To woo the power full new Me
is my current raison d’etre.
A New Wooing
Category: Energy
Laughter In My Soul
This is a reprint of the article “About Life” by Napoleon Hill.
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.
Gunslinger
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.
Think of Me
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.
Living Well
Some people say.
“Living well is the best revenge.”
I feel that living well
is ‘mental’ before it becomes material.
Seeing vastness of abundance
(visually, spoken, or in emotional feeling)
in the early dreaming planning stages
of envisioning great feeling life
enriches the picture with the small details
that make whatever you create
just right for you.
Dorothy Perry loves being a cheerleader for intuitive awareness. Contact her for photography or intuitive readings here.
Woo
Whether the subtle sensing of intuition
or the sparkling active energy of attraction,
‘woo’ is my personal word
and favorite feeling.
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The Suggestion
Yesterday I went to our neighborhood laundromat for the first time.
During the little banter you do at the counter, I asked for the bathroom key, and as he handed it to me, the owner told me to look out for the ghost in there.
With a straight face.
The act of suggestion and creating an image in another mind is a powerful energetic exchange. If you only knew how your words really affect and create all around you!
You better believe I THOROUGHLY searched the room for anything out of the ordinary. This restroom was a little larger than a bathroom, and the motion control light at the door was at a distance from the seat.
You would have this picture playing in your head when the motion sensor turned the lights off while you were in the room.
He couldn’t know that when I was 11 and away at camp the counselor scared me with a story so bad I was afraid of bathroom mirrors for years.
But as a grown @$$ woman I sang, laughed, and twirled the key above my head all the while I was there – and in leaving, asked if there was a ghost or unwanted energy, to leave the building and go in peace.
When I returned the key, the owner asked me if anything had happened, and said.”when the light goes off. the ghost grabs you by the throat” and made the gesture.
Did he believe there was a ghost? Was this a game? I can only have my impression of the interaction: he had a serious expression through it all.
But it was transmuted this time by my intention not to play along. I thanked him for warning me about it so I was prepared.
Interesting watching his expression change. I think I spoiled his fun a little. Or exorcised the ghost. Both situations are ok with me.
Look at the stuff that scared you when you were a kid in the light of day. Look and keep looking to reduce the energetic ‘hold’ it has on you. No shame if you need to have a blanket to peek from! But see it, laugh at it, demystify it.
And be free of it.
To Your Ever Abundant Health, Dorothy
The Power Of One
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.
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.)
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.
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Dorothy Perry is a Chicago photographer of peoples’ personal lives and celebrations. Contact her at perryportraitart@gmail.com or here. Thank you.
Make YOUR Art
Today I want to send out good vibes
to the people who come up against the gatekeepers.
We have to live in your world sometimes,
but there is another world, more brightly lit.
(paraphrased from Tales From The Darkside, ha ha.)
Actual real-world people
choosing and buying things that are beautiful.
So, boys and girls, consider the source (even if they say they are ‘experts’)
and keep making your art anyway.
Keep refining – and keep making – your art
not just for the acclaim, but also to make money.
To teach yourself how to be a person who CAN:
become braver, learn new skills,
speak to strangers, get cooperation, meet deadlines.
Become a problem solver. Become a visionary for others.
Photography created these skills and this personality.
But it turned out it had to fit into my life in the right place.
Maybe you will always have it be the other job, as it is for me.
But keep art making in your life. ✨
Just For You
Being a freelance photographer really has made me
a person who has had many varied experiences in my career.
Emphasis on the ‘varied’.
But they were experiences that taught me much
about the ‘soft skills’ of working with people,
even if it taught me what not to do the next time.
When I chose to use my intuitive senses in my daily life,
I did so as a photographer as well.
And the people who came into my life in personal and business ways
were people who tested me. Emphasis on the ‘test.’
Communication breakdowns, money issues, ego bruising experiences.
Only thing I can do is choose my reaction to it,
knowing that self-control is the master class
in releasing glamourous holds on me.
My brilliant energy and heart are part of my backbone now,
and I have strength and determination
as if a spark had lit the fire in me
to create something extraordinary for you
in my pictures of everything
whether you see it or not.
Dorothy Perry shoots clear, honest work, play and family images
that show the beauty of everyday life at its’ best.
Let’s meet through the Contact Page if we click.
