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Psychological Spaghetti | Season 2 | Episode 23
In this string board of an episode, we manage to link performance art, envy versus jealousy, some Swiftie love, and practicing what we preach.
This one is peppered with a bunch of filler language and fun little cliches to remind y'all that we're just a couple of real, flawed humans. We also talk about sweaty cheese. Enjoy!
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Well, how do you like that? This is the Dharma Diaries and this is your co -host, Summer, and this is your co -host, Christina. Yay! And it occurs to us,
after multiple re -lessons of this podcast, that we sound a lot alike, and we speak very similarly. So it might just sound to the average listener like one person just having a schizophrenic conversation with herself.
Which fair. Yeah, and we're, I mean, you know, - And we're okay with that. - Yeah, we're fine with that. It's okay with us if you can't tell us apart. - Yeah. - We just need to know, is it okay with you? - Is it okay with you?
This is summer again. Don't forget, don't forget my voice. Don't forget me. - Yeah, I'm still here. - Yeah. - So, anyway, we're gonna try to reinforce those very basic things that we completely skipped over when starting this podcast and just chugged right through all of those things that you do in a podcast quote unquote because we were like-- fuck date also because you know We ain't never had a podcast also that also
that but do we I listen to a lot of podcasts you listen to a lot of podcasts I would consider myself very podcast aware Yes, you know and I feel like this podcast really is the podcast that we want to make yes Because we have listened to a lot of podcasts and a lot of radio We've got a lot of reading not a lot of traveling like you know We it's like we're making the media that we want to engage with we want
to hang out, OK? Like at the end of the day, we are creating an aligned collective.
That's right. Of folks that we want to hang out with and that want to hang out with us. And I'm telling you, we're and we're also like doing that in in real life. And so far, so good. So far,
so good. Yeah, it's amazing. I definitely recommend. I'm telling you one. one little aligned action after the other will change your entire life trajectory and it can't be understated.
- No, because like, what did we do yesterday? We went and sat under the oak trees at Longview Gardens and had a picnic in the middle of the day on a Tuesday.
- Just, how transgressive is that? - Yeah, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, like, yeah, and the women who came and met us were amazing. - Amazing. Amazing. - And we had such glorious conversation.
And y 'all, it's like, time doesn't exist when you're having experiences like that. - Right, right. - We could have been there for five hours or five days. It just, it was just like.
- It was beautiful. - Flow. We were in flow. - I'm really loving it because. and I was reflecting on this with my sister last night I was saying you know about how wonderful the picnic was and how you know it's incredible to be women who can gather um and just enjoy each other's company and talk about things that we've never have been empowered to talk about before like deconstructing from religious trauma deconstructing
from societal constructs like patriarchy and white supremacy and like, thinness superiority and all of this bullshit that we've been like plugged into our brains, we get to decide,
we get to reflect and prune out the things that we don't like. Girl, yes. When we're ready. Yes. And it's really cool to have this space to just be together and learn each other's incredible transformative freaking testimonies,
man. I know. It is incredible. And let me tell you something else because I and I were having a conversation last week and It occurred to me Well,
we were actually discussing The difference between jealousy and envy, which I still don't completely understand However, when you were explaining it to me something that came up for me That felt really heavy and I was like I I want to address it And I feel like I can't find this person.
I don't know how to locate her. But the next best thing in my view is publicly apologizing on this podcast to this chick whose name is Zephyr.
And she went to college with me when I was an undergrad and in me too. I know you overlapped, yeah. - And she was, let me just say this,
she was fucking precious. - Absolutely. - She rollerbladed around on campus. She dressed however the fuck she wanted. She wore like crowns made of twigs and shit in her blonde pixie cut hair.
Just a really beautiful, vibrant, open. human. And I was a dick to her. Like,
for no other reason than I think her being just as authentically herself as she wanted really rubbed up against my very carefully,
carefully crafted mask of people pleasing and perfectionism and, you know, play in the fucking game.
And for whatever reason, I just relentlessly made fun of this girl. Yeah. And like, what a douche maneuver, you know what I mean? Well,
it's, but see, that's the beauty about learning about envy. envy versus jealousy because envy is subconscious unconscious, right? It's an expression of desire, but it's turned against the person who has the thing that you desire because you don't connect the fact that they're doing the thing that you want to do.
Yeah, because it goes directly against your conditioning, right? Yeah. So envy is sublimated. It has to come out as like being a dick, you know, and being a jerk,
but But the beauty about that now is first, hopefully, you know, we can all extend some compassion to ourselves because we were in a position to, we weren't in a position to have the experience of jealousy,
which on the other hand, jealousy is an awareness that someone has something that you want, and that it becomes like this beacon that you, not that person necessarily, but they become a signal to yourself from your intelligence.
from your subconscious and your unconscious to go toward that experience for you. Yeah. But when we when we're on the other side of it,
when we're doing things that are that could potentially bring fire, bring heat, you know, like that kind of criticism that kind of envy, it's so empowering to understand what's happening when you get that vitriol like put towards you.
