#22- A VISION

The message has been said over and over again. Visualize it. Just visualize it and it will happen. See it and it will manifest itself before your eyes. The older I get the more of my friends say, "Yeah right" with a twisted up mouth and take another drag of their cigarette. How can people still smoke? Really. It amazes me. But seriously...it does look cool. My coolest characters smoke. But I don't use cigarettes. I use a Bic pen. Just to be weird.

Visuals. My friend Maria, a long lanky exotic woman with big brown eyes and a mad passionate love for people, told me that making a Vision Board changed her life. Her eyes widened seeking my understanding, me being a fellow Sagittarius and all. Maria met me and loved me because we're the same sign. We met on a fluke because she was dabbling in real estate in the same office I worked in and heard I had a one woman show. We met at the show and she was enthralled. Deeply. She has many layers besides her super modelesque stature and caramel completion.

Anyway, back to the Vision Board. Maria swears by this. An old fashioned collage covered with magazine clipping of everything your heart desires. Hung up in a prominent spot in your home so you can see it always and visualize what you want. Problem is Maria likes to entertain a lot and felt shy about her friends seeing her board. So it's shoved in the back of her closet unless the right audience is around.

Regardless, I don't entertain a lot so I made one. I'm picky about my images tho so I googled them all and printed them and cut them out. Here's what I put on it...in order...from left to right...top to bottom...

AN EMMY (for my show)
A BUDDHA STATUE UNDER A FLOWER (spirituality)
A BABY WITH BLUE EYES WITH A BIG RED HEART DRAWN ON IT ( love and a baby..eyes don't have to be blue)
A PRE WAR APARTMENT ON CENTRAL PARK WITH ARTSY FURNITURE (self explanatory)
AN ENVIRONMENTAL CAR (I'm not sure why I put that there...maybe to move the baby around)
SEVERAL OSCARS ON A SHELF (who doesn't want several OSCARS? Dianne Weist has several. I touched them...shhhh...don't tell...her)
TO DRIVE ON ROUTE ONE (cuz its beautiful and scary)
A LONG BLUE DRESS AND A SAPPHIRE DIAMOND RING (to wear on the red carpet...I put the ring here too and not near the heart because I felt like a square being like "I wanna get married with a big fat ring". I don't need to be married. Just in love and happy)
A BEACH HOUSE ON CAPE COD (again...who doesn't want that?)
A HOUSE IN THE WOODS ON A LAKE WITH A WRAPAROUND PORCH (I think a certain someone I know might want that too...not telling who...ok that guy from the past)
TO SHOOT A PROJECT IN PARIS (I love Paris and I want to work there)

OK those are my visions. I have to add some things. Like the book I want to write. Maybe a horsey.

Do one. Let's compare who gets the most vision one year from today: January 5th, 2010.