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New year intentions: finding the joy, embracing the fear, doubling down on creativity in 2024
I’m not a person that does New Year’s resolutions, but I do like to reflect on the past year and set intentions for the coming year. This post is coming a bit later than I had planned, but sometimes shit happens and you just gotta roll with it 😀 2023 was a really full-on year…
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sewing advice and encouragement for myself
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Christmas flow, 2023
Christmas Day! Normally I start my day with a short meditation but this morning I got distracted and forgot to do it, which I realized when I was about two-thirds of the way through a 45-minute slow flow stretchy yoga. I then realized that the yoga itself was very meditative for me this morning. Like,…
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meet me where I am: thoughts on mental health
World Mental Health Day was last week, on 10/10. I have some thoughts, but first I’ll relay two things that happened. The first thing happened last week on Monday, at the end of my work day. I had a call from a colleague of mine on the other side of the country. My colleague asked…
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my punk rock summer pj’s
In an earlier post, I mentioned my punk rock summer pj’s and how much I love them. In fact, they’re my favorite pajamas of all time. It’s not just that I love the classic style of this particular pattern, with the collared button-up top, the pockets, and the contrast piping. It’s also not just that…
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finding purpose
I sometimes see articles that talk about “finding your purpose”. I’ve always wondered: what does that actually mean? When I was younger, I had this idea that one’s purpose in life had to be this high and noble thing, like a quest or finding the cure for cancer or something like that. I can’t recall…
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“delight and joy”
I am ironing fabric that I washed yesterday in preparation for a new sewing project. I’m listening to a podcast about delight and joy, and it got me to thinking. I used to hate ironing, but ever since I started sewing my own clothes, I’ve found a certain sense of satisfaction in ironing my me-mades.…
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packing for a trip with a lot of me-mades!
I am just at the tail end of a trip to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. (I came up for a couple of weeks to help out a close friend who is recovering from surgery. We spent a few days in Brisbane last week, him in the hospital and me at a hotel. I…
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just start.
“Just start,” the little voice whispered. “Just start?” I repeated, astonished. “Yeah. Start. You can learn as you go.” I recognized the voice immediately. It was the voice that normally tries to talk me out of stuff, the one that tells me what an awful person I am whenever I mess up, the one that…