Yeah. you go Oh, that person is having an unconscious experience of jealousy Which is which is being sublimated into envy and it's coming out as nastiness towards me That doesn't mean I'm gonna sit here and let them beat me over the head or I'm gonna sit here and let them disrespect me Disrespect me it means I'm going to understand that give myself compassion give them compassion and walk the fuck away Yeah,
and it was definitely envy for sure because I had no awareness around around it. I just I mean now I understand what it was, but 19 year old me was completely oblivious um,
I Just remember being like disgusted almost by how You know few fucks she gave yeah, which were zero zero zero fucks like she Was just her fully expressed authentic self at all times and like,
and I was like, who do you think you are? That was what, that was what registered in my head was like, who the fuck do you think you are? And then it's funny too, because, and we were talking about this earlier,
like, I consider myself to be an entertainer, a performer, like I have that, that bug, you know, I'm not, my enneagram is three, like, I am a performer, I enjoy it.
but it has to be it has to be authentic to me like it has to be it has to be my own creativity that I'm bringing forth and out because I had an ex an experience last night I sing in a community choir y 'all girl so cute and my alma mater yes with a friend of mine who also shout out North Shore correct - Yeah,
North Shore Corral Society, I see you. - Yes. - But anyway, so we are, we learned this new piece last night for a concert on Sunday, which you know, haven't done that in a million years,
but it's whatever, like I guess I still got it. - Yes, girl. - But anyway, the conductor wants us to like really just,
I guess emote, you know, she wants, she's like, yeah, that's fine, you know, y 'all can clap or whatever, but like, I want you to be really into it, like, I want you to just,
you know, tell the audience, you know, like, really, um, you know, she wants us to, I guess, like, dance or whatever, and, you know, just different, like, facial expressions,
be over the top, and it's like, I, I'm not gonna do it. because it's not an authentic expression and I feel ridiculous. And then I'm looking around at these other people who are doing this,
they're taking the notes, you know, they're taking the cue and they're doing it but it's inauthentic and then I'm like, it's clownish. It doesn't feel like performance art to me,
it feels stilted and staged and gross. - Mm -hmm, mm -hmm. - And so, I Feel like there's a There's a line there.
It's like people consider like artistry and it's like they're they're Behaving as an artist would instead of being the artist.
Yeah, I love and I cannot yes, and I cannot I cannot Do the former yeah, I will not do it Well, because it's just more assembly line bullshit Yes, it's fucking fake I can't do it.
I can't do it. It's not and you know, maybe that's just like Feedback about you know, where you're at with regards to community Again,
no shade because it's it can be hella fun But the other thing because I sang with you guys last or part of that quit. I'm a quitter. She bound out I bowed out. I did I dipped but I tried yeah,
and And the thing I realized was like, oh, this is hard. Like this is not, it's like a concert is fun and you have the memory. But the actual work to show up every week to be there for longer than you wanna be there,
to do things you don't really feel like doing, to try to like force some sort of connection with people that you don't really see outside of this venue is hard work. It's not, it's valuable.
valuable, it's got benefits, it's cool. You can create art if you're bought in, but it can also just be another thing that you show up to that gets usurped for some other purpose that you're like,
"I'm not really, this isn't for me." - Yeah. - And that's just commentary to any kind of group, honestly. - Yeah. - Nowadays. - Yeah, for sure. - They're just kind of like aware of it and dance with that.
- Mm -hmm. -hmm Because it's not and I just personally couldn't hack it just because of the Tism and the tired the tiredness I just couldn't but remember. I know and that's that is there is so much nostalgia in it for me.
Yeah. Yeah, and Nostalgia is a motherfucker. Yeah, because you can get trapped there. You can and I think that There's very little danger of that happening to me because of things like,
you know, just pretend. And I'm like, I don't do that anymore. Thanks. Yeah, I try to think about like, for me, back whenever I was doing this, and you would have to take suggestions from your directors,
your conductors or whatever. I think because I'm such an automatic people, please, please are my default is always like, Yes, sir, anything you say, sir, you know, like, yeah, no. trying to ruffle any feathers,
generally speaking, now I do it, but I do it like intentionally. I'm like, I'm gonna say this and it's gonna piss you off, but like I know that ahead of time. And when I think about that, like if somebody had tried to make me do that,
I'd be like, I gotta try to find the place in me, even if it's just this tiny little spark of enthusiasm that matches this vibration, because that's the only way I can even show up a tiny bit. - Yeah,
but that's like excavation work, bitch. - That's hard. - And that's the thing. like there are so many, and that's what I really, you know, the longer we're here on the earth,
in earth school or whatever the fuck this is, the more, yeah, like the more awareness we get around, like the sheer number of ways there are to spend our time,
and then it's like, yeah, and then it's like, okay, well, that's it. - Yeah, right. I can do this but like I also could do 20 bajillion other things it's like I don't have to like mask for so exactly and I mean I'm not knocking no no it's just I haven't I'm having a great time and I think part of this is that you know like we we just presented a major work we did the creation by Haydn and and that was a that
was a slog dude because that's, you know, that's serious music and it took a lot to get that produced and done and it was super fun and I'm proud of it and I'm glad I did it but then it's like,
then there's this other concert, three rehearsals, you know, it's like, oh okay, we did this, that concert was at the end of March and now we're going to present another concert at the end of April, oh and there's a spring break in there for the college kids so we've got three rehearsals but you guys can do it,
no worries and you know yeah we can because we're fucking awesome yeah but like it's just the like you said the work there's a lot of work to do there and yeah and the energy it takes to focus around something like that too is not insignificant I think I really liked what you said about the distinction between being someone who I would say acts as an artist or yes is an artist yes somebody who plays an artist mm
-hmm and then someone who is an artist. I feel like that's such like there's so much juice there because it's not, it's not just in this scenario,
right? This is just our entry point to that dynamic. I mean, that dynamic is alive and well in any group that goes on for any period of time, right? And it's something to be aware of, because it's about reflecting on how am I still relating to this group and to this experience?
