I spent 3 bloody hours trying to Skype a friend yesterday. Boringly my internet usage ran out so I then had to café hop up and down a busy street searching for free WIFI which wasn’t as easy as I’d thought. Eventually at the near three hour panic mark, I thought I’d hit the jackpot.
However now I’m sitting at the shittiest café on the strip, perched on a dirty brown seat that might get me pregnant , so low down in comparison to the table that if I’d actually been able to Skype connect, I’d have appeared as suspicious pair of eyes at the bottom of my friend’s screen.
The following day after no less than 30 emails to my friend keeping her updated on my progress as if I’m running the Amazing Race, she replied “Wow Petts you’re having a serious tech nightmare!” This was a nice way of saying ” Wow Amber, it’s really not that bloody difficult, what is your problem girlfriend?”
What I was, am, and quite often having, and what I feel should be added to the dictionary, is a serious tech-mare!! Close in every way to a nightmare except you’re awake but you still can’t quite get there. Helpless and hopeless…
So it was a rather surreal moment last week when I had two women accusing me of being a techno genius. I mean I’ve been called a couple of things in my time but techno genius? Nope.
The serious misunderstanding as I saw it, occurred whilst on a night out at the movies with my mother and her two friends, when I glanced over at one of them who was squinting away trying to read a text from her son. She pulled the phone in close to her face, then away and so on. All the while mumbling about her age and being totally blind without her glasses.
When I too squinted at her screen, I remarked “I don’t think it’s your eyes, a four year old would struggle with that, it’s so dark.”
Apparently she’d been having ongoing problems with her new Iphone, not being able to read texts or even hear when it was ringing.
I grabbed the gadget out of her hand as I warned given my track record with phones and anything that has an ‘on’ button I was unlikely to be of any help. I went into her settings, turned the brightness up, then the volume which were both at their lowest setting. .
Shreaking like she’d just won Powerball or stumbled on a plunge pool in the desert, she starts accusing me of being a ‘technical genius’, as my mum and the other mate start backing her up.
Mum even starts bragging “oh she’s always been amazing at things like that!” Um, no I haven’t Mum, you’re making that up. Anyone that’s ever known me, knows as a running joke that I lose the plot all the time over technology. I just DO NOT get it. But now, apparently I’m the incarnation of Steve Jobs.
My point in all this nonsense is, you may think that the whole world knows something that you don’t because you didn’t grow up with technology. I’ve finally taught my 71 year old mother how to send emails and she thinks it’s heaven but she was never going to get there with her $80 an hour IT guy coming to her home because she was too self-conscious so she learnt nothing.
I’d call her after he’d left every time and say “so when am I getting an email?” , to which she’d reply that she still didn’t really know what to do. I couldn’t quite understand what was going wrong until I realised she was just having a brain block through fear, not because she didn’t grow up with technology.
Think about who you might be able to keep in contact with more by knowing the basics, that would really make your day? Grandkids overseas, old friends interstate? Then try to destroy the illusion that just because people like me who carry their computers everywhere, does not mean we have a clue what we’re doing with them, a lot of the time.
This is a very powerful month and you would be wise to use it well. The theme of manifesting brings up many areas to work on. There is plenty of material around this theme for growth, change, elimination, study, breakthrough, expansion, balance and alignment. It continues to be a creative time with lots of opportunities for beginnings and endings but the main focus that will give you the most for your efforts is the study and understanding of what MANIFESTING is all about. So treat this month as a daily workshop on manifesting and set an intention that you will end this month with a greater understanding and ability to manifest. Insert the intention for magic and miracles whenever possible as this is a good month for both magic and miracles.
This will require exploring your current beliefs about how everything in your life becomes manifest and understanding it in such a way that you become empowered with the ability to be more conscious about how you manifest your life. This understanding is crucial at this time as we are in the window of eclipses (there are two this month and there was one in April) providing us with great power and opportunity and offering us a portal for changing what we believe about our ability to have what we want.
In recent years there has been much study and a greater understanding of the quantum field, the energy that holds all possibilities, and how to access it to change certain trajectories and cycles that seem to run our lives. For most of us it still remains a deep mystery and we are always trying to understand the mechanics of how and why we manifest what we do.
Why do some people seem to manifest great financial prosperity and others struggle their whole lives with a deep poverty consciousness?
Why do some people manifest good relationships that others only yearn for?
Why do some people manifest nothing but misfortune with every decision?
You could blame the differences on astrology, poor imprinting, your parents, karma, and the actions and choices of others, all valid considerations. However the patterns created by these influences can be worked with in a positive way. They can be changed as long as you can extricate yourself from the lineage of low havingness and the icons you have bought into over your lifetime. (Suggested audio “The Family Icon”) Icons are strong and they go beyond the family and can include collective experiences such as the Great Depression or the Holocaust or a great Famine or a significant War. We are all made up of an intricate set of patterns and to understand how the patterns are linked is to begin to understand what and how we manifest.
Some people manifest wonderful things for their business and work and are terrible at manifesting right relationship. Others have all the love and support of community and friends and loved ones but no money. And others still have great amounts of money and support and even good relationships but very poor health.
So what is that all about?
There are different lessons for each of us about what and how we manifest. The way that our belief systems are linked up has everything to do with what we end up creating for ourselves. For example, as a child if you witnessed a family member that put financial success over and above quality relationships with the family and there was conflict and resentment about that, you may have made a subconscious decision that love and financial success do not mix. Therefore subconsciously you would choose one and eliminate the other.
If you witnessed or experienced that lots of love and passion and attention in your family somehow created emotional conflict or that what one parent manifested caused the other one to have negative emotions, you may make a subconscious choice not to manifest love and passion in your life.
In the same way, if you witnessed or experienced as a child that the only time you could manifest love and caring attention to your body was to be in poor health, then your belief about having caring and attention for yourself would require manifesting poor health throughout your whole life.
All of us have made strong subconscious decisions early in life to separate ourselves from what we saw or experienced that we did not like. So there is a built in block to manifesting anything that is linked to a negative experience. The examination of self and what makes us who we are is key to changing our relationship to the way we manifest.
The value of what you manifest is related to the value you have for yourself. Not the value that someone else places on you but what you place on yourself. There is an erroneous notion that manifesting requires something from the outside, some element outside of us that comes in and makes it happen. Although support is necessary, it is our own energy field that draws towards it the elements around our intentions and turns them into manifestations. Your intention and thoughts and beliefs are the ones that attract the material that creates your life. So it is important that you examine your beliefs about what you think you need from somewhere else in order to manifest, and your expectations of that happening.
