Deva Does Weather

Getting ready to head south on the freeway to visit my in-laws for Memorial Day weekend. The weather is drab and cheerless - everyone is so tired of the yucky gray raininess! I'm wishing I could stay home and work in the studio. Cracked Pots in mid-July is fast approaching and I'm starting to get that panicky feeling about all the stuff that needs to get done by then. Not to mention just making signs!

Day 26 of my moon cycle and I'm going to my in-laws. I keep saying, "Every person and situation is a golden link in the chain of my incoming good."

On a Sunny note, I have signs at a little antiques/collectibles store in Albany called Our Sister's Attic. I can't link to their website because I haven't built it for them yet! Wow, need to be working on that too.

We discovered that our van has a headlight out and we needed to change it out before hitting the road. J was standing at the front door watching the skies dump rain and not wanting to go out and fix the light. I told him to hang on a few minutes, maybe it would let up. Then I went to the back door, centered myself in my lower body, raised my arms and felt the rain saturating everything and thanked it. Then I "lifted the clouds" - imagined hot sun beating on my face, smiled at make-believe rainbows shining through the mists and the warmth of blue skies drying out the soggy earth. I smiled and said thank you and went back to packing suitcases.

Five minutes later J shouted that the rain had let up and he was going out to fix the car light. I looked out the bedroom window at blue skies, mists lifting off the wet pavement and sunshine beating on the wet trees. "Holy Crap! I did that!" I shouted. He doesn't believe me. He thinks I'm an egomaniac. The rains are back now that he's done with the car and I'm okay with that. Mother Nature gave me what we needed and that's enough.

I just think people are more powerful than we think we are. Or that "prayer" means something different than we think it does. Funny that I "know" I can do weather, but seem to have a problem with nutrition, having more than just enough money, and feeling fabulous on Day 26. Like one type of energy is harder than another. Oh, well - Baby Steps.

It's All Red My Lovelies - be sweet to your Selves.

In Grace,

Kell

Flowing Goodness

I tried to update over the weekend but blogger wasn't working. Instead I made a Facebook Page for Graceful Deva - check it out if you haven't yet. I need a few more "likes" on the page and then something magical and official will happen.

My copy of "The Game of Life and How to Play It" by Florence Scovel Shinn is way over due at the library. I'm kind of in awe when I find someone who says exactly what I need to hear at exactly the right time even though they wrote it over 85 years ago! She has a huge library of affirmations that I picked and chose from. They're now on index cards and hanging all over my house.

"My good now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of happiness."

It's All Red!

In Grace,

Kell

Be Easy

I just finished this sign - my first custom order for an Etsy customer - it turned out so great with lots of knot and nail holes showing through and catching different layers of paint.

I love doing the signs that mean something special to someone, even if I don't know exactly what it means to them or the story behind it. It feels so special to work on something that's going to catch someone's breath or inspire them to greatness or remind them how important they are, every time they see it.

I don't know the story behind "Be Easy" for this young woman in Wisconsin but I love what it has come to mean for me this week as I worked on it. Several years ago I found a woman named Julia Rogers Hamrick who lives in this magical place called Easy World. It's the place where things unfold smoothly, flowingly, where even the bumps and bruises of daily life are handled gracefully and effortlessly. How does one get to Easy World? By taking a deep breath and saying "I choose to live in Easy World where everything is easy." Shitstorms become manageable, chaos fades into the background, even scary things like grief and loss suddenly are contained in a giant reservoir of grace. Decisions are made efficiently, knotted schedules work themselves out and I am suddenly super-woman, minus the stress.

Generally I live in Difficult World, where you may have guessed, everything is difficult. But my passport and portal into Easy World is always open and available - when I remember to "breathe, relax, allow and enjoy."

"Be Easy" to me is a gentle loving reminder that it is only my resistance to what is that makes life difficult. Easy is a state of being. My true nature, the Deva within, is Easy incarnate. It is only when I forget who I am and start to believe my ego's made up stories about how the way it's suppose to be that things get difficult.

Easy is about how I handle and react. It's not about what I am handling and reacting to.

So take a deep breath darlings, join me in Easy World. It's very Red here.

In Grace,

Kell