Is it authentic for me? me moment by moment? Yeah, and not just signing off to something at the beginning because you were asked for a commitment and then saying, well, I'm never going to revisit this or look at this again,
because I'm just going to assume that like whatever I've signed up for is just whatever I've signed up for, even though you don't find out until like right before the concert that you got this whole other piece. I mean, again, this is like the most benign example of this,
right? Yeah, it's like totally a neutral everything's neutral, but like this is pretty-- - And also you're always gonna have to, that's the thing too, it's like, you're always gonna have to make concessions when you are part of an ensemble cast or-- - Group.
- Or group, yeah. Or musicians or anything, you always are gonna have to make concessions because it is, there has to be a shared vision, which I totally get. And maybe that's part of it too,
is like maybe I enjoy it. making art more with you, you know, or with one other person or with a small group of people or by myself, then I do in a large circle.
Yeah. Well, it feels to me so in the same vibration of like the world at large right now where we're it's like this bait and switch switch almost and I don't really again,
this is just an entry point. This is not about the choir, but to take a neutral example in a world full of minefield examples, let's use this choir example, right? You did your big work,
you could sign down for that, and then there's another second concert, you find out you have three rehearsals for it, and then the one rehearsal before the concert, you get another piece, right? Yeah, and it's just reminding.
reminding me of this dynamic that's at play in the larger society where it's like, okay, well, we've got these people now. - Yes, there is like a captive audience vibe to it where I'm just like,
because like at one point, 'cause my friend Amanda is in this choir with me. - Love you, Amanda. - We were like, "Love you girl, shout out." - Shout out, Amanda. And she was,
you know, we like air. I'm using air quotes here, practiced yesterday. - Yeah. - And I'm like, girl, we got it. And listen, we've been doing this since Jesus was a boy.
- That's right. - You know, we got it. I mean, and it turns out like in one case, specifically like we didn't, we didn't got it. - Uh -oh. - But anyway. - It's an exception that proves the rule. - I was just like,
well, if we, 'cause she's like, well, what if, you know, what if we can't memorize it? And I'm like, well, then we use the music. And she's like, well, I don't know. think that she went, I'm like, listen. - Let me break that for you. - Amanda. I'm 45,
goddamn years old. If I'm up there and I have a job to do and I need the music to do it, guess what? I'm gonna fucking use my music. Because like this, all of this is optional. And that's how I feel about it.
It's like, that's it. It's such a cool place to be as a grown person when you're just like, like, well, no, like I'm not gonna do that because it's not what I want to do.
And why do I wanna make my life harder? You know what I mean? Like why do I want to do something that I don't have to do?
- It puts me out, it puts me in a position of having to draw on reserves that I didn't allocate for this. You don't get to just pull on my reserves. I get to-- decide if I'm gonna resubscribe to this mission.
- I feel like we, that's the whole bait and switch, you know, like nothing worth having is easy or whatever. - That's just a fucking lie. - Oh shit. - Everything that's worth having is easy.
Everything that's worth having is easy. - It's like rewriting this narrative that we have to work hard to survive. or to like thrive.
And it's just like, no, that's not, that's actually just a narrative. It's just a story and we don't have to subscribe to that. And yeah, I can tell you that when, but yeah,
we can make, and I think that's what we do a lot of the time because like I, when stuff is easy, it feels fucking amazing. - Incredible,
incredible. - It feels so good. - It's incredible, you know? know? Life can be so good, you guys. - Yeah, and it's applied in all these icky places, like relationships, you know,
like, you know, everybody's worth is dependent upon how long they're willing to stay in a bad relationship and how hard they're willing, you know, and it's like, I'll see stuff on social media, sometimes it's like,
you know, somebody's posting some bullshit about, you know, some, probably made up AI companies. you know, they're celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary and, you know, like, people just aren't loyal like this anymore,
blah, blah, blah. It's a fantasy. It's like, this b *tch couldn't have a bank account. She's with him because he was her f *cking, you know, it was that or stay home and be an old maid. Like, what? Yeah. You know what I'm saying?
These are not real choices. Yeah. These were not real choices. Yeah. And like, don't make it some moral, you know, you know. - It's just so, it has no validity to me anymore.
Like these arguments, I'm like, I see right through it. It's like, you can't really be serious. - Right, and that's the thing, and that's the thing. It's like, when you start to just see like, oh yeah, that's not true, oh yeah, that's not true. And it's like, I mean,
it gets really cool. - It gets really cool. - And then you're like-- - And it can be scary. - And then you're like, yeah, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not doing that. - Yeah. - And I like it, I like it. 'Cause I don't want it. it There are lots of things that I don't want to do and I shouldn't have to and now I know that I don't And now you know that you don't and the way that we do it is we give ourselves this
little Easy little mindset hack where we go. Oh, is that a narrative? That's put forth by the society By our society where was I trained in thinking this way?
