tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73538939177018590232024-02-22T13:16:41.625-08:00fridayprize:: fridayprize ::Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-89258579544162968882011-12-31T03:56:00.000-08:002011-12-31T03:56:00.051-08:00Celebration<div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.14266154705546796" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>December 31 – Fiesta (Celebration)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What are you celebrating today? What will you celebrate in 2012?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #6aa84f; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. ~ Mary Lou Cook</i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-86380401592822522602011-12-30T03:55:00.000-08:002011-12-30T03:55:00.225-08:00<div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.5547771947458386" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>December 30 – Karuna (Compassion)</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What compassionate actions do you aspire to in the coming twelve months?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego. The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming familiar with the running away is the key? Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well. ~Pema Chodron</i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-34668134986421678162011-12-29T15:55:00.000-08:002011-12-29T15:55:16.158-08:00Gratitude and Poetry<div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.7851698589511216"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>December 28 – Agradecimiento (Gratitude)</i></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What eleven things were you grateful for in 2011?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 29 – Poesia (Poetry)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write a poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ~Robert Frost</i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-84380584234604648832011-12-27T05:07:00.000-08:002011-12-27T05:07:00.563-08:00LovingKindness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv2gESFIwiNWFIeJcYhu2a9Kgk49AtL70tu9Z-XY2oaFBiUf5ScyqhPqoXBaEjbT7TPzM3HwEeF4cZtAImtUXKfo4L6sIHxMoDOLcD5W5sfCf3DmpxAXuczneRXcK_rpKc9lYydZ6-J0/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfv2gESFIwiNWFIeJcYhu2a9Kgk49AtL70tu9Z-XY2oaFBiUf5ScyqhPqoXBaEjbT7TPzM3HwEeF4cZtAImtUXKfo4L6sIHxMoDOLcD5W5sfCf3DmpxAXuczneRXcK_rpKc9lYydZ6-J0/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.659848784795031" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.659848784795031" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.659848784795031" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 27 – Metta (Lovingkindness)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The metta mantras are: “May you be safe. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be free from suffering.” To whom do you wish to send metta? (Don’t forget to send it to yourself, too!)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that -- it lights the whole world." ~Hafiz</i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-82597955359971007402011-12-26T05:07:00.000-08:002011-12-26T05:07:03.043-08:00Gift, Wonder, Service<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Catching up and planning ahead...</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.4434590127784759" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.4434590127784759" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.4434590127784759" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 24 – Regalo (Gift)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was the most cherished gift you received this year? What were the most thoughtful gifts you gave?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For it is in giving that we receive. ~Saint Francis of Assisi</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 25 – Milagro (Wonder)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Illustrate your own personal wonderland -- real or imagined. What’s the weather like? Who else is there with you? Use vivid detail.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." ~ Charles Kingsley</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 26 – Seva (Service)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How did you serve in 2011? Who will you serve in 2012?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Service is the rent we pay for being on this earth." -Marian Wright Edelman</span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-44471790446027991192011-12-23T01:41:00.000-08:002011-12-23T01:41:15.704-08:00Action<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRVQRXxipyvWmC0l5zoLebFu73BTR2asSh5-xBlfC96tvYbItY45PWDlHNJq3c4gkipwkhBZQbooo6RTo77tzbksMUBJ-0SuQjHeOOdgDh8q1o7cjNmgc_0Rxy-OA1nxglVsQhT7v_MQ/s1600/IMG_5294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKRVQRXxipyvWmC0l5zoLebFu73BTR2asSh5-xBlfC96tvYbItY45PWDlHNJq3c4gkipwkhBZQbooo6RTo77tzbksMUBJ-0SuQjHeOOdgDh8q1o7cjNmgc_0Rxy-OA1nxglVsQhT7v_MQ/s320/IMG_5294.