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A couple weeks ago while folding laundry I noticed that a few of my “house Ts” were looking rather tired. Its right around the ‘tired’ stage that most t-shirts become the comfortable go to wardrobe for puttering around the apartment.

A couple shirts were a bit frayed at the band collar area; those two Ts were souvenir t-shirts from Palm Springs. They’ve seen sunnier days but I hang onto them as they evoke pleasant memories. Still—while carefully folding the Palm Springs Ts I made a mental note: “Buy some new Palm Springs t-shirts next trip out…”

Not anything that I jotted down on paper but a mental Post-it to reference some time in the future.

Imagine my surprise, then—while lazily sliding hangars at my local TJMaxx, to find a “Palm Springs” t-shirt in the mix of ‘compare at’ couture.

I don’t live anywhere near Palm Springs, California. I’m roughly 2,000+ road miles away according to Google. Yet there it was—staring back at me for only $14.99.

Naturally I snapped it up. But the purchase has me thinking about the power of thought. We’ve all heard the popular term “manifesting” and now I think there’s something to that. Like, who hasn’t thought of an absent acquaintance or friend that for inexplicable reasons makes a phone call? Baffling.

There are countless books on the power of the mind. Do we underuse that power? I can emphatically state that the things, places, and desires that I’ve secretly wished for have all happened. Maybe not at the time frame I wanted but they occurred or arrived nonetheless.

I think there’s something to the power of positive thinking as the expression goes. I have felt ‘less than’ for years. Maybe its time to rewrite the dialogue loop inside. It can’t hurt. Maybe the time is now to put exactly what I want and need out there in the universe.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matthew 7:7