Understanding how intentions work is another aspect of understanding manifesting. If you set an intention and are clear and committed and certain about that intention without a doubt, send it into the quantum field and send it from your heart. The worst thing you can do is then to begin to worry about that intention not manifesting. Because, guess what? You will confuse the quantum field, which will then feed the worry and take its direction from your worry that the intention will NOT manifest. All the energy will go into NOT manifesting that intention. It is a true discipline to set our intentions free without worry or micromanaging them, and it would be so much simpler if we could all just energetically lobotomize our minds. This is a great month to work on this discipline of clarifying our intentions; committing 100% to them and then letting them go without another thought or worry.
There is also an erroneous belief that in order to manifest something you must “go after it”. Although there always needs to be a balance between being and doing, giving and receiving, there is way too much emphasis on going after what you want. Once you set your intention, you need to let it go and then relax, take action as appropriate timing dictates, but let it come to you as you magnetize your desire, and refrain from worry or obsession. It will only get in the way.
The scarcity complex
The scarcity complex is the definition and belief that there is a finite amount of energy, money, health, relationship, love etc. to go around and if you have an abundance of it, it means someone else goes without. Or if someone else has what you believe to be more than their share, then you go without. Where did that come from? Wherever it came from, it needs to go the way of all old patterns that no longer serve.
The truth is there is an infinite amount of source and it is only your attachment to something you manifested because you believe it is the best you can do and you fear losing it and ending up with nothing that keeps perpetrating that belief. If you believe it, it will be so. The challenge here is to stretch outside of that box and begin to experience the infinite possibilities of infinite source.
We all need support but many of us look for and expect support from the wrong people and the wrong places. Anyone who has a limited view of manifesting and a strong mind set about who you are, what you are capable of, what you should have or not have, is not a good prospect for support. Support yourself first. Build a strong inner relationship within yourself first. Work on your own beliefs and intentions. Then see who or what shows up to support that. You may be surprised. They probably won’t be the ones who are closest to you.
Remember to work with the concept of magic and miracles and all possibilities.
The opportunity this month is to truly shift your understanding and experience of manifesting in a very positive way.
The challenge will be dealing with all the doubt, negative thoughts and whatever else comes up around this issue of what and how you manifest. Remember that when stuff comes up and you are facing some of your “not-so-fun” manifestations, that you have the power to change, transform, eliminate and shift. Remember magic and miracles.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
This is a great opportunity to work through any and all issues around manifesting. You will need discipline to examine neutrally where you are currently in your life, what old patterns run you, where they came from, how you identify with or against them and to shift your beliefs about your own value and what you can have. Because of the personal nature of the work, it will be important that you honor your boundaries and stay away from the entanglements of brought on by what other people think you should be or do. Remember that manifesting should not “need” anything from the outside except the appropriate support. So this is the month where you can also examine your support and be more discerning about where it comes from.
Evaluate what you are currently manifesting in all areas; financial, relationship, community, environment, physical support, health, energy, enthusiasm, right work, enough play and rest, inspiration etc. What needs work? Where are you lacking the right kind of support? What are your expectations? Are they appropriate? You may not get all the answers in a neat little package but if you set the intention to do the work, it will start things moving in the right direction.
RELATIONSHIPS
What are you manifesting? Is it good? If not, examine your relationship with yourself. What are you manifesting there? Criticism? Judgment? Poor health? Lack? Irritation? Lethargy? Do you feel connected to your essence? Do you expect someone else to fix it?
Start there and then move on to your relationships with others. What are you magnetizing? If you feel a lack of understanding and support, you are probably experiencing the same thing in your relationship with self. Do you take care of yourself? When was the last time you thanked yourself and your body for being there for you? For some of you, this month will be all about rebooting your relationship with self. If you focus there, manifesting better relationships with others will automatically follow.
THE ENVIRONMENT
What kind of environment have you manifested for yourself to live in, to work in, to play in, and to rest in? Is it satisfactory? What do you think you deserve and what do you believe you have to put up with as a compromise to some situation or to “pay your dues”? What have you manifested in this life in terms of your environment? Is it cluttered or full of low frequency stuff? We are focusing on your personal environment as the place to start. Once you get an understanding of manifesting what you want in your personal environment you can move to the greater environment and participate in manifesting a better community and global environment.
Begin to look around and to see the whole environment as a manifestation of a collective set of patterns and beliefs. If you can shift the way you experience the environment as a co-creator and not a victim of it, you will gain a greater understanding in how you can participate in manifesting what we all desire.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
What you manifest is what you experience. The body will definitely speak to you this month and you will get to see exactly what you have manifested for yourself. The good news is that you can change it. Remember magic and miracles. Your body is perhaps the best barometer for where you are in any process, as the body will get your attention the fastest and the most powerfully. How can you support your body this month? How can you be more responsible? You have to really own your 100% responsibility for your body before you can manifest exactly what you want in relation to your body.
As you work with this concept of responsibility, your body may go through lots of mood swings as the challenges of doubt and deserveability come up for examination. Remember that you are the architect of your life and whatever has manifest is entirely of your own creation.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
This is perhaps the best area this month to make progress you can track. Because of icons, old patterns, conflicting belief systems and lack of personal value and deserveability, the area of manifesting success in work and finances is a favorite study for most of us. Pick something this month and work on it. Do you believe in the scarcity complex? Do you routinely manifest a lack of support? Do you believe in your talents and skills or do you wait for someone to take pity on you? You can do a lot of work in this area this month. Follow the threads of your beliefs to the roots and make changes. Practice setting your intentions in a clear and committed way and then release them without worry. Practice magnetizing the right people for partnerships, and allow the right timing to dictate your actions.
The opportunities for manifesting are truly amazing this month.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
May 1-8: Evaluate what you have manifested so far in your life. Coming from the place of gratitude, decide what needs to change. Once you set your intention, watch for things to come up that try and derail you from this new position you are taking of increasing your ability to manifest.
Pay attention to when you are overdoing, overworrying, over attached to the outcome and overthinking everything. This is a time that will show you what is out of balance and where you are out of balance. Set boundaries against the doubting mind that tries to tell you it’s not possible to have magic and miracles.
May 9: New Moon and Solar Eclipse is at 6:29 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the second eclipse out of three and makes for a powerful time of setting intentions. A New Moon is always a good time to come to a still point and reset anything that is not working. So take some time to evaluate what you have manifested in your life that is no longer a welcome situation. Use the new moon time to make a commitment to change it and set some intentions in that direction.