Does it benefit me? Is the part B to that thought and if the answer is no then you get to reconsider how you engage with it. You might not be able to get out of it right away. But you can start to look for the exits,
and you can start to make your safe exit, you know what I mean, from whatever situation. Yes. And also, like, what anybody has to say, like society or otherwise,
about us, and the way we make art, and the way we show up for our or for other people or whatever is like,
it legit could not matter less. - It can't matter less. - And like, I have been marveling at, you know, the Torture Poets Department by Taylor Swift just dropped recently.
- Taylor and Wilson Swift, we love you. - I love you, girl. - You are our modern day Shakespeareist. - Yes, well, - Yeah. you say what you were gonna say and then I'm gonna say what I was gonna say.
- Well, this is what makes me chuckle. It's like, everybody knew that she was me dropping this album at midnight or on like what,
April 19th or whatever. And so like, the morning of April 20th, 'cause this bitch don't stay up till midnight. - No, thank you. - Nine o 'clock, yeah. - That's my bedtime.
- But, so like the next morning, it's like, And actually, I had totally forgotten about it. I'm going to be honest. Yeah, like you were like, oh, my God, this album is amazing. And I was like, oh,
shit, I forgot. Let me get a listen to it. So and of course, I always read the lyrics because she's such a wordsmith and I love it incredible. But there's already all of these like op ads.
And I'm like, isn't it? like 31 fucking tracks? Like you guys clearly pre -wrote this criticism, these critiques,
you know what I'm saying? And like, there's no way that you have seriously sat down to consider the breadth of this work in order to be able to speak intelligently on it,
but here y 'all are right now. your piehole anyway. This is what I have never understood about the other side. If I'm going to be on the side, I'm clearly not on that side,
right? I'm on this side, they're on that side. The other side, I don't understand why they can't understand that when you bring attention to something, you're creating more heat and interest in that thing,
even if what you're saying is it's bad, you shouldn't listen to it. It's she's selfish. She's thinking about herself only like she's a victim. Whatever they put out of the fuck they're saying That just means people gonna be running to listen to it You're not helping your cause what you could do is you could actually live The values you espouse and you could you could actually take actions Shocker,
I know this is like really gonna shake some people's life up, but this is some real life advice Okay, you could say what you you could look at what you say you believe and then you can like actually put those things into practice.
Yes. It's wild like that. Yeah. You don't have to be talking about every little thing that's wrong with the world because you never gonna get done. A mind that only looks for things to hate on is only ever gonna find things to hate on that doesn't build anything that tears things down.
Right. Anybody can tear things down. Anybody can tear things down. If all you focus on are problems, pretty soon problems are all you will have. Yes, exactly. It's a hammer in a nail situation. All you got is a hammer all you ever gonna see is a nail So it's just it's like a uh -huh moment about that about to say like maybe I Would like to give the other side some advice maybe build some you know build some
infrastructure Okay, like for the greater society about or like really formulate a thoughtful opinion Instead of just spewing a bunch of garbage on everybody it's like just because you can doesn't mean you should you know what I mean like it's that is the problem that is why it's that kind of it's that paradigm that's keeping artistry like stuck in it just because people are fearful about creating and letting themselves
be seen because you've got all of the these armchair quarterback type people that are immediately gonna pounce on it and like shit talk it, which, you know, again, like you do you, but I'm just saying like in the animal kingdom,
and we've talked about this before, you don't have a bird flying by another bird's nest and being like, oh my God, did you see Harvey's nest? It's not even two stories.
- They might actually do that. - What does he even, I doubt it. I fucking doubt it. - Some of these birds is pissy. - Little bitches. - That's us putting our crazy on them.
They're just like, they don't give a fuck. They're like, we build nests is what we do. You know, and that's what, it's like, if humanity would be like, we create art,
it's what we do. And then everybody got to create the art that they authentically wanted to explore. and it wasn't commodified, monetized,
judged, nitpicked. What could we all create? Just incredible. Yeah. It's like Star Trek universe, which is where I'm heading. I'm heading for like peace and technology and diversity of thought and diversity of beings all being held on the same level of worth and value and appreciating aspects.
I mean, scientists are having conversations with whales, y 'all. - Word. - It's happening, but here I wanna circle back to this because I think that's such an important point. - Maybe, okay, I'm gonna concede since now the scientists are talking to the whales before they get the whale gossip.
Maybe them animals do be doing that, I don't know. - They might be. They really might be trash talking to each other talking about, mm -mm. I know you did not put berries in your mouth. your in your nist. You stupid But okay,
so how is that not envy dude, how is the armchair critics quarterbacks not envy embodied? That's just envy it is so if you can be an artist in the realm of understanding Any shit you get is just envy dude Then you can accept it with love and be like these bitches really be feeling me Do you know what I mean and that's how Tay -Tay be out here.