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6721894743386656" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.6721894743386656" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 23 – Karma (Action)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actions speak louder than words. What daily actions will you take this year? How will you begin your January mornings -- routine or not?</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #330000; font-family: georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif;"><i>We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. ~Frank Tibolt</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every day I will do just one thing, however small, working towards my goals of being a creative entrepreneur, owning my own studio, and teaching workshops. Every day...</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-25608157452914358152011-12-22T03:14:00.000-08:002011-12-22T03:14:44.668-08:00Happiness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKIIz9lBWvEYKy9QnFl21GLmLHXFDvEOgUSQMIJeZ0Lmz-7xUUCYDs9d9xHx7mYwo_cNgGsmBocj7xbBs0dER3UQXSquD5Ar9auFHIwRDq8-PYs8ghIbNVGx4xTXPz9Z4Q6uhAbaq7jA/s1600/IMG_5488.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTKIIz9lBWvEYKy9QnFl21GLmLHXFDvEOgUSQMIJeZ0Lmz-7xUUCYDs9d9xHx7mYwo_cNgGsmBocj7xbBs0dER3UQXSquD5Ar9auFHIwRDq8-PYs8ghIbNVGx4xTXPz9Z4Q6uhAbaq7jA/s320/IMG_5488.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.422327141975984" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.422327141975984" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.422327141975984" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 22 – Sukkha (Happiness)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where did you discover sweetness in 2011?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sweetness was found in the small moments: coffee/tea with my husband, workshop collaboration with friends, walking the DeCordova museum grounds with Mom, breakfast with Dad. </span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So much focus is placed on what we need to achieve, what our goals are, "The Master Plan." </span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We think the destination is the bees knees, that when we've made it, everything will be just fine.</span></b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...life starts becoming the end result, when really, it's made up of all these small moments, intimate connections with other people that craft our story. And it's the story that interests me. How people have the courage to make small changes, the laughter shared over a silly joke, sharing a new recipe. Those things fill the bucket and make the journey worthwhile...that and a nice chunk of dark chocolate....</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What's your story? Where's life's sweet spot for you? </span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-55200600288967130932011-12-21T15:58:00.001-08:002011-12-21T15:58:18.516-08:00Misery<div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.3029312624130398" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 21 – Dukkha (Misery)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was the low point of your year? How did you heal and move forward?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it. ~ Carl Jung</i></span></b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-64557799278478584252011-12-20T03:46:00.000-08:002011-12-20T05:59:03.782-08:00Heat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_outzwPdceSO6xCjT1-DXaWSn4vTZljYH6k8yeJQnNCPJ0pTkayWPRjWfCrOa-m2IgSpN7EqLp2QJSTXfC242w3TlTYpkBKJWA9ePo0UM64BGMOkU2DeMa6oDY7swP03ncPVjVZIBsIs/s1600/IMG_7045_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_outzwPdceSO6xCjT1-DXaWSn4vTZljYH6k8yeJQnNCPJ0pTkayWPRjWfCrOa-m2IgSpN7EqLp2QJSTXfC242w3TlTYpkBKJWA9ePo0UM64BGMOkU2DeMa6oDY7swP03ncPVjVZIBsIs/s320/IMG_7045_2.JPG" width="313" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45382871106266975" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45382871106266975" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b id="internal-source-marker_0.45382871106266975" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 20 – Tapas (Heat)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What stoked your creative fire this year? What did your discipline enable you to achieve and/or create?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. ~George Washington</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></b></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creativity and making has been part of my life for as long as I remember, it's just who I am. But unless you're doing, you're only dreaming. 2011 was about Shaping Time and Showing Up, consistently, on the yoga mat and in the studio. All the lessons I learned from <a href="http://trackingwonder.com/jeffreys-blog/2011/11/21/creativity-time-10-riffs-to-show-up-and-shape-time/">Jeffrey Davis and Yoga As Muse,</a> were about follow through. It's not enough to think of yourself as a _______, you have to also act on that thought.