May 9-16: This is a time of fallout and doubt as well as energy gathering momentum and moving forward in spurts and bursts. Be careful that the spurts and bursts are moving things in a positive direction. You may feel slightly overwhelmed and even chaotic as the new intentions and focus on manifesting meets old patterns that surface from the deep subconscious. If you have a strong emotion about something, the next minute that could change and you could feel differently.
The best way to navigate this time is to be very flexible and not to make decisions based on what other people think. Follow your heart especially in your intention to manifest.
May 17-23: This could be an intense and wonderful time of breakthrough and change. The change could be sudden and permanent. Intend for magic and miracles to happen during this time. Harness the power of this time for your manifestations. Be clear about what you want. Boundaries may be important as other people’ strong intentions encroach upon your turf. Collaborations and support containers can empower as long as everyone is on the same page.
May 24: Full Moon with a Lunar Eclipse is at 10:26 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is the third eclipse and bookend to this powerful and transformative time. It is difficult to predict what the fallout may be from what has been stirred up during this month but you can expect some big energy to be moving around. The potency of this time could trigger security issues, judgment and doubt. Hopefully you will have had synchronicity and signs during the month that will keep you focused positively on your newfound abilities to manifest. This full moon is a time to recommit to what you know in your heart to be true about what you want to manifest.
May 24-31: This is a higher centered time of enjoying the fruits of your discipline and anchoring the lessons around manifesting. If you have worked with the energy of the month and stayed out of doubt, you can expect magic and miracles to manifest during this time. Even if things are looking on the outside like they are falling apart in your life or you feel pressured and confused by responsibilities or the rapid pace of what is coming into your life, you can still take a breath and have great gratitude for the movement and the manifestation.
The best medicine is to be in delight about the beautiful things you are manifesting in your life and to be in humor about the not so welcome things you still seem to be attracting. Remember it is all a process and some of what you put into motion this month may take several more to manifest.
Have a great month and have fun!
Blessings,
Lena
New Audio: Navigating May 2013. This is a helpful companion Audio to the monthly forecast. In this powerful month of possibilities and challenges, this audio is highly recommended to guide and support you to make the most of what is possible. Excellent discussion, suggestions, visualizations, and icaros by Anna and Lena. (link here)
Last June I wrote of my experience at the Mind Body Spirit Festival where I had stumbled upon a group of nice Muslims people there promoting their Window of Islam series.
I wanted people to think about how terribly judgemental we as a society can be when it comes to people we don’t know, living their lives in a way we don’t understand.
There were three men in white robes there and two women in black burqas. I wanted to share my experience of my own feelings of judgement that happened and then passed all in the matter of seconds, when one of the women turned around to face me, her eyes peering above the niqāb I believe it’s called, which is the side-attached cloth that covers the face below the eyes.
It made me think how often human nature results in us freaking out about something purely because we can’t quite see the full picture, so we jump to a negative conclusion. Within seconds I diffused my own misguided fear pang of ‘who’s behind there?’ by noticing that the lady standing right next to her, also in a burqa didn’t have the nigab attached therefore her lovely smiling face was there for all to see.
I chatted and interacted with the Muslim gentleman manning the stand as I wrote back then, and came away with a feeling of having a nice, unexpected little moment with people I had not had such a chance to connect with thus far. The exact sort of thing my nature drives me to do so and gives me a lot of joy.
In the weeks that passed this event and well on from writing about what went on, I got to listen to a couple more of the audio CDs these people had given me, however this time, I did not like their tone.
I will be honest; I was starting to feel like Reese Witherspoon’s character in Legally Blonde. Just a little naïve and with a mug sign on my head visible from more than a mile or so away.
I want to point out that not all the listening material designed to educate me on all things regarding Islam and the Quran had raised my suspicion, there were a number of them about creation, our planet and the evolution of life that were very interesting to me.
Unfortunately there were also a couple that sounded an awful lot like attempted brainwashing to me and I believe should never been allowed to be on display at an event like the Mind Body Spirit Festival.
This is supposed to be a space that has a reputation for being all encompassing of all people’s beliefs and theories and never a place to cultivate judgment or anger.
After the information that has come out in the last weeks since the Boston bombing, I have decided to put my hand up and say that I might have been a little quick to gush about my Islamic experience because not all of it really did end up good. This makes me very cranky considering I went in with the idea of being open to understanding someone else’s beliefs.
But when those beliefs started to sound like I was being commanded to submit to the evidence of Islam, all words that were used over and over and over again, my inclination is to remind anyone living in this country, pushing others to deny another’s right of their religious choice, that the veil of suspicion placed over your choice is not likely to drop anytime soon if you go about things like this.
I took the time to listen to the ideals of Islam and to find out the spiritual guidelines that Muslim people in this country choose to live their life under, not just to be ear bashed about how everyone else has got their religious stories wrong.
The information that has been revealed in the wake of the Boston bombings has made my tolerance for a message with a tone that doesn’t feel right to me, all that much lower.
With the horrific scenes that have been coming out of Boston over the past week, it makes you realise what an enormous job government officials in any country have to undertake by way of trying to protect innocent people, having to tend to the needs of those injured in the bombings as in this case, supporting the grieving families of those who have been killed or awaiting news on an injured loved one.
The scope of what goes on behind the scenes by all sorts of officials trying to do their respective jobs to unravel the mayhem brought on by a couple of insanely twisted people, is just overwhelming in it’s gravity.
And then you get these mind blowing morons in the mix, all clambering around trying to get their moment in the drama. People that do not need to be anywhere near a crime scene but flock to it like maggots to be a piece of old meat. Crime scene clowns thinking they’re in a scene from CSI.
I was watching Fox News as the shoot out at MIT university was unfolding, as one of the Boston bombers and subsequent bomb suspects had been shot dead.
One young Fox reporter standing by the road introduced a man who appeared to be in his 60’s, a man who apparently lived somewhere in the town but not actually in the heart of the chaos, yet there he was, acting like a educated citizen being treated like a credible witness to what was being watched on TV networks all over the world.
The serious issue here is, that this stupid twit of a bloke, explained that he’d been at home, heard one explosion and then heard another. He described the town as not normally being a place where such violence would normally go on, so much so that he said it was not even a place where you’d even see much police presence. Thankfully for officials as this was all kicking off, it was the early hours of the morning so there weren’t a lot of people actively in the area.