- Yeah. - You know what I mean? And let me say something about her because, and I've shared this with a couple of people, people who have, I have gotten to sit down long enough for me to tell them, okay? - People that didn't run away from you,
girl. - Yeah, girl, it's not been many. Most of them run away. So just go on and fast forward 30 seconds if you don't wanna hear my theory about Tay -Tay. But listen, I feel like in the pantheon of Greek gods,
for example, like Athena and like, these entities, even Buddhas, for example, are just iconography. It's a iconography, symbolic iconography that signals a particular worldview and mindset and behavior pattern and language and all of that stuff,
right, that's all icons are. I really see her on that level. Like I think Dolly Parton is on that level and I think T .T. -Tay is on that level and I will I will stand by that forever forever into infinity.
I feel like they are raising up Divine feminine consciousness. Mm -hmm like I I think doge a cat is and this is just in my world view Like I know that they're a tremendous amount of like a varied artists and lots of up -and -coming artists who are amazing Right not denying that But within the realm of commercialized and supported by the greater pendulum,
you know, that is our society, artists, I think Dolly is one who broke the mold. And she made a way for herself even as a woman to manage to not get fucking screwed by all the the viper fucking men in the in that industry that that insert themselves into the process to just extract all of your fucking wealth and energy like vampires Tay Tay,
I think you know, she obviously had her scooter on you know situation and and she learned from that and I think this album is her Giving us a directive about how to fucking proceed like it feels to me like marching orders like this is how we relate to these energies to these entities to these these men,
to these women, to these people who are exploiting. However they show up, whatever form it manifests in, you can take this position of, you know, like,
"Thank you, Amy." You can thank you, Amy, your way out of any situation, and that is gold. That is a gold worldview, in my opinion. Yeah. Agreed. I love it.
So, I'm really for her, you know? And I love it. the other thing I've been playing with too is that one of the tricky things that happens with society too is that and and I don't know if anybody has seen Silicon Valley,
but this TV show called Silicon Valley was about these tech entrepreneurs who basically were in league with like Google and all of that and all of the war mongering mongering that has happened and is happening amongst them to like gain Like they're Like what do you call it whenever you take?
Ground in a war whatever Trying to expand their their reach essentially. Yeah at one point The one of the people at the top let's it would be like the Amazon guy uh,
level, yeah, was going to be exposed. And instead of letting it happen, because he knew he had advanced notice that it was going to be exposed, he came out and like confessed everything, which took all of the wind out of that exposure.
And so it like, it didn't, it didn't actually end up manifesting anything, um, for that movement, because it's sort of like taking the wind out of a balloon. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, by standing in there and accepting it. And that is a, that is a mental and strategic war strategy, essentially, energetically. Yeah. And I feel that sometimes that happens when any group that isn't in the,
isn't being controlled by the mainstream, let's say it, let's say quote unquote mainstream, uh -huh, starts to take hold. I feel like the counter conversations tend to be about how they are not like living up to their values,
like saying she's racist for the 1830s comment. And to me, that really sounds to me like a racist said, "Hey, isn't that racist?" 'Cause she said,
"I don't wanna live when the racists are." It's like, this logic, it's like there is nothing there. You're not, there's no logic there. You're just trying to-- - It's circular argument.
- It's circular argument. It's where everybody keeps attacking somebody else and rarely rarely for substance. It's always about It's always where it's like they're trying it's like it's like people are trying to find like a chink in the armor Yeah,
because okay to be perfectly honest is we can just put all of our business right out on front street Um, that's one of the things that we were concerned about about when we first started this podcast was like we lapsed into like the sassy speak that could be considered if you wanted to consider it that way and if that was your MO,
that could be considered racist because you know, it just could be. However, we, our dialect is directly influenced by...
Where we were raised and the people we came up with that's right. And so I know That it's not about race at all.
Mm -hmm. And so If someone were to comment us and say well, this seems racist or feels racist or is racist or whatever like I would just I Would just be like well that you know you're ever entitled to an opinion.
- Yeah, and I know my own heart. - And I know my own heart, but that's the thing. It's like, if someone were to come at us for that, and this is obviously just a very minor example in the bigger conversation,
to make it about that, it just, it takes away from the breadth of our work,
you know what I mean? It takes away from the impact and, I don't know,
I can't think of my words, but it takes away from the wholeness of our art by distilling - By distilling it down to this one little thing that they can pick at.
And then it's like, yeah, fuck you, I don't care. - Yeah, because guess what, we're not perfect. And so even if it was, you know, even if let's say we have someone who takes us aside and gently says,
hey, like this came across, this hurt me because it seemed like you were making fun, which we aren't. And because we're so, we're so in admiration of black. women in general in our society.
I know I speak for myself personally. - Yeah. - And I'm not gonna do the whole like, oh, black friends thing because it's, that's not what I'm trying to say. 'Cause actually I don't have as many black friends as I would like to have, but I'm,
I want to be in community with a diverse, with a bunch of people who are not like me, so that I can learn from them. And the way that I can do that is by being authentically myself and they can choose whether or not they want to come.
close or not. And that's really what it all boils down to for me is like everybody's not everybody's cup of tea. That's right. And that's fine. That's okay. And it's like instead of like washing our hair on things that we don't particularly like or care for.
And I mean, again, no shade. I'm guilty of this. I mean, you could probably go back a few episodes in this podcast and hear me. bitchin about something because I can't shut the fuck up about things that aggravate me,
but That energy would probably be better used Promoting or admiring or you know,
whatever and it's like if we if we would just get off each other's dicks about yeah, dude Everything. Yeah, like that's the way - I agree,
I agree. Sorry, she's - - I'm peeling her manicure off and I'm like, girl. - It was $158 with tip. Y 'all ain't never going back. This is like - - Chiseling these bitches off.
