Kundalini Yoga

Well, seeing as I have not written a post here in quite some time, actually since we moved into this house, now is the time!  My friend Lisa is teaching me Kundalini.  I am forever a changed woman, and forever grateful to her.  I have started reading The Artists way and am stalled at chapter 2.  Monday begins Vivienne's online course, "You are your own Muse", and circular saws are blaring from the neighbors backyard excavation project.  Olivia needs a haircut.

Photo #61 from forrester Family | Pictage

Photo #61 from forrester Family | Pictage

Men and Women

I sent the following quote to my husband, in an email yesterday.  I thought it might help him to understand me better when I am feeling creative and inspired.

'It may also be that a woman's creative process is misunderstood or disrespected by those around her. It is up to her to inform them that when she has "that look" in her eyes, it does not mean she is a vacant lot waiting to be filled. It means she is balancing a big cardhouse of ideas on a single fingertip, and she is carefully connecting all the cards using tiny crystalline bones and a little spit, and if she can just get it all to the table without it falling down or flying apart, she can bring an image from the unseen world into being.'

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves

This was his thoughtful and eloquent response, "Me Tarzan, you Jane."
I think that pretty much explains our entire relationship!

On another note, I have fallen sadly behind on the photo a day Flickr group for Unravellers.  I have not forgotten to take the photos, in fact I have more than enough for each day.  I have just failed thus far at posting them to the group. I thought i would have time this week to post them, since the kids are out of school for "ski-week."  But, the kids are out of school, which means that i have done alot of mommying and entertaining.  So I have have many beautiful images of our daily excursions.  Horseback riding, touring the San Juan Mission, park visits, shopping, lunch dates.....

I will put them online tonight.

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Project 365! 2010

I have been contemplating joining one of these Flickr groups for quite sometime.  Finally, I am pleased to say that have now committed, and will be submitting a photo a day on my own Flickr photo stream, and also on the official group photo-stream Project 365! 2010.  Right now there are over 100 members of the group.  The goal is to shoot a photo a day, and as a record for the year.  Plus, it keeps me motivated to vary the content of my photographs.

Jen Lee

Maybe Jen Lee has the answers. Saddended and remorseful feelings cross over me, through me and they burn me, while listening to her podcast on sober hopefulness.
Shit, now I am depressed.
How will I tuck the girls into bed now and still keep a positive attitude.
I just sent the following email to Jen Lee, regarding my feelings:
I did not know that was in there, in you, I mean.
You are touching my most secret unspoken about thoughts.
Why?
I am kind of irritated, not in the mood to confront my demons right now.
Why did you have to open that......
I am certainly feeling unsettled by your pod cast.
What are you going through?

Perhaps the same as me, but I am too weak
I am too proud
I am too fake 

I must be a fake Happy Hippie Housewife

I suck

Why do I have a blog?

This is just my way of speaking out,and sorting things out. My musings, I am an eccentric Newport Beach housewife, probably born in the wrong era...a throwback to easier, more simple days, like when my Grammy was raising her kids. I love my wine while I cook, well, maybe a litttle more.  I am constantly searching for answers.  Maybe, just maybe, scrapbooking, knitting and crafting ARE the answers. You tell me.

Beautifully, simply written....

"Remember... When we explore our creativity. when we listen to our creative voices. when we try something new. when we stretch ourselves. when we are full of bliss. when we share our happiness. when we reach out to others. when we seek to tell our story. when we grow. when we are brave. when we make time for ourselves. when we accept the heartache. when we learn from our mistakes. when we let ourselves shine. when we laugh out loud. when we let love in. when we REMEMBER to search with in ourselves that's when you find YOU"
- Elizabeth Kartchner
elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com


I am thinking that this beatuful girl has been in my brain.  It is possible, in a quantum physics way.


Super looking forward to the Reflections event in MAy at the Hyat in NB!