Yesterday I described a common example of manifesting. Today I’m going to give you an uncommon one that occurred to me a few weeks ago.
After I’d been in Pennsylvania a couple weeks I discovered a local restaurant that serves bagels and pizza and on Tuesday night they’re the only restaurant in town that serves Pad Thai. On my walk there one day I took an alternate route and came across this building just behind the restaurant:
What a fascinating building. I wondered who would paint their home like that. Who lived there? A couple weeks later I walked by this building again, and I thought that I’d really like to know who lived there and why they painted their building like that. This might be something interesting to blog about. It was so unusual and so well done.
A day later I drove several miles into down and visited Barnes & Noble for the second time. The first time I was there I discovered the fabulous book Thoughts Are Things, and this time I brought my own New Thought book and ordered a hot mocha.
I saw two men dressed in outlandish hats whom I remembered from the last time I visited. I struck up a conversation with them to find out why they were both wearing these odd hats. There had to be an interesting story behind it.
Their names are Jesse (left) and Ricardo and they exhibit art on their bodies. They call themselves Art in Tandem because they use a tandem bicycle to get around.
When I told them I was new in town they asked where I lived. They tried to explain to me where they lived, but I didn’t know any of the landmarks they mentioned.
Then for some reason I said, “I eat at Poppa Joe’s sometimes.” They replied, “We live right behind the restaurant.” “You mean in the painted building.” “Yes, that’s our house.”
Can you believe it? I decided I wanted to blog about whoever owned that house and within one day I met the owners. I was blown away.
You see, I set an intention to find out who lived there. I didn’t think another thing of it. And the universe, god, cosmic consciousness, whatever you want to call it, arranged the meeting. (It gets better, but that’s for another day.)
So about their building. It appears that some young locals were painting graffiti on buildings and got caught. The neighborhood watch wanted Jesse and Ricardo to prosecute but, being artists themselves and not wanting to harm the youths, they said, “No, we want them to finish the job.”
The ringleader of the graffiti artists took on the project with some financial help (paint supplies) and aesthetic suggestions from Jesse and Ricardo and painted the entire house. He then went to art school for two years and came back and repainted it.
So that’s the story behind the house. Aint’ it a hoot?
