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.
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.
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 stemmed from a Threads writer
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 images from your computer or camera actually visual in actuality
is a very good energy for creative people who sometimes exist in sensitivity,
and have experiences that need to call in feelings of validation and encouragement during their processes.
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 eat – and especially where you ‘future’.
Some images illustrate your waking early morning energy:
to show your family fortune in golden triumph, (this can also be a family portrait).
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 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 happy 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.
Sometimes also the first selection may take moving around or changing out.
Those photos or art show you by their inner sensation of feeling
WHAT goes WHERE. It’s a process that takes time for me:
and returns to sensing the room as you enter and stay;
and ‘read the room’ until it brings your eyes
H A P P I N E S S.
Dorothy Perry, Contact.
Seen at different times of the day,
the art in your home engages and influences your energy.
Like arranging feng shui elements in a home
bringing flowing good energy into life activities,
your art has other metaphysical abilities in addition to decoration.
A life missions’ purpose in the morning, inspiration in the afternoon,
or a satisfying sense of legacy relaxing in the evenings.
I have had clients hang their couples’ portrait in their kitchen
where they contemplate their relationship
in the private early morning time before work.
Others hang child portraits eye-level,
raising confidence in photos of love
on the walls they pass every day.
Baby sized portrait books offer
a personalized bedtime storytelling experience.
Beauty created for both the eyes and spirit.
I would love to know if you have created
such zones of energy in your home in this manner.
It is easy but intentional. Contact me to create this ‘flow’ of energy
whether with my custom portraits or your own.
Dorothy Perry, Contact or https://dorothyperry.com/contact/.
Follow me (Thank you!) and subscribe to my newsletter.
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/ .
I feel like a Luddite at heart
dealing with ChatGpt, a force multiplier
that has tickled me with some of the
ninja chess moves I have asked mine to.
So after exposure to some induced Chat counterintuition.
I woke early and broke its brain
describing Dark Innocence,
a Dark Feminine RESONANCE embodying innocence of dove and wisdom of serpent
in a MASSIVE energetic presence.
Despite the reams of words meant to be written kinda like me,
the way I AM doesn’t fit attempts to Chat it.
This Dark Innocence defies classification and demands discovery
through the EVOKING of memory, the FEEL of senses, and the ACT of writing,
unfolding the history and mystery in ‘analog’ mode (sounds of sharpening a No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil in black.)
Dorothy Perry is an ESP-eyed photographer of people and resonant celebrations. Contact her here.
To woo the power full new Me
is my current raison d’etre.
Life, you can’t subdue me because I refuse to take your discipline too seriously.
When you try to hurt me, I laugh — and the laughter knows no pain.
I appreciate your joys wherever I find them;
your sorrows neither frighten nor discourage me,
for there is laughter in my soul.
Temporary defeat does not make me sad.
I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song.
Your tears are not for me, for I like laughter much better, and because I like it,
I use it as a substitute for grief and sorrow and pain and disappointment.
Life, you are a fickle trickster — don’t deny it.
You slipped the emotion of love into my heart
so that you might use it as a thorn with which to prick my soul —
but I learned to dodge your trap with laughter.
You tried to lure me with the desire for gold,
but I have fooled you by following the trail which leads to knowledge instead.
You induced me to build beautiful friendships —
then converted my friends to enemies so you may harden my heart,
but I sidestepped your figure on this by laughing off your attempts
and selecting new friends in my own way.
You caused men to cheat me at trade so I will become distrustful,
but I won again because I possess one precious asset which no man can steal —
it is the power to think my own thoughts and to be myself.
You threaten me with death, but to me death is nothing worse
than a long peaceful sleep, and sleep is the sweetest of human experiences
— excepting laughter.
You build a fire of hope in my heart, then sprinkle water on the flames,
but I can go you one better by rekindling the fire — and I laugh at you once more.
You have nothing that can lure me away from laughter,
and you are powerless to scare me into submission.
