I know meditation is good for me, but I’ve struggled to practice with any consistency. I sat for 10 minutes every day in March with a free trial of this app: The Way (great name!)
I have no intention of paying for it, but the lessons I received have been impactful and I do plan to continue daily practice with or without the app.
If you want to give it a go, here are 30 free sessions on The Way: https://the-way.app.link/gift
Airport pick-up
Our last night housesitting.
I rarely watch online videos anymore, but every so often something crosses my radar that seems worth a few minutes of my time, and today it was this ad, made by the Norwegian Consumer Council:
I watched it twice! Once with the sound off at work, and it was funny enough to watch again with Aldon when I got home (sound on).
There’s an accompanying article that’s worth a gander as well
Digital products and services keep getting worse. A new report from the Norwegian Consumer Council (Forbrukerrådet) shows how this phenomenon – known as enshittification – affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide.
Woke up to maybe a centimeter of snow this morning. “Oh that’s not so bad!”
20 minutes later: blizzard. Total whiteout. About 4” in under 2 hours. and then it stopped and the sun came out.
Welcome to Spring!
When I need to relax, focus or calm my nervous system, I enjoy listening to soundscapes. My source of choice is myNoise.net
I like the customization and fullness of sound – many captured on location in real places.
May these gathered moments encourage you to explore your own creativity and commune with the beauty and inspiration dwelling in your everyday life and world. May you feel moved to notice little things and document them carefully, experiencing your life as a work of art, magical and worthy of your attention. In doing so, you will live in perennial connection with the wonders of your own being, knowing the joy of life on earth.
We are here to live, and the richness of our lives opens up to us when we choose to land willingly in the present moment.
May this book gently but unequivocaly call you to inhabit the visceral, magical, sensuous and exploratory experience of being human. Within these pages may you see aspects of your own nature and aspirations mirrored back to you as you dive more deeply into all there is to know and love of life.
Blessed Ostara, Happy Spring, ecstatic equinox!
The newsletter (love letter) is back!
My fifty-first birthday started with a walk – thanks, Joker!
And ended with a delicious meal – thanks, Aldon!
Quiche for supper
Double lasagna. Homemade pasta, sauce, tofu ricotta – leftovers for the freezer!
Spring shearing
This is delightful book. Highly recommended!
Another overnight snowstorm
It’s time for reading glasses! I can’t believe how much these cheapies from the dollar store actually help, especially when reading at night.
Current checkouts. I don’t think I’ll get to all of these this time around, I guess it’s time to start reading and weeding.
It was a gorgeous day today! After we returned from my root canal appointment, we walked with Joker and then did a bit of work in the yard.
I even pulled out my mat and did yoga on the back deck. Spring is coming!
Daylight Savings time. Went for lunch, and then a board game with friends.
Best kombucha yet! Great carbonation 🫧
I’ve been brewing my own since December and we love it.
This is a gorgeous book!
Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed – fading away like water on stone. The words were those that children used to name the natural world around them: acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker – gone! Fern, heather, kingfisher, otter, raven, willow, wren… all of them gone! The words were becoming lost: no longer vivid in children’s voices, no longer alive in their stories.
You hold in your hands a spellbook for conjuring back these lost words. To read it you will need to seek, find and speak. It deals in things that are missing and things that are hidden, in absences and in appearances. It is told in gold – the gold of the goldfinches that flit through its pages in charms – and it holds not poems but spells of many kinds that might just, by the old, strong magic of being spoken aloud, unfold dreams and songs, and summon lost words back into the mouth and the mind’s eye.
More snow this morning:
More snow coming overnight – staying cozy!
It’s so cold out today, but we got out for our walk anyway. ☀️🥶🐾
Cozy meal on a snowy day
