Inspiration to Re-Invent

At 52 years old, I have to re-invent myself—again! I just came back from the new movie, “Julia & Julie”—or is it “Julie & Julia”? It stars Meryl Streep as Julia Child, the popular and much satirized cook from the 1960s. I know my mother was familiar with her—my mother was a great cook. And we had the iconic copper pots and pans hanging in our kitchen.

The ability to really cook is something I truly lack—although Mother tried hard to teach me. I never had the patience or the desire. Yet I bought a house with a huge kitchen thinking that if I only had enough room, I would begin to learn how to cook. I’m sure I have the talent. I just don’t have the desire.

Our heroine in the movie, Julie Powell, who at age 30 has to reinvent herself, much the same way Julia Child did when she was 40 and newly married and living in France. Julia Powell is played by the ever delightful Amy Adams.

The movie was great and I highly recommend it to all – those who love France, those who love to cook, those who love Julia Child and those who love Amy Adams and most particularly those who need inspiration when it comes to their lives.

So why am I reinventing myself (again!)? Because I have once again been ‘let go’ or ‘laid off’ from my job. I was a computer analyst – I write the requirements for software developers to write code against and then I test the software that is developed to make sure it works. It isn’t a terribly hard job, at least not for me, but you do have to know about various computer systems and industry standards and regulations. But after a dozen or so systems and projects they all look and feel the same.

Apparently CEOs of America companies feel we computer analysts get paid too much to do this taxing job, for they have found a method to make their bottom line and wallets even fatter – ship our jobs overseas to India where the Indians get paid much less than we ever could live on here in America.

I won’t rant and rave over all of this exporting of jobs – I’ll save that for another blog. My point here is that once again I am looking for work and finding none in my field or very little. This specific Recession really is a dozy.

Well, thank God I can write. And not just this blog—I actually am published – my fantasy short stories were published by DAW Books in the late 1980’s. Has it really been that long? And I’ve self-published my non-fiction books, all five of them, more recently—just this year in fact.

And I enjoy writing and teaching – and helping people connect with their inner guidance system. So at least this time, I know what I want to do—a far cry from times before when I would lament on what I was going to do next with my life.

That’s the inspiration of this movie – explore your options and your choices – then do something about it. Go after your dreams, your wants, and your desires.

I will say that at least at my age, I’ve figured out that much. So at least I’ve learned something along the way. And hopefully the lessons going forward will be more fun and allow me to reinvent myself with a new flair and zest for life. I draw inspiration from the movie, “Julie & Julia”. Yes, that is the name of the film—I looked it up.

Go see this film—you too may draw inspiration from this merging of two stories. At the very least, you’ll want to go home and want to try your hand at something inspiring. Like maybe learning how to cook. Or write a blog.

Economic Hard Times for Light Workers

What is a light worker? This term was picked up in the 1990’s as a person who works in and around spiritual concepts as defined by the New Age. It is a person who strives for the highest good and reaches for the light of a higher power to illuminate life.

We define the term – light worker – so we can ask the question – in these tough economic times how can the light worker stay the course? How do they survive unemployment, down-sizing, layoffs and such? How do they manage to stay optimistic amidst ever increasing doom and gloom news stories that the media is putting forth and that their friends and family harp upon?

Speaking from personal experience, this is a tough assignment but one that can be accomplished by keeping the eye on the main objective and application of universal law principles. These principles are part of the light worker vernacular: law of attraction, law of karma, law of gratitude being just a few of these laws.

Each one can help the light worker stay the course with steadfast and optimistic objection for they realize the reality they create is their own and the universe operates under certain rules which they are aware of and can navigate through.

Once they remove the emotions out of the equation and realize that there are answers out there for them to gather and work with, the light worker can recognize their own path of potential which can lead to new adventures with even more rewards than the last several adventures.

The light worker has at their disposal an arsenal of ready helpers in the form of various high spirit guides, ascended masters and archangels and angels. The light worker must be ready to ask and receive these helpers’ assistance. So it is the asking of help, that may help begin to lift the light worker’s spirit and put them back on course, if indeed they falter.

Being reminded to ask for help and then acting upon that help once given, allows the light worker to get back on the path of illumination. Refocusing efforts and tasks allows the light worker to turn away from worries that block the energy flow and can stymie results that are manifesting as a result of putting in an earlier desire. Maintaining balance in both health and mental facilities helps the light worker maintain a steady course.

Over excess of worry, panic or otherwise emotions of dissent will only slow the progress of manifestation. The light worker teaches these principles to others – but the angels and guides will remind the teacher to adhere to these principles too.

Again shifting attention away from the subject of worry will allow the river of manifestation to continue to flow and not be stopped or otherwise misdirected.

Relaxation and enjoyment of life is imperative at this time – the light worker realizes that once the manifestation order has been placed with the universe, their job is simply to allow manifestation to happen as the universe does its job in processing the order.

The light worker has to remain vigilant in listening for clues and signals and outright command of actions, but otherwise a sense of accomplishment and relaxation will continue to allow the universe to merrily bubble on the stove of life until the meal is ready to be brought forth and served.

Acting upon signals and clues will allow the light worker to move along the predisposed path and acting upon commands will bring the task at hand faster. Patience may be needed as the universal pot boils. The phrase “A watched pot never boils,” is a good saying at this time.

