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About Cynthia

I am a textile artist, embroiderer, wood burner, costumer, painter, and weaver who sees magic and change in the chain stitch and a well done Palestrina knot. I wish I had more control over the ways of the human world but alas, all I can control are my actions and my attitude in life and the consistency of my stitches. And sometimes even that doesn’t pan out as hoped and I must rip rip rip.

Message Received

I was napping yesterday when The Forgiven called and left a message saying all is forgiven on his side too and he is glad we can move on.  I said in my message that I didn’t know if it meant we would or could be friends but that I simply didn’t want to be enemies another minute.  He said he would respect which ever way that I go with that but that he doesn’t want to be enemies either. It was very nice message.  I’m not up to talking with him per se so I think I’ll send a thank you email for now.  I’m just so exhausted from this weekend.  Just exhausted.  And I have a lot of work to do in the next two days.

My neck cricked up again and I am seeing my acupuncturist later this morning. Horrible headache last night, woke me up at 2am and after taking my Maxalt I waited a long time for it to pass and to fall back asleep.  And it’s there in a residual way this morning.

Even though the processing is incredibly good, it pays to remember that stress wigs my body out no matter what.  I know that the self care today will make it go away.

I have one design finished and another in my head for this current client.  Hopefully by tomorrow evening I will send them both off for review and selection.

It’s hard to be creative when your head and neck are freaking out.  I’m so tired I don’t even have the energy to rail at Sarah Palin and her stupid accusations this morning.  “Pals around with Terrorists.”  What a bitch.  Yeup, that’s all I got.

Breakthrough ~ 51%

It finally happened.  I finally forgave myself for loving, and hating, The Forgiven.  *heavyrelievedsigh*

I’ve left a message for The Forgiven (the current new name for the ex, no more Narcissus) and hope that when he returns my call, he’s that kind of person, he most likely will, I hope that we can both say truce. Done.  Forgiven.  Let’s move on and be okay in each other’s space.

It has been a very long and difficult road to get here.  The last week as been perhaps one of the most intense of them. Lots of tears.  Lots of awareness of my feelings no longer serving me.  But I was also feeling frustrated, why was it taking so long?  I think three people have said to me this week “You have to forgive yourself, love yourself.”  See, can’t even type that without tears.  And while it makes sense and I heard them on an intellectual level, it is a thousand miles to travel from the head to the heart and I had a few more steps to take to get here.

Last night I went to the 25th wedding anniversary for some friends.  I knew almost everyone there.  This was the Heart Family from the Jeshua channeling I go to.   I was grateful to be there, to feel so surrounded by people who love me no matter what.  It was an honor and a joy to be part of their celebration, a  celebration that was really inspiring. See, J and T celebrated their 25th Anniversary with her first husband.  He spoke of his life with J and when J and T were brought to stand in a heart of flowers, R stood in it with them. T himself put J between them. So much love.  It was really quite amazing.  J had intense dislike for R for 5 years.  Knowing who she is now and that she used to hate has been a beacon of hope for me in these months, knowing that it would pass but feeling despair at times over the emotion of it. Oh, darn it, there are the tears again.  It is all about love and forgiveness, I simply couldn’t go on much longer without it surrounded by the healing energy of it all.

One of the fellows there, Eric, reads aura’s.  He sees dead people and he doesn’t really consider either gift a gift.  It causes him distress actually.  He was reading auras for folks last night and he read mine.  And while he was hesitant to tell me what he saw he did tell me. And I was not surprised in the least.  While he said I have lots of beautiful colors, lots of blues and greens and yellows (which is very good), that there are very disturbing and frightening spikes. Muddy red and black spikes that project over a foot out from my physical body.  Not as bad as the last time he saw me, thank goodness, but still pretty unsettling to see he said.  And I could feel them.  I don’t read auras but I read energy in other ways and if you were to ask me at any given moment I could tell you if those spikes were there or not.  And they were there last night.

I visited this website on auras just now and it says that black pulls in energy and “usually indicates long term unforgiveness” and muddied red is anger.  No lie.  The black was especially bang on accurate.

The Forgiven (TF) introduced me to these people.  So when I see them, go to their events, I would always think of TF.  I would get nervous that he would be there.  I would get mad all over again.  I would have arguments with him in my head.  The hamster was running her little legs off in that wheel.  And the spikes would be just huge.  It happens at OLOTEAS too.  And sometimes while I’m making dinner or cleaning the bathroom.

