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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/ .

Photography

The Practice

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I follow a writer and influencer named Maxpein on X.

The curated posts always raise the bar,

but this one vibrated with beauty and poetry.

Without force, I am simply suggesting

tune in – the time is now.

Integrate your tools into your being.

Practice meditation without music, incense & oils.

Practice opening your heart without cacao or chocolate treats.

Practice multidimensional sight without plants.

Practice yoga without a mat.

Practice ceremony without feathers, guitars & drums.

Practice clearing without sage.

Practice enhancing, amplifying and protecting without crystals.

Practice without any aids…

just You and the expanded You.

Practice conversing without convincing.

Practice being without doing.

Practice feeling without analyzing.

Practice experiencing without criticism.

Practice listening without projecting.

Practice thinking without a story.

Practice speaking without parroting.

Practice seeing without lights.

Practice dancing without a DJ.

Practice getting there without GPS.

Practice creating without a laptop.

Practice connecting without a phone.

Practice Love without conditions.

Practice. ~ Kamau Abayomi

Dorothy Perry is a photographer of family happiness. Contact her here.

Endless Good
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Endless Good

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My Threads community

has me doing some simple tools

to help prosperity on its way.

Burning bay leaves written

with a desire for abundance

has WORKED in creating random opportunity

where money has come quite easily

and from places I had not expected

when I ‘prime the canvas’ enegetically

to create and manifest.

Endless Good now comes to me in endless ways.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

On A Portrait Never Seen Before
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On A Portrait Never Seen Before

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How do I make my portraits?

By watching you in sunlight, in play, in relaxation.

In quietness.  In laughter.

In glances where you both recollect and reconnect,

with good moments within your togetherness.

Looking for your beauty at all times.

Seeing your beauty at all times.

Making a view you have never seen before.

You, at your best.  In love.

Inquire about my personal portraiture

that captures the ‘sparks’ of couples (or the ‘sparkle’ in you)

to warm the spirit again and again.

Intrigued?  Interested? Let’s connect and chat.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.

 Contact her here.

AbunDance
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AbunDance

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The action of dancing

is our body’s inner communication with us,

and, deeper, a connection to the Divine in us.

Whether our glances or our bodies meet on the floor,

the dancer in me honors the dancer in you.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

The First Purple
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The First Purple

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The mercurial Midwest Spring has been hard on the beautiful flowers

that come up in the neighbors’ gardens.  

They come into the beautiful, shapes colors and scents

and sometimes into extended days of rain and chill that blast and freeze them.  

The lilac season came in the midst of rain and bone chilling temperatures.  

In a week, they had bloomed and then were gone.

I picked a wild branch, that true to all wild things, did not open, 

but found a blooming garden and stood there

(as long as my son let me)

breathing in the air of my childhood

being again as the little curious, exploring, growing child.

And with this brief meeting this season,

I ‘got’ how flowers are used as examples

to teaching the here and nowness of life: 

so beautifully, completely HERE

in their short season and time on Earth.  

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

Singled Out
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Singled Out

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ALWAYS show

the vision of the types of photographs

you desire to make.

Your photograph with your optimistic energetic signature

lives in the internet ‘ether’ for years,

attracting for years as well,

and should be both your best

and your choice.

Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer

of family portraits and happiness. Contact her here.

An Innocent Chat
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An Innocent Chat

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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.

A Branch of My Own
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A Branch of My Own

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I have been a photographer without a fixed location for much of my career here in Chicago. A permanent location never seemed in the cards for me.

As years went by, the vision of this passion would flare briefly when I displayed my photos in local coffeeshops, bakeries, libraries and other unconventional spaces.

I once had a charming space in a vintage building at a prime location in the Wicker Park area. As everything I earned was consumed by rent, I quickly learned the grown-up lesson about pricing my services appropriately!

Back to home base again, not only for financial reasons, but to do a deep dive into the inner self that kept sabotaging me, saying I did not deserve to be successful.

Seeking independence, going my own way, creating something different: the miasma of all these rejections seemed to hang in the air, clouding my picture of myself with my dream.

I did not know I had to keep seeing the dream in detail, no matter what my current situation said, no matter what painful memories I remembered, to eventually hear the clear quiet that guides my actions now.