Except this half-wit known as Mr Grimes, who went on to share after the second explosion, to which he then heard the sounds of several sirens screaming into town, he had the bright idea of leaving his house with his wife still in bed and hopped in his car headed in the direction of the drama.
What sort of person thinks it’s a good idea from even a personal safety point of view to hurtle towards an unknown, obviously highly dangerous situation so they can find out what’s going down? This is the absolute epitomy of the anti-hero, knowing that if there’s sirens being heard that would tell a person with a brain that maybe the police may have it covered? Although, as is tragically the case in this Boston story late last week, even the police, heavily armed and highly trained don’t always make it back to their families.
It’s an utter disgrace for this man and others who siren chase in these types of situations, who by their idiotic judgement calls based on the adrenalin of drama, who go and clog up a street where police might be needing to keep clear so they car get through. Adding another element of police distraction by having an unnecessary person close to a critical scene who now they have to worry about protecting him as well.
The worrying trend these days with all of us having our cameras on the ready inside our phones, is that everyone’s so obsessed with being the one that gets the footage of something hideous going down.
If a crime scene is unfolding no matter what country it’s happening in, it’s our duty to those who are already risking their own lives to protect, to get out of the flipping way and let the officials do their job. These people shouldn’t interviewed, they should be told to nick off. For want of a much stronger set of words that I’d really rather use.
With the horrific scenes that have been coming out of Boston over the past week, it makes you realise what an enormous job government officials in any country have to undertake by way of trying to protect innocent people, having to tend to the needs of those injured in the bombings as in this case, supporting the grieving families of those who have been killed or awaiting news on an injured loved one.
The scope of what goes on behind the scenes by all sorts of officials trying to do their respective jobs to unravel the mayhem brought on by a couple of insanely twisted people, is just overwhelming in it’s gravity.
And then you get these mind blowing morons in the mix, all clambering around trying to get their moment in the drama. People that do not need to be anywhere near a crime scene but flock to it like maggots to be a piece of old meat. Crime scene clowns thinking they’re in a scene from CSI.
I was watching Fox News as the shoot out at MIT university was unfolding, as one of the Boston bombers and subsequent bomb suspects had been shot dead.
One young Fox reporter standing by the road introduced a man who appeared to be in his 60’s, a man who apparently lived somewhere in the town but not actually in the heart of the chaos, yet there he was, acting like a educated citizen being treated like a credible witness to what was being watched on TV networks all over the world.
The serious issue here is, that this stupid twit of a bloke, explained that he’d been at home, heard one explosion and then heard another. He described the town as not normally being a place where such violence would normally go on, so much so that he said it was not even a place where you’d even see much police presence. Thankfully for officials as this was all kicking off, it was the early hours of the morning so there weren’t a lot of people actively in the area.
Except this halfwit known as Mr Grimes, who went on to share after the second explosion, to which he then heard the sounds of several sirens screaming into town, he had the bright idea of leaving his house with his wife still in bed and hopped in his car headed in the direction of the drama.
What sort of person thinks it’s a good idea from even a personal safety point of view to hurtle towards an unknown, obviously highly dangerous situation so they can find out what’s going down? This is the absolute epitomy of the anti-hero, knowing that if there’s sirens being heard that would tell a person with a brain that maybe the police may have it covered? Although, as is tragically the case in this Boston story late last week, even the police, heavily armed and highly trained don’t always make it back to their families.
It’s an utter disgrace for this man and others who siren chase in these types of situations, who by their idiotic judgement calls based on the adrenalin of drama, who go and clog up a street where police might be needing to keep clear so they car get through. Adding another element of police distraction by having an unnecessary person close to a critical scene who now they have to worry about protecting him as well.
The worrying trend these days with all of us having our cameras on the ready inside our phones, is that everyone’s so obsessed with being the one that gets the footage of something hideous going down.
If a crime scene is unfolding no matter what country it’s happening in, it’s our duty to those who are already risking their own lives to protect, to get out of the flipping way and let the officials do their job. These people shouldn’t interviewed, they should be told to nick off. For want of a much stronger set of words that I’d really rather use.
David Beckham is learning the French language but apparently feeling extremely self-conscious when it comes to trying out his “Oui, Oui’s” in public. Although the popular response to expressing sympathy for someone of extreme wealth, talent and power is very often met with ‘Well don’t feel too sorry for him, he’s got more money than you’d know what to do with!’ I still did have a pang of poor bugger.
I felt sorry for him purely because I’ve got to the stage in life where I believe being embarrassed about trying something new should be one of the plethora’s of life’s feelings that should be consciously relegated to the sidelines for good.
David however is not like the rest of us, even though he too is getting older, but as he’s still got pressure to be the cool, mega star footballer, fashion icon kind of guy, he may have made an expensive rod for his own back.
When you’ve been flapping around in life for some forty plus years, what’s the point in still getting embarrassed about trying something new?
Most of us have tripped over somewhere in public and felt like a twit. Plenty of us have been sacked from a job for whatever reason and felt like a piece of crap. How many of us have been rejected by someone we’ve had a crush on and felt as attractive as a dose of halitosis as a result?
Who hasn’t wrongly assumed we were going to be brilliantly talented at something only to find there was zero audience applause. There’s something about getting to an age where we only care about our own clapping inside.
You’d have to be fairly damaged to not like that little poem “you’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth”.
I’ve recently starting studying Tarot reading much to my father’s confusion and let’s be honest, total disgust. I know he’s not the only one that thinks I might have lost the plot by getting into it but there’s just always been that little thing in my heart that’s wanted to explore something a bit out there and see how it fits.
Does it mean I’m about to rush off to Spotlight to purchase some cheap lilac fabric with a silver thread through it? Yes, it might. Is it a problem for me that people might talk behind my back saying I’ve always been bonkers and my card deck and I might be better off seeing a shrink? Nope, because for some reason it makes me feel happy and I’m relishing in the energy of not giving a crystal ball to what anyone thinks.
Nine-year-old Bella asked me last night why I had chosen to start doing Tarot readings. I told her it was because when I was a kid like her I believed there was more to the world than what was being presented to me.
She then said ‘So why didn’t you just start doing it back then?’ I told her that I lost faith and shut up after having pair of scissors and a duster thrown at me by two different religious instruction teachers. Frustrated by my endless questions they put a stop to them by clocking me in the head.
A great thing about getting older is accepting that people focus less on what you’re doing because you’re supposed to have already done it. There’s nothing to be lost in having a crack at something you might have felt foolish in doing once before. The pressure to be perfect is off because we know we’ve all got flaws. The reality is perfection is integrating all the things you are and hoped to be.
