Louise Maness
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Louise Maness is the pen name of the author of the Tarot Love Story saga featuring the hurried but sincere Clint and the charming yet distracted Madison. Follow for more of their adventures in romance and walking tours in Washington, DC.
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The Vision Board Reward
The sweat dripped off my face and onto my thighs. I couldn't see my hand in front of my face because the steam in the room was so thick. I wiped my face, a slow sweep of my index fingers from the corner of my eyes to the top of my temples. I was so hot. But I had to practice. Practice makes perfect. I closed my eyes. It was the feeling, my teacher had told me, that was the glue for manifesting any desire. And I wanted this feeling every day, for the rest of my life. I wanted to feel HOT. The past thirty years had been cold. I know you think I mean that metaphorically, but no, I mean, literally, freezing cold. I'd been born and raised in a northern state ("nice place to visit but you wouldn't want to live there") and that meant that there were two seasons: winter and construction. When I waited for the city bus in the morning in the dark so I could spend an hour and 20 minutes each way on public transportation to get to work, my feet ached to the bone with a hardness that I prayed hadn't already crept up my legs, into my stomach, and infected my heart. I knew it hadn't -- yet. I was vigilant. Hypervigilant. I visited this steam room every single day after work, five nights a week. I pounded that Stairmaster as if every grungy revolving step were leading me to nirvana. I would never give up. Then I would shower and dry off, and then, only then, once I had earned my reward, envelop myself in the healing comfort of the steam room at my local fitness club. It was my personal six by six foot telephone booth whose line connected straight to the Universe herself. "This is where the magic happens," claimed my teacher. "You visualize your desire as if the dream has already come true. Close your eyes and let every sense tell you that you are already where you want to be."
By Louise Maness5 years ago in Motivation
A Court Card for Courtship?
The best thing to happen to secret unaddressed unsigned messages since telephone booths was little free libraries, thought Mrs. Pietre with a nod of satisfaction as she stuffed the one in her front yard with a few more books on macrame carefully selected from the stage two hoard of books in her English basement. It was quarter of noon and the neighborhood dogwalker Madison would be by any moment. There were many dog walkers in Capitol Hill but Madison stopped by Mrs. Pietre's little free library five days a week. And with her long red hair and supernaturally sea green eyes, she made a striking visual impression on the memory.
By Louise Maness5 years ago in Humans