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year I delved into my card making with wild abandon. A dear friend turned 40 and received forty cards in the mail, the last one showing up 7 weeks <i>after</i> her birthday. There were cards for weddings, more birthdays, and for another friend, this one post divorce, moving out on her own for the first time in many, many years. Each time I make and mail a card, I send a little part of me with it. Perhaps it will sparks someone else's creative fire...</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-21002320989588633932011-12-19T03:39:00.000-08:002011-12-19T03:39:48.970-08:00Seeing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cT_P6a3zltsac-hTjEWohZJd_kHjc4XsV8c5zAo7bo7OkW9Nirqf_wUXs8Y6_lLEMiHpBSF2uHDT6eGmDDKNfBx0lBXgO2lMNBimegjG9lVb-EYQSKX34So6IDSTFahEtXoRuy692AI/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cT_P6a3zltsac-hTjEWohZJd_kHjc4XsV8c5zAo7bo7OkW9Nirqf_wUXs8Y6_lLEMiHpBSF2uHDT6eGmDDKNfBx0lBXgO2lMNBimegjG9lVb-EYQSKX34So6IDSTFahEtXoRuy692AI/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9681381075643003" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9681381075643003" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9681381075643003" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 19 – Drishti (Seeing)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What is your vision for your spiritual practice in 2012? How do you see yourself achieving it?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-65179500576515824852011-12-18T16:43:00.000-08:002011-12-18T16:43:20.434-08:00Friendship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AZzSy7FfnYOLQtlAuz-dSqenpQ7fVxudEAe5tv-QZObpW-xQu8ci3xpfSuJa89zBUY-jomZr2zdJY5MXvU2JAjK_-fRMR4gkLngsRxs1m0vQ6dPzo5S6jR4C8L8He12onKc4clybRT0/s1600/IMG_5513.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5AZzSy7FfnYOLQtlAuz-dSqenpQ7fVxudEAe5tv-QZObpW-xQu8ci3xpfSuJa89zBUY-jomZr2zdJY5MXvU2JAjK_-fRMR4gkLngsRxs1m0vQ6dPzo5S6jR4C8L8He12onKc4clybRT0/s320/IMG_5513.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.745300194947049" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.745300194947049" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.745300194947049" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 18 – Amistad (Friendship)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Describe your best friend(s) from elementary school, high school, college, and/or the present.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">They: laugh, embrace life, are unashamed to cry, up for adventure, listen well, offer honest ideas, open their hearts, laugh, reach out and call, send love notes, make dinner, buoy my spirit, collaborate, laugh, trust, create community, seek joy, lend a helping hand, laugh, build a better tomorrow by being here today.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-67878614616348245302011-12-17T07:19:00.000-08:002011-12-17T07:19:13.669-08:00Scholar<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnguqS25_SGE-lSGZ6xaY233GVuP7sZbuUOAw3hdF5x4e_1RxL00AKYb64pJRPoOBs3pj4NANVzmBtdyXylJlsBbrQFTFHbF7QtJxL-IfHUj-qLx0VQeiphMdjyA23oV6SAT2j1FDCHdA/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnguqS25_SGE-lSGZ6xaY233GVuP7sZbuUOAw3hdF5x4e_1RxL00AKYb64pJRPoOBs3pj4NANVzmBtdyXylJlsBbrQFTFHbF7QtJxL-IfHUj-qLx0VQeiphMdjyA23oV6SAT2j1FDCHdA/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.20394114591181278" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5916874059475958" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week flew by and I'm behind in posting....here's a catch up of the last few....</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5916874059475958" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><b><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5916874059475958" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 15 – </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Acharya (Scholar)</span></b></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you study this year? What did you learn? </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind." - Gandhi</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.34329045144841075" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>December 16 – Viaje (Trip)</b></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where did you travel this year? What was your best trip?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.9673544007819146" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>December 17 – Bhakti (Devotion)</b></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you devote yourself to in 2011? How will you devote your energy in the coming year?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. ~Henry Miller</i></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-44227938973296471502011-12-14T02:57:00.000-08:002011-12-14T02:57:32.553-08:00Self-knowledge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVxRosAQCUB9We0JvtparZ6E0ClUbE1Apdts0xg2BeKZConiP674RbH8teqzvJ9WX1vFjni4aF0ewdjXqg7EtvyJybrN38zZD_nCJ-ioHa4kfPAjLFOnRe4BOtsLLf07ddJc47Yo6QEg/s1600/IMG_5311.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLVxRosAQCUB9We0JvtparZ6E0ClUbE1Apdts0xg2BeKZConiP674RbH8teqzvJ9WX1vFjni4aF0ewdjXqg7EtvyJybrN38zZD_nCJ-ioHa4kfPAjLFOnRe4BOtsLLf07ddJc47Yo6QEg/s320/IMG_5311.