01 Tuesday Feb 2011
Posted in Listening
Found a small space inside that is big enough for me to hoop and not hit anything as long as I don’t move around too much so I spent some time hooping this morning. This is the song at the end of my hooping session this morning.
Where is the Love
simple song, simple lyrics, but oh my goodnes …
I love his voice!
You’ve got what I Need by Joshua Radin
One of my favorites by NeverShoutNever
31 Monday Jan 2011
Posted in Loving
this free printable from Kind Over Matter.
Spread some positivity around your work place.
These words.
I am. I’ll be.
and if you like those, you’ll love the
ones you can get just by opting in
These Instructions.
This Reminder.
and as always, the lovely Tara who is the inspiration to share what is inspiring us. She’s on blogging hiatus right now but let’s keep it going.
What’s inspiring you this week?
28 Friday Jan 2011
Tags
#fridayreads is a hashtag on Twitter.
Every Friday, thousands of people post
what they’re reading with this tag.
This week I have read or am reading …
The Girl Who Feel from the Sky
Beth Fish Reads has a great review with a video of the Heidi W. Durrow talking about the book.
loved, LOVED this book!
“The Fates Will Find Their Way is tightly wound,
perfectly paced, and magically wise.”
just started it this morning
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Finished reading The Sorcerer’s Stone aloud
and now have moved on to the second book.
reading Jonathan Brink‘s book,
Discovering the God Imagination for the beauty of it
and for an online discussion
27 Thursday Jan 2011
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Sacred.
Interesting word which has different tones of meaning. In this instance, I am using it in reference to the Latin word, sanctum … set apart. Yesterday I witnessed something set apart, sacred; something that was inspiring, moving, touched me deep in my soul … but it was sacred, set apart from me, not my own.
We attended a Pops performance at the Peace Center of Soul Steps, a touring step company.
if you watch the video, you will hear them talk about the origins of stepping … about how it originated in South African gold mines, where the miners were not allowed to speak so they developed a way to communicate tapping and thumping the boots that they wore to protect themselves in the mines. They go on to talk about the heritage continuing in slavery traditions and then becoming a part of black fraternities and sororities.
There I was, a southern white girl, wanting to move like that, wanting to take the rhythm into my soul and translate it somehow in my language. But it is not my story. It is not my sacred story.
I can witness it, hear it, listen to it, be moved by it, honor it but I cannot own it. It is not mine.
If I could say anything to each of the steppers who brought their story, their art to me yesterday, it would be this. Thank you. Namaste. I honor your sacredness.
But I left feeling a little off kilter. What is my story? Not just my individual story … but what is the story of my heritage, of my people, of southern textile mill village people? What is the language of that story?
I’ve never wanted to embrace it. I’ve tried to understand it so that I could get far away from it. There is a mindset there that I want to be free of but now I find myself wanting to find an honor, a dignity, a respect that I never saw some of my family members embrace for themselves.
The idea of sacred stories is captivating me right now. My Christian faith is part of my sacred story, individually, corporately, generationally. I fear it will stop or change so radically with me and the generation I have produced. I haven’t passed down the same faith that I inherited. Mainly because I cannot. But I am formulating a different sacred story. I hope I find the language to communicate it will to my maturing children and grandchildren. I hope that they can see it not only in my words but in my actions.
What about you? Do you have a sacred story? How are you telling it?
26 Wednesday Jan 2011
Posted in Celebrating
How to recognize Wylde Women:
They listen to their heart.
They take at least one step every day
toward following what they hear.
They are not afraid of the dark.
They recognize fear of the unknown
as the norm for someone creating a new path.
They take their step(s) despite the fear.
They find a person or a group or a community to walk with them.
They are not afraid of their own power, and so
They believe that dreams can come true.
They persist.
They persist.
They persist.
This is going to be my favorite weekly blog post! I have encountered so many wonderful women in my life … family, friends, creative women on the web and it makes me bounce up and down in my seat with SO much joy to be able to celebrate them and share them with you!
Today’s Wylde Woman is Connie Hozvicka at Dirty Footprints Studio. I stumbled across her website sometime last year and immediately felt like I had discovered a soul sister in another part of the country. When she got her dreadlocks back in October, it was confirmed (at least on my end!)
Her vlogs creative juicy episodes are the creme de la creme … So much love and enthusiasm and encouragement oozes through the screen! Belly love is her blogging journey of not just body love … but body care and she lovingly reminds us to unplug occasionally just to create art.
Connie is the fearless leader of several online painting workshops .. Big and Deep. I am taking the BIG workshop now and there are not words to express how much is happening in me artistically in just third week of the class. On one hand, I can hardly wait to see what completing this course will do but on the other, I don’t want this to end! I really feel like I am being infused with fearlessness!
So … go visit Connie at Dirty Footprints Studio … but only if you dare to be fearless and creative and juicy and BIG and DEEP and … WYLDE!
25 Tuesday Jan 2011
All of my Days – Alexi Murdoch
Which I first heard in Away We Go. Stumbling across it again reminds me how much I love this movie. So beautiful.
what about you?
what music is stirring your soul this week?
24 Monday Jan 2011
Posted in Loving
These rules for life
Live with intention. Walk to the edge.
Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon.
Laugh. Choose with no regret.Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn. Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
-
Mary Anne Radmacher
Live with intention. Walk to the edge.this video … which just seems
a dance manifestation of this poem
This free printable. Think Positive!
These doorknobs
This owl lover and the artist she highlighted recently
My daughter and her fearlessness
as always, the lovely Tara, who is the inspiration to posting our inspirations. Let’s keep it going while she is on blogging hiatus.
23 Sunday Jan 2011
Posted in Annotating
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Today I am . . .
20 Thursday Jan 2011
Posted in seeing
Beauty
Shades of Grey
Bonus photo, just because I like it . . .
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
Posted in Listening
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Home
And Home
and home again
I looked and looked around online to see if anyone was actually hosting Tuesday Tunes. I saw lots of posts with that title but nowhere were they linked to a host. So, I’ve created a button and I would be happy if you want to play along and take Tuesdays on your blog to share what you are listening to, music that inspires you, tunes that make you move. If I have imposed on something that someone else has created, please let me know. I’d be just as happy to play along with someone else.
