May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light ~ and may good luck pursue you each morning and night. – Irish Blessing
Lucky charms are our topic today - no, not that kind. The other kind!
Susan here, while some of the Wenches are off gallivanting around Britain—well, they’re attending the RNA conference in Leeds, UK, and having a grand time, and they're sure to bring back some amazing travel tales.
Meanwhile, it's Friday the 13th - so let's stir up a little luck just in case!
I’m working away at the WIP and other projects, and feeling in need of a little extra luck to stay on track and make progress at the moment. I keep some things in my office that I'm fond of, that make me feel good, calm, creative, and/or centered, and I like to think some of them bring me particular luck--like the special things that have been in my workspace for years, or were gifts from friends, things that spark a little inspiration or represent good luck. I'm partial to dragons and fairies, angels and crystals. I'm not superstitious, but I like to tap a little feng shui energy, a little good fortune ... and since I spend hours at my desk, I may as well have pretty things to look at! If they bring in good fortune and creative inspiration, all the better.
Just now on my desk and arranged around the office on bookshelves, I have:
- a collection of angels on a shelf, and a few others watching out for me (I’ve collected angels for years, so there are lots of them in the office, around the house, packed away with the Christmas stuff, etc.)
~ a fairy in a snow globe - she's been sitting on my desk for years
~ crystals and stones, including an amethyst geode and a chunk of lapis lazuli, particularly good for writers
~ a brass dragon in the east for good luck, an ivory netsuke dragon that is beautiful, fierce, and cute all at once, and a little dragonfly dish that catches paperclips and little thingies
~ a quote or two taped to the monitor - currently “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” --Mother Teresa
~ a triskele/triple spiral, a Celtic symbol of creativity, as a drink coaster for endless cups of tea
- a beautiful butterfly-and-evil-eye hanging that was a gift from a friend, and if it watches out for bad luck, that's good luck!
~ a basket to one side of the desk where I toss everything that gets in my way and distracts me -- and I figure it’s good luck to corral a little clutter, and good luck if I manage to find anything in there at all . . . .
Do you keep a few special things around your workspace for inspiration and good luck? What do you always keep near you when you're working, writing, reading?
~ Susan