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April 13, 2010
Rereading My Writing
I highly recommend rereading your writing at least once a week. I have let my writing alone for years sometimes and then when I come back to it I find the most beautiful treasures! Poems and prose buried deep in the journals and electronic entries and scraps of paper. Rereading also connects me to those moments, and there have been oh so many! And I reconnect to all the images and visions I have had. It is a good feeling.
This week I am trying out a new way of organizing my calendar. I have been booking specific times for specific tasks. This week I am just going to make a list of the tasks I need to do each day, how long they will take and then organically go through my day, referring to the list as need be for the next item. This feels a lot more fluid and natural to me then a structured, rigid program. I was having trouble breathing there for a while as each hour was booked with a specific action, and I was getting to none of it. So far it is working beautifully. Shows how we tend to try and fit our round selves into square holes.
I am excited I have set my goals, or manifestations, up to the summer solstice. I have them written out and displayed on my desk where I can see them daily. A great climb to the top of the year, there to look around and glory in the view.
April 5, 2010
Hello Once More!
~My shadow falling over the Grand Canyon.Wow! I can't believe I haven't written in here since last year. Time to make up for it. Let's see... About a year and a bit more ago I had hurt my knee. It is still not bending fully, dislocating patella, but daily I do my yoga practice, and my strengthening exercises, and take walks and dance, and it is getting better. My boyfriend and I went raw, so that is helping quite a bit with inflammation and the chronic degeneration. You can visit our blog where we are documenting our raw and living foods journey.
We have travelled so much! We were all over Ontario last year, camping at least 6 times, and then in Budapest, Poland, Arizona twice and Nevada over the Winter. Now it is Spring here in Ontario, and we have begun cleaning out our basement and our yard, and feeling great about it. The basement we have likened to our subconscious, and the backyard to our sustenance (our garden) and sanctuary. The basement we have also likened to the bowels of our home, and it is is good to cleanse the bowels in the Spring. The garden is sprouting green, and we had help trimming out fruit trees and bushes. We may have an experienced organic gardener come and help us set up a larger vegetable garden this year, and herbal garden of course.
I am in a place of greatness in many ways. I count all that I am grateful for: my love, my family, my communities, my home, my health, my calling. And my writing, yes, my writing! I am writing almost daily, stories and journal entries that always surprise me. I never know what is next.
I have decided to only go onto Facebook once a week. What a change! I love it. I am writing more, rediscovering other hobbies (I have picked up my weaving again, and making a lot of food). Time to transfer my energies. All my old crutches are not serving me. Time to rediscover actual human relationships, and add variety into my life in new, positive, healthy and creative ways. That is my challenge and my joy right now.
August 25, 2009
Me in a Tree
This is me taking a picture of myself in a mirror hanging on a tree, meinatree. There are so many exciting adventures in my life right now! I just got back from camping in New Hampshire, what a beautiful and lush area of the world. Many mushrooms. In September we will be camping in three different locations over three weekends! My desire for the outdoors will be truly fed. I have a very clear vision at the moment of all that I need to do to feel satisfied and healthy. And I am allowing for the vision to become reality.
I now have a big, beautiful journal. I am going to write in it right now. It feels so luxurious and I love having lots of space to expand my thoughts on. As one door closes, another opens. I see many opening doors right now.
July 14, 2009
Weekend Adventure
I had the most amazing weekend traveling through Prince Edward County. We didn't know what to expect, all we knew was that we had to get away for a couple of days of random adventure.
We walked in a wilderness conservation area known as Beaver Meadows, and met a heron, a wood toad, frogs and saw how beavers had recreated the landscape. We jumped into 8 foot tall waves at Sandbanks Park, all while strong winds blew against us. Walking and jumping into those waves in the cool wind was exhilarating. And we visited a lavender farm, and walked through a violet and purple field. And so much more.
After a couple of days of travel I have a clearer heart, and feel refreshed in spirit. Washed clean by the waves. And the wood toad was so magical, blending into the forest floor. It seems like our garden has grown quite a bit, and it's only been a couple of days. I look out our kitchen window and the grapes are getting larger and larger.
We didn't cut the grapevine at home back enough this year, and a large part of our garden is canopied by the vine. It feels secluded. I had a lucid dream of sleeping covered by vines and leaves, like a cat in a garden.
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