Helloooooo Beautiful Soul!
I recently received some heartbreaking news, so today’s topic has been particularly loud in my mind. I wanted to share the thoughts and media that lifted my heart, in hopes that they might do the same for you.
In Today’s Issue
Table of Contents
Finding Light in Dark Times
Sometimes it just doesn’t feel right to be happy or peaceful when there is so much awful happening in the world or in our lives. However, being able to find that light is what keeps us going when times get tough!
This is not about spiritual bypassing; this is about perseverance and a refusal to let the darkness extinguish our light.
I have had more than my fair share of trauma, and I’ve done a great job of unpacking and putting it away over the years. I still struggle quite a bit with the weight of the world and the pain that others endure. I often battle with faith and self-doubt, seeing my own uplifting words through a cracked lens of scathing cynicism.
However, I’ve also learned that the pain, shame, anger, fear, and doubt are not the full story. I can feel deep pain and immense gratitude at the same time. I can doubt myself and reply with the part of me that believes. I can laugh at a cherished memory while feeling that soul-crushing grief, and hold hope for the future while I sift through the ashes of what once was.
This is not a talent I was born with, but a skill I developed through hardship.
It’s all too easy to think that what is will always be, but I can tell you from lived experience that this is not so! We have the ability to shape our lives as well as the world we live in.
I have struggled a lot over the past few years with the state of the world and the awful things that people do. How can I not? The idea that this is just how things are sneaks up on me like a thief in the night. However, I know better.
I was in a terrible state the other night. Anyone who approached me with thoughts of hope for a brighter world might have been the recipient of my rage. I turned on one of my fellow Tarot readers on YouTube and was immediately reminded of my place in this world.
I’m not here to distract from the difficulties of life; I’m here to remind you that life is more than what must be endured. I want to create change and make good trouble!
There is often a part of me that wonders, “Am I full of shit? Delusional? Overly optimistic?” Then I remember that ripples are a very real thing. I don’t need to reach millions of people - I just need to shine my light on you. You will then, in turn, shine your light on someone else, and they will share their light, and so on.
Disbelief is the biggest obstacle we face when thinking about making big changes to our world. If everybody who wanted better believed that it was possible, the world would look a lot different right now! As a matter of fact, it’s changing right before our eyes because so many of us have decided that it’s quite impossible for things to continue as they have been.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we have the ability to communicate and organize in a way that has never been possible before. There are so many more of us than there are of them!
We are a collective that has been breaking centuries’ worth of generational curses, and our children will break even more! The atrocities we see right now are not new - they just can’t be secreted or explained away anymore, and WE DID THAT!
We speak about the unspeakable and use our trauma to help others. We are loud about injustice and learning to stand up for ourselves as well as others. You and I, we’re not just one person - we are each an important part of an immense body of people that are demanding a better future - a collective that is planting seeds for trees whose shade they won’t be around long enough to feel.
It’s right to stay informed and feel all the difficult feelings. It is not, however, helpful to allow our media to assault us and consume our every waking moment. We must be intentional about reminding ourselves just how amazing life can be, about the everyday miracles that surround us, even when we can’t see them through the tears in our eyes.
Take some time today to count your blessings. Look up at the vastness of the universe that twinkles in the darkness of the night sky. Look for the helpers and the people who build amazing lives from the bricks that were thrown at them. Listen to music that hits you in the feels and go do the things that scare the shit out of you! Give and love without expectation, and let your difficult feelings inspire art and change. Life is hard, but it’s also beautiful!
Take care of yourself, beautiful soul, and take care of your neighbors 💙
Updates, ICYMI, & Recommendations
Website changes
I am thrilled to announce that I have finally finished moving my website! Any changes you notice should be minor, but this is an enormous relief on my end!
New sparkly stuff coming soon!
I am so ready for Spring and made some new jewelry and charms to welcome it properly! I don’t have any photos just yet, but I’m sure you’re going to love them as much as I do!
You can check out my current collection of sparkly stuff here :)
Recent Messages
Media Recommendations
None of the links below are affiliate links, just helpful info! The books are Amazon links, and the movies are IMDB links. The rest are from YouTube :)
Books
Well, nothing new here because I’m still hanging out in the care-worn pages of my favorite Stephen King stories that take place in Midworld (The Dark Tower series) and the Territories (The Talisman & Black House). He’s releasing his new book this fall, which joins both worlds, and I hear there’s good progress being made on the Dark Tower TV series and movies! I’m so excited!!
“Set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace, The Dark Tower series features one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations—The Gunslinger—a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages, from ancient myth to frontier Western legend. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in a treacherous world that is a twisted image of our own, he moves ever closer to the Dark Tower of his dreams—and nightmares.“
The Talisman & The Black House
The Talisman:
“Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the only thing that can save Jack’s dying mother. But to reach his goal, Jack must make his way not only across the breadth of the United States but also through the wondrous and menacing parallel world of the Territories.In the Territories, Jack finds another realm, where the air is so sweet and clear a man can smell a radish being pulled from the ground a mile away.”
Black House:
“Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin. He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and was compelled to leave the police force when an odd, happenstance event threatened to awaken those memories.”
Movies
I finally got a chance to watch some new stuff, and these were my favorites!
The Rental Family (2025), Starring Brendan Fraser, on Hulu
“An American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection.”
Parenthood (1989), Starring Steve Martin and a bunch of others, including Keanu Reeves, on MGM+
“Four Buckman siblings attempt to raise their children - each in their own different style - and deal with the joys and sorrows that the process brings.”
The Running Man (2025), based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name, on MGM+
“A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to flee anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them.”
The Life of Chuck (2024), another Stephen King adaptation starring Tom Hiddleston, is on Hulu.
“A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.”
Music
Thank you for hanging out with me!
I hope you found something in today’s newsletter that made you smile 💙
