Showing posts with label Wabi Sabi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wabi Sabi. Show all posts

Friday, August 6, 2010

Wabi Sabi Weird - Day 2

Again. Sometimes I just shake my head - it's too bizarre how certain things happen - a little mind-blowing.

I have a friend, Tracy, that I have visited many times. Some would call her a "psychic". I guess I often do too - but I usually use "air quotes" when I do because I believe she prefers to be called an "intuitive". But whatever I call her,  I always call her amazing.

Every time I visit Tracy, I simply marvel with what she can see and tell about me. I still can't begin to understand how she does what she does - but I'm sure glad she does!

Well...I just had lunch with my friend, Kelly, on Tuesday. I was telling her about Tracy and her amazing abilities and said I would email her Tracy's contact information. All day Wednesday and Thursday I looked at my reminder-to-myself-post-it-note telling me to do just that. I put it off (as I often do with any kind of task - I'm such a procrastinator!) - thinking I would do it "tomorrow".

Thursday night - I get an email from Tracy. Odd?  Not necessarily. But, this just happens to be a time when I've been struggling with my buddy, peri-menopause, and not necessarily feeling on-top-of-the-world. I've had about two weeks of not feeling well and not feeling good about myself. Not to mention the fact that I probably haven't been in contact with Tracy for several months now.

Tracy's emails says just this: 

I Think You Are This Person
A strong person knows how to keep their life in order. With tears in their eyes they still manage to say "I'm ok". Send this to a strong person; I just did. God is good. Change is coming. God saw your sadness and said hard times are over.

Again, a coincidence? Wow. I think not. How cool.

Dream away my friends! It's about the wonder of it all. . .


Wabi Sabi Weird

You know how those "weird" things happen......??

Yesterday during my lunch break, I ran to one of the jiffy-lube places to get the oil changed on my van. While I was waiting, I was scanning a magazine. Something like Good Housekeeping or the likes. I stopped to read an article that talked about letting your life be more "wabi sabi". I have never heard of that saying - but I believe it said that it was a Japanese saying that means something like "less than perfect". So for instance, purposely letting something be imperfectly finished - because nothing is really perfect. And it's similar to what I've always heard about the Amish and their quilting - that they purposely do some stitching or something differently on the quilt in one of the corners so that it's "not perfect".

Anyway, this gal in the article was talking about not taking everything so seriously - and letting go of things. I thought....that makes sense. You know - wabi sabi.

So...I return to my desk after lunch and the first thing I do is open an email. It's about a new knitting book. It's a cute book and I'm curious about it. I can't immediately place the name of the author - so I do a quick google-search of her name and it takes me to her blog. Below is the header of her blog!


Coincidence??  I don't think so!

Does it mean I should run out and get her book - or does it mean more than that?