Astrid Parker Kirschenbaum
November 25, 2025
Away message
November 21, 2025
Au naturel
“Being in ‘nature’ is good for us,” “get out into ‘nature’,” “commune with ‘nature’ daily,” “eat more naturally, wear natural fibers, naturalify your home…” — hold the phone — we ARE nature!!! ☎️
November 10, 2025
Crunchy
PLASTIC - it’s everywhere!! I’m pretty sure my underwear is made of plastic. I am just so over plastic. & Chemicals. Unnatural clothing, bizarre body products. PLASTIC. …
Post-birth of each child I give myself a pass — the generosity to be gentle and relaxed with my otherwise crunchy ecological, home and health rules. (EG processed foods ordered in, tacky crafts or mittens overnighted in bulk.) But, youngest Bébé is now three, so I am no longer in ‘survival mode’ and am empowered - aka ruthless and rageful - against the world’s BS once again. 🐅 All crap must go.
November 5, 2025
Infinite
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. 🍇
October 29, 2025
Mystical magical
October 28, 2025
Destroyer of all diseases
October 24, 2025
Head cold
What is your illness telling you? STOP most of what you’re doing, get quiet & listen intent-ly.
My head is now submerged in what feels like a giant cotton ball and I’m hearing from my dis-ease that I’ve been consuming too much. Intaking kids’ equipment, junk food, other’s opinions, gossip, media, activity, meetings… throat, nose, ears and eyes are ailing. As I have been actively releasing much of this worldly influx as of late, I can also concur this is another important, physical step in the cleansing. ☁️
October 11, 2025
Zero talent 🥶
October 5, 2025
Splendor
Mahayamuri mudra - Activate your crown chakra, accelerate towards your destiny.
Modest days are splendid wise peacock rising days.
October 1, 2025
Privacy
Some poses are better practiced at home.
The hospitality rubber band has been stretched to its maximum and must now snap back; after a many-weeks-long, very social streak for our household, mom and dad are enforcing nuclear family time, just the six of us (plus the pup).
September 27, 2025
🐭
- 💚BAKE zucchini bread.
September 15, 2025
Mirror rorriM
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. 🪞
September 12, 2025
Matriarchy
Using passion, pleasure and emotion to find our rhapsody. ❤️🔥
September 10, 2025
August 23, 2025
🪲👑🪲
August 22, 2025
Aspen Summer Soundtrack
Let your End of Summer Soundtrack be the rustling of the leaves.
August 19, 2025
Symbiosis
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.
August 13, 2025
August 12, 2025
Bolognese with 🍰 & photos
“I KNOW we didn’t have dinner! Because I DON’T remember sitting down together !”
August 11, 2025
Schweet
Homemaking is love - giving the gift of beauty, comfort, fun, happiness, health, hope, joy, magic, safety, security, success to those in your home. And this life-styling is modeling a concrete methodology for your kith and kin to recreate inner peace and outer beauty for themselves and others anywhere, anytime.
































