Runway and Writing Group

Thought Mitchell should have been gone from Runway last night.

Tonight is my first writing group. I will receive feedback on Ghost Story--very nervous but excited at the same time.

On the Runway!

Project Runway starts tonight! So excited about that. My Mom once asked why I like it so much and I told her that it's the closest thing that the average American sees to what it's like to have an art crit in school. Love it!

Picked up The Secret again tonight--great principles, now to practice them. The idea is that positive thoughts attract positive thoughts and that one needs to meditate on this principle daily to attract and strengthen them.

Submitting my first draft (really rough) of my ghost book to writing group over email tonight. Very nervous.

Wrote a lot at work this week: blog about Phthalate-free flooring, initial thoughts on how to position new carpeting, new website copy on environmentally friendly flooring.

Tom laid off -- creativity abounds

Tom was laid off today. Although we have been anticipating this for at least 5 weeks now, it is still hard to deal with. I am confident that this is for the best and that our lives will be the better for it in the long run. All-in-all, Tom's creativity, both in his work and how to make his work happen will be simultaneously unleashed and satisfying. It's the transition to that place that's scary. Like the start of any long journey, the beginning is always a bit nerve racking.

Meanwhile, I had a very creative day at work writing content for and thinking through links and architecture for the rhino site.

I met with Holly Robinson last night for coffee and writer's inspiration. My reading group meets in a week and a half, and I finally think I'm ready to take the plunge with my submission. I can't tell how I got to this point, because the task seemed dauntingly unachievable about a month ago. See? There's the same message coming through again...the journey is always what gets you there and you can't see it without moving from the start.

All is and will be well for us. I know it.
With faith to the Universe and summoning the help of my spirit guide(s),
-Cate

Quantum Physics

Quantum physics keeps coming up for me in my life. Not sure where this is going to bring me, but thought it best to take note and start to officially "notice".

• with woman in Portland, ME that Betsy Keiter hooked me up with. She was a medium of sorts (find the notebook used during this session)
  
• Movie, What the Bleep Do We Know?
• TV show on PBS while I was riding the exercise bike this past winter (2009)
• in discussion with acupuncturist, Marty, when discussing the book he is reading: [name]
• in reading of book Carol gave me called "the Secret" about the law of attraction.

Very interested in the law of attraction--reading more about it and QP now.

Good article on this: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Law-of-Attraction-and-Quantum-Physics&id=223148

Hands of Light author Barbara Brennan is an American physicist? WOW! Now, this is getting somewhere
"the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part."

I would add that we are both parts of the Whole and the Whole at once.

Inspiring conclusions from Alex Paterson on this blog:
"The recent findings of Quantum Physics (especially Dr Bohm's work) about the universe being made up of an "interconnected unbroken wholeness", examples of Non-Locality phenomena (Bells Theorem) and the 'Observer Effect' implying that consciousness underlies all reality, has striking parallels with the ancient Esoteric concept that all reality is the manifestation of an infinite Singularity (creative principle) which I personally choose to call Source, and most others call God. However, none of this is surprising to those who have experienced the 'Oneness' associated with some sort of deep spiritual experience or holotropic state."

Affirmation and Intuition Toward the Positive Future

Tom was laid off (furloughed?) yesterday and it's with great calm that I approach this development. I feel as though there is greater good going to come out of this for Tom and me and Cal. Perhaps we use this time to refocus our goals and work toward the changes we discussed during our anniversary dinner last week: creating a more serene, outdoor-focused lifestyle for ourselves and our kids and creating work environments for ourselves in which we are in control and working to fulfill ourselves while supporting our family, sharing love with our family, enjoying good health, and living in abundance.

It's defining that last list which is such an important step for us. It's amazing to be together after all these years and there's still so much more to discover.

Opening ourselves with love for the Universe and expecting the best,
Cate