- It's just, it's just falling off. It chipped. I'm just taking it off now 'cause it's like screw it. They're coming off like they're fricking press on nails too. So I don't even know. That's a whole other industry. Don't get me started on the nail salon.
salon industry 'cause I just feel like completely robbed at gunpoint whenever I go there now. I'm just not, I'm just gonna have ugly nails. Y 'all are on notice. - Yeah. - I can't do it. But, okay, so.
- I'm just saying like, you can find fault. If you're looking to find fault, you can find it. - You can find fault. - Every 100 % of the time, you can find it. I'm just advocating for,
if we lose, for the positive, we can find that too. That's right. But further, if we encounter something that we don't particularly care for,
then we just don't have to listen to it or read it or engage with it at all. And that's the part that is is starting to feel really like dissonant to me is just like,
well, why are, why aren't you writing about cool ass shit? Yeah, things that really you love.
You know what I'm saying? Like, why are you writing these hit pieces on people? Like, for what? Because people are disconnected from what they love. They don't know what they love. And that's, see, that's such a cool thing.
I'm so glad you struck on that. Because what do you love? Yeah, what do you love? Because like, go there? Yes, and invest in that like it might just be your dog,
dude It might just be your partner, dude It might just be like one thing in the world that you still love you might just like Chocolate shakes from McDonald's. Do you know what I mean when the ice cream machine isn't broken? And it tastes like mother's milk to you know what I mean like you might just have One thing and you just got to go there be in that energy and and grow from that seed seed,
that seed of love in you is your everything. That's where you can build your entire life. It's big enough. Yeah. And it will expand around all of the hate that has been either taught to you or has been practiced.
Yeah. And like, I think that's where, um, that's why I'm enjoying this stage of life so much right now is because, um,
through not just the this medium of this podcast, but, uh, through various ways that we're reaching out to people where we are creating community and it's like so fucking fun,
dude. It's fun. And it's so fun. It's way easier than we thought. Oh, my gosh. You want to tell them? Yeah. I'm like, we thought dream weavers. Weavers. We thought we were going to have. Okay. This is this is what we do.
If you want to if you just want a little inside look at how our lives go. We are fucking Olympic gold medalists in overthinking.
Yeah. First of all, yeah, we are what's the machine that people make that it's like it's like this this ridiculous number of steps to do one simple little thing It's like a rude Goldberg or something.
Okay. I don't you know what I'm talking about I think so I could be wrong about that and we don't really edit so like so like it's whatever I'm like, you know, feel free to point it out if you want to but whatever do engage. Yeah, but like it's it's like it's like Some you know creating some invention that does like 72 steps to like put your bed bed spread on your bed.
Yeah, dude Or butter a piece of toast. Yeah, like where it would be It would make so much more sense if you just fucking made a piece of toast and put butter on it Yeah, but you know,
you've got like a golf ball that rolls down a rail right trips the straw, you know all of that Okay, that's how we that's how we navigate the world a little bit. We're like, oh, we want to have we want to have a community so but we can do it until I perfect my cartwheel so here's our here's our step by step plan of how to build community we really did have all these cast a wide net yeah and then we um we we
first we went to a friends who was doing a vision boarding vision boarding event at her house that was yeah and this was like adjacent to a sacred circle that had been meeting for a while but that was like co -ed and this woman who had this event at her house decided that she wanted it to be a women's only event which was cool because that's typically what we go to anyway yeah we may not have even shown up if it
had been no open. But, um, so we get there and there's like, I don't know what, like 15, 18 people. It was a bit. It was good. It was a big turnout. And we were just like,
we just looked at each other and both we realized that it instantly, we were like, yeah, we'd be doing too much. Yeah, we're trying too hard. We just got a plug into what's already here. We're just, yeah.
So then right after that, we were like, okay, we're going to have this dream weavers circle because, you know, no time like the present. And it was freaking beautiful.
It was wonderful. Yeah, it took. I mean, we still over planned for that. Oh my God. I brought like a table with like name tags and different colored like little clips for people who wanted to share,
but then didn't want to ask answer questions about their share and then people who just wanted to listen. like we did all of the things. And we didn't need to do any of those things. But yeah, like every time we do something,
we're like, oh, that was way easier than what we were thinking. It was going to be in our in our bogged down. Yeah. Capitalist thinking. Yeah. Like we have to we have to immediately be make it.
It's like we're trying to monetize everything like we it's like we think of something and then we run. it through the scientific materialism filter and add a bunch of fucking superfluous steps.
- Yeah, and the capitalist filter, too. - Yeah, and then wonder why we can't get it to go, do its thing and just be what we want it to be. And then we remember that we can just do the thing.