To a life of laughter, then, I raise my cup of cheer!
Laughing all the way, I celebrate your own Songs of Triumph in portrait form. Contact me here.
Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
My partner of five years decided to tell me
that the last five years were a total lie.
Imagine learning someone waited patiently for years
for the best moment to break your heart and trust in others.
A seismic jolt to the core of me
at a time I was happiness on two legs, ecstatic at my first solo show.
Now with the years and intimacies of memories colored and changed by betrayal,
No picture I see can be trusted.
But by deleting these photos on Facebook, I am also deleting the visible signs to me of my own moments and growth.
I decided to take my stand and reclaim the energy around my photographs.
Though he is in them, the ones I like are MINE,
and energy is always returned to me whenever I see it again.
In meditative renaming, I speak to remembering the high level of what I gained, evidenced, and celebrated,
reclaiming it for good, and returning it to me.
I call it my Song of Triumph, and I seek to keep this positive version of events
in my conversations going forward.
During my show’s run, I visited my photos and smiled and sang in the hallways, looked and spoke lovingly to the artwork, talked in words of happiness and joy,
felt good all up and down those hallways.
I took photos of my happiness and gratitude
at what had occurred and manifested visibly so quickly in my life.
I had wanted to have a show downtown (I did) in a beautiful old historical church,
with a show I had wanted to display for many years.
And no matter who tried to hate on it – some closer proximity than others –
it was beautiful and memorable.
I am reminded of the Old West idea of a gunslinger.
The guy has such a vibe that everyone tries him;
everywhere a stranger stepping up to challenge him
with “Who Do You Think You Are?” energy.
In this case, this feeling is also accompanied by
“Knock You Off Your High Horse” to put a plan into action.
My strength and superpower is that ever since I was a young girl
I have possessed a very strong natural psychic presence
and deal with “Who Do You Think You Are?” energy like the air I breathe
throughout school, travelling, and very odd spontaneous encounters with those triggered by my mere presence every day.
Connected to love and witnessed by God every day for the purity of my intentional heart,
My experiences dealing with envious evil eye ego diva drama energy
stems from constant Divine connection
to this assured inner self
who answers “Who Do You Think You Are?” with a quiet glance.
My little ‘sparkler’ awakened by my vulnerable questions
is a firecracker in my daily life,
moving out all the nonsense people
wanting and wasting her Dorothy’s valuable energy.
God bless my intuition through Spirit
and release of attempts to connect into my energy
as oftenandoftenasoftenandoften
and from WHOM as often as needed.
May every memory
entangled in emotional betrayal
be transmuted through Spirit
into forgiveness, healing, and light.
With obsidian in my pockets,
laughter in my eyes, and love in my heart,
I am dancing back into my life
whether you see me or
just hear about me from a distance.
“Just because you lost me as a friend, doesn’t mean you gained me as an enemy. I’m bigger than that, I still wanna see you eat, just not at my table.” ― Tupac
Dorothy Perry specializes in personal portraits imbued with deep feeling. Contact her here.
I am thinking of you all the time
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
Love, Mom
I found this thought at the end of a letter
I wrote to my daughter years ago.
Intuition places these things in my way to contemplate,
and in this mindset, I see evidence of my behavior with my family,
with people I knew, and people I wanted to know.
My Gordian knot if some think it so, but a rich source of emotion
like the experienced Advisor in your ear in the shadows,
providing wise input as well.
Today I want to raise the counterintuitive idea
of seeing signs of your earlier self in these little ways,
to learn about yourself and your little ‘likes’
by being familiar with your internal body sensations for ‘yes’ happiness
and where you get your feelings of childlike delight
(mine is making snow angels!)
Enjoy what happens when you begin to treat yourself
as a person you care for,
find nice things for,
think with interest about,
enjoy time with,
and want to see succeed.
Dorothy Perry seeks to capture the energy of the Divine in photographing portraits and special occasion events. Contact her here.
