Back from Maine. Such a wonderful trip. I took photos!! The one above is totally unedited, that’s just how gorgeous that flower was in real life! I can’t wait to share more, but I am off this afternoon to photograph some pups. Have a great night!
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I thought I’d share this while I was away… It’s got be one of my all time favorite videos ever. EVER. I hope you enjoy it, or at least think about it… Be back soon!
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We’re off to Maine tomorrow. I am very excited. Without the family beach house week, its been a long time since we’ve taken a break, and with the new house I think a break is needed even more. We won’t have any real access to cell phones, email, facebook, blogs, anything for a few days. I am looking at it as a necessary respite so I can come back a little more rested, a little more present with all that is going on both within and around me. I am hopeful that I will pull out my camera and shoot just for me while we are gone, but last year that didn’t really happen. Maybe a break from trying to “capture” everything is in store as well. We’ll see. Maine is the place I go to “let go” and its in that place that most of my peace can be found. I’ll let you know how I feel upon my return, hopefully with a pack full of secrets to share. Be well.
Joe and I taken at the Baxter Preserve, Fall 2009
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Do you ever have so many questions rolling around in your head you can barely pick one to focus on, but at the same time you know it’s not about answering any of them, it’s about the energy you get from the possibility within each new question?
Do you ever feel like you have more hope, love, kindness, time, caring, encouragement and friendship to give than the world could ever hold?
Do you ever just wish you could sit still long enough to see who you truly are, without any outside judgements clouding your view?
Do you ever just really wish you could have access to the crystal ball that shows you how things will all work out, shows you the path to take, shows you the right next step…?
Man, I sure do! 
It’s one of those Fun Friday mornings, and I can’t help but be washed away in this sea of thoughts over here. It’s a good feeling though, not a bad one, so I’m going to enjoy it. I hope you enjoy your day too.
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flowers on the window sill at our old apartment
It’s been an odd day. A beautiful rain greeted us this morning, making everything glow orange and green. It was almost alien and that made it gorgeous. I love a break from the norm!
Since I’ve been up I have written my morning pages, edited a set of newborn photos from this session, taken the dogs for a warm-up walk, done some yoga, worked on my hand stamped jewelry (I need loads more practice!), visited my favorite places online, and done a little biz maintenance. All in all a full day, if one spent on so many little things I am unsure what to work on next. I have been trying to fill my days with one larger task on the never ending to-do list, and then some smaller ones tucked in around it (thanks to some great advice!). It’s been working so far. And then after those are done I do something fun and easy, read mags, relax, the good stuff. I think it might be time to put away the laundry awaiting me in the dryer and then reading something wonderful. I hope you are having a great day too!
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It has been a sort of lopsided week for me– lots of thinking, not so much action, let alone blogging. This happens from time to time, I get caught in my own web. I think I must like it a little, or I wouldn’t keep going back. These are some of the things I have been thinking about:
~ I have started the book/course by Julia Cameron “The Artists Way” and I am actually loving the morning pages (as a constant, if infrequent, journaler I am not surprised) and I have already had some awesome insights.
~ One such insight was that I have this to-do list in my head, things for me, for the business, for the house, etc. And lately (as in the last year or so) it has been leaving me feeling highly overwhelmed, as in anxiety inducing overwhelmed. Not good. But last week I had this crystal clear thought (and it will seem silly and simple and much like common sense) but it was deeply comforting: there will never be an end to the items on the list. Literally. There will always be more to do. Always. So ultimately there is no “I’ll get this list tackled and then I’ll relax, or then I’ll have some fun, or then I’ll have the time/space/energy/money to live the life I dream about”. So I finally get that whole “journey not the destination” thing, at least for the most part. I still haven’t found a way to reprogram my brain with this new information though… any suggestions? How does one step off the wheel?
~ I saw the beautiful full grown apricot mastiff that lives at the horse farm I have been volunteering at, Winston, for the first time the other day. He is huge. He let me love all over him. And I had this wonderful preview of what Logan will look like. Man, we are so lucky!!
~ I need to take a break to go get some coffee.
~ I’m back.
~ I went to yoga again yesterday, and it was wonderful. The poem that the teacher read at the end was by Mary Oliver (I think, I tried to find it online and couldn’t). Needless to say the poem had me nearly in tears it was so simple, and beautiful, and it made me feel so much better.
~ Just now when I went to make the coffee I pulled out my mat and did some stretches… Yoga is contagious, or addictive like a drug. Or Lays potato chips!!
~ Pretty much my whole life, as rambling and twisted as it has been or seemed I have always been able to look back and see exactly why I did what I did, or I should say why I was meant to go/do/be right there. For example, my stint working in NYC that summer was tough. I obviously learned that the city was not for me no matter how much I loved to visit. But way more important was the friendship I formed with a WA girl by way of CA. We are still buds some four years later. And so it is with all my little jaunts here and there, either friendships (or loves) have been found and formed in these seeming “mistakes” on my path. And so it is no wonder I suppose that I see the time right now, where I feel I am on some unsure footing that I would also see a wonderful fated course to things. The book I mentioned above, The Artists Way, has been sitting unread in my book shelves (and trucked from one place to another!) for probably about 8 years now. But right now I picked it up. Right now when I am seeking a new routine and some exploration, that’s exactly what this book offers. Beautiful. There are other examples I will save for another day, but suffice it to say that I am in the middle of this off balance place within, but feel like its where I am supposed to be at the same time.
~ Lastly, one of my favorite bloggers, and an inspiring artist, Christine Mason Miller wrote on her blog this morning something that obviously moved be, because here I am, writing this. Thanks Christine. The moment she mentions, the open window she feels, I have felt those things too. I love those moments.
Have a wonderful day!
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