G’morning cyber friends and accidental tourists.  To the Canadians out there, I say hope you enjoyed your holiday yesterday.  To everyone else I wish you all good health.  I’m in a great mood.  Good food does that.  My girlfriend Laura introduced us to the Beer Can Chicken BBQ technique last night and it really worked.  Then when we got home we walked into a party in full swing on our back patio.  My son had decided to have his own Canada Day event and one of his friends who is a chef at a Yaletown restaurant, (translation: amazingly good with groceries),  had something tantalizing in the works on the grill.  The aroma was almost scandalous!

So, to continue with the theme of food in mind, I’m going to tell you all about a phone call I got from my little sister in Los Angeles yesterday.  It’s definitely a Tara Cronica worthy story.

A few weeks ago Anne and her girlfriend had a garage sale.  You know how that goes…you really get into spring cleaning and decide to get rid of a bunch of stuff you no longer need or are in love with anymore.  She had a bunch of picture frames and decor items to put out and along with that stuff she included a collage she’d made many years ago and had hung in her old apartment in the kitchen.  It was an artistic arrangement of pics of…food.   She decided she no longer needed to have it on the wall of her new apartment.

Cut to the garage sale.  A woman shows up and asks Anne how much she wants for the picture… and why she’s selling her vision board!  My sister was shocked.  She’d never thought of it that way before.  “It is your vision board, isn’t it?”  the woman asked.

Anne has been a fairly successful caterer with her own business for the past several years.  She loves playing with food and creating wonderful, visually stunning buffet-scapes.  Food is her art and passion.  It suddenly struck her that when she created the collage she had sent a message to the universe that she wanted her life to be about food but she just didn’t know it at the time.  Now she’s thinking about diversifying and so she no longer needed that vision.

This is the spooky part that I didn’t tell her about.  At about the same time as she was putting out the garage sale items I had done a huge reorganization of my office area at home.  I’ve got a huge collection of bits of paper and notes and business cards in piles on my shelves.  I had to make harsh decisions as to what stuff to keep and what needed to finally go.  I threw away the business card Anne had sent me, oh, maybe 5 years ago that was a miniature copy of the collage/vision board she had created!

Sorry Pooks!  Don’t get mad!  I had it pegged to my cork board for so long and, I don’t know, it just felt like the right time to let it go!  It was a weird decision but now it kinda fits and makes sense.  You’ve thought about changing goals so maybe this is another sign?!

I strongly believe in the power of intention.  Just one more reminder that in order to get what you want you have to know what you want and then you have to work for what you want.

Svaha