The Writer Erin Issue 6

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ERIN’S NOTES This season has been extremely reflective for me, as it probably has been for many others during the Covid 19 quarantine. One of the things I have been reflecting on is what’s truly important. Not the externals. Not the rat race. But being appreciative for the blessings that surround me, and the blessing that is me. In this issue of The Writer Erin Magazine, I have written an article showing you how to locate the luxuries that you always have access to.  Since I picked up focused journaling this year to guide my creative mind, I’m also sharing about an incredible book that I am reading to help awaken some creative inspiration inside of you. You’ll learn why Mid-Century Modern homes are my favorite architectural designs ever. We will be talking about the most amazing, sexy and talented actor in the whole wide world. And I’m gonna drop a little game about the power in being confident enough to not be so judgemental of the opposite sex. Make sure to listen to episode 6 of The Tarot Podcast for Creatives. Its a good one. So many synchronicities. It’s all about the “Thief” of all your happiness and wealth. It’ll be a cool message to take with you this week.  I hope this issue really gives you some inspiration.

Finding the Luxury ’that is Your s Sometimes when we’re caught up in the frustrations and lack in our lives, we miss the things that are blessings in our lives. We live a world in which materialism has become a way to validate ourselves. Because of this, a lot of people think luxury is an outside job. But if you don’t know how to look for luxury or quality, because you live externally, you’ll miss all the luxury that is abundantly, freely available to you. Here are just a few ways to find luxury in your world. And remember, what you appreciate... appreciates. Spend more time in nature. Nature is filled with so much wonder and beauty. Majestic mountains, rolling rivers, ancient trees, lush green fields are free for us to enjoy. Not only that, but nature provides us with plant life that heals and fills us with nutrition. There is also a magic in nature, in an unseen realm that raises our vibrations. Whether you believe in the fairy kingdom or the science of negative ions, the effects of an afternoon in a natural setting has an undeniably powerful effect on the psyche. Read more. A book can take you to another country, another relationship, another culture, another career, and the list goes on and on. From magazines featuring masters of a craft and foreign lands to an artist’s perspective at the foot of a volcano, reading can get you from your world to another’s instantaneously. When your perspective of the world is deeper, your ability to identify luxury in your world in enhanced. Try to cook a new recipe from a land not of your own. Learning about an Indian, Senagalese or Polish dish can be a world culture lesson in and of itself. Many seasons are attached to traditional stores passed down from a culture’s antiquity. And the experience of eating, according to the late Laila Afrika, is innately an emotional experience. New flavors add a subtle shift to your palette and your paradigm.  Immerse yourself in the arts. Paintings, music, dance, theater, and even a new sport is a fantastic way to open your mind. Creating art and observing art can both be ways of introducing you to a brand new world of luxury. Much art in the world pushes the boundaries on thought and emotion. It also tells a subtle story that language isn’t capable of expressing. Developing the ability to translate what’s hidden in the ethereal is a major step towards luxury.  Define your own signature style. Style extends to fashion, home decor, the way you entertain, the way you present yourself, and so much more than just your display of material goods. Your style encompasses your ideals about how you wish to elevate yourself in your world.  Style is an internal process of discovering things that you would like to incorporate into your life’s path for a specific reason. Maybe you want to present your self as an attractive, professional woman so that you can attract positive opportunities and healthy relationships. Knowing who you are and where you want to go helps you to define the perfect tools to support that process, without getting you caught up in the missed point of labels and price tags. YOUTH MAGAZINE

