE ENERGY FOR THE WIN.

RaeJeanne on Volvocago https://www.instagram.com/volvocago/ and happy driver Dorothy on Perry_Portrait_Art https://www.instagram.com/perry_portrait_art/ .