My new rimless glasses

I had a great lesson in the power of my beliefs this morning. As usual on final layout week, I spend extra hours at the computer, creating and revising ads, opening mail, logging in payments, seeing who’s paid and who needs to pay, playing phone tag with a dozen new advertisers getting last minute details, making last minute adjustments to design and layout. So I work well into the night and get up early to begin again. And this morning was no different.  I woke up groggy, wishing I could have just a little more sleep, but excited about doing the final touches on the magazine. I note the time on the wall clock – 6:20 am – and sleepily make it into the office. I go over my To Do List and begin making my way down the list. I check email and get a final ad. I respond to a few emails.  I place the ad and am about to begin my Table of Contents when I notice my eyeglass case next to the keyboard in front of me. My eyeglass case. Empty, of course. Not because I have them on, but because they’re in the living room next to the couch where I slept last night. Hmmm, how can that be? Continue reading →

Yesterday was a day of running errands for me, and I was on line at the bank, in the market and at the post office.  Being in line is always a lot of fun for me, especially if the radio is on.  Yesterday at the post office, we had the whole line bopping to KC and the Sunshine Band’s “Shake Your Booty.”  I  always talk to people I’m standing in line with and have met some great friends that way.    I posted it on Facebook and said, “I went to school with Harry Casey, he’s 60 this year and can still get us dancing in the aisles.”  One friend commented that I always seem to find fun, and galpal Joan Crutcher responded, “Andrea doesn’t find fun, she brings fun with her wherever she goes.”  And Joan’s right.  I am a vortex of fun and I take it with me wherever I go.

Portals and Power Places: A lot of my friends travel to Arizona, Peru, France and India, to sacred sites such as Sedona, Macchu Picchu, Lourdes and Puttaparti.  I hear others talk about “there’s a special vortex here or there“  however it’s my experience that I AM the vortex. That WE ARE each the powerful vortex that we seek.  It’s interesting; we’ll make a pilgrimage half way around the world before we’ll sit alone with ourself to make the journey within.  Go figure.  Continue reading →