I think it’s fabulous to ask yourself ‘what have I always wanted to do but haven’t through fear of pulling the outcome card I didn’t want to read?’ Regret is a card I fear the most of finding in my deck at the very end.
There seems to be a spate of female shows at the moment doing the old ‘get your gear off love’ trick and I’m not quite sure I’m comfortable with the concept of it.
For instance, last week or thereabouts I flicked over to see Ellen DeGeneres introduce some guy called Mike who’d won her ‘Ellen’s Underwear Model’ competition.
Out came this very handsome and impressively chiselled young man, in his undies, as the predominantly female crowd all clapped and screamed at him. And not only that, but half the crowd were blatantly cocking their heads on all angles so they could get a good gawk at his nether region.
Now, obviously my internal cringe at the time was not really out of a feeling of motherly protection over this young guy who was clearly just very happy to have been discovered by the all powerful Ellen and appreciated by so many women, but it made me realise how this whole Madame Josephine style wolf whistling carry on by women at nice looking men with most of their clothes off is all just becoming an embarrassing double standard.
Ellen then read out a list of nicknames for the model in his undies that had been sent in by her fans. “Gluteus Mikesimus?” was the first; something ‘Buns’ was the next and the one the whole audience seemed to respond most to was Sweet Cheeks.
Of course it’s all just light hearted and I’m not a raving prude by any means but I do think, ok so how does this work in the reverse? A major hit TV show, hosted by a man, introduces a woman who’s won a modelling competition, and out she comes, in her knickers and bra and then has to sit there sans frock while the interview goes on. He may even do an Ellen and poke her in the breast as she did with Mike?
Then perhaps he runs through a couple of cheesy nicknames the boys would like to rename her with, a couple about her bottom and a couple about her breasts, everyone claps and off she totters off stage with all eyes on her rear. I wonder how this might get the girls yelling these days, only with a slightly different energy?
Surely there should be a tiny bit more consideration with all this, just like doing the same to hot looking women in their undies, needs to get back a little bit to being about the time and the place, and not just anywhere where women are in a pack?
I don’t think women can terrify men, especially those with a huge profile into never saying anything remotely sexist about a gorgeous look woman yet we seem to be scheduling in these moments towards men with more regularity. I don’t think it’s fair.
Katie Couric couldn’t help herself as she interviewed rapper 50 Cent, last week, not wanting to miss that ‘let’s get the girls fired up’ opportunity, she enquired as to whether she could get a better look at his muscles. Of course he had no problem in doing and as standard again the mostly female audience all lit up like a bunch of extras filming Magic Mike.
The Diet Coke commercial this year, which shows a group of women sitting on a hill salivating over a guy mowing the grass. One of the ladies rolls a can of diet coke down the hill to get his attention. He cracks it open and it turns into a wet t-shirt competition, before he takes the top off and the girls look on as if they’re about to do something possibly illegal. Something men are not allowed to look like they’re thinking.
And yes, I get the appeal, I get it’s fabulous to see a sexy man but I just think double standards makes us all look a bit stupid. If we’ve groomed our men to be able to able to decify sex pest versus appreciation, then we need to be sure there’s not two sets of rules.
According to a friend of mine who has been travelling to Paris every year for about 20 years, the number of homeless people begging in the streets is at a drastic all time high. In areas such as the district she would normally stay in, which has in the past not been a hotspot for men and women sleeping out on the streets, she basically says that nearly every nook and cranny on the street, seems to have someone curled up and calling it home.
Things in Europe financially may well be a lot worse than we realise all the way over here.
But I wonder too if things aren’t financially declining on our front door steps more than we really understand as well? I find myself having regular conversations with a whole range of people; friends and otherwise, about how tough things are out there when it comes to money or finding a job.
Whatever the state of our financial climate is in Australia, I do think that we should all be really asking ourselves what our beliefs are about money and more importantly, if we’re entering into a new relationship or trying to improve an existing one, what are our partner’s feelings about money too.
It’s just as important as so many other things like monogamy or wanting to raise a family in terms of the conversations and observations that two people should have and make if they’re going to bother getting tied up into a legal relationship, which taking the romance away, is what simply moving in with a partner instantly becomes.
Here’s an example of something I’ve witnessed over the last couple of months that if it were predicted prior to it unfolding for a newly engaged couple, would have been a horrendously bitter pill to swallow.
A member of my family recently celebrated her engagement to a lovely bloke she’s been living with for five or so years. Literally about a month after the fabulous party, she was retrenched. About two weeks after that, her fiancé had a disaster at work where a whole wall he was working on basically fell on top of him and almost severed his leg. Their wedding is booked for October.
A serious debacle in anyone’s books clearly.
Now I’m always on the look out that something might be a bad sign that a union might not be blessed however all I have found with this young couple is that they’re now both fairly stuck at home, and yet their fears and anxieties have not lead them to emotionally kill each other which I think is a gift.
Let’s face it, he’s now propped full time on the couch with a moon boot he’s had a gut full of, and her self worth as anyone that has endured a retrenchment, a “thanks but we don’t need you to come back” has no doubt taken a kicking.
But how good is this? Both of them are united in using this time that they may never get again until they’ve retired to do something they’ve never been able to achieve since they met. They’re both on a full time diet. And when I mean full time, if you knew the food preparation they go into, including shopping for it, you’d realise how many hours go into it.
With every kilo they are both losing, especially her as she has an idea of the sort of bride she wants to be and the one she feared was on the cards, was not even close to being ok, they’re becoming happier. No they don’t have the cash flow right now that they had not only six months ago but they are showing their team colours which I think bodes just so beautifully for a marriage.
As a global theme the world is certainly having enormous financial issues, for each of us individually though the same may happen at some point but our attitude to it could be pre-empted and changed for the better not worse.
According to a friend of mine who has been travelling to Paris every year for about 20 years, the number of homeless people begging in the streets is at a drastic all time high. In areas such as the district she would normally stay in, which has in the past not been a hotspot for men and women sleeping out on the streets, she basically says that nearly every nook and cranny on the street, seems to have someone curled up and calling it home.
Things in Europe financially may well be a lot worse than we realise all the way over here.
But I wonder too if things aren’t financially declining on our front door steps more than we really understand as well? I find myself having regular conversations with a whole range of people; friends and otherwise, about how tough things are out there when it comes to money or finding a job.