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.994037511292845" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.994037511292845" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.994037511292845" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 14 – </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jnana (Self-knowledge)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Name something you did that was completely out of character. How did it feel?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">~Mason Cooley</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I think back to all the activities I've fearlessly added into my life this year, I would have to say becoming a <a href="http://www.trackingwonder.com/yoga-as-muse-facilitator-training.html">Yoga As Muse</a> facilitator is most out of character and at the same time so aligned with my character. When I said, "what the heck, let's do this thing" it was so out of my normal realm of planing and organizing and having all the right credentials already lined up that I'm sure friends and family may have thought I've gone off my rocker.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But sometimes that's what life needs; a little derailment, shake things up a bit. Doing something out of character changes the perspective, shows life in a different light, and if like me, you're feeling trapped and in a rut, it can offer a new direction.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As you reflect back on 2011, do something different today. Especially if you haven't done anything out of character....and tell me about it....</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today's prompt brought to you by <a href="http://www.dawncurtis.com/"> Dawn Curtis</a>, fellow Yoga As Muse facilitator and writer.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-49827185776464691452011-12-13T02:12:00.000-08:002011-12-13T02:12:59.941-08:00Wisdom<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.12741744541563094" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07fNQiAdfX6t4zJRGKxHkPMEW0lZYfYHo2ZX6qLnZU3DB2UYsZWah07Z7H8vZeIUDkDpZpY-XzfRq-xab89Qa3agVExSeHgLsVmxmlOjaBlk8CWNdVc1gzWj5ZqIHm7DAmcW6rHLUpeQ/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh07fNQiAdfX6t4zJRGKxHkPMEW0lZYfYHo2ZX6qLnZU3DB2UYsZWah07Z7H8vZeIUDkDpZpY-XzfRq-xab89Qa3agVExSeHgLsVmxmlOjaBlk8CWNdVc1gzWj5ZqIHm7DAmcW6rHLUpeQ/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.12741744541563094" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.12741744541563094" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 13 – Sabio (Wisdom)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What lesson or piece of wisdom did you learn from a child this year? Did it surprise you?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4a86e8; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~Albert Einstein</i></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-20563330159647454732011-12-12T02:58:00.001-08:002011-12-12T02:58:39.542-08:00Book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC72MLYeLqZVS5drbdkzFkAzbzGYH69WPjvp68Yur9Kx-tJ6EEBx1rbsSjYppIeVljsi-rbVOJfaZ8bKGkuTrSu7s_FFFneXI1VvVZW5-JJT7OMqGV_UJB7QYGrQ5rFqoaCQPxPpjHn88/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC72MLYeLqZVS5drbdkzFkAzbzGYH69WPjvp68Yur9Kx-tJ6EEBx1rbsSjYppIeVljsi-rbVOJfaZ8bKGkuTrSu7s_FFFneXI1VvVZW5-JJT7OMqGV_UJB7QYGrQ5rFqoaCQPxPpjHn88/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.1414140067063272" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.1414140067063272" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.1414140067063272" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 12 – Libro (Book)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What book did you read in 2011 that was most inspirational? Why?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #980000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>I cannot live without books. ~Thomas Jefferson </i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the beginning of the year it was <a href="http://www.brenebrown.com/books/2010/8/8/the-gifts-of-imperfection.html">The Gifts of Imperfections</a> by <a href="http://www.ordinarycourage.com/">Brene Brown</a>. Writing about the hard stuff, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>shame</i></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, she was instrumental in teaching me to let go of my strangle hold on perfection. Her writing is backed by years of research, it's practical, it altering and it's applicable on a personal level as well as a professional level. It changed the way I craft and create (sewing a straight, perfect line is over rated) and it's changing the way I speak with patient's (staying away from shaming sentence structure when discussing compliance). Highly recommend.