An Inconvenient Truth

It’s a Yoga Teacher Training weekend and, as part of our regular practice, we saw another great movie tonight.  For whatever reason, I had never gotten around to seeing this movie – maybe it’s because I, like alot of people, wasn’t ready to believe there’s a problem.  After all, Hubby and I visited Alaska a couple [...]

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Singing My Song

“A Timbered Choir” by Wendell Berry
I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet
around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.
Then what is afraid of me comes
and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves [...]

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Art Classes!

I signed up for an online art class with Paulette Insall (another talented artist I discovered on YouTube) and thought I would share my work from lesson one…
This is just the first couple of layers – there are many more to go yet, but it’s very fun so far and Paulette is a great teacher!  [...]

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Sacred Steps

This has been a weekend of quiet reflection for me.  Megan, Stephanie and their traveling zoo (two dogs, a cockatiel, and a fish) all arrived safe and sound in Colorado.  Meg is full to overflowing with excitement and I’m excited for her, though still working out where I go from here; still trying to put my fears about the [...]

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five (really) good things

Five (really) good things (inspired by Liz Elayne)…
1.  Watching the kite boarders, while picnicking by the lake.
2.  Visiting the used book store and replacing my wandering copies of “Secret Life of Bees” and “Eat, Pray Love.”
3.  Receiving this print by Wyanne Thompson.
4.  Making a new art journal (using collage techniques from Paulette Insall and book [...]

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Press Pause

A few days ago, Evenstar wrote of having arrived at a “pause.”  The words struck me because I also feel I’ve arrived at a pause – a crossroads between one kind of life and the next. 
My daughter leaves for her new home in Colorado in just a few short days and my heart is torn between [...]

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Sacred Connections

After sleeping in til 10:00 (again!!) this morning, I decided to get outside and get some sunshine.  So I drove over to Martin Park Nature Center.  This park is a little sanctuary, right in the middle of the city, that I love to visit when I want to feel a trail beneath my feet, but [...]

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Follow Your Heart

One of the things I truly love to do is plan family gatherings.  I love creating little details and seeing the looks of pure delight on everybody’s faces when they realize how much went into something.  Megan opted not to participate in her college graduation ceremony, so I wanted her party this past Friday night [...]

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Graduation

I’m planning a graduation/going away party tomorrow night for Meg.  Can’t share too much til afterwards because a certain guest of honor sometimes reads my blog – but I’ll try to post some pictures and details tomorrow.  In the meantime, here is a “graduate” quote I liked (but didn’t end up using)…
Graduation is only a [...]

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SPC: A Fresh Cup of Appreciation

I’ve been working hard over the last several months to live in the present, to appreciate who I am and where I am in each moment.  Sometimes I think I’ve got it, then an hour later I realize I’m in the midst of a category five worry-storm! I immediately start berating myself for it and before I [...]

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