Archive for Month: September, 2011
Weekly Winners {Wrapping Up Summer}
Quite frankly, I’m ready for chilly days that require sweaters, extra blankets, the leaves falling, pumpkin spice, and not sweating the moment you leave the house. Oh, and coffee on the back porch where [your] breath is visualized as it escapes your lips.
I’ll probably be anxious for summer at the end of winter, but for now I want to put away the tank tops and sun dresses. I vowed not to complain after last winter, and I’m not; I’m just….so….ready!
Yesterday we celebrated the end of summer with some friends of ours. It was the perfect way to close the season that has been so awesome. This summer was awesome, and I’m glad to have documented it fully. But, now, I’m ready to find myself on the ground taking pictures of leaves!
Have you heard about the Dream Tending class that I am instructing?
If not, won’t you please join me in October, for a four week online self study course with Michelle Ensminger and Kelly Barton in association with Live it to the Full.
Life is a series of transitions, and navigating through those transitions can be tricky. Tending your most precious dreams in the midst of life’s transitions is trickier still. How do you learn to honor where you are and practice self-care, while at the same time maintaining focus on your dreams?
During this course, we’ll provide helpful tools you can use to nurture your dreams as you wade through life’s transitions. We’ll share our personal perspectives of transition and discuss ways you can keep your creative life fertile. Utilizing photography, art, and writing exercises, you’ll open yourself to the constancy and flow of dream tending and discover that the fruit of dream tending is an enriched, meaningful, and awakened life.
It’s only $49 for the class, and I guarantee it’ll be full of dreamy moments!
Six.
Updated: The Canvas winner, as determined by Random.org is Jodi! Congratulations!
Six years ago I created this space to write whatever came to my mind. I also wanted to be able to document funny things our children did or said, because–naturally–our children are as funny as their parents. For a long time, however, it was not made public. The space was all mine, and if I wanted to write about how I just sneezed and tinkled, at the same time, I could. Mostly, though, I wanted a space where I could–once again–write poetry and prose. I’ve been writing here for six years, in addition to the various leather bound journals that amassed through my years before children. Don’t even get me started on the forgotten notebooks and trashed pieces of napkin at the coffee shops.
I look at those old journals;
amazed at the words
that came out
from me
revealing who
I was back then
and how I’ve grown
Six years changes a person. I’ve written some of my favorite pieces here, and look back amazed at the words that have come out from me. I used to care how many people read or didn’t read, but mostly I cared about comments (read: peer validation). Now, though, I only care about four people who will read (and have started to read) my words.
This blog is for them…
Six years with almost
two thousand posts
filled with words and photos;
I will continue to write
for our family’s posterity
Sometimes to laugh
Sometimes to cry
I want for [you]
To see what I saw
To hear what I heard
To enjoy what I enjoyed
To feel what I felt
To understand what I understood
To see me as I see myself
Oh, and it wouldn’t be a “blog-o-versary” without presents!
One commenter will win their very own 16” x 20” rolled canvas print from UPrinting.com.
How, you ask?
Just comment telling me how long you’ve been blogging.
If you don’t blog, tell me what you would name your blog if you started one today!
The winner will be notified via email.
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