Whatever the state of our financial climate is in Australia, I do think that we should all be really asking ourselves what our beliefs are about money and more importantly, if we’re entering into a new relationship or trying to improve an existing one, what are our partner’s feelings about money too.
It’s just as important as so many other things like monogamy or wanting to raise a family in terms of the conversations and observations that two people should have and make if they’re going to bother getting tied up into a legal relationship, which taking the romance away, is what simply moving in with a partner instantly becomes.
Here’s an example of something I’ve witnessed over the last couple of months that if it were predicted prior to it unfolding for a newly engaged couple, would have been a horrendously bitter pill to swallow.
A member of my family recently celebrated her engagement to a lovely bloke she’s been living with for five or so years. Literally about a month after the fabulous party, she was retrenched. About two weeks after that, her fiancé had a disaster at work where a whole wall he was working on basically fell on top of him and almost severed his leg. Their wedding is booked for October.
A serious debacle in anyone’s books clearly.
Now I’m always on the look out that something might be a bad sign that a union might not be blessed however all I have found with this young couple is that they’re now both fairly stuck at home, and yet their fears and anxieties have not lead them to emotionally kill each other which I think is a gift.
Let’s face it, he’s now propped full time on the couch with a moon boot he’s had a gut full of, and her self worth as anyone that has endured a retrenchment, a “thanks but we don’t need you to come back” has no doubt taken a kicking.
But how good is this? Both of them are united in using this time that they may never get again until they’ve retired to do something they’ve never been able to achieve since they met. They’re both on a full time diet. And when I mean full time, if you knew the food preparation they go into, including shopping for it, you’d realise how many hours go into it.
With every kilo they are both losing, especially her as she has an idea of the sort of bride she wants to be and the one she feared was on the cards, was not even close to being ok, they’re becoming happier. No they don’t have the cash flow right now that they had not only six months ago but they are showing their team colours which I think bodes just so beautifully for a marriage.
As a global theme the world is certainly having enormous financial issues, for each of us individually though the same may happen at some point but our attitude to it could be pre-empted and changed for the better not worse.
According to a friend of mine who has been travelling to Paris every year for about 20 years, the number of homeless people begging in the streets is at a drastic all time high. In areas such as the district she would normally stay in, which has in the past not been a hotspot for men and women sleeping out on the streets, she basically says that nearly every nook and cranny on the street, seems to have someone curled up and calling it home.
Things in Europe financially may well be a lot worse than we realise all the way over here.
But I wonder too if things aren’t financially declining on our front door steps more than we really understand as well? I find myself having regular conversations with a whole range of people; friends and otherwise, about how tough things are out there when it comes to money or finding a job.
Whatever the state of our financial climate is in Australia, I do think that we should all be really asking ourselves what our beliefs are about money and more importantly, if we’re entering into a new relationship or trying to improve an existing one, what are our partner’s feelings about money too.
It’s just as important as so many other things like monogamy or wanting to raise a family in terms of the conversations and observations that two people should have and make if they’re going to bother getting tied up into a legal relationship, which taking the romance away, is what simply moving in with a partner instantly becomes.
Here’s an example of something I’ve witnessed over the last couple of months that if it were predicted prior to it unfolding for a newly engaged couple, would have been a horrendously bitter pill to swallow.
A member of my family recently celebrated her engagement to a lovely bloke she’s been living with for five or so years. Literally about a month after the fabulous party, she was retrenched. About two weeks after that, her fiancé had a disaster at work where a whole wall he was working on basically fell on top of him and almost severed his leg. Their wedding is booked for October.
A serious debacle in anyone’s books clearly.
Now I’m always on the look out that something might be a bad sign that a union might not be blessed however all I have found with this young couple is that they’re now both fairly stuck at home, and yet their fears and anxieties have not lead them to emotionally kill each other which I think is a gift.
Let’s face it, he’s now propped full time on the couch with a moon boot he’s had a gut full of, and her self worth as anyone that has endured a retrenchment, a “thanks but we don’t need you to come back” has no doubt taken a kicking.
But how good is this? Both of them are united in using this time that they may never get again until they’ve retired to do something they’ve never been able to achieve since they met. They’re both on a full time diet. And when I mean full time, if you knew the food preparation they go into, including shopping for it, you’d realise how many hours go into it.
With every kilo they are both losing, especially her as she has an idea of the sort of bride she wants to be and the one she feared was on the cards, was not even close to being ok, they’re becoming happier. No they don’t have the cash flow right now that they had not only six months ago but they are showing their team colours which I think bodes just so beautifully for a marriage.
As a global theme the world is certainly having enormous financial issues, for each of us individually though the same may happen at some point but our attitude to it could be pre-empted and changed for the better not worse.
According to a friend of mine who has been travelling to Paris every year for about 20 years, the number of homeless people begging in the streets is at a drastic all time high. In areas such as the district she would normally stay in, which has in the past not been a hotspot for men and women sleeping out on the streets, she basically says that nearly every nook and cranny on the street, seems to have someone curled up and calling it home.
Things in Europe financially may well be a lot worse than we realise all the way over here.
But I wonder too if things aren’t financially declining on our front door steps more than we really understand as well? I find myself having regular conversations with a whole range of people; friends and otherwise, about how tough things are out there when it comes to money or finding a job.
Whatever the state of our financial climate is in Australia, I do think that we should all be really asking ourselves what our beliefs are about money and more importantly, if we’re entering into a new relationship or trying to improve an existing one, what are our partner’s feelings about money too.
It’s just as important as so many other things like monogamy or wanting to raise a family in terms of the conversations and observations that two people should have and make if they’re going to bother getting tied up into a legal relationship, which taking the romance away, is what simply moving in with a partner instantly becomes.
Here’s an example of something I’ve witnessed over the last couple of months that if it were predicted prior to it unfolding for a newly engaged couple, would have been a horrendously bitter pill to swallow.
A member of my family recently celebrated her engagement to a lovely bloke she’s been living with for five or so years. Literally about a month after the fabulous party, she was retrenched. About two weeks after that, her fiancé had a disaster at work where a whole wall he was working on basically fell on top of him and almost severed his leg. Their wedding is booked for October.
A serious debacle in anyone’s books clearly.
Now I’m always on the look out that something might be a bad sign that a union might not be blessed however all I have found with this young couple is that they’re now both fairly stuck at home, and yet their fears and anxieties have not lead them to emotionally kill each other which I think is a gift.
Let’s face it, he’s now propped full time on the couch with a moon boot he’s had a gut full of, and her self worth as anyone that has endured a retrenchment, a “thanks but we don’t need you to come back” has no doubt taken a kicking.
