Here we are. On the verge of 2025. It is 5:41 pm and I am attempting my one and only posts in 2024. I attribute this lack of blog posts to fatigue. I was really tired throughout this year and I often felt like I just had to push through purely with my will power; until I figured out that this fatigue had something to do with my hormonal changes. It’s like I am a teenager all over again except backwards. It’s amazing how quickly I can lose my perspectives on things because the physicality of being a human is so strenuous. This life and the nature of our existence is not simply physical nor spiritual. We live in the place where two dimensions collide and the expressions of that collision are controlled by us, intentionally or otherwise.
And that segways into what I want to say before 2024 ends and 2025 begins. That we need not fret about what you think is coming (and how we need to think about what we want to see coming) and that we’ll be alright if we understand how this works.
Let me go back to early 2020 when Covid all the sudden shut everything down. I ran a live music venue. I rarely feel any sense of panic but this time, I was a little shook. What was I going to do? How was I gonna pay my bills and feed my kids and keep The Jazz Gallery alive? So I sat down and thought about it. I realized that the principles that make this world go around have not changed. Yes, the pandemic was happening outwardly but gravity still worked and so did the laws of manifestation. How we create our own reality has not changed. It occurred to me that this pandemic will be a period when there will be a huge gap between people who understood the nature of how this worked and people who were caught up in the surface reality. So I decided that I was going to thrive through the pandemic and then I got to work. I decided to focus on what I can control (me and my thoughts and my emotions) and by doing that, I decided to contribute to people I love and the community I care about.
Some of you have seen and been part of what we have done at The Jazz Gallery during the pandemic. I planned many online events, i.e. Happy Hours Hangs, Dance Parties, Lockdown Sessions, etc. and then The Jazz Gallery started live streaming first with no audience and then with a very small audience and then with a full house of audience as we came out of the pandemic. We continue to live stream to this day. We kept the community together and going. Not only that, we have physically expanded: the adjacent space with a comfortable lounge, a beautiful greenroom, and two additional bathrooms! The space opened in 2021 when many other venues were still shut down with no activities. I have decided that The Jazz Gallery was going to survive and thrive through the pandemic and it did.
I know how this sounds. Woo woo. But it’s a true story. And knowing what I know now, I feel prepared for what may come. As I am only one person and there is a limit to what I can do but I already know that I can at least protect my kids and keep the jazz community surrounding The Jazz Gallery together and thriving. I am not worried and I know that I am going to be just fine. More than fine.
I am hoping that I can inspire some of you who are reading this post to decide to be good in 2025 and years after that. I hope that each of you will realize that we all have tools to create the physical reality we want. If more of us do that, maybe the shift for better will start to happen at a larger scale. Yes, we need to be aware of what is happening in the world but once you are informed, put it out of your mind and instead focus on what you’d like to see in your life, in your community, and in your world. Harping on things you hate is the sure way to strengthen them and help them proliferate. Spend your energy on things you want to see. It’s not easy to focus on your vision of beauty and unity and love when it’s super stormy outside but really, that is the only sure way to start turning the tides.
I think manifesting is simple in its principle. What is hard is to remain in the feeling of joy and gratitude as if you have already received everything you have asked for. It’s really hard for us to remain in the place because it seems that we humans actually enjoy being miserable. We love sob story competitions. In order to create the reality each of us want, we have to learn to remain in that happy place regardless of what is happening and that is the work. It's very hard work but I think it’s totally worth it because it looks like the fate of the world is actually depending on it. I mean, that’s what I think.
I hope I’m making somewhat of a sense. Please be safe out there and have a happy and healthy new year!