Trains, Trinkets, & Truths

I don’t know about you, but I had a fairly busy holiday weekend! Saturday I spent the morning and some of the afternoon deep cleaning my apartment. Sunday I took a day trip via train with my partner into a cute little town here in PA. I was hoping to find more things for my Focus while we were there, I was bummed out to find that a lot of the shops sell the same things. I did pick up a little pink quartz carved into the torso of a stereotypically male body.

I also spent some time today beading with new beads shaped like flowers and leaves. My intention was to make a sort of rosary and while it didn’t turn out like that, I’m very happy with my new pretty Focus garland. I may change it for the seasons, or it may stay with this one for a while. I did order a cute bandana made by an artist on Etsy that will serve as the base of my Focus for the spring/summer.

I also purchased a cute little pose-able Rocky figurine to live on my Focus because that movie is a reminder of how small and yet how capable we are as humans. Things go wrong, sometimes we fix them!

On Sunday’s trip to Jim Thorpe, the train ride was about two hours down and two hours back which gave us roughly 5 hours in town. We started at the Old Jail Museum and did that tour, then made our way down through some of the shops (all of the shops). We stopped in Horizons first which is a very fun hippie-ish shop. I found the cutest little glass pipe shaped like a lava lamp and had to have it.

We walked up and down Main St. probably two or three times before we decided to sit down for late lunch. That first REAL sit after doing hours of walking is so incredible… I wish it could’ve also taken the soreness away!

At some point either at dinner, waiting for the train, or on the train back, I had this overwhelming feeling of just being content. My heart was so full in that moment, I’m so in love with this man! At lunch I had confessed that I had been sort of anxious all day because Juniper’s health has been up and down recently and I had meant to set up the cameras in my apartment so I could check on her throughout the day but I did not. The angry geese in my brain were telling me we would get home and Junie would just be dead.

My partner reminded me that Juniper is in pretty good health actually, and for something like that to happen, something would need to be catastrophically wrong – which it is not. Lo and behold, she was chilling in her window perch when we got back later that evening!

I took some time this morning to set up my Focus for the first time and I draped the cutest garland I beaded around the back. The fresh flowers my partner bought for me are there in a goose shaped vase, Junie’s fallen whiskers are in a mini vase, the pink quartz torso is there, my incense cones are there as well.

My current favourite candle is currently lit there, mostly so I can repurpose the pretty lidded jar it’s in for other Focus purposes. I haven’t decided what yet, but surely it will come to me in time.

I had a lot of moments while we were in and out of shops on Sunday where I wanted to like something enough to want it for my Focus, but I just didn’t stumble upon anything I FELT was right except for the gem carving. In hindsight I’m really glad I didn’t try to force myself into buying anything because it just would’ve been a bit of a waste for something I didn’t have some kind of connection to.

I’m excited to keep more of an eye out for trinkets that can go on my Focus… and maybe it’ll encourage me to buy more pretty flowers for my apartment!