This included honest, updated assessment of that relationship as well. Five years after publishing this post, I have left this relationship.

But…using the emotional energy contained in memory that is able to be recalled and returned fully back to me, the enjoyment of life returned full force,

and a spectacular dream came true during the summer of 2024.

I love to share what opens energy around me, and am posting an original affirmation that also addresses the concerns around making increasing amounts of money.

There are different ways to use this gem:

  1. Record it in your own voice and listen to it as the start to each morning.
  2. Gently sit with each sentence and let the images and emotions and experiential memories well up, allowing the emotion to move through without resistance.
  3. You can choose one sentence and use it as the inspiration to consider through the day.
  4. Say it out loud during your morning walk in the park in the strongest, most positive voice you have.

I choose now to heal my relationship with money and my finances.  So it is.

I release all resistance to where I am right now financially. 

I release being angry with or hating my current position now with money. I let this go now. 

I open myself to know that where I am now is only temporary, and I choose to fully embrace and accept where I am now with complete love so that I can create more money and wealth.  So it is.

I release all resistance to being broke, or not having enough money.  I allow myself to just be with it now. 

I open myself to know that if I embrace this now, and stop looking at my situation as bad, the energy will transmute and things can change.  I allow myself to accept it now.  So it is.

I release making being broke or without money wrong. 

I release the feeling that where I am right now is bad. 

I release all beliefs that I am a failure if I don’t have enough money.  I let that go and open myself to know that life is full of contrasting experiences just so that I can get clear on what I want to create. 

I open myself to know that “good” or “bad,” is just “desired,” and “undesired.”  So it is.

I release any repeated focusing on how much I don’t have.

I release all decisions to see, hear, focus and speak from scarcity, and I choose now to focus on all the abundance in my life.

I open myself to remember that scarcity and limitation doesn’t really exist anywhere but in my mind. I release it from my mind and focus and in every situation I choose abundance. So it is.

I completely and fully forgive myself for creating this current situation. 

I open myself to correct myself without blame, shame, or invalidation.  So it is.

I release all beliefs, agreements and programming from my parents and 5 generations back that making money is wrong for an artist, troublesome, and dangerous, and that I am disloyal for wanting to be rich.

I release all programming that money is scarce, limited, and hard to make. 

I release all memories from this lifetime and all other lifetimes of issues of and around money.

I let this go now, and I transmute all memories and unwanted energies into pure light… so it is.

I release my association of earning and having money and finances with emotional, mental or physical pain.

I open myself to see that money was never capable of hurting me or those I love. I let this go and see money and prosperity and creativity with new eyes. So it is.

I release all decisions, agreements and programming from this life, energy, and experiences that having lots of money is limited, difficult, hard, dangerous, and troublesome to have.

I let this go and open myself to remember that I am a powerful creator capable of creating and manifesting anything I choose. 

I choose to remember that all it takes is a simple shift in my focus. I remember this now and shift my focus accordingly. So it is.

I open myself to fully experience having more and more than enough money in my life. 

I open myself to experience being rich and wealthy, and I allow myself to have it now.  So it is.

I choose to put myself in the space of already having that which I want, so that I call it into my experience metaphysically first.

And I open myself to have fun with this, and to enjoy the journey. So it is. 

I now rest in abundance, I rest in having enough. I find my stillness in the space of well-being and in being, doing and having more. So it is.

After the affirmation, ’embody’ it –

Wiggle a ‘happy dance’ like a kid! Smile! Clap, jump and shake out your body!

BE thanks for the abundance you have now and what you already have experienced! Spread the good energy ‘sparkle’ around in your world!

May this aid circumstances seen and unseen to bring abundance into your life.

Let’s connect through my Contact Page to talk about envisioning yours.

Pleased to Meeting You!
Counterintuition · Energy · Photography · Practice · Relationship · Vision

Pleased to Meeting You!

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As a small business photographer, I see people working together to provide the best experiences their own businesses can offer. All the time.

My special skill is in capturing the brief, but beautiful moments of interactions, outreach, networking and personal celebrations with better than normal portraits with the participants of your distinctive event.

This good feeling image, taken during the networking of the Northside Networking Group, captures their natural, engaging images for social media needs.

 Contact Dorothy Perry for commissioned work here.