Today’s blog
Quick question before we begin: are you still here? Or have you all quietly unsubscribed from my wildly glamorous life of sun, dog chaos, and me doing the same three things on a loop? 😅 No judgment either way.
The day started, as it often does, with Charlie being released into the backyard like a creature who has been waiting his entire life for this exact moment. He doesn’t really run like a dog… he kind of moves like a horse. A very joyful, slightly uncoordinated, elegant horse. He gallops. He prances. And then, for reasons only known to him, he gracefully jumps over the retaining wall — like he’s competing in some kind of backyard equestrian event. Ten out of ten form. Judges are impressed.
So that was the morning: sun, fresh air, and my dog living out his secret horse fantasy. Then I went to the gym.
After that, I came home and did what I genuinely love about being self-employed — I sat in the sun, took a couple nutrition phone check-ins, and handled orders as they came in. No rush. No clock. Just responding to what the day asked for in that moment.
Then I did some very responsible adult things like cleaning, packaging up peptide orders, and going to the post office.
From there, I went over to Clermont and wandered around the lake for a while. Not exercising. Not sightseeing. Just existing outside long enough for my system to remember itself.
At one point on the trail, two girls actually stopped me just to tell me I have the most amazing legs they’ve ever seen, which was unexpected, kind, and strangely affirming — a little reminder that the body reflects the care we give it.
Later, I went to martial arts training, which always feels less like “working out” and more like returning to a language my body already knows.
Somewhere in there, I reached out to a colleague and ordered the quartz crystals wrapped in copper wire for crystal gridding the new space. Since Ainsleigh is now living in my house and the grid remains there, I don’t have a set with me — which is exactly how it should be.
For anyone who’s been to my house or to the Modern Mystery School, you’ve probably seen it — the quartz crystals wrapped in copper wire placed on the walls and the generator crystal in the center of each room. That’s what crystal gridding a space actually is.
According to the teachings of Sacred Geometry, crystal gridding creates an energetic sanctuary in your home that raises the vibration of the space and supports clarity, focus, healing, connection, and protection. It’s an ancient technique that installs a permanent energetic structure using geometric patterns and activation practices — not decoration, not casual objects, but a field woven into the architecture of the energy itself.
Because the grid is structural, once it’s placed, it stays exactly where it is. If a crystal shifts or falls, the grid collapses and must be placed again from the beginning. Its energy and you cant let the energy fall.
Right now, I’m mostly organizing the handful of things I actually have with me into a few totes in a bedroom at Calla and Ed’s. My storage unit is full of my real life, but this is the little, temporary version of it. A threshold. A hallway between rooms.
I’m sad to leave Calla, Ed, and Olivia. I love it here. Charlie loves it here.
But I’m also really looking forward to settling. To be still long enough for life to arrange itself around me again. To listen more than pushing. To notice what arrives when I allow it.
The new place is in this really sweet pocket of Orlando called the Hourglass District — lakes, little shops, and life happening within walking distance.
So yeah. Not a big day. Not a dramatic day. Just a good, simple day that quietly did its work.
And those are often the ones that matter most.
— Mary