But how good is this? Both of them are united in using this time that they may never get again until they’ve retired to do something they’ve never been able to achieve since they met. They’re both on a full time diet. And when I mean full time, if you knew the food preparation they go into, including shopping for it, you’d realise how many hours go into it.
With every kilo they are both losing, especially her as she has an idea of the sort of bride she wants to be and the one she feared was on the cards, was not even close to being ok, they’re becoming happier. No they don’t have the cash flow right now that they had not only six months ago but they are showing their team colours which I think bodes just so beautifully for a marriage.
As a global theme the world is certainly having enormous financial issues, for each of us individually though the same may happen at some point but our attitude to it could be pre-empted and changed for the better not worse.
According to a friend of mine who has been travelling to Paris every year for about 20 years, the number of homeless people begging in the streets is at a drastic all time high. In areas such as the district she would normally stay in, which has in the past not been a hotspot for men and women sleeping out on the streets, she basically says that nearly every nook and cranny on the street, seems to have someone curled up and calling it home.
Things in Europe financially may well be a lot worse than we realise all the way over here.
But I wonder too if things aren’t financially declining on our front door steps more than we really understand as well? I find myself having regular conversations with a whole range of people; friends and otherwise, about how tough things are out there when it comes to money or finding a job.
Whatever the state of our financial climate is in Australia, I do think that we should all be really asking ourselves what our beliefs are about money and more importantly, if we’re entering into a new relationship or trying to improve an existing one, what are our partner’s feelings about money too.
It’s just as important as so many other things like monogamy or wanting to raise a family in terms of the conversations and observations that two people should have and make if they’re going to bother getting tied up into a legal relationship, which taking the romance away, is what simply moving in with a partner instantly becomes.
Here’s an example of something I’ve witnessed over the last couple of months that if it were predicted prior to it unfolding for a newly engaged couple, would have been a horrendously bitter pill to swallow.
A member of my family recently celebrated her engagement to a lovely bloke she’s been living with for five or so years. Literally about a month after the fabulous party, she was retrenched. About two weeks after that, her fiancé had a disaster at work where a whole wall he was working on basically fell on top of him and almost severed his leg. Their wedding is booked for October.
A serious debacle in anyone’s books clearly.
Now I’m always on the look out that something might be a bad sign that a union might not be blessed however all I have found with this young couple is that they’re now both fairly stuck at home, and yet their fears and anxieties have not lead them to emotionally kill each other which I think is a gift.
Let’s face it, he’s now propped full time on the couch with a moon boot he’s had a gut full of, and her self worth as anyone that has endured a retrenchment, a “thanks but we don’t need you to come back” has no doubt taken a kicking.
But how good is this? Both of them are united in using this time that they may never get again until they’ve retired to do something they’ve never been able to achieve since they met. They’re both on a full time diet. And when I mean full time, if you knew the food preparation they go into, including shopping for it, you’d realise how many hours go into it.
With every kilo they are both losing, especially her as she has an idea of the sort of bride she wants to be and the one she feared was on the cards, was not even close to being ok, they’re becoming happier. No they don’t have the cash flow right now that they had not only six months ago but they are showing their team colours which I think bodes just so beautifully for a marriage.
As a global theme the world is certainly having enormous financial issues, for each of us individually though the same may happen at some point but our attitude to it could be pre-empted and changed for the better not worse.
I’d be absolutely hopeless working in the fashion industry because everyone seems to take themselves so frighteningly seriously and I just cannt keep a straight face with so much pouting going on. I’m not talking the shop floor type of fashion, I’m talking the design, catwalk and fashionably fabulous periphery crowd. Looking bored out of your skull is the look of every season.
I’m not usually in the thick of the fashion bustle but I was temporarily last week as I attended a gathering of fashion types at an event where some of Australia’s top designers were on hand to chat about their winter collections.
As I slunk back in a corner to hear what was on it’s way, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was the only one in the room having a little lost in translation moment? Or I thought, maybe I’m over thinking their under thinking, or maybe I just shouldn’t be there?
So picture the scene if you will, a very elegant fashion writer of some note is chatting to the designer about a white pantsuit in her new range. She looks to the audience, as if she might be about to make an enormous confession and says “you see, people tend to think that you can’t wear white in winter,” queue the dramatic pause, “but actually, you can, it’s called Winter White.”
Now this would have been fine if she’d delivered it with a bit less Meryl Streep circa Sophie’s Choice, and more Jennifer Anniston in Friend’s. The crowd however seemed to think this rather genius and a wave of relieved smiles broke out around the room like a Mexican wave.
Then with another designer the Anna Wintour look-a-like asks the designer what he thinks the winter staples should be? To which a lesser fashionable type might have thought she was suggesting we all duck into Office Works before it gets chilly, with the designer thoughtfully replying “Well I always think you can’t go past a good, wool coat.”
Hating the cynical bubble I couldn’t seem to pop out of, I once again inner chatted, ‘now I’m certainly no Victoria Beckham sitting front row at a show in New York, but I could probably work out that in winter, one might need a coat?
And it went on and on. What’s going to be hot this year colour wise? “Block colour with black is fantastic this year” said some designer with a thick foreign that immediately gave him twice the credibility of any designer there. Or did it? I mean, block colour with black? Do you mean a coloured top with a black bottom? Am I missing something else here?
I think it’s just the whole seriousness that fashion people get when talking about fashion. Like the concept of ‘layering’ as it was discussed for ten minutes or so, just so we understood it’s importance to our lives, while the audience appeared to never have heard anything like it before. As I appeared to not scream ‘is layering like that thing you do when you put extra clothes on as the weather gets colder?’
I’m nearly done but what is it about fashion events that requires more walkie-talkies than the Super bowl or the remake of ET? It’s not a Presidents’ convention or a UN Summit but wow do they like to be wired up. Really, what’s the worst thing that can happen? A model goes for six or someone sits in someone more fabulous’s seat?
When my fashion event came to a close and Anna Wintour let’s just call her, pleaded with us not to leave the department store without all of us buying a leather skirt, presumably in case we planned on auditioning for a Robert Plant video later that night, I wondered how it is that such creative people manage to get so generic when talking about their visions?
There’s just something about fashion events that make me want to run home, get in my trackies and devour a chiko roll.
I’d be absolutely hopeless working in the fashion industry because everyone seems to take themselves so frighteningly seriously and I just cannt keep a straight face with so much pouting going on. I’m not talking the shop floor type of fashion, I’m talking the design, catwalk and fashionably fabulous periphery crowd. Looking bored out of your skull is the look of every season.