Remember to have faith in the universe – it is on your side and the light worker knows this to be true – it has been on their side in many times before with equally productive results.

The light worker knows that time is a friend and not the enemy and faith will carry them through these times as well as times in the future, when needed.

This then is how the light worker strives to rise above the gloom and doom news of the day – knowing that they create their own reality and manifest their own destiny. Knowing that the naysayers and critics are there for contrast to allow the light worker to rise about the fray of the day and to allow the light worker to make better choices in an ever expanded banquet that is open to them in particular and to all in general.

Tough times don’t last --- these are a cycle of life and again the light worker is aware of this although a reminder from the angels and spiritual light worker team may be necessary.

With this knowledge and these tools, the light worker can go on and survive—and thrive in good times or in bad. Light workers work with Light and the light will always outshine the darkness.

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The preceding was channeled material from Demetrius - a chorus of loving and intelligent beings who mission is provide knowledge towards enlightenment.

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Blake Cahoon has been a light worker for over twenty years! Check her books out at: http://www.amethystmoon.com/ and learn more about light workers and Demetrius.

You Can Go Home Again

They say you can’t go home again…this is not true—you can and sometimes you should. But it won’t be the same—you can’t expect it to be the same; especially when forty years have passed as was the case when I went “home” again this summer.

For me Home was New York – where I was born (in New York City) and raised (in Rochester, NY) to the age of eleven.

My sister, who is three year younger than myself, and I went east this summer along our Heritage Trail – first to Cleveland, Ohio – where long dead relatives once lived and then onto Buffalo, NY or rather to Niagara Falls – where we had visited as young children. Apparently my father had filmed some new exhibit way back when; he was a film producer/director/editor – and wound up in Rochester, NY at Kodak –our next stop.

Here we roam the shopping plaza and apartment buildings of our youth with much aplomb and with many memories –some good and others not quite so good. We found our old elementary schools and found some changes, but not many. We found the woods we once played in and still found a heavily wooded path that we could still travel. That path wasn’t quite so wooded back forty years and it was probably easier to travel as children. Still we were both delighted that we managed explore the woods that meant so much to us.

We visited with the now much older parents of true best friends from our childhood.
We are now the age our parents were when they left Rochester. These folks knew us only as children – it must have been strange indeed for them to visit with us as adults. For me they now were wonderful people I could relate to as adults, as opposed to being simply the parents of my childhood best friend. They still have the playhouse that my father built for us – its been a tool shed in their backyard and it still stands—a testament to my father’s carpentry skills.

We also managed to visit the church we went to as children – and I found to my amused amazement the stained glass windows depicted not scenes of Jesus and the saints as so many mid-western churches to – but instead huge pictures of angels! These were the angels that guarded me as a child and which so influenced my life as an adult. No wonder I’m so into angels!!

We explored the huge Ellison Park, remembering lively times of snow sledding on its steep hills – they are still as steep as we remembered! This park meant much to us growing up and remains today still beautiful. We also managed to head up to our favorite amusement park on Lake Ontario—and found many of the same rides we loved as a child, including the ominous Jack Rabbit roller coaster—not quite so tall as I remember and the old merry-go-round with its colorful horses spinning to calipee music. Some things don’t change much with age – and for that we were grateful.

Next we headed towards New York City – Greenwich Village – where we both were born and I was raised during my first years of life. I don’t remember much of this time – although it was fun to see the brownstone I vaguely remember. And we went to the infamous ‘Beam Building’ otherwise known as the Empire State Building. On the rooftop of the brownstone, my father would point out the beam in the sky that issued forth from the Empire State Building – and I would marvel in delight. I have to say while the Empire State Building didn’t awe me as much as a child, I did marvel in delight at all the lights of Time Square – which television simply does not do justice.

I was also awed by the Statue of Liberty and loved the quaint little restaurants and elegant hotels of old that New York has; there is indeed an energy here which I could see could be addicting. But then people from Chicago say the same thing about their city too.

I was born in New York and raised in Rochester then moved to Central Florida (where New Yorkers were transplanting themselves). I once considered all these places my ‘home’. Now I live in the Chicago area – and have for close to fifteen years. Yet I don’t consider this area to be ‘home’ – or at least I didn’t until my summer trip to back east.

Home is where your heart is and where you lay your hat, figuratively speaking. I thought home for me was New York – but I found out that was simply where happy and not so happy memories lie. I lay down a few demons in this trip – and so now more happy memories than not remain for me. You can go home again—and all the past and present memories will remain intact—this I know for me is true.

I had fun on this trip, exploring new places and old. My memories served me well in traversing the past and I was glad I went. Once I was a New Yorker; but not so much any more. I don’t consider myself a mid-western either. My home is my sanctuary—a spot to lay my head and to contemplate the world while watching TV on my couch or for entertaining friends and family.

I have learned that it doesn’t matter where my home is…it is important to be present in my physical home where ever my heart is. And my heart and soul are travelers and explorers.

The old adage of you can’t go home again was wrong – you can and many a times, you should. It is a method of clearing the soul and setting the spirit on a new path. At least it was for me.

Picture: Blake Cahoon in front of her first elementary school where she first began talking to ghosts. Photo used by permission.
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