And so that's the visual that I use all the time is that, okay, so like if you have, if you're over here, here and you want to be you know you're you're you're at step A or whatever and you're trying to get to step Z and there are all there's this giant gap in between of all of the things that you're like oh my god all of this stuff has to gather and it's like debilitating yeah honestly debilitating the way to
collect the gap, the fastest, best way to close the gap is just to be who you are at Z, right? So like, you're like, oh, I am a person who,
whatever that thing is, you know? And you just be that today. And then you don't have to do any of the stupid fucking steps, like we're always trying to step our way to everything and it's just like,
no, we want to be who we are. with women in circle So we just are like hey on this date We're gonna meet with women in circle and then they just fucking come and it's great and it's like way better Then we could have orchestrated it to be yeah So let it let that be some encouragement to you if you're thinking about Starting to build community in a small way.
It doesn't take much. You don't have to over complicate it I'll learn from our lesson like you can just have, you can name your little circle, whatever you want to call it, and you can define as much or as little.
Or that's the thing, like you don't even have to, like that's the thing too, like we named it. Yeah, we named it because we thought it had to have a name and I mean, it is probably good to have a name because other people are doing other shit too.
So, you know, it's cool to have have it be called something. But it's like the only time we refer to it by its name is if we're like, like writing, you know, um, creating a graphic or like,
you know, which we use as an invite, you know, exactly the thing or like we have a, um, we have a little group, a group chat or whatever. So it's named there,
but it's like that couldn't matter less either. Like, and I am, I am famous for getting stuck in the weeds, you know, like, like with this podcast,
you know, like sure I had I had cover art and shit long before I ever recorded an episode. Yeah. And it's like, for what cover art for what you ain't got no fucking content.
You got cover art for no art girl. Do the thing first. You know, and everything else will come together. Yeah, we just get so in our heads about stuff. And And that's the being the artist or doing or being right.
It's playing the artist playing the artist or being the artist. So I'm going to tell you all right now, we've been a wild out. We've been a wild out. We've been a wild out. We we are fully accepting we've been in this.
We've been in this like kind of liminal space for a long time where we're like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind
of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just
kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like just kind of dreaming and hanging out and like
just kind of dreaming and hanging out Vibing and talking about cool shit. And now with this energy That that's entering the planet,
I feel like it's time for us to do the things And you know, the liminal space is cool and I'm not saying we'll never we'll never go back there because it's pretty it's pretty groovy It's very fun. Yeah.
Yeah, but I'm ready to like I'm ready to close the gap. Yeah - Yeah. - You know? I'm ready to do the fucking shit. I'm ready to do the damn thing. - I'm ready to girl. I think it's time, and we are,
you know? - Yeah. - And I think that's, the check -in for me is about at every stage, at every step, I have the right to pivot. That's the thing I have to remember.
It doesn't matter what, because especially 'cause I got that raging pathological demand avoidance, bitch. Don't come at me with wha - I should do, what do you think? Uh -uh, unless I ask, you know what I mean?
It's like, I don't like being told how I'm gonna react or how I should react or whatever. It's very PDA up in this house, do you know what I mean? - Yes. - And I think that that's just the energy.
- And that's really fun for me personally because it's like having five best friends in one, you know what I mean? (laughing) (laughing) It's like, I can't. get tired of you because you ain't gonna be the same girl tomorrow as you are today,
so it's like, it's so fresh, it's always fresh girl. And yeah, because I, you know, I have a lot of aspects of my personality I need to express, and I, you know, they, I, there are appropriate times to express them.
And it does, you know, I do cycle through, you know, how do I want to show up today? What do what, what kind of art do I want to make? What is important to me today? I get to decide. Yeah. yeah and it's important for me to always have the pivot as my little exit strategy now that I've gotten myself into so many like little cults and stuff yeah because I do love to join a cult yes girl girl I love a cult um
it's just the getting out of the cult that's the problem that's the thing too like I'm not trying I'm not I'm not pro cult or anything right I'm not trying to be a proponent for the cults by any means but there is an aspect of that that's so juicy Oh,
yeah, you know what I mean? Like it's like It's got some cool Aspects yeah, it's just like you said like the dismount is often messy and Traumatizing that's the problem and stuff But like as I can't think of a better way to really get into some psychological spaghetti Yeah,
girl, you know then to get a cult. It's dangerous. I mean, and to be, to be clear, we live in a very culty society. Yeah. So basically, you,
you can't swing a dead cat without hitting, hitting a cult in this society. So if you think you're not in a cult, you're probably in some cult. You're probably in a cult. And it might just be your HOA.
It really might just be your HOA. and it might just be like, you know, it could be anything. It could be like your Taylor Taylor Swift cult, you know, where it just becomes like a religious devotion. That also isn't healthy,
right? It's about having a relationship with things outside of yourself that keeps them neutral to how they how you influence your life.
The other thing that we have are as usual as I can. Yeah, the other thing that we're Olympic gold medalists. medalists in, I have to say, is tying together concepts that really have nothing in common.
- You mean like choir and leading society? - Like if we had a shtick, that would be it. - Yeah, I really do feel like that. - This is like, we serve you word salad on the regular and we're for the people who like the word salad.
- Well, 'cause we're wordsmiths too. I mean, I think that it feels to me like we're walking down a path but noticing really big things. It's like we might be looking at the flowers but we're also reflecting on how we are in our own blossoming journey.
