Evaluating friendships as of late and finding it is essential to follow the chemistry and foolish to ignore the kismet. 🌟
If three tenets of our happiness are faith, family/friendship and meaningful work then we must hunker down and stop seeking.
Sacrificing for your dream. Some days I look around (at my little life) and I feel overtaken with awe and immensely ‘blessed’. So much so, that the beauty of it can feel precarious (“too good to be true, so much to lose!”). But, as my husband elucidates, this life did not appear out of nowhere - myriads of sacrifices (countless other possibilities passed up) befalls when we make each choice. We are choosing one of infinite. So when the bliss is so joyous we panic, remember we had our hand in this; these are the steady and continuous - unprecarious - fruits of our labor. 🍇
OH the sheer agony of caring for the family and tending to the home while feeling unwell. We know it from periods, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, traumatic or sad events, the common cold, chronic illness, heartache, heartbreak and beyond. There is no relief to be found. My personal solution? Complain (and blame) loudly and incessantly until someone (my husband) tells me they feel sorry for me and then all is a little bit more right in my world - merci beaucoup, dankeschön.
Give us your deepest, strongest versions of your poses. No excuses. If not NOW, at Summer’s end, then when?
When we lessen our own material requirements, (persistently removing those pesky impulses and cravings one-at-a-time,) the incessant worldly demands of our children (and other household members) no longer vex us, as the mirror aspect is removed. 🪞
Camatkarasana - Wild ThingWhat do you DESIRE (to wear, eat, do, see, be) TODAY?
Relationships with our children can be mutualistically symbiotic (both parties benefiting from the interaction), in which case they are heavenly. Of course, much of the time we must accept as parents that the symbiosis will feel parasitical (children rule, we drool), or commensal (they thrive, we status quo), at best.
Taking NOTES from the MEN (who have fewer options and less zealous marketing).
1. Pockets! - Perhaps even forgo a purse. 😱
2. Dresses and skirts (while they so contentedly stick with pants and shorts).
3. Fewer colors.
4. SMALLER CLOSETS.
5. Denim.
Summer is next, my sweet friends!!
Note to self - learning a handstand means actually practicing a handstand. The grass is greener and softer in Summer - enlist your partner and get to practicing al fresco.