The Brilliance of Denzel Washington Denzel Washington is my all time favorite actor. His attention to excellent, to his artistic integrity and to staying true to the art by remaining himself are unrivaled. And it’s more than just his outstanding ability to act, it’s an inner depth that he brings to every role. To me, there’s something in a person’s eyes that magnetizes people to them. It’s an intense presence that he adds to his brilliant presentation of characters. From Mo Better Blues, through the masterpiece of Malcolm all the way through to his Oscar role in Training Day, Denzel brings an inner force to his roles. As a trained New York actor, he has graced some of the most notable stages and landed on major box office smashes... because he is great. An incredible actor is one with range, one with depth, and one with passion. It’s someone who embodies the character that they are playing. It’s someone who gets the contextual importance of the character as he sits within a well defined story. Denzel Washington is a respector of the story. A great actor, to me, removes his ego and throws him or herself into the role as if it is their reality. But they pull from the truth of who they are and how their subconscious connects to the role. The presentation of the role for them isn’t about being a great actor. It’s about being the truest version of the character that they know to be. My favorite role by Denzel Washington, hands down, Malcolm X. It’s interesting because I discovered that Malcolm X and Denzel shared the exact life path numbers, which could have contributed to the truly authentic depiction of the black nationalist, Muslim, American hero. It was 3 hours of covering many facets of the Malcolm X’s ever transitioning life and the personality changes that came of it. The role included some of the most important moments in American history and he was able to present the complexities amazingly. Denzel Washington is also a very important actor to black American culture. He crushed barriers to the types of roles melanated people were given or expected to receive. He furthered inspired a wave of incredible new actors from the early 90’s until now. He has maintained a realness and connection to his people even through wealth and fame. And he is also a philantropist who does not brag about his contributions. And nothing is better than a man who honors and speaks lovingly about his wife at any opportunity that is given to him. He isn’t just the most incredible and sexy actor that ever existed in the entire universe. He is a also a stand up person, giving, respectable, and mature.

Lets Stop Doing This.... You know what my ultimate social media pet peeve is? It’s men and women who project their negative beliefs and experiences onto the opposite sex... over and over again. I have seen it all. I’ve seen women swear that good guys don’t exist anymore. I’ve read posts by men accusing all women of every aggregious thing imaginable. To me, incessant blame on the opposite sex in general is a sure sign of inner denial... denial of your own issues. Yes, there are things about how men and women are wired, raised and socialized. But just because we don’t understand why or agree with how the opposite sex resolves things, that doesnt mean our judgements about them are correct or necessary. As I see it, those who feel the need to attack our counterparts so aggressively are angry about love not offering what they wanted. But sometimes it’s easier to assign blame to someone else than it is to accept our contribution to issues, primarily when we don’t exactly know how we are contributing negatively to our relationships.  Think about. In all of our relationships and all the drama therein, the common denominator is us. It’s important that we take responsibility for accepting our short comings while proactively turning those ineffective habits into maturity. If you find yourself, time and time again, in dysfuncational, emotionally detached, abusive relationships, determine why you are attracting such relationships. It’s not easy to look in the mirror and face ourselves. It’s tough to admit that we aren’t as pristine as our egos try to convince us we are. We play as much a role in the dysfunctions of our relationships as the other party. Women, it’s not the fault of men that maybe you rush into relationships because of a need to be loved or validated, only to be neglected and mistreated again and again. Men, don’t blame women for not being interested in you, particularly if you have the audacity to think that it’s because men don’t like superior “nice guy” like yourself.  The more self acceptance and inner power a person exudes, the more attractive they are. The more a person does the inner work to heal their emotional triggers, the more balanced their relationships tend to be. The more a person develops a depth and joy in their own lives, the less likely they are to be desperate enough to accept any kind of treatment just to soothe their need for validation.  If you are a person that constantly has something ugly or judgemental to say about the opposite sex, I’m asking you to stop. It’s unattractive and wreaks of insecurity. It’s also an alarm ringing the bells of emotional immaturity and internal laziness. It’s time to take your attention off of what “they” are doing and put that energy into developing yourself from the inside out. A happy, well balanced spirit magnetizes love, respect and joy, and it usually doesn’t put up with mistreatment. And THAT person no longer has a frame of reference or need to attack the opposite sex all over social media.

