So this is what it’s come to, patio gardening in the courtyard. It’s my last-ditch effort to grow something here in the great Southwest. Currently I can’t even go out there because we’ve got two baby finches that fell from their nest, one of them wounded by the dog, and watching them hop around makes me feel so helpless and sad. I’m just avoiding the courtyard and my patio plants except to water them and adjust the volume on the chakra music I’m playing for them (the plants I mean, although maybe the birds are benefiting too.)
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We’ve been working on the magazine the past few weeks. Like everyone everywhere we’re trying to save our company, our jobs. On the bright side it’s great to work from home, great to be a working writer. On the downside, we’ve been doing this so long we’ve made ourselves kind of unemployable in any other field. I even let my manicurist license expire because the thought of ever again having to face strangers’ hooves like this makes me sick. A lot of people let their feet go to hell all winter long, then show up in the spring and say “Make me sandal pretty!” And you have to tell them, “I’m not a doctor.”
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We’ve recently discovered a new young jazz singer to listen to, Melody Gardot. She’s new to us, anyway. I first heard her on WMVY, which I listen to streaming online. I tried to post her video of “Who Will Comfort Me?” but it won’t let me. The Internet is merciless. If you care, check her out on YouTube.
Dang girl – love that new photo of you. I’m going to find her music and listen. You’ve never steered me wrong yet! Those feet are just gross…. I could never work on someone else’s feet unless they were already freshly done. LOL
Being faced with feet like that first thing in the morning is enough to make you want to turn around, get in your car, and drive home.
Those feet are nasty. I can see why you call them hooves. My feet used to be yucky but I’ve been working on them for a while and they are sandal ready.
Good luck with the flowers. I know you must miss you gardens.
I’ll check out the jazz singer. Sounds like something I would like.
Yes, do check out Melody Gardot. She’s young, a great singer, and her backstory is pretty fascinating.
Sister J
Yah, I think I’d refer that lady to a farrier.
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Nice of you to play chakra music (what is that?) for your plants and birds.
I’ve been playing an album by Steven Halpern called Chakra Suite that I bought from iTunes ($9.99, but you can listen to samples of it on both iTunes and Amazon). Halpern is a “sound healer” who uses chimes and bowls to create the tone of each of the seven chakras and “awaken” them. Whether you’re into chakras or not, the album is quite beautiful. It’s meant for meditation and/or relaxation purposes, but I’m desperate to get something to grow in my “garden” this year, so I started playing it in my courtyard throughout the day in the hopes it would “awaken” the chakras inside my flowers (if flowers have chakras?). So far, it’s working. I’ve had this patio garden for a month now, which is a record for me since moving to El Paso four years ago. In the past my plants died in about a week.
I’ve also been experimenting with the “water molecules blessing” introduced by Dr. Masaru Emoto, whose photos of transformed water molecules are really fascinating.
Like I said, so far, so good.
Holy crap. Maybe I want to rethink the cosmetology license after visiting this post. I apologize because I didn’t even really read it – I couldn’t get past the picture. Ewwww.
Are you seriously thinking of getting your cosmo license? Please talk to me first before you get sucked into Blaine or any other school who tells you how you’ll be raking in the cash…
Chakra music for your plants – what an awesome soul you are …
I think it’s working. At least, I believe it’s working.