I’m not usually in the thick of the fashion bustle but I was temporarily last week as I attended a gathering of fashion types at an event where some of Australia’s top designers were on hand to chat about their winter collections.
As I slunk back in a corner to hear what was on it’s way, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was the only one in the room having a little lost in translation moment? Or I thought, maybe I’m over thinking their under thinking, or maybe I just shouldn’t be there?
So picture the scene if you will, a very elegant fashion writer of some note is chatting to the designer about a white pantsuit in her new range. She looks to the audience, as if she might be about to make an enormous confession and says “you see, people tend to think that you can’t wear white in winter,” queue the dramatic pause, “but actually, you can, it’s called Winter White.”
Now this would have been fine if she’d delivered it with a bit less Meryl Streep circa Sophie’s Choice, and more Jennifer Anniston in Friend’s. The crowd however seemed to think this rather genius and a wave of relieved smiles broke out around the room like a Mexican wave.
Then with another designer the Anna Wintour look-a-like asks the designer what he thinks the winter staples should be? To which a lesser fashionable type might have thought she was suggesting we all duck into Office Works before it gets chilly, with the designer thoughtfully replying “Well I always think you can’t go past a good, wool coat.”
Hating the cynical bubble I couldn’t seem to pop out of, I once again inner chatted, ‘now I’m certainly no Victoria Beckham sitting front row at a show in New York, but I could probably work out that in winter, one might need a coat?
And it went on and on. What’s going to be hot this year colour wise? “Block colour with black is fantastic this year” said some designer with a thick foreign that immediately gave him twice the credibility of any designer there. Or did it? I mean, block colour with black? Do you mean a coloured top with a black bottom? Am I missing something else here?
I think it’s just the whole seriousness that fashion people get when talking about fashion. Like the concept of ‘layering’ as it was discussed for ten minutes or so, just so we understood it’s importance to our lives, while the audience appeared to never have heard anything like it before. As I appeared to not scream ‘is layering like that thing you do when you put extra clothes on as the weather gets colder?’
I’m nearly done but what is it about fashion events that requires more walkie-talkies than the Super bowl or the remake of ET? It’s not a Presidents’ convention or a UN Summit but wow do they like to be wired up. Really, what’s the worst thing that can happen? A model goes for six or someone sits in someone more fabulous’s seat?
When my fashion event came to a close and Anna Wintour let’s just call her, pleaded with us not to leave the department store without all of us buying a leather skirt, presumably in case we planned on auditioning for a Robert Plant video later that night, I wondered how it is that such creative people manage to get so generic when talking about their visions?
There’s just something about fashion events that make me want to run home, get in my trackies and devour a chiko roll.
I’d be absolutely hopeless working in the fashion industry because everyone seems to take themselves so frighteningly seriously and I just cannt keep a straight face with so much pouting going on. I’m not talking the shop floor type of fashion, I’m talking the design, catwalk and fashionably fabulous periphery crowd. Looking bored out of your skull is the look of every season.
I’m not usually in the thick of the fashion bustle but I was temporarily last week as I attended a gathering of fashion types at an event where some of Australia’s top designers were on hand to chat about their winter collections.
As I slunk back in a corner to hear what was on it’s way, I couldn’t help but wonder if I was the only one in the room having a little lost in translation moment? Or I thought, maybe I’m over thinking their under thinking, or maybe I just shouldn’t be there?
So picture the scene if you will, a very elegant fashion writer of some note is chatting to the designer about a white pantsuit in her new range. She looks to the audience, as if she might be about to make an enormous confession and says “you see, people tend to think that you can’t wear white in winter,” queue the dramatic pause, “but actually, you can, it’s called Winter White.”
Now this would have been fine if she’d delivered it with a bit less Meryl Streep circa Sophie’s Choice, and more Jennifer Anniston in Friend’s. The crowd however seemed to think this rather genius and a wave of relieved smiles broke out around the room like a Mexican wave.
Then with another designer the Anna Wintour look-a-like asks the designer what he thinks the winter staples should be? To which a lesser fashionable type might have thought she was suggesting we all duck into Office Works before it gets chilly, with the designer thoughtfully replying “Well I always think you can’t go past a good, wool coat.”
Hating the cynical bubble I couldn’t seem to pop out of, I once again inner chatted, ‘now I’m certainly no Victoria Beckham sitting front row at a show in New York, but I could probably work out that in winter, one might need a coat?
And it went on and on. What’s going to be hot this year colour wise? “Block colour with black is fantastic this year” said some designer with a thick foreign that immediately gave him twice the credibility of any designer there. Or did it? I mean, block colour with black? Do you mean a coloured top with a black bottom? Am I missing something else here?
I think it’s just the whole seriousness that fashion people get when talking about fashion. Like the concept of ‘layering’ as it was discussed for ten minutes or so, just so we understood it’s importance to our lives, while the audience appeared to never have heard anything like it before. As I appeared to not scream ‘is layering like that thing you do when you put extra clothes on as the weather gets colder?’
I’m nearly done but what is it about fashion events that requires more walkie-talkies than the Super bowl or the remake of ET? It’s not a Presidents’ convention or a UN Summit but wow do they like to be wired up. Really, what’s the worst thing that can happen? A model goes for six or someone sits in someone more fabulous’s seat?
When my fashion event came to a close and Anna Wintour let’s just call her, pleaded with us not to leave the department store without all of us buying a leather skirt, presumably in case we planned on auditioning for a Robert Plant video later that night, I wondered how it is that such creative people manage to get so generic when talking about their visions?
There’s just something about fashion events that make me want to run home, get in my trackies and devour a chiko roll.
Last June I wrote of my experience at the Mind Body Spirit Festival where I had stumbled upon a group of nice Muslims people there promoting their Window of Islam series.
David Beckham is learning the French language but apparently feeling extremely self-conscious when it comes to trying out his “Oui, Oui’s” in public. Although the popular response to expressing sympathy for someone of extreme wealth, talent and power is very often met with ‘Well don’t feel too sorry for him, he’s got more money than you’d know what to do with!’ I still did have a pang of poor bugger.
I’d be absolutely hopeless working in the fashion industry because everyone seems to take themselves so frighteningly seriously and I just cannt keep a straight face with so much pouting going on. I’m not talking the shop floor type of fashion, I’m talking the design, catwalk and fashionably fabulous periphery crowd. Looking bored out of your skull is the look of every season.