You know what I mean? It's like that kind of shit. That's the kind of shit I'm into. It's like, let's take the mundane and let's tie it to the profound. - Yes, because magic is everywhere. - 'Cause magic is everywhere. - And it's the most fun.
fun to witness the magic and to be in the magic. - Yes, I agree. - And that's really like the call and the impetus for the doing is like,
again, like the liminal space is pretty fucking cool. It's got some high points. You know, like I love being in that sort of like ethereal in between energy, but,
and you can witness witness magic there, but I wanna be in it. I want to viscerally experience the magic myself in this human form. - It's great.
- I feel like this is a great time to transition into our, I mean, I hate to even call it an outro because I think that all of that, like intro, outro,
bullshit with a podcast is so lame. It's lame because it only matters if you're in podcasting. Yeah. And we're not and we're not trying to, like, build a podcast fucking empire over here.
We just trying to talk to our people. That's right. So that's right. But we do want we do have some stuff that we want to mention to y 'all. The first being connection. We really, really,
really want to connect with y 'all. Um, and so the easiest way that we have figured out to do that is for you to audio message your questions to us at thedharmadiaries .com.
So you just go to our page and click send us a voice message, record your audio file, and it comes straight to our inbox, which is fabulous. And we want to start using those questions and comments on the podcast.
So we wanna make this more of like an interactive art space. That's it. Summer's Jam. Yes, that's her jam. She always about an interactive art space. So if you can help us out with that, we really would appreciate it if you guys would just like send us a voice message from the website and just ask us questions.
Yeah, what are you noodling over? Yes, like, let us know like what you guys want to hear more of or more about like, yeah. The other thing that we wanted to mention is that we are both opening up our calendars.
calendars for sessions and so you can check out our booking links in the show notes. - Yes, come talk to us. - Yes, we love that. - We love that. - That's our whole jam. - We're here for that. - Yeah,
we are definitely here for that. - If you wanna see what we would think about something's going on in your life. - Yes. - We will tell you. - That is our gift, is that we really can see through some bullshit,
you know, because we, not always our own. - That's it, listen. yes, that is why we're best friends, because a blind spot is a blind spot because you can't see it,
but we are very gifted at, and we have a lot of tools in our toolbox around helping you figure out your shit. - Yeah, and gently, and like giving you tools so that you can manage your shit.
- Yeah, like in a fun girl gap kind of way. - In a girl gap way, yes. - Not like a therapy session or something. - No. shit. And it's not all, you know, like, I mean, no shade. Some people are into this,
but like, I'm not one of those like crystals, you know, breathing deep, you know, all of that. It's just gonna be a conversation, you know? It's a conversation.
- That's right. - And then the third thing that we wanted to tell y 'all, and we're so fucking excited about it, is that we are gonna be announcing some podcast tour dates. in the coming weeks and months because we taking this bitch out in the road.
Yes, we are. Yes, we are. Coming to a town near you. Coming to a town near you. And if you want us to come to your city, reach out via the aforementioned send us a voice message feature. And let us know that you would like to hear us in your town.
Live. Live. And it's going to be fun, y 'all, because we're going to record episodes . from your city. But then we're also, after we wrap on the podcast episode itself,
we're also then going to have draw names out of a hat feature where we invite audience members up on stage with us.
And that's another avenue where you can ask us questions. It's basically, it's a session. - Yeah. - But live. - Like live girl gap session with us.
- Yes, yes. - I love it. - Because we can deconstruct whatever little problem you're noodling on and we can fucking tackle that bitch together. - Because I'll tell you what, whatever it is, we are going through it or we've been through it or if somebody else in the audience is going through it and has been through it,
we get to build on each other's strengths and stand on each other's shoulders and that's how we do it. - And can we talk about your fun little possible-- - Yes. - Yes. - Okay,
you tell it girl, 'cause it's hilarious. You're talking about my exes. - Yes. - Girl, I had, I just had this vision this morning and I'm sure that other people are doing it 'cause you know, I'm just clicking into the collective unconscious just like all these other artists are doing too but I just pulled down this idea of doing exorcisms but doing it with like ex,
like your ex. and having your ex come up, like you come up, and then you would tell, you would talk about the problem that you're dealing with about your ex, about letting them go or whatever, whatever the sticking point is.
- And we ex as your ex for you. - And we ex as your ex for you, because we show you how to like, diagnose what's actually going on within your body, give you some techniques for counteracting it,
to oppose that like addictive, sort of ruminating, limerence quality that happens sometimes whenever you're getting over somebody and get some actual tools and have some fun and laugh about it,
you know? - Hell yeah. - A little exorcism. - Yes, so we have all kinds of fun stuff planned. Again, if you are in our area in Southeast Louisiana and you wanna get together with us in our dream weavers,
circles, we're still doing those. those We do pod squad field trips. We had one yesterday With our picnic and summer had ate some sweaty cheese I did and I have a headache and she has a headache,
but I was like I Didn't no one has ever told me that we were not supposed to eat sweaty cheese I just am like girl you glistening Get in my belly and it's picnic time.
So be aware. I don't know exactly if we should or shouldn't but I know I shouldn't That's all I know. I checked with my intuition and she said no more sweaty cheese. - She said no more sweaty cheese. - Which is unfortunate. - I probably had five pieces of sweaty cheese yesterday and I feel great.
- You see, everybody is an individual. That's right, you gotta check 'em with yourself. - Well, we love y 'all, bye. - We too love y 'all, bye.