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the waning of the year, it was <a href="http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/the-happiness-project-book.html">The Happiness Project</a> by <a href="http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/">Gretchen Rubin</a>. Writing about the easy stuff,<i><b> happiness</b></i>, or supposed easy stuff, she was instrumental in reminding me that <a href="http://fridayprize.blogspot.com/2011_12_10_archive.html">happiness is a habit</a>. Again, very practical and applicable...hmmmm....seeing a pattern here....I happened to be reading it at a time where huge life changing decisions were about to be made and certainly our decision to move to Colorado and improve our quality of life was influenced by thinking about what makes me happy. As an individual and as a couple.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">What turned your page in 2011?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-80406207534999286022011-12-11T15:21:00.000-08:002011-12-11T15:21:28.362-08:00Thanks<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7150691812857985" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 11 – Gracias (Thanks)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Appreciation and acknowledgement are corner stones to building trust and deepening relationships. Write a thank you note or poem to someone who impacted your life in 2011.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." ~William James</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclGwbeUMRnwajCP2LLuocmsuvmIruYjUkWdr_oucpGTclfZx0NbjuoWXyEMiOdRNaYbGd3eW62trbAcTEdyK1WXTTz4-dZzlgorQm_VV3lcRpfUMEB9CK16RFqHskIlU6h1nAirloaaQ/s1600/IMG_7143.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhclGwbeUMRnwajCP2LLuocmsuvmIruYjUkWdr_oucpGTclfZx0NbjuoWXyEMiOdRNaYbGd3eW62trbAcTEdyK1WXTTz4-dZzlgorQm_VV3lcRpfUMEB9CK16RFqHskIlU6h1nAirloaaQ/s320/IMG_7143.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are many people I am thankful for in 2011, but the man I am most thankful to died in Aug 2010. I can't write and tell him how he impacted and influenced my life in the last 12 months, in fact if he was still alive the incredible changes I've experienced wouldn't have been...well...experienced. His death was sad, sadder still that there were so many regrets, unfulfilled desires and missed opportunities crowding around the hospital bed as he breath his last breathe. And in his death, I learned that if I let my fear guide my path in life I will also be carrying around those same regrets,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> unfulfilled desires and missed opportunities. And that's not an option.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fearless is the spirit I took into 2011, and I thank you, for letting those of us living, learn from your dying. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-36555703840688919342011-12-10T02:55:00.000-08:002011-12-10T02:55:37.874-08:00Joy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbB2BGqO5ExplZWDtkeW2k7tGVjfxSszEf4d0Krw7AA5yo_Twi_x11FgIEXpKP-T59k88IIImz93yXRlxyOsp0vefrTSrn-bgiAeliPoljuxcsKEirYvVE6elKoxLo4JKhbAzsET9DkUw/s1600/IMG_6111.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbB2BGqO5ExplZWDtkeW2k7tGVjfxSszEf4d0Krw7AA5yo_Twi_x11FgIEXpKP-T59k88IIImz93yXRlxyOsp0vefrTSrn-bgiAeliPoljuxcsKEirYvVE6elKoxLo4JKhbAzsET9DkUw/s320/IMG_6111.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7236212266143411" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.7236212266143411" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>December 10 – Ananda (Joy)</b></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A positive frame of mind is a habit. How have you silenced the propaganda factory of negativity with positive thought and behavior in your life in 2011? How has this changed your day-to-day being? </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Happiness is a choice.</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And it's hard to clear the mind to negativity, it's often easier to be negative and pessimistic.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Happiness is a habit.</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And with all habits, it takes time and awareness. You might find yourself having a Homer Simpson moment "D-oh!" when you realize you could have responded to something more positively, but at least you're aware now...</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here's how I've worked at shutting down the propaganda factory in 2011:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something funny every day....every single day. You Tube videos, books, my husband...</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Less screen time...this is hard, but my mornings where I start out reading a book, magazine, something tangible, are calmer and more positive.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Constant diet of positivity: <a href="http://trackingwonder.com/jeffreys-blog/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.happiness-project.com/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.improvisedlife.com/">here</a>...but after I've started my day with something tangible!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Positive Friends. Ones you can honestly go to and say, I'm scared, I'm sad, I'm in a raging bad mood and want to poke someones eye out...</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Crafting/Making. When you make something, anything, you access a different part of your brain, you get into a rhythm, endorphins flow, it feels good. Even if you have a pile "prototypes" that in no way resemble what you saw in the minds eye, you still did something more productive, more positive, more fulfilling than sitting and stewing in negative thought.</span></span></li>
</ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">That said, if you're in the Boston area Jan 7th and want to <i><b>Craft Your Intention</b></i> for 2012, $50 will get you a mighty fine day with all the crafting supplies and positive attitude you could possible want...plus I'll feed you....Email (heidicrafts@gmail.com) or message me on Face Book and I'll hold your spot...</span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-1958482853238795242011-12-09T17:15:00.000-08:002011-12-09T17:15:25.518-08:00Resourcefulness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MQDQ0J02za5pjfnc5vjOhaK0qoBcYIK59ZE0nUqUqKpnt9v2Ap_1gTcjZA1-qPO_dZOqtexPoC13l3gk24Nxsd78Ejei1EKULcofrww48l9Ka08RhtU9qfOI52dIxSSKsr6CE_GtThA/s1600/reverb11button.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-MQDQ0J02za5pjfnc5vjOhaK0qoBcYIK59ZE0nUqUqKpnt9v2Ap_1gTcjZA1-qPO_dZOqtexPoC13l3gk24Nxsd78Ejei1EKULcofrww48l9Ka08RhtU9qfOI52dIxSSKsr6CE_GtThA/s1600/reverb11button.png" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8438332583755255" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.8438332583755255" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 9 – Listo (Resourcefulness)</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How resourceful were you in 2011? What new ways could you incorporate resourcefulness into 2012?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What you seek, exists within you. Every resource you need is available to you.” ~</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Marcia Wieder</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">For us, resourceful meant using what we already had around the house or in our community as well as trying to create an environment that used less resources...We...</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Made <a href="http://www.cheesemaking.com/howtomakemozzarellacheese.html">cheese</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Roasted our own <a href="http://www.sweetmarias.com/instructions.php">coffee</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';">Milked an <a href="http://eatingcleanrecipes.com/2011/06/recipe-make-almond-milk-nut/">almond</a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baked homemade <a href="http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/olive-oil-crackers-recipe.html">crackers</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Used the public library</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Created a <a href="http://extension.missouri.edu/p/G6957">compost pile</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Watered with a<a href="http://www.mass.gov/dep/water/resources/rainbarl.htm"> rain barrel</a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lived with one car (and five bikes)</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Built a <a href="http://www.squarefootgardening.org/">veggie garden</a>...</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">We pooled food resources with friends and had potluck dinners, we pooled brain resources with friends and developed workshops...</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2012 we'll be moving to a new city and while resources may seem scarce when relocating, having friends and colleagues offer up their resources means a collaborative effort to help us settle in a new space. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-36300208265991768242011-12-08T17:29:00.000-08:002011-12-08T17:29:50.055-08:00Wander<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBoRt_96_duvZhul6YGCSfxCruM06hXyuODYsGSjQXpn6MPh_eCFmRn7fyAyXFE6ofpoTnrmHtYI3NZ70W4K_rx75Ouj40Nfgpf5qAsey_HhTNemqjLc7mdxx0yQb_F2CUy7oxFvebdJM/s1600/IMG_7059.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBoRt_96_duvZhul6YGCSfxCruM06hXyuODYsGSjQXpn6MPh_eCFmRn7fyAyXFE6ofpoTnrmHtYI3NZ70W4K_rx75Ouj40Nfgpf5qAsey_HhTNemqjLc7mdxx0yQb_F2CUy7oxFvebdJM/s320/IMG_7059.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.2703747097402811" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wandering can be good for the over-focused creative. How did you wander well this year?</span><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition. -Pema Chödrön</i></span></div><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">To wander is to discover and wandering well is being open to those discoveries. Wandering wants you to be open to taking a left when you though you’d be taking a right...and being OK with that. Wandering wants you to be open to new experiences as they present themselves. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Have you ever really listened to the small still voice in side your head, the one channeling the Nike ad, that says “do it, just do it.” and then your voice of reason pipes up, with fear making it quaver all jello mold like, and says “I don’t know, it doesn’t make sense to do this, it’s too much money, time, effort (fill in the blank).”