Comments for Artful Living: Deborah Singletary's Journals

Comment on The Symbolic Arts: Connecting the Metaphysical with Our Everyday Lives by LaRita

LaRita — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:30:44 +0000

Blessings Deborah,
I really enjoyed that message on symbolic power. Every now and then we have simply get ourselves back to the center of it all. I feel inclined to work with my altar of Osun and be more creative with ideas that reflect my inner self and desires of a fullfilling change. Since Oshun is an accepting goddess of all good and spiritual concepts, I do not have to feel tied to one indoctrination – I am an air sign and I must have freedom. With Oshun blessings, I can enjoy the entire garden of flowers and be lead by the many creative motives and ideas that spring from the divine imagination of all. Thank you for your eloquent words of inspiration and example. And I really love the spirit guide doll too! Ashe.

Comment on Rebirth: An Unexpected Unsettling Disruption by Daphne

Daphne — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:29:39 +0000

Deborah, thank you for your wisdom and your words. So often, I turn to you when I need clarity, consolation, confirmation – when I can’t see the light in my life. And you never disappoint me. Afterward, I always feel stronger, more sure and able to move forward again…even if it’s one small step at a time. Thank you.

Comment on The Symbolic Arts: Connecting the Metaphysical with Our Everyday Lives by Nurul-Ayn Blewett

Nurul-Ayn Blewett — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:36:28 +0000

Dear Deborah,
I really love what you have written. I have had moments where I need reminding of what is important. At this moment I am seeking to be the best spitit I can be, choosing a positive life. I also have symbols of strength, where I look to for guidance. Do you find yourself ‘tested’ on your own journey? If so, what words/symbols to you use to guide yourself through lifes bumps and changes?

Nurul-Ayn

Comment on The Symbolic Arts: Connecting the Metaphysical with Our Everyday Lives by Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:36:57 +0000

Thank you, big sister. “Big’ speaks not only to your having a few years on me, but also speaks to your big spirit–your creative genius. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction all my life.

Comment on The Symbolic Arts: Connecting the Metaphysical with Our Everyday Lives by Inez

Inez — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:28:28 +0000

Deborah,

Well, my sister. It is well in my soul to read this reminder and feel it fall light luminescent glitter blessing my endeavors to tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow. I will ask my Word Wand Workshop attendees from last week to read this as a supplement to our work. You give me strength.

Comment on You’re Never Too Big by Yaddie

Yaddie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:23:25 +0000

The only thing that troubles me with how the brain stores data is… those that wronged us seemed to net most of the main cerebral images, monopolize them. While the ones that treated us well or at least,civilly, seem to fade…we can even forget their names & or their essence. Psychologically, this has to send a subconscious message of: “what’s the sense in being kind? No one credits you or remembers you as much as the evil counterpart, anyway. What’s the use??”

*Hence, the kind of world we live in.

I will deprogram my brain, I will start to put emphasis on recalling the names of only the kind ones. And allowing the names of the unkind ones to fade to black.

But, about “You’re Never Too Big,” I can attest to this & second this emotion–returned to school at the ripe age of 41. They accepted all of my credits from the ’90s, a total blissing, and I look forward to finally finishing [this time] next year. This blog is definitely motivation, Lady S. ThAnkhs.

P.S. At first I thought it would be a blog about weight loss. Smiles…

Comment on Choosing Not to Have a Baby by Yaddie

Yaddie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:53:21 +0000

My mouth fell open…it’s still hard to close it.

Deborah, what you wrote above… Wowee! I wish at 30, or even later, when I EXPLODED at my mom, verbally, I think I was 36, for… well, never mind what for…but I wish I had opted to pen such an eloquent letter to her versus exhibiting raw emotion. I don’t do raw emotion well. I don’t know or like myself in that mode. And it was all for naught. She didn’t process one thing I said–she only sought an apology. Of which I gave.

But I digress, back to you…@ 30, that’s the 1st Saturn Return, and that’s when you wrote this. I’m so deeply impressed. I know some 30 year olds right now that couldn’t articulate this well in any context–written or voiced.

We live in a world that believes that being
single is something that needs to be desperately cured–Pronto! You rested that notion, here. Young people gotta embrace being more emotionally independent and know that you give love not to ‘get’ love but to become Love.

An acquaintance, Alexyss K. Tylor (a Sag), has a you tube video titled “Mama-Daughter”, that just came to mind. Now, she’s profane and fiery, but she speaks to the “mother-daughter” or even “older woman–younger woman” phenomenon very passionately. Check it out, if you like.

Also came to mind, that scene in the movie “Waiting to Exhale” where Whitney Houston’s (Savannah) character is explaining to her mom over the phone how she should notice the +s in her life versus only noticing what she [the mother] deemed as minuses. Very moving scene/ dialogue; well, it was to me.

Not only with mother-daughter or older lady/younger lady relationships, “relating” period, in my observations, how most females treat one another is of caustic curious note. I used to chalk it up to mere “common cattiness,” now I think it’s much more than that–more chemical. And as we know “Emotions are Chemically Addictive.”

In biology class we were taught that females are “acidic” & males are “alkaline,” and how dis-ease thrives in an acidic constitution. Somehow, I wonder if it’s [the cat factor] more related to chemistry vs. socialization? Perhaps it’s all cumulative? #justathought I’m an air sign, with a stell of air in my chart–all I do is think. Smiles…

I’ll close now…cause once I put on the mad-scientist cap, I can speculate for eons.

Again, thanks for allowing us in, Ms. S. ;-)

Comment on Why Astrology? by Yaddie

Yaddie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:17:02 +0000

The key phrase of my sun sign is “I Know;” after reading this blog, now I REALLY KNOW. Thanks, Deborah.

The ending entry, from the Aquarian… I’m so on the same page with him. :-)

Comment on 2012: Don’t Believe the Hype by Yaddie

Yaddie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:05:18 +0000

Feel Good Reading. ThAnkhs! <3

Comment on Rebirth: An Unexpected Unsettling Disruption by Yaddie

Yaddie — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:47:51 +0000

This was a goodie! A while ago, I got a “flower reading” by a man named Louis. The process is you sleep with a flower, bring the flower to him, and he reads it–you say nothing; he does all the talking. It’s uncanny. And he told me, in part of the reading, to pick up a brush and start painting. I did, but not right away… The supplies just sat, till my son picked them up to paint what? Yep, a sun. It’s beautiful. I must get it framed.