Green Turban

My wonderful friend Shirl called from LA tonight because her "green turban" was telling her to call me. Shirl is actually originally my husband's friend, but one of the best things that happened when I married him was that I inherited really great friends and family. They went to high school together and have stayed close ever since. She is a perfomer and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams. She is perfectly suited for that city - wonderfully dramatic and well read. She speaks like a you are reading a complex intellectual book and uses really great words (today's "my mouth was agape" stuck with me as you don't often hear people talk like that, but it's refreshing and challenging to keep up with as well). And she always sings something to me in our conversations - I wish I could sing but I'd have to be able to remember words and melodies and that's one area in which I don't do so well. She also speaks to me in french and when she does I realize that I desparately need some practice to get back all my vocabulary. So it was really nice to have her call.

Anyway, Shirl's green turban is her intuition and while nothing was majorly wrong with me, it has been an unusually difficult week.

My father-in-law was admitted to the hospital with likely recurrence of throat cancer (we're still hoping it's not), 2 of the top performers who work for me told me that they received offers from a competitor for more money and that only more money would keep them with our company (lots of repercussions and consequences there), pressure from clients, a looming deadline for a big project that I need to start and can't find time for, stress eating, the start of Mac's basketball season with practice times from 7p-8p twice a week on the same days as her POM classes, and the list goes on. But it is nice to know that friends can be so tuned into you that they call if you are feeling stressed and it was a nice release to be able to talk about my woes a little. I wish I could tune more into my own version of the green turban, but I let so much interference through that I can hardly hear myself think.

I'd love to know if any of you have strong intuition, if you call it anything and your tips on how to tap into that extraordinary resource.

Luv ya Shirl XOXO and thanks for the love back!