</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">But then something magical happens, you do listen and you set out on that path, the one that makes a left instead of right. Lo and behold, you’re wandering....</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">2010 was my year of thinking, standing still and contemplating. 2011 was my year of wandering, sometimes so far off the path and so far away from what I thought I should be doing that I had to sit a spell, hyperventilate, and then get back to my journey. But I’ve kept wandering, right into teaching and facilitating change through yoga and creative written expression, teaching yoga, building a business and helping people engage their creative spirit. </span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Where have your journeys taken you this year? </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7353893917701859023.post-77609430513495833832011-12-07T17:37:00.000-08:002011-12-07T17:40:41.133-08:00Calm<div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.0314943662378937" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 7 – Tranquilo (Calm)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes the most beautiful, memorable moments are also the quietest. What quiet, beautiful moment do you recall?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Live simply and take life more easily. Happiness lies in giving yourself time to think and to introspect. Be alone once in a while, and remain more in silence. ~Yogananda </i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br />
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</span></span><i><span style="background-color: #edf1f7; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: #edf1f7; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.</span><span style="background-color: #edf1f7; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” ~Buddha</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><i><span style="background-color: #edf1f7; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></i></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The most powerful aspect of health I added into my life was breathing....funny how we forget to breath when we're stressed, worried, angry, scared or any other negative emotion you could insert here.....Yoga has helped with creating a structured time, but also, just stopping during my day and breathing, fully and deeply so the ribs expand, the chest is quiet and you can feel the racing mind start to slow to a nice cruising speed. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</i></span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.23732248321175575" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>December 4 - Guru (Teacher)</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span id="internal-source-marker_0.23732248321175575" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was the most important lesson you learned about yourself in 2011? Was it a sudden epiphany or a gradual realization? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want." - Lao Tsu</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What was your dream come true in 2011? What is your wildest dream for 2012?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</i></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Just this morning <a href="http://www.gwenbell.com/">Gwen Bel</a>l posed an interesting thought, community can't be built but rather gathered. And I have to say I like this concept. I've discovered community in gatherings with my fellow yogis at <a href="http://trackingwonder.com/the-yam-tribe.html">Yoga as Muse</a>, my fellow journal facilitators at the <a href="http://twinstitute.net/">Therapeutic Writing institute</a>, my partner in all things mind/body, Beth at <a href="http://relaxbewell.com/">Relax Be Well</a>.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And as a reluctant Facebook and internet interfacer, I have joyfully found a gathering of community and connection with family and friends across the world - we've created a tether to each other, an invisible joining that pulls, tugs, and reminds us that we're all integral parts of another's community. That we have the power to build up, collaborate, support, and bolster each of our community members hopes and dreams. I have sought out those that embrace life with the qualities of abundance; there is enough for all of us and no need for the scarcity mentality in my community, hope you'll join me!</span></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Encapsulate your 2011 in one word. Why that word? What would you like your word to be for 2012? Why?</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks to <a href="http://yogafreedom2010.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/reverb11-prompts/">Michelle of Yoga Freedom</a> for this lovely start and for pulling the <a href="http://trackingwonder.com/the-yam-tribe.html">Yoga as Muse</a> tribe together for some quality reflection....</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />
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