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A New Wooing
Tag: Consciousness
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
Cartooned Culture
Anyone who knows me knows I love cartoons!
Some make me laugh, and some make me go “ahhh,” with tears in my eyes.
This cartoon is “Les Triplettes de Belleville,” by Sylvain Chomet. I saw this with a friend years ago in a Chicago theatre, and it remains one of the very few movies that I have viewed more than once.
It is a poetic animated story with very few spoken words. Imagine a plot that brings together cycling, a small family, and three quirky sisters who are part musicians, part muses, and, when necessary, molls familiar with the darker sides of Belleville/Parisian nightlife.
There are some picturing of rougher things of life, so it is not a movie for children, but perhaps saved for when they can appreciate it: the story, characters, and lovingly drawn details create a world that stays with you long after the cartoon is over.
The emotion of amusement also creates access to consciousness, a powerful way to allow the ‘firing of the synapses’ that lead to fresh new ideas and thought patterns.
Do you have any favorites that have this evergreen quality? I’d love to see them!
Keep laughing – watch cartoons!!
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago photographer capturing the closeness of todays’ urban families. Contact her here.
Quirky Light
Quirky light falls on you
in a special way. Beautifully.
When it’s time, I’d love to photograph you in natural and unique light.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago based photographer of intimate family stories.
Contact her at perryportraitart@gmail.com.
Roots and Branches
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height.
Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches.
Happiness is like a tree going into the sky,
and sadness is like the roots
going down into the womb of the earth.
Both are needed,
and the higher a tree goes,
the deeper it goes, simultaneously.
The bigger the tree,
the bigger will be its roots.
In fact, it is always in proportion.
That’s its’ balance.” – Osho
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