A BOOK FOR CREATIVE INSPIRATION So I got my hands on this book early in the summer Buy Book called “The Artist’s Way” by Julia C. Cameron. I had gone into my favorite store, Half Priced Books, looking for a journal to help me direct my creative brain down a more singular path. The night before, my cousin Paris, a highly functioning creative entrepreneur, suggested that I get back into journaling. The clerk intuitively knew what I was looking for and guided me to this book.  Along with 3 other journals, I embarked on a brief There is so much art in this world and at your disposal. And period of identifying my goals, visions, desires, and so much of it is truly beautiful. Introspective. Brilliant. subconscious musings. That started some insane Somehow art has a way of injecting every part of you with a clarity in me that eventually evolved into this sort of bliss that’s too smooth for words to capture it. It has magazine. It also unlocked some creative blocks a vibrancy that wakes up your cells and your ideas. Being that I had been working through. But there was a around art generates more of it. Its a delightful contagion.  particular chapter of the book that stuck with me. And that was the idea of taking myself on artist When you are ever in a creative block or panic, step into art. dates.  Intentionally place yourself in its path and catch its wind. YouTube, the world’s new Encyclopedia, can take you The idea is that one day a week, I am supposed to inside the mind of the great surrealism of Dali. A drive somehow submerge myself into art, whether that through an eclectic part of town will offer you massive be participation or just casual observation. burst color and vibes. Read a book by someone who is a Obviously, the quarantine prevented it from being a master of any topic that you wish to master. Even things once a week situation. But I was able to find like financial wellness and technological solutions, etc. are solutions to my quest to quench my artistic thirst.  pushed forward by the solutions of creative problem solvers.  I think back on some of the things that really inspire me and make me feel happy. The majority of the You can even learn to cook world foods, reupholstered fine, time, some form of art was involved, and at the very old furniture and enhance your space with color and least underpinning these memorable moments. For aromatherapy. That’s called “domestics arts”, a phrase my instance, watching a well staged, designed, written, mother and I coined to describe her artistic genius in home produced sitcoms makes me insanely happy. design, entertaining, and cooking. The goal is just to jump Listening to some ethereal, beat banger, with a on it and get with it.  strange new, voice saying some unheard of shit energizes me. Being in a home that is aesthetically Creativity is the breathe of the divine blowing in, through bomb while being hosted by a family that seems to and between us. Taking a step into the heart of art is allowing yourself to be swept up into the breeze of inspiration. It’s not about overthinking it. It’s just about participating in it. Paying attention to it.

MID-CENTURY MODERN MAGIC Since forever, I have had a fascination with interior design and Kitchens commonly became central areas for family gathering, architecture. My all time favorite magazine is Architectural Digest, connecting them to family rooms that included the boom of like a nerd. The older I get, I find the merging of design with television purchases. Split level homes were also developed to function as a highly important aspect of the development of a home. connect various areas and floors into a cohesive space with flow.  But I have also found some really interesting concepts in architecture that inspire me to think a bit deeper about what’s Over the last 2 decades, families have been even more creative with important to me in a home.  the modern template and began to include the land and nature in the values of their builds. Reverting to ancient African and Eastern Houses serve a few purposes. While they provide solace and rest for philosophies of sustainability and balanced energy, builders have families, as well as a place to eat, sleep and house our personal become ecological responsible and efficient in their designs. Many items,  they also support a family’s deeper ideals. Depending on the interesting homes are even built in shapes and with supplies that values and lifestyles of the inhabitants of any home, it’s structure protect it from local weather conditions.  and amenity should contribute to a group of people’s desires. For many families, downsizing and eliminating needless subterfuge I really dig mid century modern homes. With innovations led by has ushered in the “tiny house” movement. People are now Frank Lloyd right between the 1940s and 60’s, architectures refurbishing shipping containers, buses, house boats, and even old embarked on design that was simple, sleek and highly functional. To trailers as the canvas for houses that function suffiently for the family. this day, mid century architecture is still a basis for how new homes Such an arrangement let’s people become more mobile and flexible. are designed. In metropolitan areas, Colonial, Tudors, Bungalows, People who opt for a accommodations are not into excessive and even Victorian homes served to support the lives of an holder materialism, but more into experience of life lived fully.  generation that was more formal in aesthetic. These sort of homes were spaces that upheld a social decorum that was appropriate for If you don’t have a house or are thinking about buying a new home, the times. Parlors provided a sitting area for formal guests, where consider your family’s needs and values. Think completely outside kitchens weren’t necessarlily seen to support such a space.  the box and discover whether or not you can get what you want without overpaying for what you don’t want or need. Maybe a But the mid century era ushered in open floor plans that sought to modernor out of the box build is for you\" unify all aspect of the home. Innovated attention to angles and the effective use of space provide much more storage and living space. This was accomplished by eliminating outdated ideas of how families lived. Homes were bought by younger generations of people who were educated beyond industrial era jobs. Families, overall became smaller as women joined the work forced to support a changing economy after WWII.





























Tarot Podcast for Creatives The ”Thief” of Your Happiness and Wealth EPISODE 6 / JULY 26, 2020

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