Eric and I talked for a very long time and eventually he and I and Jackie went to his hotel room and continued our conversation.  We talked about a lot of stuff eventually but at first I did a lot of talking and crying. Eric rubbed my feet, pulling all that energy out of me, and Jackie cuddled next to me, all of us on the uber comfie hotel bed.  As Eric rubbed my feet the crying finally started to stop.  We moved on to other topics.  At 1:30 I finally drove home singing my heart out to the Dixie Chicks.

I awoke this morning and felt like total shit.  Totally hungover, emotional hangover.  All the crying and staying up way past my bed time.  I thought I just can’t face another day of how I’ve been feeling and I asked Jeshua to come and tell me what I needed to do to move on.  “Forgive yourself.  I love you.”  Now I’m crying again.  And I cried and cried and cried.  And I feel clean.  Empty of the pain and hate and rage.  Just clean and empty.  And done.   All that shit is gone.  It is well and truly gone.  And I know without a shadow of a doubt that I won’t be going back to that.

I really simply can’t stand being mad for one more day.  The scales finally tipped in the other direction.  How much I wanted it to be over and to feel better finally outweighed how much I wanted to be mad.  Oh thank god.  I finally got to 51% of wanting to be free of anger and hurt.  Until you get to 51% you simply can not change.  It’s impossible.  That 1% makes all the difference in the world.

I called Jackie and let her know what had happened.  She will pass that on to the others.  I left a message for The Forgiven.  He needs to be forgiven, he needs to know he is.  And I really really need to do it and to say it to him.  There isn’t a lot I want to tell him about the process or why I just want to tell him I finally got there.  And because he is who he is, a gentle soul, he will be glad of it.  He is a lot of things, as are we all, but he is first and foremost a creature of nature outside of his element and he has a good heart.

Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.  I know that the spikes are gone.  I can’t even tense my shoulders.  I feel it the minute I start and my shoulders just drop.  Here’s to breaking old habits that no longer serve me.  And I suspect here’s the end of the debilitating headaches of the last 6 months.

So Mote It Be

Cancer this week

Your creed for the last three months of 2008 comes from Nikos Kazantzakis,writer of Zorba the Greek and the Last Temptation of Christ: “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.” Memorize this meme, Cancerian. Imprint it on your subconscious mind. Make it so much a part of you that it breathes as you breathe, and dreams as you dream. Allow it to turn you into a magician whose potent desire is as strong as the longings of ten normal people put together.

Working on it.  Oh yes, working on it.

I got a new contract signed on Monday and met with prospective clients yesterday.  They are considering the  proposal.  I noticed that the temp services at the university where I worked has applied for a job for me (who knew!) as a professional staff web master.  Might be a little over the top but we’ll see if I get called for an interview.

At least, with a little help from my friends and this new contract I will be able to pay October and November’s rent and car payments.  WHEW.

I’m really beginning to dig this working from home.  I’ve been working all morning in my pj’s and my favorite fuzzy wool socks. Had a little lunch, threw a load of laundry in, put up a couple squashes and corns as decoration. Going to do my nails, fingers and toes, as I’m going to a party for the 25th wedding anniversary of some friends and there is going to dancing. Fancy clothes requested.

I’ve got one design done for the new contract and need to start the second one.  Will probably work on it in pieces over the weekend, mostly in the creative part of my brain and then build on Mon and Tues.  I have discovered that I don’t particularly mind working on evenings or weekends when there is nothing else going on as I can go take a nap, drive to the store, go see a friend for a few hours.  In fact I feel like I’m living much more of a life now than I did before.

The only thing that is falling a bit behind is my witch gown.  Probably work on that tomorrow and Sunday too.  As well as some evenings when it comes to sewing in the eyelets for lacing.

It’s become very clear to that I need to be very active in my visualizations now and in the future. Why? Because I’m starting to get attached to living like this and the thought of the alarm clock again on a regular daily basis, being at work before I even get up now, makes me cringe.  But some medical benefits would be nice.  If things start cooking along I might see about buying my own insurance.  Cuz I’m smitten.

The SNL Spoofs

I have tried to embed them best I can but the code is cooperating. Must be WordPress. They are worth the click away. I would embed Youtube but the Saturday Night LIve website is the place to get the video’s in their entirety and in crystal clear clarity.

This first one is Tina Fey and Amy Poehler showing us Hilary and Sarah

Again Tina Fey and Amy Poehler but as Sarah and Katie Couric

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The harvest is in

My little garden, where I get too much sun and the soil sucks, yields a bit of a harvest of herbs.  I’m working on some soil reclamation and each year is a little better.

I put up rosemary, wormwood, variegated sage, lavender, fennel, and angelica.  It feels good to know that at least I have those supplies grown, nurtured, cut, dried, and bottled by my own hand.

It isn’t much but I’m pleased none the less.